A National Guard deployment in New Orleans authorized by President Donald Trump will begin Tuesday as part of a heavy security presence for New Year’s celebrations a year after an attack on revelers on Bourbon Street killed 14 people, officials said Monday. The deployment in New Orleans follows high-profile National Guard missions the Trump administration […]
Israel’s Ministry of Religious Services held a professional conference last week for marriage registrars from across the country at the Givat Shmuel Religious Council. At the conference, an extraordinary case was presented to the participants, illustrating the heavy responsibility borne by the marriage registrars. A couple arrived to register for marriage according to halacha at […]
The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a caravan of robotic lunar landers including Jeff Bezos’ new supersized Blue Moon. A supermoon looms on Jan. 3 and an astronomical blue moon is on the books for […]
On December 29, under the orders of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear carried out a lethal strike on a vessel in international waters linked to Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence indicated the vessel was traveling along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and actively involved in drug-smuggling operations. Two male […]
The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance and warns United Nations agencies to “adapt, shrink or die” in a time of new financial realities. The money is a small fraction of what the U.S. has contributed in […]
Trump on Hamas: “It’ll be horrible for them — horrible, really, really bad for them [if they don’t disarm]. I don’t want that to happen, but they made an agreement that they’re going to disarm.”
Trump on Syria: “You know, your new president, I respect him. He’s a very strong guy, and that’s what you need in Syria. You can’t put a choir boy. You can’t put a somebody that’s a perfect person, everything’s nice, no problems in life. You have the opposite there. He’s a strong guy, we get […]
Trump on Iran: “I hope they’re not trying to build up again, because if they are, we’re going to have no choice but very quickly to eradicate that buildup. So, I hope Iran is not trying to build up, as I’ve been reading.”
A historic theater in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol has opened its doors more than three years after it was pummeled in a Russian airstrike that killed hundreds of civilians sheltering inside. Moscow-installed authorities marked the rebuilding of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater with a gala concert on the building’s new main stage […]
POTUS delivers remarks upon meeting with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu: “We had a big meeting with a lot of people… and I think we came to a lot of conclusion… and so, I just want to thank you for spending time.”
YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic petirah of Israel (Sol) Zaltz Z”L, a resident of Cedarhurst, who was R”L killed in a devastating car accident in the Five Towns early Monday morning. He was 77 years old. As YWN previously reported, the niftar was critically injured when a vehicle slammed head-on into his […]
A Muslim vendor who intervened during a deadly antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach has described the moment he ran toward one of the assailants and wrestled a gun from him in an effort to protect civilians. Ahmed al Ahmed said in an interview with CBS News that his sole intention was to stop the gunman […]
The head of Iran’s Central Bank resigned Monday as the biggest protests since 2022 erupted in Tehran and other cities after the country’s currency plummeted to a new record low against the U.S. dollar. The resignation of Mohammad Reza Farzin was reported by state TV, as traders and shopkeepers rallied in Saadi Street in downtown […]
Trump at Mar-a-Lago: “This is a very good group. We made a lot of progress already. We had about a five minute meeting, and we’ve already settled about three of the difficulties.”
Trump was caught on a hot mic venting to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about missing out on the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he doesn’t get credit despite claiming he brokered eight peace deals, adding, “They gave the Nob— I did eight of them. How about India and Pakistan? So I did eight of them. […]
Trump on Maduro: “You have to understand what he’s done. They’ve sent billions of dollars of drugs in. But maybe just as bad, they’ve sent hundreds of thousands of people in — from jails, from prisons… the drug lords, the drug dealers.”
President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a facility in South America as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the U.S. offered no other details. Trump made the comments in what seemed to be an impromptu radio interview Friday. The president, who called radio host John Catsimatidis during a program […]
