Trump pardons New York baseball star Darryl Strawberry for tax evasion conviction • President Donald Trump pardoned Major League Baseball legend Darryl Strawberry, who had pleaded guilty to tax evasion three decades earlier, the White House said Friday. • Strawberry, now 63, is an eight-time MLB All-Star who helped take the New York Mets and […]
FAA-mandated flight cancellations to worsen next week if shutdown continues • Trump administration officials ordered commercial airlines to cut hundreds of flights, citing strains on air traffic control during the government shutdown. • Air traffic controllers are set to miss their second full paycheck next week because of the shutdown. • Flight cuts could ramp […]
A Hamas source told Al Jazeera on Shabbos that they located the remains of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, H’yd in a tunnel in Rafah. Hours before the Al Jazeera report, Palestinian outlets reported that the Red Cross and Hamas entered Rafah’s Al-Janina neighborhood, where about 200 terrorists are currently trapped in tunnels in an area […]
Airlines cancel more than 700 U.S. flights as FAA-ordered shutdown cuts begin • U.S. airlines canceled hundreds of flights on Friday, hours after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the cuts amid the government shutdown. • The reduction hit 40 airports, including some of the nation’s largest ones. • The Department of Transportation warned cancellations could […]
Supreme Court pauses order that Trump administration must pay full SNAP benefits • The Supreme Court temporarily paused a federal judge’s order that the Trump administration must pay full SNAP benefits to 42 million Americans for November by the end of the day. • The move came hours after the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of […]
HY’D: The remains returned to Israel on Friday by the Islamic Jihad and Hamas terror groups were identified as belonging to Lior Rudaeff, H’yd, following forensic examinations. Rudaeff was killed battling Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists at Kibbutz Nir Yitzchak during the October 7 massacre, and his body was abducted to Gaza. Rudaeff, a member of […]
UPS and FedEx said they are grounding their fleets of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 planes “out of an abundance of caution” following a deadly crash at the UPS global aviation hub in Kentucky. The crash Tuesday at UPS Worldport in Louisville killed 14 people, including the three pilots on the MD-11 that was headed for Honolulu. […]
U.S. airlines again canceled more than 1,000 flights on Saturday, the second day of the Federal Aviation Administration’s mandate to reduce air traffic because of the government shutdown. So far, the slowdown at many of the nation’s busiest airports hasn’t caused widespread disruptions. But it has deepened the impact felt by the nation’s longest federal […]
Story If you have upcoming travel plans anytime soon, you might notice fewer options on the airport’s departure board. Airlines are scaling back flights at dozens of major U.S. airports to ease the pressure on air traffic controllers, who have been working unpaid and under intense strain during the ongoing government shutdown. The Federal Aviation […]
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The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown, even though residents in some states already have received the funds. A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental […]
Democratic Party chairman Yair Golan declared that he views the Arab parties as “partners” but completely ruled out any political cooperation with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit parties. “The Arab parties are partners, in my view,” Golan said in an interview. “The principle is very simple: any Arab leader […]
A Hamas terrorist who took part in the October 7 massacre in Israel is living freely in Belgium, the Jewish Information and Documentation Center (JID) has revealed. The JID organization, a Belgian antisemitism watchdog, reported that Hamas terrorist Mohand Al-Khatib, who was filmed participating in the massacre, lives as a free man in Brussels, regularly […]
A Hamas source told Al Jazeera on Shabbos that the terror group located the remains of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, H’yd in a tunnel in eastern Rafah. Hours before the Al Jazeera report, Palestinian outlets reported that vehicles belonging to the Red Cross and Hamas entered Rafah’s Al-Janina neighborhood, where about 200 terrorists are currently […]
The remains returned to Israel on Friday by the Islamic Jihad and Hamas terror groups were identified as belonging to Lior Rudaeff, H’yd, following forensic examinations. Rudaeff was killed battling Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists at Kibbutz Nir Yitzchak during the October 7 massacre, and his body was abducted to Gaza. Rudaeff, a member of the […]
Israeli officials confirmed Friday that the coffin of a presumed hostage has been transferred back into Israel under military escort. According to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, the coffin — received via the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) — was handed over to a joint IDF and Shin Bet unit inside […]
Mexican authorities, working closely with U.S. and Israeli intelligence, have foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz-Neiger, officials confirmed Friday — a brazen plan allegedly orchestrated by Tehran’s elite Quds Force as part of its global campaign against Israeli and Jewish targets. According to U.S. and Israeli officials who spoke […]
Heartbreaking tragedy in Beit Shemesh: Rabbi Yaakov Steinberg zt”l, beloved Maggid Shiur, passed away suddenly at just 44 years old. Now, his *eight young children are left without a father — and their mother is struggling to provide even the most basic needs. *There’s no food in the house, no stability, no hope for tomorrow. […]
