Hurricane Melissa left dozens dead and widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday. A landslide blocked the main roads of Santa Cruz in Jamaica’s St. Elizabeth parish, where the streets were reduced to mud pits. Residents swept water from homes as they tried […]
HaRav Tzvi Thau, a leading Dati Leumi Rav and Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Har Hamor, published a letter on Wednesday instructing his talmidim to attend the mass Chareidi protest against the arrests and imprisonment of bnei yeshivos in Jerusalem on Thursday. The letter states: “את אחי אנוכי מבקש. The work of peace—true and encompassing peace […]
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Iran does not appear to be actively enriching uranium but that the agency has recently detected renewed movement at the country’s nuclear sites. Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that despite being unable to access […]
Hakeem Jeffries: “Donald Trump has spent more time talking to Hamas and the Chinese Communist Party than he has in talking to Democrats on Capitol Hill to end the Trump shutdown…”
Edan Alexander, who spent 584 days in Hamas captivity before being released in May, has been promoted to sergeant first class by Maj. Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa. Alexander came to Israel to serve in the Golani Brigade and was abducted from an army post near Nirim on October 7, 2023. Since his release, he has […]
President Donald Trump’s decision to shift the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier to South America in his campaign against drug cartels is pulling the ship out of the Mediterranean Sea at a time when a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been threatened by new strikes in Gaza. The U.S. is set to be in the fairly unusual […]
Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar. The students in Queensland ended up being exempt from the statewide exam on Wednesday while Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek […]
A sweeping new survey finds that a record 70% of Americans now believe the Democratic Party is “out of touch” with the issues that matter most to voters — a stunning double-digit increase from a decade ago that underscores deepening disillusionment across nearly every demographic group. The findings, released by Welcome, a center-left organization, paint […]
New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelii said any New Yorker looking to escape Zohran Mamdani’s policies will receive a warm welcome in New Jersey, stating, “We are going to roll out the welcome mat. Any person or any business that wants to leave, we are welcoming them to New Jersey.”
In his first interview since being freed, former hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana offered a chilling, firsthand account of his 738 days in Hamas captivity — a nightmare of arbitrary beatings, psychological torment, and near-execution. Ohana, abducted from the Supernova music festival on October 7, 2023, described moments when his life hung by a thread. “Suddenly an […]
The United States and South Korea advanced trade talks on Wednesday, addressing details of $350 billion that would be invested in the American economy, after negotiations and ceremonies that included the presentation of a gold medal and crown to President Donald Trump. Both were gifts from the country’s president, Lee Jae Myung, who dialed up […]
Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia’s coast. The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near Esperance in Western Australia state […]
In preparation for the upcoming “Million-Man Rally”, expected to draw hundreds of thousands this Thursday, the event’s publicity team has released the first wave of official messaging that will accompany the campaign in the coming days. Organizers emphasized that only official notices bearing the event’s logo should be regarded as authentic, and that any other […]
