New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is drawing a firm line against the White House after Donald Trump threatened to cut off federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities, a move that could put their unlikely political détente to the test. Speaking Wednesday at a Brooklyn event unrelated to immigration, Mamdani said he has already pushed […]
U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil. The U.S. Coast Guard boarded the tanker, named Veronica, early Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on social […]
President Donald Trump’s second term has been eventful. You wouldn’t know it from his approval numbers. An AP-NORC poll from January found that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of Trump’s performance as president. That’s virtually unchanged from March 2025, shortly after he took office for the second time. The new poll from The Associated Press-NORC […]
Emotion gripped the assemblage. Wide-eyed with awe, everyone watched the Gaon and Tzaddik,HaGaon HaRav Shimon Galei, shlita, walk into the hall of the White Shul in Far Rockaway, arm-in-arm with the Nasi of Dirshu Rav Dovid Hofstedter, shlita. It was just a harbinger of what was to come in a night full of spiritual and emotional […]
WH Press Sec. on President Trumps’ meeting with María Corina Machado: “I know the President was looking forward to this meeting and he was expecting it to be a good and positive discussion…”
Prime Minister Netanyahu met today in his Jerusalem office with the leadership of ZAKA and presented them with a certificate of appreciation for their work during Operation “Am Kelavi.” Netanyahu thanked ZAKA for its extraordinary humanitarian work during some of Israel’s most challenging moments, praising its deep sense of mission.
A resident of Russia’s Primorsky Krai in the country’s far east showed what his hometown looks like after massive snowfalls. Snow drifts have risen halfway up buildings after unprecedented snowfall across the region.
Moscow agrees with U.S. President Donald Trump’s view that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal to end the almost four years of fighting since Russia invaded its neighbor, a Kremlin official said Thursday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, “Yes, we can agree with it, it’s indeed so.” His comments came after Trump said in […]
WH Press Sec.: President Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan is “the most comprehensive and bold agenda to lower healthcare costs to have ever been considered.”
REPORTER: What would it take for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act? LEAVITT: Look, that’s only a question frankly the president can answer. The president’s post spoke loud and clear to Democrats across this country, elected officials who are using their platforms to encourage violence.
WH Press Sec.: “Existing home sales in December rose so their fastest pace in three years… mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest level in years. As of last Friday, rates for the average 30-year mortgage are down more than one full percentage point. Because of the significant declines, monthly housing payments are now at […]
WATCH: WH Press Sec. lays out some recent economic progress under President Trump: “The overwhelmingly positive economic data released this week underscores the significant progress the President has already delivered.”
The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday it demolished overnight the Chevron home of Imran al-Atrash, the terrorist behind a deadly ramming-and-stabbing attack at Gush Etzion Junction last November. According to the military, troops from the Yehuda Regional Brigade carried out the operation in Chevron during overnight hours. Al-Atrash and another terrorist struck the busy West […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the outlines of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up as Republicans have faced increasing pressure to address rising health costs after lawmakers let subsidies expire. The cornerstone is his proposal to send money directly to Americans for health savings accounts so they can handle insurance and health costs as […]
According to The New York Times, Prime Minister Netanyahu has asked President Trump to postpone any U.S. attack on Iran, a senior U.S. official told the Times on Thursday. The report says Arab nations in the region are also urging Trump not to strike Iran, as the White House has been discussing possible military action […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to spur production of rare earths and the other critical minerals, while the Trump administration has already taken aggressive actions to break China’s grip on the market for these materials that are crucial to high-tech products, including cellphones, electric vehicles, jet fighters […]
by Rabbi Eliezer Sandler The concept of the Yissachar-Zevulun Torah Learning Pact goes back well over 3,500 years, to the time of Yaakov Avinu and his sons. It is named for the Torah pact between two of his sons – Yissachar the scholar and Zevulun the merchant. Not only was it an equal pact […]
A sweeping wireless outage that left Verizon customers across the United States unable to place calls, send texts or access mobile data is now being traced to a technical breakdown inside the company’s own network — not a cyberattack. The disruption began around midday Wednesday and lasted more than 10 hours, sending hundreds of thousands […]
The Jerusalem District Court on Thursday rejected the police’s appeal and ordered the release from house arrest of Fakhri Khatib, the Arab bus driver who killed Yosef Eisenthal, z’l, after plowing into a group of Chareidi teens during a protest against the Chareidi draft law last week. Ynet reported that a police representative argued during […]
