✈️ Orlando International Airport was forced to ground all flights Sunday afternoon after “extreme cold” sparked an emergency at the air traffic control tower. The FAA initially issued a ground stop due to a “possible fire,” but the order was lifted at 4:15 p.m. once the cause was identified. In the end, officials confirmed that […]
A Norwegian member of parliament has nominated Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the institution’s role in combating antisemitism and preserving historical memory amid a global rise in anti-Jewish violence. Joel Ystebø, a lawmaker from Norway’s Christian Democratic Party, submitted the nomination to the Norwegian Nobel Committee this week, […]
Syrian authorities say they uncovered a “terror cell” behind rocket and drone attacks in Damascus and near a military airport, claiming the weapons used were supplied by Hezbollah. • The Interior Ministry said members of the cell were arrested, weapons were seized, and suspects admitted links to foreign entities, adding they were planning additional drone […]
President Trump’s long-promised military “armada” is now in position in the Middle East, but U.S. officials say the buildup is less about launching immediate strikes on Iran than about bracing for what could come afterward. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group has recently entered the region, advanced fighter aircraft are moving closer to […]
A huge swath of the U.S. from the Gulf Coast into New England was mired in extra-cold temperatures Sunday after a bomb cyclone brought heavy snow and hundreds of flight cancellations to North Carolina, flurries and falling iguanas in Florida, and more misery for thousands who are still without power from last weekend’s ice storm in the […]
The State Department has signed off on a sweeping package of potential arms sales to Israel worth roughly $6.6 billion, underscoring Washington’s continued military backing of its closest Middle East ally as Israel reassesses battlefield needs after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack. According to notices published by the U.S. State Department, the proposed sales are […]
The IDF says an airstrike in the southern Lebanese town of Doueir killed Ali Dawoud Amees, a division head in Hezbollah’s engineering department. The military says the Hezbollah terrorist was involved in rebuilding military infrastructure in the area and advancing terror plans against IDF troops.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she believes President Trump supports her, and reiterates she gave the president her Nobel Peace Prize medallion as “a matter of what’s in the superior interest” of her home country.
A senior U.S. Border Patrol official at the center of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is accused of making antisemitic remarks about a Jewish federal prosecutor during a high-level planning call. Gregory Bovino, a veteran Border Patrol leader who oversaw the recent surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota, allegedly used offensive language toward Jewish […]
The Trump administration imposed sanctions Friday against Iran ‘s interior minister, accusing Eskandar Momeni of repressing nationwide protests that have challenged Tehran’s theocratic government. The penalties are the latest by the United States and the European Union targeting high-ranking officials over the crackdown. The administration says Momeni has overseen Iran’s law enforcement forces that are […]
I want to suggest something to you. A challenge if you will. Perhaps you don’t need to send in your name for the upcoming tefillah by Yad L’Achim on Tu BiShvat (4 holy places!) That’s fine. However, everyone knows someone who can use a tefillah. Someone sick….Someone waiting for children or a shidduch …. Here is […]
Spanish police have arrested a 38-year-old man suspected of funneling hundreds of thousands of euros in cryptocurrency to Hamas. According to details first reported by Reuters, investigators believe the suspect — a Chinese national who owns a hair salon near Barcelona — sent roughly €600,000 ($711,000) in crypto through a web of transfers allegedly linked […]
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to chair the Federal Reserve could bring about sweeping changes at a central bank that dominates the global economy and markets like no other. Warsh, if approved by the Senate, will be under close scrutiny from financial markets and Congress given his appointment by a president who has loudly demanded much lower […]
The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on an air force base in Niger’s capital that wounded four soldiers and damaged an aircraft. The claim of responsibility was contained in a statement on Amaq News Agency, the group’s propaganda wing, that said it was “a surprise and coordinated attack” in […]