Along Italy’s Mediterranean coast on Thursday, driver Fabio Barone raced across the flight deck of a navy ship while chasing a world record: the fastest car on a boat. Last year, Barone set the Italian Timekeepers Federation’s record on another aircraft carrier in southern Italy, hitting 152 kilometers per hour (94.4 mph). In Civitavecchia, on the coast near Rome, he aimed to reach 160 kph and then hit the brakes before launching off the deck’s so-called “ski jump” and smashing into the cruise ship stationed just fore. Race engineer Alessandro Tedino told The Associated Press that he wasn’t sure the record was attainable. The ship had been out at sea overnight, and the crew emerged in the early morning to find its flight deck wet. They immediately set to drying it, with the job finished by late summer sunbeams. “If it remained wet, then of course it’s impossible to have the maximum speed and best brakes. It can be very, very dangerous,” he said. As the “Top Gun” theme song rang out from speakers, the carrier’s portside elevator lifted Barone’s team to the deck where journalists, naval officers and VIPs waited. A group of children with Down syndrome, chosen to serve as honorary “mechanics for the day,” removed the red, satiny cover to reveal Barone’s steed: a red-and-black Ferrari SF90. Barone eased himself into the supercar, then drove back and forth along the length of the deck several times to warm up its V-8 turbo engine. It roared louder with each pass as he pushed its 1,085 horses harder and harder. Then he placed himself at the far end of the 236-meter (774-foot) flight deck and awaited the all-clear. “Here he goes! Here he goes!” the announcer called as Barone left his mark and zipped past the crowd. Mere seconds later he came to a safe stop, and the crowd applauded haltingly — impressed by the speedy spectacle, but unsure if he’d beaten the record. The official timekeeper approached the car and inspected the gauges within. “The detected velocity: 164 kilometers per hour (101 mph). I declare it the new speed record on a ship!” he said, prompting hearty applause from the sidelines. Barone lifted his arms to the sky, then hugged his crew, helmet still in place. Reporters swarmed. “The main thing you focus on is concentration and then you realize that you are breaking the record only when you are halfway,” Barone said. “I have two hands, two feet and I use them at the same time like a pianist.” Tedino said that Barone’s team will now submit their certified result to Guinness World Records, which told the AP in an email Thursday afternoon that “we look forward to receiving and reviewing the application and supporting evidence for his latest attempt.” (AP)
POTUS: “Just last week, a great American, Charlie Kirk, was heinously assassinated for speaking his mind… I appreciate the many British citizens who have offered their condolences.”
Humanitarian aid from Jordan to Gaza has been suspended indefinitely while Jordan conducts a full investigation into the Allenby Crossing attack at Israel’s request.
Cementing its role as the leading purveyor of anti-semitism in New York. Columbia University “scholar” Michael Rebell filed a hateful and ignorant lawsuit last night about yeshiva education. YWN gives you the professor’s own words: “The average yeshiva graduate speaks little or no English, has few or no marketable skills, earns a household income well below the average income in New York State, marries young and has many children, and relies upon public assistance to support his large family.” Really? Has he never encountered the tens of thousands of professionals in literally every field in New York? Or the thousands of businesses all across New York built and run by yeshiva graduates that employ tens if not hundreds of thousands of workers? Sure, yeshiva graduates marry young and have children. Building stable and healthy families is a virtue — unless you are at Columbia University! Even more offensive is his complaint that: “Despite their total lack of knowledge of American history, civics, and public policy issues, large percentages of the members of these ultra-Orthodox communities vote.” Yup, we do, and we will continue to do so. I guess the Columbia mindset is that only Mamdani supporting trust-fund babies can vote. Incredibly, the professor’s ignorance is exceeded by his arrogance. While he represents only three unnamed kids, he claims to speak for more than 100,000 current yeshiva students. YWN wonders how all these supposedly non-English speaking, ignorant kids appointed him. YWN contacted PEARLS, which has lead the legal fight to protect our chinuch from the enemies of yeshiva education for over a decade, along with Torah Umesorah. They promised that “we will make sure to not only defeat the lawsuit’s baseless legal claims but also to set the record straight about its many distortions of yeshiva education and Torah families.” May they and all of Klal Yisroel continue to have siyata dishmaya as we enter the yimei hadin. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
POTUS: “Prime Minister Starmer, Melania and I are tremendously thankful for the wonderful hospitality that you and Lady Starmer have extended today… the bond between our countries is like no other anywhere in the world… We will always be friends.”
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said Wednesday that negotiations with Israel may produce a formal security agreement “in the coming days,” marking the most significant progress between the longtime adversaries in years. Speaking ahead of his trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, al-Sharaa described the pact as a “necessity” for regional stability and said any deal must guarantee Syrian airspace, respect territorial integrity and be monitored by the United Nations, according to Reuters. A Syrian Foreign Ministry official confirmed progress, telling AFP that several security and military agreements could be signed by year’s end. Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met Wednesday in London with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and U.S. envoy Tom Barrack, the American ambassador to Turkey, for a third round of U.S.-mediated talks, Axios reported. The five-hour session included Syria’s formal response to an Israeli proposal for a security arrangement, according to a source familiar with the discussions. Washington has pressed for an agreement ahead of the U.N. gathering, Reuters reported, though al-Sharaa rejected claims of U.S. pressure, saying Washington was acting only as a mediator. The negotiations come amid Israel’s continued military presence at strategic Syrian sites, including Mount Hermon, seized after the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Al-Sharaa compared Syria’s demands to the 1974 disengagement deal following the Yom Kippur War, while noting that Israel has indicated it wants to remain at the posts. On the Golan Heights — recognized by President Donald Trump in his first term as Israeli territory — al-Sharaa said it was “too early” to discuss. The Syrian leader also disclosed that an agreement was close earlier this summer, but violence in Sweida Province, involving Druze militias, Sunni Bedouin tribes and regime-allied forces, derailed the talks. Israel intervened to protect the Druze minority and is planning additional assistance. Barrack, the U.S. envoy, referenced those events on X, endorsing a Jordanian statement on a joint roadmap for Sweida. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reposted the message, praising Trump’s “peace through strength” approach and highlighting efforts to advance accountability, reconciliation and minority rights in Syria. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed what he called a historic agreement on science and technology with Britain as United Kingdom officials who have gone all out to impress him with royal pageantry during his state visit now try to deliver key trade and business deals that can further their country’s interests. Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a roundtable with business leaders as they signed the deal. They also had private meetings where the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and tariff rates the U.S. may set on steel imported from Britain were expected to be discussed. At a subsequent joint news conference, Starmer said, “While we shape this bond for a new era, the fundamentals have not changed.” Trump said he was “tremendously thankful” for the hospitality during his visit and that King Charles III and Queen Camilla are “two fantastic people.” At the earlier signing ceremony for an agreement meant to promote tech investment in both nations, Starmer referred to the American president as “my friend, our friend” and spoke of “leaders who respect each other and leaders who genuinely like each other.” The event took place at Chequers, a 16th-century manor house northwest of London that serves as a rural retreat for British leaders. The British charm offensive continued after the king and queen had feted Trump and first lady Melania Trump at Windsor Castle, on Wednesday. The royals used the first of the Trump’s two-day state visit to offer all the pomp the monarchy can muster: gold-trimmed carriages, scarlet-clad soldiers, artillery salutes, a glittering banquet in a grand ceremonial hall and the biggest military honor guard ever assembled for such a state visit. Trump has seemed grateful for all the attention — so much so that he has largely stuck to script and offered little of his typical off-the-cuff criticism of hosts. Still, he had his moments. Trump joked with his treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, as he signed the tech deal, “Should I sign this Howard? Scott? If the deal’s no good I’m blaming you.” After bidding goodbye to the king and queen at Windsor — Trump called the monarch “a great gentleman, and a great king” — the Trumps flew by helicopter some 20 miles (32 kilometers) to Chequers. The Republican president was welcomed by ceremonial honor guard complete with bagpipers — a nod to Trump’s Scottish heritage — and shown items from the archive of wartime leader Winston Churchill, who coined the term “special relationship” for the bond between the allies. It’s a point that Trump’s British hosts have stressed, almost 250 years after that relationship endured a rocky start in 1776. Trump told business leaders at a reception at Chequers that the two countries shared an “unbreakable bond.” Starmer said that relationship “is the very foundation of our security, our freedom and our prosperity.” Trans-Atlantic tech partnership To coincide with the visit, Britain said U.S. companies had pledged 150 billion pounds ($204 billion) in investment in the U.K, including 90 billion pounds ($122 billion) from investment firm Blackstone in the next decade. Investment will also flow the other way, including almost $30 billion by pharmaceutical firm GSK in the U.S. At the reception, attended by tech bosses including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and U.S. officials such as Lutnick and Secretary of State Marco […]
The IDF has warned residents of several southern Lebanese towns, including Mays al-Jabal, Kfar Tebnit, and Dibbin, to evacuate buildings targeted in upcoming airstrikes on Hezbollah infrastructure. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, said the strikes are in response to Hezbollah’s attempts to rebuild its operations and advised civilians to stay at least 500 meters away from the sites for their safety.
HY’D: IDF soldier Eitan Avner, 22, from Har Bracha, was killed today by an explosive device in Gaza, the Shomron Regional Council announced; he had married just three months ago.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani is in Washington, D.C., marking the first official visit by a top Syrian diplomat to the U.S. capital in 25 years. He is scheduled to discuss lifting remaining sanctions on Syria and negotiating a security agreement with Israel.
Hamas’ military wing posted a graphic on its channels celebrating the deadly attack at the Allenby Border Crossing, bearing the message: “Jordan is from us and we are from it.”
Footage shows IDF helicopters conducting surveillance near the Allenby border crossing and the Palestinian city of Jericho. Following a terro attack the killed 2 israelis
Zalmy Cohen, a prominent member of Hatzalah South Florida, is donating a kidney today. Donor: זלמן בן שיינא הינדא Recipient: רות בת שושנה This selfless act should be a זכות for him and his family and inspiration for all of us.
