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FAA Flight Cuts Threaten Freight Capacity During Peak Shipping Season

FAA flight cuts squeeze freight capacity in peak shipping season • U.S. logistics companies warned that the FAA’s decision to cut flight capacity at 40 major airports by 10% could markedly slow deliveries of airfreight right at the peak of the air shipping season. • The FAA says the slowdown is necessary because absences by […]

POTUS Says Flight Reductions Ensure Safety Amid Shutdown

REPORTER: “Are you at all concerned it might not be safe to fly right now?” POTUS: “No. That’s why they’re cutting…Sean Duffy announced they’re cutting 10%, they wanna make sure it’s 100% safe, that’s why they’re doing it.”

DC Sandwich Thrower Sean Dunn Acquitted of Assaulting Federal Agent

DC sandwich thrower Sean Dunn found not guilty of assaulting federal agent • Former Department of Justice employee Sean Dunn was found not guilty of assaulting a federal agent whom he had thrown a Subway sandwich at on a street in Washington, D.C. • U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s prosecutors previously failed to get a grand […]

Yad Vashem: 5 Million Holocaust Victims Identified After Decades of Research

In a milestone nearly eight decades in the making, Yad Vashem announced that it has successfully recovered the names of five million Jews murdered in the Holocaust—an unprecedented effort to restore individual identity to victims whom the Nazis sought to erase from human memory. “Behind each name is a life that mattered,” said Dani Dayan, […]

KANYE WANTS MECHILA: Kanye West Meets Rabbi Pinto; Rapper Who Released “Heil Hitler” Song Blames His Antisemitism On Bipolar Disorder

In a totally bizarre meeting with Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, rapper Kanye West – who has made countless blatantly antisemitic statements, including releasing a song titled “Heil Hitler” – apologized for his actions, claiming that it is due to his suffering from bipolar disorder. In 2010, YWN reported that Pinto met with NBA player LeBron […]

Teacher Shot by 6-Year-Old Wins $10 Million Verdict Against Former School Administrator

A jury in Virginia on Thursday awarded $10 million to a former teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student and later accused an ex-administrator in a lawsuit of ignoring repeated warnings that the child had a gun. The jury returned its decision against Ebony Parker, a former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School in […]

Trump Urges Ending Filibuster to Pass Voter ID and Limit Mail-In Voting

TRUMP: “I think it’s time for them to end the filibuster and just put everybody back to work — vote in Voter ID, vote in no mail-in voting, except for military… There’s so many things we could put in… but to do that, you have to end the filibuster.”

The Battle Against Antisemitism Takes Center Stage at Dirshu Event

Trump’s Antisemitism Czar Mark Walker Meets with Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch and Attends Major Dirshu Event By Chaim Gold “First and foremost, we must call antisemitism by its name! we can’t let antisemites hide behind slogans and political terms. They must be called out. We also must be forceful in how we deal with hatred. […]

UPS Plane Crash to Cause Temporary Shipping Delays, Company Activates Contingency Plans

The UPS cargo plane crash on Tuesday at the company’s global aviation hub in Kentucky, which killed at least 12, will temporarily disrupt the supply chain and result in some shipping delays. But UPS says it has contingency plans in place, and experts say the impact should be cleared up before the peak holiday season. […]

Therapy Should Work. In Fact, It Does.

By Dr. Chaya Lieba Kobernick Our community has come a long way in talking about mental health. Now it’s time to make sure the help we seek actually helps. We talk about therapy a lot these days. Sometimes with openness and hope, which is incredible. Unfortunately, many people don’t believe it actually works to treat mental […]

Austrian Intelligence Busts Hamas-Linked Network Planning Attacks on Jewish Targets in Europe

Austria’s domestic intelligence service has uncovered a weapons cache in Vienna that is believed to be linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas for use in “possible terrorist attacks in Europe,” the government said Thursday. A 39-year-old unidentified British citizen allegedly “having close ties to the weapons cache” was arrested in London on Monday, the […]

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