The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology, the company announced Tuesday. The news is the latest sign of the FDA’s heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., particularly those using mRNA technology, which he has […]
Iran marked the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on Wednesday as the country’s theocracy remains under pressure, both from U.S. President Donald Trump who suggested sending another aircraft carrier group to the Middle East and a public angrily denouncing Tehran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests. The commemoration represented a spit-screen view of life in […]
The Notnim Gav organization on Wednesday announced the arrests of four yeshivah bochurim in the past day. One bochur was arrested at his home by the military police in Hod HaSharon. Overnight, Israel Police officers arrested two yeshivah bochurim, one in Givat Ze’ev and one in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, and handed them over […]
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport. A notice posted on the FAA’s website said the temporary flight restrictions were for “special security reasons,” but did not provide additional details. The closure does not include Mexican […]
A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie’s front door the night she vanished from her Arizona home. News outlets later interviewed a man who said he was questioned and released. Authorities have […]
Two 50-year-old female workers at the Ashdod oil refinery were pronounced dead on Wednesday morning as a result of oxygen deprivation. The two women were wearing hazmat suits, and it is believed that their deaths may have been caused by a malfunction in the suits that exposed them to hazardous materials. The incident is still […]
Tropical Cyclone Gezani made landfall in Madagascar’s main port city, unleashing winds that collapsed houses and left at least nine people dead on the Indian Ocean island, authorities said Wednesday. Wind speeds exceeded 195 kph (121 mph) and Madagascar’s weather service issued red alerts for several regions, warning of possible floods and landslides as Gezani […]
In response to the blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement on Monday evening, the IDF eliminated Hamas sniper Ahmad Hassan, who took part in numerous terror ambushes against IDF forces in the northern Gaza Strip and was responsible for the deaths of at least seven IDF soldiers during the war, including four Chareidi soldiers from […]
The legal advisor to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Miri Frenkel Shor, is now demanding even harsher sanctions against Lomdei Torah—even after the Chareidi MKs raised the possibility of accepting her previous demands. Chareidi MKs have long accused Frenkel Shor of doing everything she can to thwart the advancement of a viable Chareidi […]
Masechtos Gittin and Kiddushin filled to the brim with hundreds upon hundreds of chiddushim, in the handwriting of the brilliant gaon Rabbi Yosef Zechariah Stern, Av Beis Din of Shavel, author of Zecher Yehosef.
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Leader Thune as DHS shutdown threat looms: “These federal employees at TSA and other agencies shouldn’t be held hostage by the Democrats in potentially another government shutdown. So the best way to avoid that is to strike a deal.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu met at Blair House in Washington with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. During their meeting, they discussed regional issues, and Witkoff and Kushner provided Netanyahu with updates on their first round of talks with Iran held last Friday in Oman.
An Israeli-Russian freelance journalist was abruptly removed from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official aircraft on Monday morning. According to Channel 12, journalist Nick Kolyohin was escorted off the Wing of Zion plane by agents of the Shin Bet shortly after boarding. Kolyohin said he had previously received authorization from the Prime Minister’s Office to join […]
Shoppers unexpectedly paused their spending in December from November, closing out the holiday shopping season and the year on a lackluster tone. The report, issued by the Commerce Department on Tuesday, surprised economists who were looking for growth despite mounting concerns about slowing job growth, uncertainty about President Donald Trump’s tariffs and other economic headwinds. […]
The The New York Times editorial board is urging policymakers and the public to “acknowledge reality” about marijuana legalization, arguing in a new opinion piece that widespread legalization has produced far more harm than many supporters anticipated. In the editorial, the paper acknowledged that it had long backed legalization, including a major 2014 series that […]
The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible “deficiencies or defects” in the vote count in the 2020 contest lost by President Donald Trump, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday. The affidavit provides the first […]
President Trump on Iran: I think they want to make a deal. I think they’d be foolish if they didn’t… It’s got to be a good deal, no nuclear weapons, no missiles, no this, no that, all the different things that you want.
CHAOS IN SYDNEY: Police charged into anti-Israel protesters near Sydney’s Town Hall during a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, arresting 27 people — including 10 accused of assaulting officers — after violence erupted as authorities moved to disperse thousands in the crowd.
A 13-year-old Jewish boy was brutally attacked overnight in Paris while walking to shul in a serious antisemitic assault. The attacker punched and kicked the boy, threatened him with a knife, and shouted antisemitic slurs. The boy suffered injuries to his head and neck, and his yarmulke and phone were stolen. French authorities have opened […]
