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Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania took a strong stance against the violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, sharply diverging from many in his own party. Labeling the unrest as “anarchy and true chaos,” Fetterman did not hold back in his criticism.

In a message posted to X, Fetterman emphasized his unwavering commitment to key democratic values: “I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration.”

He condemned the actions of rioters in Los Angeles, where protestors have reportedly hurled rocks at police officers and their patrol cars, launched fireworks at mounted police units, torched and vandalized self-driving cars from Waymo, looted stores, and waved foreign flags. “This is anarchy and true chaos. My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement,” Fetterman wrote.

While Fetterman took a clear position against the riots, several leading Democrats, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Kamala Harris, and Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, have characterized the demonstrations as “peaceful protests.”

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak noted that some Democrats have shifted the blame to President Donald Trump, arguing that his immigration enforcement policies—especially recent ICE arrests—are responsible for inciting the unrest. The decision to place California’s National Guard under federal control has also sparked significant criticism.

Following Trump’s order to federalize 2,000 members of the California National Guard to help restore order in Los Angeles, Democrats accused him of trying to inflame the situation further. “Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos,” Harris declared in a statement on Sunday. “In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump Administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.”

Newsom also pushed back against the deployment, claiming the president’s move was “purposefully inflammatory” and would “only escalate tensions.”

Echoing those sentiments, California Senator Adam Schiff slammed Trump’s decision, calling it “unprecedented.” “This action is designed to inflame tensions, sow chaos, and escalate the situation,” Schiff said.

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Minister Itamar Ben Gvir: “The sanctions don’t scare me, I despise the white paper. I will continue to work for our country, for our people, I will continue to work and make sure that they don’t let humanitarian aid into Hamas. We got through Pharaoh, we’ll get through this too.”

Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters on Los Angeles: “There was no violence, I was on the street, I know… Get it straight and don’t just rely on… the few incidents you saw.”

A coordinated and unprecedented mobilization is underway across Orthodox Jewish communities in New Jersey, particularly in the Lakewood region, as voters head to the polls for Tuesday’s crucial primary elections. For weeks, leading rabbanim, askanim, and roshei yeshivah have been urging Orthodox Jewish voters to take part in today’s vote, with particular emphasis on supporting Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Gottheimer. Gottheimer, currently one of five major contenders for the Democratic nomination, has emerged as the only viable Democratic candidate with a strong and consistent record of support for Orthodox Jewish communities statewide. Facing off against Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and NJEA President Sean Spiller, Gottheimer enters Primary Day in a competitive but unpredictable race. While some sparse polling shows Sherrill in the lead, most political observers agree that the race is wide open. The stakes are especially high for the Orthodox Jewish community. With the federal government advancing plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and shift funding decisions to the states, the next New Jersey governor will wield outsized influence on yeshiva education, security funding, special education services, and curriculum mandates. In a pre-election meeting last week, Rav Malkiel Kotler, shlit”a, rosh yeshiva of BMG, strongly urged Lakewood’s rabbanim and roshei chaburah to encourage their communities to vote. He clarified that there is no halachic issue in voting for a Democratic candidate despite certain platform positions, as long as those positions do not directly affect the kehilla. In a rare move, the Lakewood Vaad issued endorsements on both sides of the aisle: Josh Gottheimer on the Democratic side and Jack Ciattarelli on the Republican side. Ciattarelli, a longtime friend of the Lakewood community, is widely expected to win the GOP nomination, having secured the endorsement of President Donald Trump and holding a dominant lead over rival Bill Spadea. Spadea’s campaign drew sharp condemnation Monday for a last-minute text message that invoked antisemitic tropes, accusing Ciattarelli of supporting “Lakewood-style overdevelopment.”  Meanwhile, askanim have urged unaffiliated voters to declare a party affiliation at the polls — particularly to vote in the Democratic primary for Gottheimer. Voters can change their party affiliation back immediately after casting their ballot. Among those leading the charge is R’ Lazer Scheiner, the driving force behind the Adirei Hatorah movement. In a widely circulated voice note Monday night, Scheiner emphasized that high voter turnout sends a clear message to elected officials — regardless of the immediate results — that the Orthodox community is politically active and engaged. His message was echoed by Agudath Israel New Jersey Director Shlomo Schorr, who also released a video message explaining why voting is important regardless of the outcome. Locally, two Orthodox candidates are appearing on today’s ballots. Assemblyman Avi Schnall is running unopposed in the Democratic primary for another term in the State Assembly. In Toms River, askan Shmuel Ellenbogen is unopposed in the Republican primary for Ocean County Commissioner. If victorious in November, he will become the first frum commissioner in the county’s history. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Israeli PM Netanyahu says “There is significant progress regarding the hostages, but it’s early to give hope, we are currently working.”

BMG announces that “shmiras hasdarim” is suspended today to give talmidim more time to vote in today’s primaries.

TRUMP: “If I didn’t Send in the troops to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now.”

Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin calls out Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass for claiming the riots in LA are mostly peaceful: “Our law enforcement, there were Molotov cocktails being thrown at them. They were being bombarded by rocks… For them to say that they have this under control is just absolutely false.”

WATCH: An israeli drone drops a bomb on terrorists near the Al-Shurafa roundabout in Central Gaza.

Al-Qaeda leader Sa’ad Bin Atef Al-Awlaki urged American Muslims to wage jihad and assassinate U.S. officials, naming President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Elon Musk among his targets.

During Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s Inside Politics, anchor Dana Bash sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles, comparing his actions to those of an arsonist trying to call in emergency help for a fire he helped ignite.

CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju commented on the president’s handling of the situation: “Just to get the point of how much Donald Trump wants this fight, I mean, he’s been posting and talking about it pretty much nonstop over the weekend, including just moments ago saying if we had not done this, send the National Guard in Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated. Now, I’m not quite sure if that’s exactly the case of what people are saying on the ground here. But I mean, look, sending in the National Guard is just an extraordinary step for the federal government to do so. You can’t discount that.”

As Bash began to interject, Raju continued, “And he tried to do everything he can to defend the controversy.”

Bash responded, “I know that this is like he said, a promise that he gave on the campaign trail to do whatever he could to deport illegal immigrants. But what he just posted is, is basically, an arsonist saying, ‘You better call the fire department because they’ve got to come in fast to get the flames out.’ I mean, that seems like what’s going on.”

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Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar calls UK sanctioning Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir & Bezalel Smotrich ‘outrageous’ “We will hold a special government meeting next week to decide on our response to this unacceptable decision.”

Greta Thunberg spotted on an El Al Flight bound for Sweden from Ben Gurion Airport.

Defense Minister Israel Katz toured the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, his office says. “During the visit, the minister and the chief of staff received an overview of the operational achievements in Gaza, Yemen, and Lebanon and the readiness to expand the operation as necessary,” the statement says.

The IDF foiled a weapons smuggling attempt from Egypt into Israel, downing a drone that crossed the border carrying seven rifles, ten handguns, and ammunition, with the contraband and drone subsequently handed over to the police.

IDF troops demolished over 1,200 “terror infrastructures” in the Khan Younis suburb of Khuzaʽa during a recent operation in the area, as part of efforts to expand Israel’s buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip. Among the destroyed infrastructures was a 500-meter-long and 25-meter deep tunnel.

A tragic school shooting in Graz, Austria, claimed 11 lives and left 28 people wounded, with 4 in critical condition. The shooter was a 22-year-old former student of the school.

MeThe U.S. logged 122 more cases of measles last week — but only four of them in Texas — while the outbreaks in Pennsylvania and Michigan officially ended. There were 1,168 confirmed measles cases in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Health officials in Texas, where the nation’s biggest outbreak raged during the late winter and spring, said they’ll now post case counts only once a week — yet another sign the outbreak is slowing. There are three other major outbreaks in North America. The longest, in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in 2,009 cases from mid-October through June 3. The province logged its first death Thursday in a baby that got congenital measles but also had other preexisting conditions. Another outbreak in Alberta, Canada, has sickened 761 as of Thursday. And the Mexican state of Chihuahua had 1,940 measles cases and four deaths as of Friday, according to data from the state health ministry. Other U.S. states with active outbreaks — which the CDC defines as three or more related cases — include Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma. In the U.S., two elementary school-aged children in the epicenter in West Texas and an adult in New Mexico have died of measles this year. All were unvaccinated. Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. It is preventable through vaccines, and has been considered eliminated from the U.S. since 2000. How many measles cases are there in Texas? There were a total of 742 cases across 35 counties, most of them in West Texas, state health officials said Friday. Throughout the outbreak, 94 people have been hospitalized. State health officials estimated less than 1% of cases — fewer than 10 — are actively infectious. Fifty-five percent of Texas’ cases are in Gaines County, where the virus started spreading in a close-knit, undervaccinated Mennonite community. The county has had 411 cases since late January — just under 2% of the county’s residents. The April 3 death in Texas was an 8-year-old child, according to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Local health officials said the child did not have underlying health conditions and died of “what the child’s doctor described as measles pulmonary failure.” A unvaccinated child with no underlying conditions died of measles in Texas in late February; Kennedy said the child was 6. How many measles cases are there in New Mexico? New Mexico added two cases in the last week for a total of 81. Seven people have been hospitalized since the outbreak started. Most of the state’s cases are in Lea County. Sandoval County near Albuquerque has six cases, Eddy County has three, Doña Ana County has two. Chaves, Curry and San Juan counties have one each. An unvaccinated adult died of measles-related illness March 6. The person did not seek medical care. How many cases are there in Oklahoma? Oklahoma added one case last week for a total of 15 confirmed and three probable cases. The state health department is not releasing which counties have cases. How many cases are there in Colorado? Colorado has seen a total of 12 measles cases in 2025, which includes one outbreak of seven related cases. The […]

Upon his arrival in Israel on Monday evening, Argentine President Javier Milei made his way straight to the Kosel, where he paused to pray, opening his second official trip to the country since assuming office.

Just as he did during his last visit, Milei prioritized a stop at the Kosel before engaging in any other activities. He was joined by a high-level Argentine delegation, including Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein, Presidential General Secretary Karina Milei, Argentina’s Ambassador to Israel Shimon Axel Wahnish, and the ambassador’s wife.

Greeting him at the site were Rav Shmuel Rabinowitz, rov of the Kosel and mekomos hakedoshim, along with Mordechai (Suli) Eliav, who heads the Western Wall Heritage Foundation.

Both Rav Rabinowitz and Eliav took the opportunity to thank President Milei for his unwavering commitment to the State of Israel and the Jewish people, noting his continued engagement with Jewish communities around the globe.

During the moving visit, the president joined Rav Rabinowitz in reciting a kappitel from Tehillim and offered a personal prayer asking for the hostages to be safely returned to their families.

While standing before the historic Kosel stones, Milei became visibly emotional, brushing tears from his face. “I thank you for the warm and heartfelt welcome. I will always support the people of Israel wholeheartedly, because this is a just cause for the West as well,” Milei said.

Before leaving, he inscribed a brief message in the Kosel guestbook that read: “Freedom for Zion.”

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