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NOW – Trump will have a “very quick celebration” with Netanyahu next Monday.

President Trump shuts down fake news claims that the One Big, Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid and Medicare.

President Trump on the One Big Beautiful Bill: “It’s going to be the greatest bill ever passed … It’s going to keep the border secure. We have it secure now, but we need to build more wall.”

Trump at Florida’s new at Alligator Alcatraz: “The job they’ve done is fantastic. This is what you need. Gov. Ron DeSantis worked beautifully with Homeland Security Secretary Noem and all of the people at Homeland Security.”

Israel’s chief rabbinate has requested a halt to construction on a development site as they send inspectors to investigate claims that bodies are buried at the site.

Hershey is set to remove all synthetic dyes from it’s products by the end of 2027.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signaled he is willing to consider deporting Elon Musk, escalating an extraordinary public clash with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO over federal spending and government subsidies. Speaking to reporters before departing for Florida, Trump was asked directly whether he would move to deport Musk, a South African native. “We’ll have to take a look,” Trump replied. “We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon! Wouldn’t that be terrible?” The remarks mark a new peak in the renewed hostilities between Trump and Musk after months of relative calm. The confrontation reignited after Musk sharply criticized the Trump-backed “Big, Beautiful” budget bill on Monday, warning it would add a historic $5 trillion to the national debt and calling for the formation of a new political party to challenge what he labeled the “Porky Pig Party.” “It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill… that we live in a one-party country,” Musk wrote on X, adding, “Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people.” Trump fired back Monday night on Truth Social, blasting Musk for his reliance on federal support and threatening to investigate or cut off future subsidies. “Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa,” Trump wrote. “No more rocket launches, satellites, or electric car production, and our country would save a fortune.” On Tuesday, Trump doubled down, suggesting again that Musk could face further consequences if he continues his public opposition. “He’s upset that he’s losing his EV mandate, and he’s very upset about things,” Trump said. “But you know, he could lose a lot more than that, I can tell you right now. Hey, Elon can lose a lot more than that!” On Monday, Musk vowed to unseat lawmakers who support Trump’s sweeping budget bill, which he has criticized because it would increase the country’s deficit by $3.3tn. “Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” he wrote on his social media platform, X. A few hours later he added that if the “insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day”. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

‘Shark Tank’ investor Kevin O’Leary discusses how Zohran Mamdani’s politics would be a ‘nightmare’ for America on ‘The Ingraham Angle.

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Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge in the capital of western Mexico’s Sinaloa state on Monday, part of a surge of cartel violence that killed 20 people in less than a day, authorities said. A bloody war for control between two factions of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel has turned the city of Culiacan into an epicenter of cartel violence since the conflict exploded last year between the two groups: Los Chapitos and La Mayiza. Dead bodies appear scattered across Culiacán on a daily basis, homes are riddled with bullets, businesses shutter and schools regularly close down during waves of violence. Masked young men on motorcycles watch over the main avenues of the city. On Monday, Sinaloa state prosecutors said that four bodies were found dangling from the freeway bridge leading out of the city, their heads in a nearby plastic bag. On the same highway Monday, officials said they found 16 more male victims with gunshot wounds, packed into a white van, one of whom was decapitated. Authorities said the bodies were left with a note, apparently from one of the cartel factions, though the note’s contents were not immediately disclosed. Feliciano Castro, Sinaloa government spokesperson, condemned the violent killings on Monday and said authorities needed to examine their strategy for tackling organized crime with the “magnitude” of the violence seen. “Military and police forces are working together to reestablish total peace in Sinaloa,” Castro said. Most in the western Mexico state, however, say authorities have lost control of the violence levels. A bloody power struggle erupted in September last year between two rival factions, pushing the city to a standstill. The war for territorial control was triggered by the dramatic kidnapping of the leader of one of the groups by a son of notorious capo Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán who then delivered him to U.S. authorities via a private plane. Since then, intense fighting between the heavily armed factions has become the new normal for civilians in Culiacan, a city which for years avoided the worst of Mexico’s violence in large part because the Sinaloa Cartel maintained such complete control. In southeast Mexico on Monday, a priest was shot leaving his home in Villahermosa, Tabasco. The Tabasco Diocese said in a statement that Rev. Héctor Alejandro Pérez had been on his way to visit someone who was ill when he was shot. The diocese said Pérez lost a lot of blood and had internal injuries putting him in “very serious” condition. (AP)

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu confirmed on Tuesday that he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump and other senior officials in Washington next week.

The invitation from Trump “followed the great victory we achieved in ‘Operation Rising Lion’” against Iran, Netanyahu said during a Cabinet meeting. “Capitalizing on success is no less important than achieving it.”

Netanyahu said he is also scheduled to meet with Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State and acting White House National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff.

“We have a few matters to finalize beforehand to reach a trade agreement, in addition to other issues,” Netanyahu said of his planned meeting with Lutnick. “There will also be meetings with congressional and Senate leaders, as well as security meetings, that I will not detail here.”

According to Israel’s Ynet news outlet, Netanyahu is expected to depart for Washington on Sunday, ahead of a meeting with Trump at the White House the next day. JNS

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams dissects his Democratic socialist opponent’s ‘free’ promises on ‘The Story.’

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The Rav of the Divrei Shir shul in Bnei Brak, the esteemed posek Rav Yehuda Aryeh Dinner, addressed the Iranian missile strike on Bnei Brak in a shiur he gave and revealed the reason for the direct hit. “To add to the chessed we experienced last week,” the Rav began, “I heard yesterday that you can see how everything is precise from Hakodash Baruch Hu—every explosion, every bomb, every missile—precise, precise.” “They said that the school in Pardes Katz, on which the missile fell, I heard in the name of the Mashgiach of Tifereta, Harav Noach, HaRav HaTzaddik Rav Noah Palay shlita—that he said that the laying of concrete for that building about 40 years ago was on Shabbos.” “The casting of that building was on Shabbos—that’s it, so that’s the answer. When there is Chillul Shabbos, there is no protection; there is no protection, my friends, everything is precise.” Rav Dinner continued by saying, “My son Rav Ze’ev shlita, told me that he met an American Jew who told him that during the Gulf War, over 30 years ago, his parents really, really wanted him to return to America. “He went to HaRav Shach, who told him, ‘Stay here.’ His parents pressed him a lot, he returned to America. After the war he returned here and went to HaRav Shach and said, ‘Rebbi, I was there, I  learned Torah there the entire time.” “HaRav Shach answered him, ‘I’m not satisfied with that. I knew you would study all the time. Surely you had Torah all the time, but if you had stayed here, you would have had both Torah and kirvas Elokim. You missed out on the kirvas Elokim that we felt.” “We really felt it now, my friends; these days we felt the Kirvas Elokim. (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

The IDF’s elite 98th Division, a multi-brigade unit of paratroopers and commandos trained for rapid, deep-strike missions behind enemy lines with a focus on urban warfare and precision raids, has now entered Gaza.

The IDF discovered and demolished a 3-kilometer-long strategic tunnel in Gaza.

To our esteemed Gevirim and Community Leaders of Brooklyn,

I write to you with great admiration and respect, aware of the many ways in which you have supported and sustained our kehilla with generosity, leadership, and vision. Your dedication to Klal Yisroel — in Torah, chesed, and communal growth — has built institutions, supported families, and shaped the future of generations.

Recently, a remarkable initiative was launched in Lakewood: two new wedding halls, Ateres Blima and Ateres Esther, were established to directly address the crushing financial burden so many families face when marrying off children. These halls offer an elegant, all-inclusive simcha package — hall, catering, music, photography, flowers, and more — for just $13,000. The vision is not simply affordability, but a shift in expectations, a reset that prioritizes simcha, dignity, and achrayus over pressure and excess.

The results speak for themselves. Seventy-five weddings have already been booked. The halls are beautiful, efficient, and designed with the community in mind. More than that — they represent hope. They say to a struggling family: “You can make a chasunah without debt. You can celebrate without shame.”

And here is the question we must now ask:

If such a project is possible in Lakewood — and if it is being led, funded, and driven by gevirim from Brooklyn — why can’t we build the same in Brooklyn itself?

Why should Brooklyn families continue to face overwhelming simcha costs, while the very solution being praised in Lakewood remains out of reach for us here? The need is no less urgent in Brooklyn. The numbers are no less staggering. The impact would be just as powerful — and perhaps even more so, given the size and diversity of our neighborhoods.

The community respectfully urges our community leaders and donors to come together and bring this vision to life in Brooklyn. We already have the model. We already have the people. What we need now is the will.

Let us be the generation that changed the trajectory — that made weddings manageable, beautiful, and filled with real simcha. Let us act with foresight, with compassion, and with responsibility.

With heartfelt hope,

Y.R.B

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TODAY: President Trump heads to Florida where he will open a new illegal immigrant detention facility in the Everglades—nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Up to 5,000 criminal aliens will be held, processed & deported from this remote base deep in the Florida swamp.

Mexico and the United States said they would gradually reopen the United States border to cattle imports from Mexico in July after U.S. agriculture officials suspended them in May over fears of the northward spread of the screwworm, agriculture officials in both countries said Monday. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said via X that “key progress” had been made. She noted that more than 100 million sterile flies were being dispersed weekly and there had been no northward spread in eight weeks. The U.S. restricted Mexican cattle shipments in late November following the detection of the pest, but lifted the ban in February after protocols were put in place to evaluate the animals prior to entry into the country. But after an “unacceptable northward advancement” of the screwworm, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement it was suspending them again in May. Mexico Agriculture and Rural Development Secretary Julio Berdegué said he participated in a virtual meeting with Rollins Monday and that the border opening would begin July 7. Rollins and Berdegué applauded the close cooperation between both governments. The screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans. The parasite enters the skin, causing serious and life-threatening damage and lesions. (AP)

President Donald Trump said he plans to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu at the White House next week, where the two will cover a number of key topics, including the recently concluded military confrontation with Iran and the continuing conflict in Gaza.

Trump mentioned that he anticipates a ceasefire in Gaza will be reached in the coming days and emphasized his continued desire to see all hostages freed.

“He’s coming here. We’re gonna talk about a lot of things. We’re going to talk about the great success we had [in Iran]. I mean, we had an incredible success, like nobody’s had in many years. That was a precision warstrike — and the word ‘obliteration’ can now be used, because the Atomic Energy Commission said you can’t even get into the place. It was demolished,” Trump said.

He continued, “We’re also going to talk about Gaza. We want to get the rest – we got a lot of hostages back, but we’re going to talk about Gaza.”

Netanyahu confirmed the visit during the opening of his Cabinet session on Tuesday, saying he will be heading to Washington to hold strategic talks in light of Israel’s achievements in Operation Rising Lion.

“I am due to leave next week for meetings in the US with US President Donald Trump,” Netanyahu said, noting that his itinerary also includes meetings with Vice President Vance, Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and the President’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. Additional meetings are expected with the Commerce Secretary, key figures from Congress and the Senate, and other high-level security officials.

Trump had already indicated days earlier that negotiations for a truce in Gaza were progressing. During a press interaction on Friday, he remarked, “I think it’s close. I just spoke with some of the people involved. It’s a terrible situation that’s going on in Gaza, and we think within the next week, we’re going to get a ceasefire.”

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President Donald Trump said he would look into deporting billionaire Elon Musk in response to a question about the ally-turned-critic of his signature tax and spending legislation.

“I don’t know,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday when asked if he would deport the South African-born entrepreneur and US citizen, before adding that “we’ll have to take a look.”

The president’s comments are the latest salvo in a renewed feud between Trump and the world’s richest person, who has ramped up his criticism of a Republican tax bill that expedites the end of a consumer credit for electric vehicle purchases. Musk is the CEO of electric carmaker Tesla Inc., whose shares weaken more than 4% in premarket trading.

Trump has attributed Musk’s opposition to the bill to elimination of subsidies that his many business ventures benefit from. Earlier Tuesday, Trump took to social media, threatening to withdraw subsidies from Musk’s companies, a warning he reiterated to reporters.

The president said Musk was “losing his EV mandate” and added that “Elon could lose a lot more than that.”

The EV mandate generally is a reference to a suite of fuel economy standards and tailpipe-pollution limits that effectively compel automakers to sell an increasing number of electric models.

The administration has moved to unwind those policies, which are untouched by the measure pending in the Senate. However, the tax-and-spending measure would end a tax credit for individual electric vehicle purchases that has helped boost EV sales.

Musk has lambasted the Republican legislation, calling it an “insane spending bill” and threatened to help create a third political party in the US. He has denied, however, that his opposition is based on preserving government subsidies for his companies.

Musk threw his support behind Trump in the 2024 election and went on to serve as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency effort that worked to slash the federal government’s workforce and responsibilities before departing in late May.

The two had a public falling out over Musk’s criticisms of the tax bill, trading insults on social media. While that fight appeared to have cooled, Musk in recent days has posted repeated attacks on the legislation, reigniting their fight.

“We might have to put DOGE on Elon,” Trump said about the federal cost-cutting effort. “DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible?”

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Senate Republicans are struggling to pass President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill, with GOP leaders still scrambling to secure 50 votes after a marathon overnight voting session that, by Tuesday morning, appeared to bring the bill no closer to final passage.

Trump has demanded that Congress send the bill – his top legislative priority – to his desk by July 4, but that deadline seemed to be slipping from reach Tuesday. Even if the Senate passes the $3.3 trillion bill, House Republicans would still need to overcome their divisions and pass it again before Trump can sign it.

The bill would raise the debt limit, which Congress must do in the coming weeks to avoid default. It would also extend tax cuts from Trump’s first term, cut more than $1.1 trillion from Medicaid and other health-care programs, and infuse billions of dollars into immigration enforcement and defense.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) conceded early Tuesday that he did not know if he had the votes yet to pass the measure. He huddled with Republican holdouts in his office and on the Senate floor in an attempt to persuade them to back the bill.

“They don’t have a bill. They’re delaying. They’re stalling,” Senate Minority Leader Charles. E Schumer (D-New York) told reporters Monday night. “They’re cutting a lot of backroom deals. They got a lot of members who were promised things that they may not be able to deliver on.”

Republicans can lose only three GOP votes and still pass the measure. One holdout, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), abruptly announced Sunday that he would not seek another term next year after Trump torched him for opposing the bill’s Medicaid cuts. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who is also up for reelection next year, has said she is also deeply concerned about the bill’s impact on health-care coverage. And Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has said for weeks that he will not support the measure because it lifts the nation’s borrowing limit by too much without cutting spending adequately.

Eager to avoid any more defections, Republicans loaded the bill up with benefits for Alaska to appease Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a moderate who has said she is concerned about the measure’s potential impact on her state.

The legislation appeared tailored to win her vote, including special carveouts for Alaska on Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the anti-hunger program formerly known as food stamps. It also included tax benefits for whaling captains and Alaskan fishermen. But the Senate parliamentarian excised the Alaska-focused Medicaid measure from the bill on Monday, determining that it violates the rules of the special Senate process that Republicans are using to pass the bill with a simple majority and dodge a Democratic filibuster.

“Radio silence,” Murkowski told reporters when asked early Tuesday whether she would support the bill.

Thune and Sen. John Barrasso (Wyoming), the No. 2 Senate Republican, spent hours talking with her Monday night and Tuesday morning on the Senate floor.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Thune spent more than half an hour in deep conversation with Murkowski standing on the Senate floor near one of the doors shortly after 5 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday. Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and two aides joined at times.

“I can’t vote for this,” Murkowski said one point, although it was unclear whether she was referring to the bill or a proposed change to it.

Thune and other leaders also met with Paul in Thune’s office to gauge whether his vote might be movable. Paul has said he would support the legislation if the debt ceiling were raised by $500 billion instead of $5 trillion, which he hopes would force Republicans to find more spending cuts when the federal government hit its borrowing limit again in a few months. Trump has been adamant with lawmakers he wants the larger debt-ceiling hike included in the bill, to push the next politically toxic vote on the issue beyond the 2026 midterm elections.

Murkowski has opposed Trump on big votes before, joining Collins and then-Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) to doom his repeal of the Affordable Care Act during his first term.

Asked after meeting with Murkowski in his office a little before 4 a.m. whether he could pull the vote, Thune told reporters, “Those are options I don’t even want to have to worry about.”

Murkowski, Collins, Paul and Tillis aren’t the only Republicans with reservations about the bill. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) and other deficit hawks have objected that the bill does not cut spending steeply enough to help offset the costs of the tax cuts.

The bill’s nearly $170 billion for the Trump administration’s border and immigration crackdown would be the one of the largest sums ever spent on homeland security. It also includes roughly $160 billion for the Defense Department, partially for Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” continental missile defense system.

Republicans started working on the bill last year shortly after Trump won and Republicans gained the Senate majority in the November election. They pledged to dramatically reduce government spending along with annual deficits, wary of adding to a national debt of more than $36 trillion. But some Republicans believe the bill’s cuts do not go far enough.

Elon Musk, the billionaire and former White House adviser who broke with Trump after criticizing the bill, pledged Monday to try to defeat Republicans who vote for the bill and who campaigned on cutting government spending.

Those Republicans “will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” Musk wrote on X. He also said he would support Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), whom Trump has threatened with a primary for voting against the bill last month.

Much of Trump’s 2017 tax law are set to expire at the end of the year. That law cut rates for virtually all taxpayers, although it concentrated the most benefits among wealthy individuals and corporations. Most Americans will pay more next year if Congress does not extend them. Republicans broadly support an extension.

But some Republicans have balked at voting for legislation that the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cause more than 11 million people to lose their health-care coverage. Tillis warned that Trump’s pledge that the bill would not cut Medicaid benefits would be proved as false as President Barack Obama’s promise after the passage of the Affordable Care Act that Americans who liked their health-care plans could keep them.

“The effect of this bill is to break a promise,” Tillis said Sunday on the Senate floor.

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