President-elect Donald Trump on Monday said in a far-ranging news conference that ihe would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams. Separately he called on the Biden administration to stop selling off unused portions of border wall that were purchased but not installed during his first administration. “Yeah I would,” consider pardoning Adams, Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, before saying that he was not familiar with the specifics of the charges Adam is facing. Adams is facing federal fraud and corruption charges,, accused of accepting flight upgrades and other luxury travel perks valued at $100,000 along with illegal campaign contributions from a Turkish official and other foreign nationals looking to buy his influence.

President-elect Donald Trump joined SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son to announce plans by the Japanese company to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years. Trump announced the planned investment Monday at his Mar-a-Lago resort with Son at his side, along with Howard Lutnick, head of investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and Trump’s pick for commerce secretary. “He’s doing this because he feels very optimistic about our country,” Trump said.

Due to popular demand, the BPJCC will again offer a free series of Amazon Sellers Courses to Boro Parkers. After over 200 interested individuals signed up for the last course, the BPJCC realized the vast need for a course on this topic and, therefore, expanded the offering. This time around, there will be a separate course for both men and women. The goal of this new course, done in partnership with JCCGCI, is to assist participants in obtaining the necessary skills to earn a respectful and potentially lucrative parnasah. The in-depth, comprehensive course will be taught by veteran Amazon instructor and coach Alan Horowitz. The nine-class series will allow attendees to understand every step from A to Z of launching a new career in Amazon sales.

A top aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams abruptly resigned less than three months after investigators from the Manhattan district attorney’s office took her phones and searched her house as part of one of several probes that have enveloped City Hall. Ingrid Lewis-Martin’s resignation Sunday was a planned retirement, Adams’ office said in a statement. Her attorney, Arthur Aidala, is scheduled to hold a news conference Monday. “Ingrid has not been just a friend, a confidant, and trusted advisor, but also a sister,” Adams said.

A former FBI informant is set to plead guilty on Monday to lying about a phony bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter that became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress. Alexander Smirnov is expected to make the plea in Los Angeles to a felony charge in connection with the bogus story, along with a tax evasion charge stemming from a separate indictment accusing him of concealing millions of dollars of income, according to court papers. Smirnov has been behind bars since his arrest in February on charges that he told his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid President Biden and Hunter Biden $5 million each around 2015.

A lawyer for convicted British killer nurse Lucy Letby said Monday that he plans to ask an appeals court to re-examine her convictions after the prosecution’s leading expert changed his opinion on how three babies died. Attorney Mark McDonald said Dr. Dewi Evans could no longer be believed after reversing his opinion that Letby had injected air down a nasal gastric tube that killed three infants. “I have fresh evidence that casts doubt on the conviction,” McDonald said. “The defense will argue that Dr.

How do you solve a problem like Prince Andrew? That’s the question facing King Charles III as the long-running drama surrounding his 64-year-old brother roils Britain and the monarchy once again. In the latest episode of this palace soap opera, a Chinese businessman has been barred from the U.K. because of concerns he cultivated links with Andrew in an alleged effort to influence British elites on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German parliament on Monday, putting the European Union’s most populous member and biggest economy on course to hold an early election in February. Scholz won the support of 207 lawmakers in the 733-seat lower house, or Bundestag, while 394 voted against him and 116 abstained. That left him far short of the majority of 367 needed to win. Scholz leads a minority government after his unpopular and notoriously rancorous three-party coalition collapsed on Nov. 6 when he fired his finance minister in a dispute over how to revitalize Germany’s stagnant economy. Leaders of several major parties then agreed that a parliamentary election should be held on Feb. 23, seven months earlier than originally planned.

Hopes are rising for a breakthrough ceasefire and hostage release deal as reports indicate significant progress in negotiations between Israel and Hamas. Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz told Knesset lawmakers that Israel is “closer than ever” to securing a deal to free hostages held in Gaza, reinforcing a wave of optimism seen in recent days. While Katz remained tight-lipped on specifics during a closed-door session with the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, leaks of his comments suggest that substantial flexibility has been shown by Hamas. Katz reportedly assured lawmakers that the potential agreement is likely to gain widespread support within Israel’s coalition, despite ongoing resistance to Hamas’s demands for a complete cessation of hostilities.

Sirens blared in dozens of cities and towns in the Tel Aviv area, the Sharon and the Shomron on Monday afternoon, the first time in weeks that sirens were heard in central Israel. Shortly later, the IDF spokesperson said that the sirens sounded due to the launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen. The missile was intercepted before it crossed into Israel. Earlier on Monday, a drone fired by the Houthis in Yemen was intercepted over the Mediterranean Sea. There has been an increase in Houthi attacks since the ceasefire with Lebanon began. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)