A federal court of appeals has ruled that Texas can build a razor-wire border fence, after Biden Admin opposition.

Delta Air Lines is investigating how a stowaway was able to travel from New York to Paris without a boarding pass on a Tuesday flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport.
An emailed statement from the Transportation Security Administration said the unnamed individual underwent security screening, including in-person and with bags, without any prohibited items. The agency said it will “independently review the circumstances of this incident at our travel document checker station at JFK to ensure future incidents do not occur.”

The State Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday that it will file an indictment against four suspects over the launching of maritime flares at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea on the night of Nov. 16.
“There is prima facie reason to file an indictment against them as well as request their arrest until the end of the legal proceedings,” said the State Attorney’s Office.
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Three of the four suspects were named: Ofer Doron, Itai Yaffe and Amir Sade.

Jew-hating protesters blocking the route of New York’s Thanksgiving Day Parade were arrested by the NYPD today.

The Parliament of Lebanon is scheduled to convene on Jan. 9 to elect a president, seeking to end a leadership vacuum that has persisted for over two years, state media reported on Thursday.
The announcement followed the implementation of a ceasefire between Jerusalem and Beirut, ending the nearly 14-month war between the Jewish state and Hezbollah, which has had de facto control over Lebanon’s policies and large parts of its territory.
“Speaker Nabih Berri has scheduled a parliamentary session on January 9 to elect the president of the republic,” Lebanon’s National News Agency reported. Berri is a politician for the Shi’ite Amal party, and he has close ties to the leadership of Hezbollah.

The Israel Defense Forces troops shot down a drone that was carrying weapons and ammunition and crossed from Egyptian territory into the western Negev, the army said on Wednesday evening.
“Earlier today, IDF forces identified a drone that crossed from Egyptian territory into the territory of the State of Israel in the area of ​​the Paran Brigade,” the military said in a statement posted to X.
The unmanned aerial vehicle “was shot down by the forces of the Caracal Battalion, who arrived at the scene and discovered four rifles, five cartridges and hundreds of bullets on the drone,” it added.
The smuggled weapons found on the UAV were transferred for further investigation, the IDF statement concluded.

“The suspects can decide to appear on a voluntary basis and surrender to the ICC. They have all the rights of the defense that are guaranteed, including the presumption of innocence.”
That’s what Fadi El Abdallah, the spokesperson and head of the Public Affairs Unit at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, told JNS when asked what is expected now from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, now that the ICC has issued warrants for their arrest on charges of genocide.

Around 700 million years ago, the animal kingdom began to branch off from single-celled organisms. Now, scientists have uncovered molecular tools that could have assisted the leap – and successfully tested them by creating a mouse from our unicellular ancestor.
For the first time, scientists created mouse stem cells from the genes of a single-celled life form. Stem cells are special because they can make more of themselves and also transform into other cells with different functions. The team used these newly generated stem cells to help form a living, breathing mouse from a developing embryo, according to published findings in Nature Communications.

The Israeli Security Cabinet voted to extend a waiver allowing Israeli banks to do business with their Palestinian Authority counterparts through November 2025, Hebrew media reported on Thursday night.
Ahead of the vote, Israel’s National Security Council reportedly briefed ministers that a failure to renew the agreement could have “significant negative consequences for state security and foreign relations.”
Earlier on Thursday, the United Kingdom, Germany and France had appealed to Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to extend the waiver ahead of a Nov. 30 deadline, claiming Ramallah has taken “significant steps” to combat terrorist financing in Judea and Samaria.

The Federal Trade Commission has launched a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s business empire – a late-game shot at Big Tech from the Democratic-led agency in the final weeks of President Joe Biden’s administration.
The FTC sent a demand for documents to Microsoft on Wednesday that asks for detailed information on several of the company’s businesses. Those of interest include its cloud computing services, artificial intelligence tools and cybersecurity software, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the agency’s private plans.