President Joe Biden raised eyebrows in an interview with 60 Minutes that aired Sunday night when he declined to say definitively that he is planning to run for a second term as president in 2024. “Sir, are you committed to running again, or are there certain conditions that have to be right?” 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley asked. “Look, if I were to say to you, I’m running again, all of a sudden, a whole range of things come into play that I have – requirements I have to change and move and do in terms of election laws,” Biden responded. “It’s much too early to make that kind of decision. I’m a great respecter of fate. And so, what I’m doing is I’m doing my job. I’m gonna do that job.

A man fleeing from the cops got more than he bargained for when the moped he was piloting crashed into a police cruiser, sending him flying and causing the vehicle to burst into flames. The incident occurred at around 7 p.m. Thursday night when a police cruiser moved into the intersection of Merrick Blvd. and Liberty Ave. in Queens to block the fleeing moped driver, with the hopes that he would stop. But it didn’t turn out that way. Surveillance footage shows the man on the moped continuing at full speed despite the blockaded intersection and crashing head-on into the cruiser. The suspect can be seen flying up against the vehicle before he crashes to the ground. As the NYPD officer steps out of the vehicle to apprehend the man and render aid, the moped explodes in a fireball.

A terrifying incident unfolded in Flatbush at around 3 am Friday when Flatbush Shomrim were asked to respond to Ave. M and 26th Street over a man apparently staking out homes in the area. Responding members set up a perimeter and maintained observation of the block. “Suddenly, we heard blood-curdling screams emanating from a home on the block,” a Shomrim member relates to YWN. “A woman had found the burglar rummaging around inside her sleeping kids’ bedroom!” As the burglar, confronted by the couple defending their children, fled from the home, he was chased by multiple Flatbush Shomrim members and apprehended following a short foot pursuit. The NYPD responded to the scene and arrested the suspect, who was found to have 31 prior arrests.

A House of Representatives hearing featuring a prominent environmental lawyer quickly went off the rails on Thursday when Republican Rep. Clay Higgins questioned the attorney. “Everything you have, your clothes, your glasses, the car. You got her on your phone, the table you sit in the chair, the carpet under your feet. Everything you’ve got is petrochemical products. What would you do with that? Tell the world,” Rep. Higgins asked Raya Salter, the Executive Director of the Energy Justice Law and Policy Center. “If I had that power in the world. What? Actually, I don’t need that power. Because what I would do is ask you, sir, from Louisiana,” Salter responded before Higgins interjected, saying, “I’m giving you the power.” “You, sir.

Former President Donald Trump said that if he winds up indicted by the Justice Department over his handling of classified documents, the United States would face “problems… the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen,” apparently suggesting that his supporters would riot. Speaking to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump said that even if he is indicted, “I would have no prohibition against running” for president in 2024, adding that “I think if it happened, I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before. I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.” Hewitt asked what Trump meant by “problems.” “I think they’d have big problems. Big problems,” Trump replied. “I just don’t think they’d stand for it.

The largest Jewish wedding in the history of the Persian Gulf is taking place in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday evening as the Rav of the UAE, Rav Levi Duchman, gets married to Léa Hadad from Brussels. Hadad is the daughter of Belgian Chief Rabbi Menachem Hadad. There are about 1,500 guests in attendance from around the world, including Emirati royals and officials and prominent Rabbanim. Those singing at the wedding include Avraham Fried, Ami Cohen, Itche Meir Helfgot and the Neshama choir. Rav Duchman, who has been living in the UAE for eight years, in is one of the founders of the Jewish kehilla in the UAE and has been instrumental in establishing the infrastructure of a Jewish kehilla. Today, the kehilla in the Emirates is the fastest growing Jewish community in the Arab world.

Iran’s Channel 1 aired a special report last week on the death of Queen Elizabeth. But unlike other countries, where reports focused on the Queen’s life, her charity work and the intense mourning of the British public, the Islamic Republic had a different take on the demise of the Queen, which the host said is “good news for the world’s oppressed people.” “After 70 years on the throne, this queen has left a grade sheet full of crime, abomination, and filth,” he added. The host’s guest, a professor at Tehran University, added his comments, saying that “the Queen of England is one of the greatest criminals in the history of mankind.” “Perhaps, in light of her 70 years on the throne, she should be included on the same list as Hitler,” he continued.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday held an event in which he proudly touted his accomplishment of passing the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. Just a day prior, the Labor Department announced that Inflation had risen 8.3% in August from a year ago. Biden called the legislation the “single most important legislation passed in the Congress to combat Inflation and one of the most significant laws in our nation’s history.” Multiple non-partisan analyses have concluded that the Inflation Reduction Act will have a tiny positive impact on inflation, at most, and that Biden’s canceling of student debts will undo any of that positive impact.

In events dominated by the pressing issue of New York State’s wishes to impose new requirements on Yeshivos and Bais Yaakovs, GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin on Tuesday visited various frum institutions and businesses. Zeldin was joined on his excursions by Republican Assemblyman and NY-17 candidate Mike Lawler, as well as OJPAC founder Yossi Gestetner. Zeldin’s morning began with a meeting at the Community Outreach Center (COC) in Monsey with Monsey yeshiva and school administrators, where Zeldin vowed to block New York State’s substantial equivalency requirements if he is elected governor. He then traveled to New Square where he met with local officials, including the mayor, Mr.

Terrorists opened fire on Tuesday morning at a team of Israeli engineers from the Defense Ministry carrying out maintenance work along the security fence in the Jenin area in the Shomron. B’chasdei Hashem, no one was injured in the incident despite the fact that about 40 bullet casings were found at the scene afterward. The tractor sustained heavy damage. IDF forces closed the nearby Jalamah checkpoint and launched a manhunt for the suspects. The gunfire came from the direction of a home in the nearby village of Jalamah. An hour after the attack, the terrorist squad published a video of the incident online. “The second shooting attack in the past 24 hours,” Religious Zionist Party candidate Tzvi Sukkot said. “There’s almost no day that passes without at least one shooting attack.