Terry Thompson had an election to run for voters in Cascade County, Montana. Why then, she thought, was her office in Great Falls being sent mailed ballots completed by voters in places such as Wasilla, Alaska; Vancouver, Washington; and Tampa, Florida? It was only about a dozen ballots total from voters in other states. But she said it still raised concerns about the ability of the U.S. Postal Service to deliver election mail and whether the errant ballots would ever be counted. “I mean, I would have had to been doing FedEx overnight envelopes to all these states to try to get them where they needed to go,” said Thompson, the county’s election administrator. She received about a half dozen others that should have gone to county election offices in other parts of Montana.

Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal health care bureaucracy that covers more than a third of Americans. Here’s a look at a television doctor who became a politician and is now designated to lead an agency that touches nearly all Americans in some way. Who is Dr. Oz? Trained as a heart surgeon, Oz rose to prominence on Oprah Winfrey’s leading daytime television show before spinning off his own series, “The Dr. Oz Show,” in 2009. The program aired for 13 seasons and made Oz a household name.

Linda McMahon has been a constant presence in Donald Trump’s tumultuous orbit, serving in his first administration and supporting his presidential campaigns. Now he’s chosen her to serve as Education secretary. Here’s a look at McMahon’s background, from business to politics. McMahon went from wrestling to politics McMahon is married to Vince McMahon, whose father was a prominent professional wrestling promoter. They followed him into the business, founding their own company that’s now known as World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE. It became a juggernaut in the industry and American culture. When Trump was the star of the reality show “The Apprentice,” he made an appearance at Wrestlemania in 2007.

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The Israel Defense Forces reported that drones launched from Lebanon entered Israeli airspace and eventually crashed following several failed attempts to intercept them.
For 20 minutes, drone alert sirens blared across a wide area, from communities near the Lebanese border to locations southeast of Haifa, along Israel’s coast. The IDF later declared the situation resolved.
According to military officials, three drones were launched from Lebanon. However, the IDF did not specify how many of them ultimately crashed.
The incident resulted in no injuries, the army confirmed.

Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security advisor, said last week that the Biden administration “sent a signal” to President-elect Donald Trump’s team that it is prepared to coordinate on a hostage deal during the transition period prior to inauguration day on Jan. 20.
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday in response to a JNS question that it is not clear that such a collaboration will occur.
“There’s a process that has to take place before we can, say for example, brief members of an incoming transition team on classified information,” Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesman, told JNS at the department’s press briefing.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Tuesday that it is imposing new sanctions on Hamas leaders and financiers, including on a Lebanon-based leader of the terror group who called for the attacks undertaken in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, to be repeated until the Jewish state is annihilated.
Matthew Miller, the U.S. State Department spokesman, said some of the officials sanctioned on Tuesday were involved in smuggling equipment and materials used to construct Hamas’s vast tunnel network in Gaza.
“There is no distinction between Hamas’s so-called military wing and its political leadership,” Miller said. “We will continue to use the tools at our disposal to target those who perpetuate Hamas’s destabilizing activities.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Tuesday tweeted praise for the European Union’s decision the previous day to slap sanctions on Iran for providing military assistance to Russia in its war against Ukraine and to Tehran’s regional terror proxies at war with Israel.
“I welcome the decision made yesterday by the E.U. foreign ministers to impose severe sanctions on the Iranian regime,” Sa’ar wrote.