In a candid admission during a meeting at the White House on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden told nearly two dozen Democratic governors that he needs to get more sleep and work fewer hours, even suggesting he should avoid events held after 8 p.m., the New York Times reported Thursday. The 81-year-old president’s remarks come amid previous reports that his most effective working hours are between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. During the gathering, Biden also responded to a health-related question from Hawaii Gov. Josh Green by humorously saying, “just my brain,” a comment that was not recognized as a joke by at least one governor present.

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, his wife, Sara, and their son Avner attended a ceremony on Friday at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Yerushalayim honoring Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, who died while commanding soldiers in the operation to free 102 hostages at Entebbe airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976.
The prime minister and his brother Ido recited the kaddish mourning prayer and laid a memorial wreath on the grave of their older brother. They laid an additional wreath together with Yonatan’s IDF General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal) colleagues.
Also attending the ceremony were Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, Cabinet ministers, MKs, former and current IDF commanders and friends of the family.

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President Biden made several unusual errors and misstatements during the official White House Fourth of July celebration, appearing confused at times and unexpectedly greeting the crowd with a jovial “Ho ho ho! Happy Independence Day!”
The 81-year-old president and First Lady Jill Biden shared the stage with Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. Harris introduced the “extraordinary” President Biden, who then gave a brief holiday greeting.
Biden appeared more energetic than during his heavily criticized June 27 debate performance. However, his statements remained just as incoherent, albeit louder.

An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed in action on Thursday during fierce battles in Gaza City’s Shuja’iyya neighborhood.
The slain soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Eyal Mimran, 20, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 101st Battalion, from Ness Ziona.
On Wednesday night, the IDF announced the death of Capt. Elay Elisha Lugasi, 21, a team commander in the 7th “Storm from the Golan” Armored Brigade’s 75th Battalion from Kiryat Shmona.
Lugasi died during a raid in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, the Hamas terror stronghold the IDF conquered in December but which has since seen a resurgence in hostile activities.
Two additional soldiers were killed in action in separate incidents in Shuja’iyya earlier in the week.

LONDON – He was a lefty lawyer who defended vegan anarchists before prosecuting terrorists on behalf of the British crown. He was an editor of a Trotsky magazine in his youth, yet he delighted capitalists by putting “wealth creation” at the heart of the Labour Party platform this year. He was an anti-monarchist who was then knighted as “Sir Keir” and now will meet with the king once a week.
It all makes for a complex, messy, real-life story. It also makes it tricky to anticipate what sort of prime minister Keir Starmer will be.
One of his biographers confessed that Starmer is “hard to pin down” – and he had total access to his subject.
Starmer, 61, has used that ambiguity to his advantage. People have been able to project onto him what they want to believe.

It’s official — Britain has a new prime minister.
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to usher in “an age of national renewal” following the Labour Party’s decisive victory, ending the Conservatives’ 14-year reign.
Starmer, the Labour Party leader, led his team to a historic landslide win on Friday morning, marking the worst defeat in the Conservative Party’s history.
Starmer and his wife, Victoria, visited Buckingham Palace on Friday for a private audience with King Charles. During this meeting, the 75-year-old monarch requested that Starmer form a new government.
During the “kissing hands” ceremony, King Charles officially appointed Starmer as Britain’s new prime minister, following Rishi Sunak’s resignation earlier that morning.