Miami, FL – A passenger shouted “Watch out! Watch out!” as other passengers and crew members cautiously walked out on a wing of the Boeing 737, just moments after it had landed at a Florida military base, crashed through a stone seawall, and ended up in a river. Another passenger shouted, “Baby coming through!” and [...]

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump raised pressure on China over trade negotiations on Sunday by saying U.S. tariffs on certain Chinese products will increase to 25% on Friday and that more Chinese goods will face additional tariffs. “For 10 months, China has been paying Tariffs to the USA of 25% on 50 Billion Dollars [...]

New York – Lew Fidler, a former New York City Councilmember who was active for many years in Democratic politics, has died. He was 62. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said Fidler died on Sunday. Fidler had been working in the borough president’s office until his passing, and Adams issued a statement calling him “a [...]

Gaza – The leader of Hamas says his group is “not interested in a new war” with Israel, after two days of heavy rocket fire from Gaza and Israeli airstrikes on the blockaded territory. Ismail Haniyeh said in a statement late Sunday that the militant group is ready to “return to the state of calm” [...]

Washington – A video showing children speaking in Arabic about sacrifice and chopping off heads wasn’t vetted before being posted on the Facebook page for the Muslim American Society’s Philadelphia chapter, and it does not represent their values, the executive director of the national group said Sunday. Executive Director Ayman Hammous said the Muslim American [...]

Washington – US Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib slammed a New York Times headline that framed the violence in Israel as being initiated by a barrage of rockets from Gaza. “When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free?” she tweeted. “Headlines like this & framing it in this way [...]

Jerusalem – Israel killed a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in what the military described as a targeted strike and Palestinians said was the first such action since the 2014 war in the Palestinian enclave. A military statement said that Hamed Ahmed Abed Khudri had been responsible for transferring funds from Iran [...]

Gaza – New information emerging in the last hours casts serious doubt on Hamas’ claim that a Gazan woman and her baby daughter were killed in an Israeli Air Force strike in Gaza city on Saturday night. A woman in the Gaza Strip on Saturday night and her toddler baby were reportedly killed, with Gazan [...]

Jerusalem – With more than 500 rockets fired indiscriminately at Israeli communities bordering the Gaza Strip in the last two days, one couple has developed a creative response to transform destruction into hope. Since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Yedidya and Shiran Harush, residents of the southern village of Shlomit, have collected shrapnel from Qassam [...]

Jerusalem – A tragedy in the community of Gur Hassidim in the city of Ashdod, after Pinchas Menahem Pshuzman was killed in the evening (Sunday) by a rocket fired by terrorists from the Gaza Strip. . Pshuzman, was hit by shrapnel while running to a shelter, Pshuzman was 21, was one of the most prominent [...]