Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsth issued a memo on Monday calling for equal physical requirements for men and women in combat roles; “We’re allowed standards to slip,” Hegseth said in a video announcing the memo on X.
“Different standards for men and women in combat arms, MOS and jobs, that’s not acceptable,” Hegseth said, using the abbreviation for “military occupational specialty,” or job type.
“We have to have the same standard — male or female — in our combat roles to ensure our men and women who are under our leaders, or in those formations, have the best possible leaders and the highest possible standards that are not based at all on your sex.”
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Mandatory composting went into effect in October 2024 in New York City, but starting Tuesday, those who do not comply with the law-mandated waste reduction program will be subject to fines.
Beginning on April 1, residents will have to separate food waste from trash or risk receiving a fine from the Department of Sanitation, as the warning phase of the City Council law lapses. Sanitation supervisors may search trash bags to check whether compostable waste is mixed with trash—an enforcement mechanism that officials say is used around the world.
According to rules set by the DSNY, food, yard, and food-soiled paper waste must be set aside in a labeled bin with a secure lid or in a DSNY-issued brown bin to avoid fines.
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The Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday that it had issued a wide-scale evacuation directive for Palestinians living in Rafah, located in southern Gaza. The military stated it was “returning to fight with great force to eliminate the capabilities of terror organizations in these areas.”
On social media platform X, IDF Arabic-language spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee posted a map showing the evacuation zones and urged civilians to relocate to al-Mawasi, a coastal area in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
This marked the largest evacuation call made by Israel since combat operations resumed against Hamas earlier this month, ending a lull in the fighting that lasted two months.

Maj. Gen. David Zini, who led the establishment of the Chareidi Chashmonim Brigade, spoke at a recent conference, responding to criticism from Chareidim about the army’s failure to meet its commitments. Zini confirmed that the IDF did not meet the commitments it made to Chareidim. “We earned the criticism fairly,” he said. He emphasized: “Every track in the IDF that I checked, and I don’t want to say that I checked them all but I checked the vast majority of them, we did not fully meet what we committed to the Charedim.

For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and air. If their injuries aren’t too severe, victims can survive for a week or more, assuming the weather isn’t too hot or cold, experts say. Rescue teams in Myanmar and Thailand are searching for survivors after Friday’s 7.7 magnitude quake that toppled buildings and damaged roads. The disaster has killed more than 2,000 people in Myanmar and at least 18 in Thailand, mainly at a Bangkok office tower construction site. Most rescues happen in the 24 hours after a disaster. The chances of survival drop with each day after that, experts say. Most victims are badly injured or buried by falling stones or other debris. What factors affect earthquake survival?

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Israel has put forth a revised proposal to Hamas that would see 11 hostages freed on the first day of the deal, among them American citizen Edan Alexander, as part of a truce that would last for 40 days.
Furthermore, according to a high-ranking Israeli official who spoke to Haaretz, the country is insisting that Hamas release 16 hostages in total. In contrast, Hamas is suggesting a gradual release of captives over a 50-day ceasefire period.
As Israeli leadership waits to hear back from Hamas, Ynet reported that the IDF has begun executing a strategy to bolster its security presence throughout the Gaza Strip.