The IDF early Wednesday morning announced the death of Sgt. Ira Yair Gispan HY’D, 19, from Petach Tikva. Gispan, z’l, who served in the Armored Brigade’s 75th Battalion, fell in battle on Tuesday in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. His death increases the death toll of the ground war in Gaza to 273. The […]

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the hush money case against Donald Trump Tuesday as an illegitimate “sham,” becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court, embrace the former president’s claims of political persecution and attack the U.S. system of justice. It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying […]

The rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported, according to a new FBI report released Tuesday. The report analyzes data from state, local, federal and other agencies across the U.S. to determine trends in violence against law enforcement. It shows that the […]

Boeing orders tumbled in April and were outnumbered by canceled sales in another sign of the crisis gripping the troubled aircraft manufacturer. Boeing said Tuesday that it received orders for seven planes last month, an unusually small number. That wasn’t enough to offset canceled sales covering 33 planes, 29 of which were related to the […]

Congress has initiated an inquiry into 20 nonprofit organizations that have reportedly funded recent anti-Israel demonstrations and encampments on American college campuses, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Today (Tuesday), House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) sent a letter to Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. In the letter, the lawmakers requested all suspicious activity reports (SARs) linked to 20 organizations alleged to be leading, financing, and participating in the “pro-Hamas, antisemitic, and anti-American protests occurring on college campuses across the US.”

The Biden administration announced plans to slap new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment — an election year move that’s increasing friction between the world’s two largest economies. The tariffs come in the middle of a heated campaign between President Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor, Donald […]

The coronavirus has once again evolved, in a familiar echo of past years. Unlike earlier iterations of the virus, this new variant is not sparking widespread havoc.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is monitoring a variant called KP.2 and does not see evidence it causes more severe illness than other strains. Laboratory tests have shown that KP.2 is not causing a surge in infections or transmission, the agency said.
The CDC has identified a second emergent variant, KP.1.1. But it is KP.2 that is leading the pack. Both new variants belong to a group of coronavirus variants dubbed “FLiRT” by scientists. The acronym was coined to describe a combination of mutations found in the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Hezbollah announced early Wednesday that one of its commanders, Hussein Ibrahim Makki, was killed in fighting with Israel, following an alleged Israeli airstrike on a car in southern Lebanon’s Tyre. Makki, a resident of the southern Lebanese town of Beit Yahoun, was in his mid-50s. According to Lebanese security sources, the airstrike targeted one of […]

Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell its stakes within a year. Attorneys for the creators argued in the lawsuit that the law violates users’ First Amendment rights […]

The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found. When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said it was the hottest month, summer and year on record. But those records only go back to 1850 at best because it’s based on […]

Lt. Col. (ret.) Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, shared footage showing Hamas terrorists standing outside the central logistics compound for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Additional video also showed one of the terrorists firing at civilians.
“Gunmen, likely Hamas terrorists, hanging out at an UNRWA warehouse in eastern Rafah a few days ago and identified by an IDF drone,” Lerner wrote on X. “The U.N. needs to answer some serious questions. Imagine what would’ve happened if we were to target them? The hypocrisy is astounding.”

The Biala Rebbe, z’tl, who was niftar on Friday had a dream that something terrible was happening to Am Yisrael prior to the start of the October 7th assault,  B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. HaGaon HaRav Yechiel Michel Weiner, a Biala Rav in Beit Shemesh who is known as a tremendous talmid chacham, said at the Rebbe’s […]

Ken Griffin, one of the most prolific supporters of Republican candidates across the US, said he’s waiting to see who Donald Trump picks as his running mate before backing his candidacy for president.
Griffin, who declined to name who he’d like to see as the 77-year-old’s vice presidential pick, said a Trump administration would likely improve America’s standing on the world stage.
“He will exude a level of strength that will help stabilize the world in these trying times,” the billionaire said from the Qatar Economic Forum.

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