In 2023, the Centers for Disease Control reported that an estimated 450,000 Americans suffered from alpha-gal syndrome or AGS. Numbers may be higher since AGS is not a reportable condition, which means health care providers don’t have to notify public health authorities when it’s diagnosed. Even worse, there is currently no cure. From barns and backyards to hiking trails and hunting blinds, Americans rethink how they live after a single tick sinks in. Alpha-gal syndrome is a life-altering food allergy triggered by a tick bite, and it’s changing careers and pastimes across the country. AGS isn’t your typical food allergy. It’s a delayed allergic reaction to a sugar molecule found in mammalian meats, like beef and bacon, and products derived from them.

Yehuda Shaffer, a lifelong Crown Heights resident and veteran Hatzalah member (CH-97), has announced his candidacy for New York City Council in District 41, a diverse area that includes Remsen Village, Brownsville, and parts of Crown Heights and East Flatbush. Shaffer, a proud Lubavitcher, brings 12 years of emergency response experience to the campaign trail and a message: it’s time for the Jewish community to take its place at the table. “Recent events have shown us that we cannot depend on others to speak up for us,” Shaffer wrote in a letter addressed to local residents. “We must stand up for ourselves—and now is that time.” With hundreds of new Lubavitch families settling in the district in recent years, Shaffer’s campaign emphasizes both representation and collaboration.

Houthi media channels have released a first look at Sana’a International Airport following today’s massive wave of air strikes by the Israeli Air Force.

Three young children — twin 8-year-olds and their 10-year-old sibling — have been rescued from a suburban home in Spain where they had been kept in near-total isolation for years under obsessive and outdated COVID restrictions. Authorities in Oviedo, a city in Spain’s northwest, were alerted after neighbors reported the children had not been seen attending school since 2021. What investigators uncovered was described as a “house of horrors” — not in terms of physical abuse, but in the extreme psychological and social deprivation the children were subjected to.

President Donald Trump welcomed Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, with a bit of menace on social media, only to then turn on the charm and hospitality once the two leaders were sitting together in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “I just want to congratulate you,” Trump told Carney on his election win as they met in front of reporters. “Ran a really great race. I watched the debate. I thought you were excellent.” As the two countries struggle over a trade war sparked by Trump’s tariff hikes, the U.S. president gave a full display of his unique mix of graciousness and aggression. Shortly before Carney’s arrival, Trump said on social media that the United States didn’t need “ANYTHING” from its northern neighbor, a contrast to his public warmth in the Oval Office.

President Donald Trump has renewed his call to establish national holidays to commemorate the U.S. victories in both World War I and World War II. This time, however, he made clear that he is not seeking to alter the name or significance of Veterans Day.
Trump posted on Truth Social, writing, “a National Holiday in celebration of the Victories of World War I, where the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, and World War II, where the Victory date was May 8, 1945.”

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The Israeli Air Force releases footage of fighter jets preparing to conduct strikes on Houthi-controlled Sanaa International Airport and nearby targets in Yemen’s capital, with dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets, refuelers, and spy planes, dropping 50 munitions to disable the airport in under 15 minutes.

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