Following interviews with seven candidates, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has chosen to appoint Vice Adm. (res.) Eli Sharvit, a former Navy chief, as the upcoming director of the Shin Bet.

The Shin Bet recently thwarted a Hamas plot directed from Turkey to execute a shooting and bombing in the West Bank, detaining six Nablus residents in January and February who were interrogated and found to have received tens of thousands of dollars, including $40,000 in cash and an assault rifle seized on January 29, to target security forces and others, according to a joint Shin Bet and Israel Police statement.

New video released reveals the extensive destruction caused by the Myanmar earthquake, which turned the city of Mandalay to rubble.

The IDF says it demolished a kilometer-long tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip amid ongoing operations in the area.

With the tax deadline fast approaching, Jackson-Hewitt Tax Services is facing scrutiny for allegedly distributing flyers in New York City that instruct undocumented immigrants on how to secure as much as $14,000 in tax refunds from the IRS. Independent journalist Savanah Hernandez reported that Jackson-Hewitt employees were stationed outside the Roosevelt Hotel, which currently houses migrants, handing out pamphlets detailing how undocumented individuals can receive substantial tax returns by claiming multiple children.
Hernandez shared one of the flyers, which claims that individuals could receive $7,650 for claiming one child, $12,635 for two, and $14,255 for three.

Immigration remains a strength for President Donald Trump, but his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About half of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s approach to immigration, the survey shows, but only about 4 in 10 have a positive view of the way he’s handling the economy and trade negotiations. The poll indicates that many Americans are still on board with Trump’s efforts to ramp up deportations and restrict immigration.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is facing intense backlash after photos posted online revealed that he has a tattoo of the Arabic word kafir, meaning “infidel” or “non-believer.”
The tattoo has ignited debate about its appropriateness and possible offense to Muslims, especially during a delicate moment for the U.S. military.
In Islamic theology, kafir identifies someone who does not believe in the faith. In recent years, the term has also been adopted by elements of the far-right, heightening the tattoo’s controversial nature.

A French court on Monday barred Marine Le Pen from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect, for embezzlement — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and an earthquake for French politics. Although Le Pen can appeal the verdict, such a move won’t suspend her ineligibility, which could rule her out of the 2027 presidential race. The court ruling was a political as well as a judicial temblor for France, hobbling one of the leading contenders to succeed President Emmanuel Macron at the end of his second and final term, scheduled to last into 2027. So broad were the political implications that even some of Le Pen’s political opponents reacted by saying that court had gone too far.

Russia views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as “a drawn-out process,” a Kremlin spokesman said Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the two countries’ leaders as he tries to bring about a truce. “We are working to implement some ideas in connection with the Ukrainian settlement. This work is ongoing,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call with reporters. “There is nothing concrete yet that we could and should announce. This is a drawn-out process because of the difficulty of its substance,” he said when asked about Trump’s anger at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments dismissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s legitimacy to negotiate a deal. Russia has effectively rejected a U.S.