POTUS: “I said to them (the former hostages), was there any sign of love? Did Hamas show any signs of, like, help or liking you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? Like what happened in Germany?… They said – no… they slapped us”

Some 200 American family members of Oct. 7 victims filed a lawsuit in D.C. federal court on Monday against Bashar Masri, a Palestinian-American billionaire with ties to the Trump administration who, they allege, aided and abetted Hamas in carrying out the attack.
The suit accuses Masri of knowingly working with Hamas in developing business properties in Gaza that concealed and provided electricity to the terror group’s elaborate, militarized tunnel network. It seeks damages under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

President Trump: “We’re having direct talks with Iran … everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with … it’s getting to be very dangerous territory.”

“You’ve been a remarkable friend of the State of Israel”: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu praises President Trump in the Oval Office.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: “It has been a bad three weeks for the Houthis. It’s about to get worse”

In a powerful Shabbos HaGadol drasha to hundreds of his followers in Elad, the noted Chassidishe rov, Rav Naftali Glanz, turned his focus to a growing and deeply troubling phenomenon within the Torah world: what he calls counterfeit kannaus, or zealotry. Rav Glanz, known for his work in shalom bayis and guiding families with children who have strayed from the derech, did not mince words as he decried the violent actions and misguided fervor displayed by some members of the community.

A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation. That’s 28 seconds longer than estimates by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s. A French-led team studied a decade’s worth of aurora observations at the ice giant to track its magnetic poles. That long-term tracking provided a more precise rotation period for Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. From that distance, it takes about 84 Earth years for Uranus to orbit the sun. “The continuous observations from Hubble were crucial,” lead author Laurent Lamy of the Paris Observatory said in a statement.