*BREAKING:* A short while ago, the IAF conducted an intelligence-based strike on a terrorist command center belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organization in Damascus. The command center was used to plan and direct terrorist activities by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad against Israel. Multiple casualties are reported.

*LIKOVID PURIM!* Trump threatening 200% tariffs on all French and EU wine.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could flood New York if Governor Kathy Hochul’s administration fails to work with federal immigration authorities, warned Tom Homan, former border czar under President Donald Trump. Homan made the statement in Albany, New York, where he appeared with Republican state legislators on Wednesday.
“New York State, you gotta change the sanctuary status,” Homan remarked, according to Politico. “If you don’t, get out of the way. Because we’re going to do our job.”
He further stated, “Sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want: more ICE agents in your community. We’ll double the man-force if we have to. Rather than one officer arresting a bad guy, now I have to send a whole team.”

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American Muslim and Jewish advocacy organizations strongly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump after he referred to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as a “Palestinian.” These groups argued that the president’s use of the term was derogatory and aimed at belittling Schumer.
During a White House discussion with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin about U.S. corporate tax rates, Trump voiced his frustration over Democrats in Congress failing to back his policies. In the exchange, Trump remarked, “Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned. He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.”
It is important to note that Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S., does not have Palestinian ancestry.

Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $6 a dozen. But the move has been delayed in part because of concerns it could jeopardize chicken exports worth billions of dollars a year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced plans to spend $100 million to study bird flu vaccines to fight the disease in concert with meat chicken, egg and turkey groups. That’s part of a larger $1 billion effort to invest in more protections to keep the virus off farms that President Donald Trump believes will help lower egg prices. Chicken meat producers remain the most resistant to vaccines because of concerns they could harm meat exports, which totaled nearly $4.7 billion last year.