The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower mishaps and a string of crashes earlier this year. The need for more controllers who direct planes across increasingly crowded skies, though, isn’t a new issue or one that will be resolved quickly. How big is the shortage of controllers? The Federal Aviation Administration has about 14,000 air traffic controllers. More than 1,800 were hired last year, the largest number in nearly a decade, and the government is on track to hire even more this year. Still, there’s a need for about 3,000 more to fully staff the system. What are the impacts? Understaffing has meant controllers often are forced to work mandatory overtime, sometimes six days a week.

Police officers in helmets streamed into Columbia University Wednesday evening to remove a group of mask-clad protesters who staged a Pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library. Videos shared on social media show a long line of NYPD officers entering the library hours after dozens of protesters pushed their way past campus security officers, raced into the building and then hung Palestinian flags and other banners on bookshelves in an ornate reading room. Some protesters also appear to have scrawled “Columbia will burn” across framed pictures. Other videos show campus security officers barring another group of protesters from entering the library, with both sides shoving to try and force the other group aside.

When it comes to Medicaid, Rep. Juan Ciscomani is telling fellow Republicans he won’t support steep cuts that could hit thousands of residents in his Arizona district — “my neighbors, people my kids go to school with” — who depend on it. Republican Rep. Don Bacon, who represents the liberal-leaning “blue dot” of Omaha, Nebraska, is trying to protect several Biden-era green energy tax breaks. He’s warning colleagues that “you can’t pull the rug out from under” businesses that have already sunk millions of dollars into renewable developments in Nebraska and beyond. And for Republican Rep. Nick LaLota of New York, it’s simple: “No Salt. No Deal.

Relations between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appear to have hit a new low, with sources close to Trump confirming to Yisrael Hayom that the president has grown deeply frustrated with his Israeli counterpart. What began as quiet tension has escalated into open diplomatic coldness. Just days after reports surfaced of Netanyahu’s dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of regional affairs, insiders from Trump’s inner circle now reveal that the feeling is mutual — and intensifying. According to two senior figures who spoke in closed-door discussions reported by Yisrael Hayom, Trump has “run out of patience” and has resolved to forge ahead with his Middle East agenda without waiting for Israel to fall in line.

The United States and Britain are expected to announce a trade deal on Thursday that will lower the burden of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and deliver a political victory for U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that a deal due to be announced at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) will be a “full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come.” It’s the first bilateral trade deal announced since Trump began slapping tariffs on U.S. trading partners. He said: “Many other deals, which are in serious stages of negotiation, to follow!” Starmer’s office said the prime minister would give an “update” about U.S. trade talks later Thursday. “As you know, talks with the U.S.

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a warning to the Houthi rebels in Yemen and to their sponsor Iran, stating that Israel “must be capab

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The young man who was killed in a boat accident off the coast of Eilat on Wednesday evening was Levi Yitzchak Leizerowitz, z’l, a 21-year-old resident of Tiveria. The niftar, a member of the Breslov community in Tiveria, is survived by his parents, his wife, and a one-year-old daughter. As a teen, he attended the Migdal Ohr institutions of HaGaon HaRav Dovid Grossman in Migdal HaEmek. He grew very close to HaRav Grossman and maintained a close relationship with him. Nine others were injured in the incident, two moderately and seven lightly. The police said that the boat overturned after it made a sharp turn at high speed, causing all 12 passengers to be thrown in the water. A witness said that none of the passengers were wearing life jackets and some fell under the boat’s engine.

The Iranians arrested over the weekend in the UK were planning on carrying out a large terror attack at the Israeli embassy in London, The Times reported on Wednesday. The police have refused to comment on the details of the case, but according to the report, “it is understood the embassy was the main target.” “Dan Jarvis, the security minister, refused to give details of the immigration status of the suspects citing the continuing police inquiry,” the report added. The suspects were reportedly “hours away” from carrying out the attack before being arrested. Authorities said that the suspects’ plots were “some of the biggest counter-state threats” the UK has seen in recent years.