Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein al-Sheikh met Tuesday with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in Ramallah — the first such high-level meeting between the Palestinian leadership and a Trump-appointed diplomat. The meeting marks a shift from the PA’s posture during President Donald Trump’s first term, when officials, including then-Ambassador David Friedman, were openly boycotted […]
The U.S. Army’s head of aviation has changed jobs to become chief of the branch’s enterprise marketing office, a move that comes before the National Transportation Safety Board holds hearings next week on January’s midair collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet that killed 67 people. Brig. Gen. Matthew Braman became chief of […]
Five months after returning to Israel following more than eight years in Hamas captivity, Avraham Mengistu was discharged Tuesday from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, marking a major milestone in his long road to recovery. “I’m excited,” Mengistu, 38, said briefly as he left the hospital, where he had been receiving intensive care since his […]
The driver accused of ramming his car into a crowd outside a Los Angeles nightclub over the weekend was charged with 37 counts of attempted murder, prosecutors said Tuesday. Fernando
The family of Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski is demanding answers after Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) announced Tuesday that it had lost contact with the terror cell holding him in Gaza. The announcement follows a reported Israeli operation in the area where Braslavski was believed to be held. “No one knows where Rom is—not the IDF, […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday escalated his attacks on former President Barack Obama and members of his administration, calling for their prosecution from the Oval Office and accusing them of orchestrating a “treasonous conspiracy” to undermine his 2016 election victory. Trump’s comments came in response to a question about the “Epstein Files,” though he quickly […]
MK Moshe Gafni of Degel HaTorah has withdrawn his candidacy for the coalition’s seat on the Judicial Selection Committee, announcing his support for fellow United Torah Judaism (UTJ) lawmaker MK Yisrael Eichler of the Agudas Yisroel faction. Degel HaTorah, the Litvishe wing of UTJ, released a statement saying Gafni “calls on Knesset members to support […]
Alina Habba, who served as President Donald Trump’s defense lawyer and a White House counselor and became one of the most high-profile U.S. attorneys, saw her 120-day interim term as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor end Tuesday. Habba, 41, could have stayed on in the role if federal judges in the state kept her on. Bumb’s […]
An Israeli missile strike in the final hours before last month’s ceasefire reportedly killed a senior Iranian nuclear scientist at the heart of the country’s clandestine weapons program, according to a new report by the opposition-linked outlet Iran International. The scientist, Mohammad Reza Sadighi, was described as a leading explosives expert central to Iran’s nuclear […]
The IDF held a comprehensive situational assessment meeting on Monday at which security, intelligence, and strategic issues in all arenas were discussed. It was the first meeting of its kind
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the financial industry of a “significant impending fraud crisis” because of the ability of artificial intelligence tools to impersonate a person’s voice to bypass security checks and move money. Altman spoke at a Federal Reserve conference Tuesday in Washington. “A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some […]
An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn’t until he found himself living in rural Vermont that he realized his penchant for repairing old pay phones could provide a public service. “I realized, wow, there’s no cell service for 10 miles (16 kilometers) […]
Separate seating for men and women has officially been added to Ishay Ribo’s upcoming concert at Bethel Woods — the largest outdoor Jewish concert ever held in North America, and
A wildfire burning in a sparsely populated region of central Oregon has become the largest fire this year and is on the verge of surpassing 100,000 acres to become what’s
There are Agudah events, and there was the Agudah Federal Advocacy Summit, which was held this Wednesday and Thursday in the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., a historic landmark a stone’s throw from the White House and a few short blocks from the United States Capitol. Over 24 high-impact hours, the Agudah Summit brought together […]
A frightening incident unfolded Tuesday afternoon at Lime Kiln Park (Greg Sikorsky Children’s Park) in Wesley Hills when a young child nearly drowned in the lake. Sources tell Monsey Scoop that it was a young woman — an innocent bystander who was at the park with her own child — who immediately sprang into action. […]
A British F-35B fighter jet stranded at an Indian airport for more than a month, sparking memes and cartoons on social media, took off Tuesday after being repaired by a team of U.K. engineers, an Indian official said. The stealth fighter, one of the world’s most advanced and costing around $115 million, was grounded at […]
A brazen scammer who tricked a Williamsburg woman out of a large sum of cash was arrested after attempting to scam her a second time—only to walk right into a sting operation set up by Williamsburg Shomrim and the NYPD. The ordeal began on Friday when the victim received a frightening phone call from someone […]
Columbia University is handing down sweeping disciplinary action against more than 70 students tied to two of the most disruptive protests in its recent history: the takeover of Butler Library
The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. If approved, the wide-ranging changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at constructions sites and in mines, and limit the […]
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