Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that his nation “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international isolation. “Western leaders may have buckled under the pressure,” he said. “And I guarantee you one thing: […]
Since Rosh Hashanah, severe delays have been reported at all border crossings out of Ukraine, leaving thousands of Yidden stuck for long hours on buses, at airports, and at border
Two leading computer scientists are sounding a dire warning: the rise of artificial superintelligence could spell the end of the human race — not in centuries, but potentially within our lifetimes. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, researchers at the Berkeley-based Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), argue in a new book that humanity’s flirtation with advanced […]
Iran is pressing ahead with major underground construction at a little-known mountain site, raising fresh alarms just months after U.S. and Israeli forces devastated its main nuclear facilities. Satellite images reviewed by the Washington Post, alongside independent analysis, show accelerated activity at Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La—known as Pickaxe Mountain—suggesting Tehran has not abandoned its suspected […]
The Prime Minister’s Office announced Friday that Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly will be blasted into Gaza through loudspeakers placed along the border — an unusual move that is provoking criticism from the military, families of hostages, and soldier advocacy groups. In a statement, the PMO said civilian agencies were instructed, […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States in a way that meets national security concerns. Trump’s
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will put import taxes of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on
Starbucks said Thursday it’s closing hundreds of U.S. and Canadian stores and laying off 900 nonretail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround. The Seattle coffee
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told global leaders Wednesday that the world is in “the most destructive arms race in human history” and urged the international community to act against Russia now, asserting that Vladimir Putin wants to expand his war in Europe. In a bleak view of today’s world, he told the annual high-level meeting […]
Despite years of congressional hearings, lawsuits, academic research, whistleblowers and testimony from parents and teenagers about the dangers of Instagram, Meta’s wildly popular app has failed to protect children from harm, with “woefully ineffective” safety measures, according to a new report from former employee and whistleblower Arturo Bejar and four nonprofit groups. Meta’s efforts at […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday directed his administration to crack down on backers of what it described as “left-wing terrorism,” naming two top Democratic donors as he alleged without evidence a vast conspiracy to finance violent protests against the government. Trump’s executive order put the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Taskforce in the lead and said the […]
I recognize that the title may come across as provocative, but it is a topic that weighs heavily on my heart - particularly during the Yomim Tovim. Each Sukkos, our shuls receive an influx of Yeshiva bochurim returning home. While it is beautiful to see how many of them have grown into Yarei Shamayim and Baali Middos, there’s a distressing reality that cannot […]
Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including “petrichor,” “teraflop,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.” The 12th edition of “Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary” comes 22 years after the book’s last hard-copy update and […]
The gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, killing a detainee and critically wounding two others, left behind a note saying that he hoped the attack would “give ICE agents real terror,” the FBI director said Thursday. The post by Kash Patel on the social platform X offered the first hint of a motive behind […]
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