President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry, loosening regulatory pressure on automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and trucks.
By: Rabbi Zvi Gluck Over the last few weeks, as the remaining living hostages returned home after two unbearable years in captivity, something became clearer than ever before.
Ireland, a country with a tiny number of Jewish residents, seems to be populated by an inversely proportional rate of antisemites. The rhetoric at a meeting of the Dublin city
New York City is handing Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani the safest streets the five boroughs have seen in modern history. Shootings are at an all-time low, subway crime has plunged, murders
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday he would push a new requirement that the Federal Reserve’s regional bank presidents live in their districts for at least three years before taking
Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He
A 13-year-old boy was critically injured after a fire broke out in an apartment on Yaakov Elazar Street in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Firefighters, MDA, and United Hatzalah teams
Chile has passed a bill outlawing the use of mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools. The new law will take effect next year,
In a move that has infuriated Jewish educators, elected officials, and civil-rights advocates, a Brooklyn middle-school principal rejected a parent’s request to bring a Holocaust survivor to speak to students, because he is supportive of Israel. Principal Arin Rusch of MS 447 in Boerum Hill told the parent that Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann, 85, was […]
Billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman urged senators on Wednesday to take swift action on his bid to lead NASA, after being yanked and then renominated by President Donald Trump. Isaacman appeared
Judge Moshe Bar-Am lost his patience on Wednesday during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s testimony at his ongoing trial, sharply rebuking prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh after she repeatedly asked Netanyahu whether he or his spokespeople had requested that articles on the Walla news site be removed or promoted during election periods. Bar-Am exploded: “We’ve exhausted this issue! […]
On December 10, Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center will host a gathering that brings together business leaders, government officials, and media voices who are rarely found in the same room, let alone on the same stage. The event, the JBiz Expo & Business Conference Powered By Apple Bank, is expected to explore the issues shaping the […]
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a blistering warning Tuesday that a surge of online disinformation—much of it circulating on TikTok—is fueling a wave of anti-Israel hostility among young Americans who increasingly rely on fabricated or distorted content to form their views on the Gaza war. Speaking at a New York conference hosted by […]
Hong Kong will set up an independent committee headed by a judge to determine the cause of a deadly high-rise fire that shocked the city and to recommend changes to
The Shin Bet and Israel Police thwarted a terror attack against IDF soldiers in Be’er Sheva, a joint statement announced on Wednesday. In the past month, a Bedouin-Israeli citizen from the Negev was arrested after plotting a terror attack against IDF soldiers at a bus station in Be’er Sheva. The suspect, influenced by ISIS, had […]
IDF forces operating in eastern Rafah came under sudden attack Wednesday when terrorists burst from an underground tunnel system, triggering a close-quarters confrontation that left five soldiers wounded. According to the IDF, troops conducting an operational mission near the city’s eastern corridor were blindsided as terrorists “emerged from an underground terror infrastructure,” a hallmark of […]
President Donald Trump pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case on Wednesday, citing what he called a “weaponized” justice system. Trump, who has argued that his own legal troubles were a partisan witch hunt, said on social media without presenting evidence that Cuellar and his wife, […]
A progressive group is targeting two Senate Democrats and an independent senator who voted to confirm some of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, promising to spend more than $1 million
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will depart Israel this Sunday, December 7, for a two-day visit to New York, during which he will engage with top American Jewish leaders, members of
Pete Hegseth barely squeaked through a grueling Senate confirmation process to become secretary of defense earlier this year, facing lawmakers wary of the Fox News Channel host and skeptical of his capacity, temperament and fitness for the job. Just three months later, he quickly became embroiled in Signalgate as he and other top U.S. officials used the popular Signal messaging application to […]
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