The Trump administration on Monday announced federal officials are launching investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review, saying authorities have received reports of race-based discrimination “permeating the operations” of the journal. The investigations come as Harvard fights a freeze on $2.2 billion in federal grants the Trump administration imposed after the university refused […]
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won Canada’s federal election on Monday, capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war. After polls closed, the Liberals were projected to win more of Parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservative Party, though it wasn’t immediately clear if they would […]
Four children were killed and several more were injured when a car smashed through a building during an after-school program Monday afternoon in a town outside of Springfield, Illinois, police
Israeli forces have deployed the newly developed “Bar” rocket, designed by Elbit Systems, for the first time against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, the IDF announced Monday. According to
The Trump administration’s effort to impose new requirements on Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine — the nation’s only traditional protein-based option for the coronavirus — is sowing uncertainty about updates to other vaccines, too. Novavax said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration was asking the company to run a new clinical trial of its vaccine after […]
Seven new cases of measles have been identified in Israel over the past week in Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Emek Hefer and Modi’in Ilit, the Health Ministry announced on Monday.
The IDF is still holding two containers packed with roughly 350 bags of unidentified human remains — the shattered remnants of lives destroyed in Hamas’s savage Oct. 7 onslaught. The remains, many burned beyond recognition, are being stored at the Shura military base, home to the IDF’s Military Rabbinate. Each bag is believed to hold […]
A man accused of stealing a purse from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was charged Monday in federal court with aggravated identity theft, robbery and fraud. Video captured Mario Bustamante
President Donald Trump, in a newly published interview with The Atlantic, reflected on the differences between his two terms in office, saying that this time he views his role as leading both “the country and the world.” “The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all […]
Amazon’s first batch of internet satellites rocketed toward orbit Monday, the latest entry in the mega constellation market currently dominated by SpaceX’s thousands of Starlinks. The United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket carried up 27 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites, named after the frigid fringes of our solar system beyond Neptune. Once released in orbit, […]
An F/A-18 fighter jet slipped off the hanger deck of an aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East, as sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay
In an exceptional and rare move, the State-Prosecutor’s Office announced on Monday that it is withdrawing its indictment against Ron Eilon, former CEO of Yes, in the Bezeq-Yes case, one
Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia announced on Monday he is stepping down as the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee and will not be seeking reelection next year due to his cancer returning, ending his long career in public life. “The sun is setting on my time in public service,” Connolly said in […]
American sports giant Nike sparked global outrage this week after launching a post-London Marathon campaign using the slogan “Never again… until next year” — a crass play on words that invoked the phrase associated with never allowing the Holocaust to happen again. What was meant to be a clever nod to marathon exhaustion instead triggered […]
A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities said Monday. Officials urged people to be aware of the harsh conditions at the country’s tallest peak during its off-season. The climber was […]
Agudath Israel said it is “outraged” by several ordinances recently passed and others that are being contemplated by the City of Linden, NJ, designed to prevent Orthodox Jews from moving there, in line with the mayor’s recent comments to “keep our community from being taken over by guys with big hats and curls.” These discriminatory […]
Riots broke out today outside the IDF recruitment center in Tel Hashomer, as Charedim staged loud and aggressive protests against the enlistment of yeshivaleit into the army. The protesters attempted to disrupt the recruitment of soldiers for the Chashmonaim Brigade — a unit specifically designed to accommodate charedi recruits who wish to uphold a Torah […]
More than 100 immigrants suspected of being in the United States illegally were taken into custody early Sunday following a federal raid at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado Springs,
A senior Israeli official told the press on Monday that Israel has refused an Egyptian proposal for a five-year ceasefire with Hamas in exchange for the release of all the
President Donald Trump made clear Sunday that he would not follow his predecessor’s practice of recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day in October, accusing Democrats of denigrating the explorer’s
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