The government shutdown entered its twentieth day on Monday, marking the longest full closure in U.S. history and the third-longest overall, behind only the 35-day partial shutdown of 2018–19 and the 21-day standoff of 1995–96. Yet despite the historic milestone and mounting economic strain, Congress remains locked in a stalemate with no clear path forward. […]
President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. commands “great respect” from Beijing and that he will reach a “fantastic deal” with Chinese President Xi Jinping when the two leaders meet soon. Trump’s remarks come after Beijing infuriated him by expanding export controls on rare earth products that are used in smartphones, fighter jets, electric vehicles and more. Trump […]
The IDF announced that troops have recovered a casket believed to contain the remains of an Israeli hostage from the Gaza Strip. The body has been transferred under police escort
Federal appeals court judges on Monday questioned the Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep the president’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor. The three-judge panel
The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights. President Donald Trump’s administration asked the justices to revive a case against a Texas man charged with a felony […]
Israel Police chief Danny Levy has ordered police officers to refrain from arresting Chareidi “draft dodgers,” despite the IDF and Justice Ministry’s request for assistance in enforcement, Haaretz reported on
China likes to condemn the United States for extending its arm too far outside of its borders to make demands on non-American companies. But when it sought to hit back
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, the architects of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, pushed back against accusations that Israel committed “genocide” in Gaza, defending the country’s military actions during a joint interview Sunday on 60 Minutes. Asked by correspondent Lesley Stahl whether they believed the war amounted to genocide, Kushner immediately […]
Metal shrapnel from an exploding artillery shell fell hit and damaged a California Highway Patrol vehicle as personnel at a U.S. Marine Corps base fired live rounds over a highway — against the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom — during weekend exercises observed by Vice President JD Vance, state authorities said Sunday. No one was […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mocked President Donald Trump’s assertion that recent U.S. airstrikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, calling the claim a fantasy. “The U.S. president proudly says they bombed and destroyed Iran’s nuclear industry. Very well, keep dreaming!” Khamenei wrote on X, in a post that quickly went viral across Persian and […]
King Charles on Monday visited the scene of Yom Kippur’s deadly attack at a Manchester shul which left two people dead. The King was greeted by Rabbi Daniel Walker, the shul’s rav, upon his arrival at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation. He spent several minutes at a memorial site outside the shul, where flowers and […]
A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference
Poll Finds Cuomo Gains Ground on Mamdani if Sliwa Exits NYC Mayoral Race Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo could be within striking distance of Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s mayoral race if Republican Curtis Sliwa were to drop out, according to a new Gotham Polling and AARP survey released this week. The poll found […]
Authorities are seeking to formally arrest most of the 64 South Koreans repatriated from Cambodia for allegedly working for online scam organizations in Cambodia, police said Monday. The 64 South
Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its goals for the country over the next five years. A short dispatch from the official Xinhua News Agency said Xi “expounded on the Party leadership’s draft […]
Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator, will be Bolivia’s next president, preliminary results showed on Monday, paving the way for a major political transformation after almost 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party and during the nation’s worst economic crisis in decades. “The trend is irreversible,” Óscar Hassenteufel, the president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, said of Paz’s […]
The IDF is preparing for the possibility that Hamas may hand over the body of a fallen hostage later tonight. On Sunday, Hamas announced that it had located the body of one of the hostages and would transfer it to Israel “if the field conditions are suitable.” Sixteen bodies of Israeli hostages are still being […]
A widespread internet disruption on Monday morning affected several major online services, including Amazon’s AWS cloud platform, Robinhood, Snapchat, and the AI search platform Perplexity, according to the monitoring site Downdetector. Perplexity’s CEO said the outage stemmed from an issue with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which also impacted Amazon.com, Prime Video, and Alexa. In addition, […]
Israeli diplomats have been targeted in a new security incident, after being added to WhatsApp groups operated from Iran and other hostile countries, according to a report by Ynet. An internal security notice distributed to Foreign Ministry staff warned: “Recently, there have been reports of [diplomats] being added to WhatsApp groups, not through their contacts. […]
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