A 28-year-old Texas resident, Anas Said, is in FBI custody following his arrest on charges of attempting to support ISIS and plotting a terrorist attack on U.S. soil from his
Ford Motor Co. will pay a penalty of up to $165 million to the U.S. government for moving too slowly on a recall and failing to give accurate recall information.
A 37-year-old Seattle man was charged Thursday with five counts of assault in the random stabbings of five people in broad daylight last week, according to prosecutors. Roland Jerome Lee is accused of stabbing five people as they stood on the sidewalk in a roughly four-block area in Seattles Chinatown-International District. He faces four first-degree […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Boruch Hashem, in our Yeshivos and Bais Yaakovs there is certainly much learning going on. However, we should also be paying attention to the condition of the Seforim that we use. Kavod for Sefarim is an important issue that is found in our Torah psukim as well lo saasun kain […]
A French military task force with a festive name Champagne is wrapping up a mission that’s no party: training a whole new brigade of several thousand Ukrainian troops who will be joining the fight against Russia’s invasion armed with France-supplied tanks, artillery canons and other heavy weaponry. The approaching return to Ukraine of […]
AgudathIsrael of America organized a solidarity event at Char Bar to show support for D.C.s longtime kosher restaurant after it was vandalized on the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht.Community leaders who gathered in support of the restaurant were joined by Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY), who had publicly condemned the hateful act. AgudathIsrael commended Torres for his […]
A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison. Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a virtual currency exchange before he and […]
The Biden administration on Thursday released guidelines for using artificial intelligence in the power grid, water system, air travel network and other pieces of critical infrastructure. Private industry would have
President-elect DonaldTrump announced Thursdaythat he would appoint Doug Collins to lead the Veterans Affairs Department in his new administration. Here are five things to know about the former Republican congressman from Georgia who would lead the agency tasked with providing health care to former members of the U.S. armed forces: Collins is a Baptist minister […]
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. edged lower this week, ending a six-week climb. The rate slipped to 6.78% from 6.79% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Thats still down from a year ago, when the rate averaged 7.4%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners seeking […]
The manager of a small hotel in northern Italy refused a reservation made by an Israeli couple, accusing Israeli people of being responsible for genocide. Jewish groups decried the incident as an example of antisemitism. The couple had booked two nights for the beginning of November at the Hotel Garni Ongaro in Selva di Cadore, […]
Former PresidentDonald Trumphas chosen North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to head the Interior Department. Some things to know about the two-term Republican governor of a sparsely populated state: Burgum’s background is in business Burgum, 67, grew up in tiny Arthur, North Dakota, population 328. He earned a bachelor’s degree from North Dakota State University and […]
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group has released a fourth video of hostage Sasha Trufanov, marking another instance of what Israeli officials condemn as psychological warfare. The nearly two-minute clip,
California has seen its share of bears breaking into cars. But bears caught on camera entering luxury cars tipped off insurers that something wasn’t quite right. In what’s dubbed Operation Bear Claw, the California Insurance Department said four Los Angeles residents were arrested Wednesday, accused of defrauding three insurance companies out of nearly $142,000 by […]
In a dramatic escalation of tensions within Israel’s government, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir lambasted Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara over a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire him, dismissing it as an attempted coup and calling for her immediate removal. The letter, sent by Baharav-Miara to Netanyahu, urges a reassessment of Ben […]
Donald Trump met Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election. The
Israel’s airstrikes inside Iran in late October dealt a significant blow to Iran’s nuclear ambitions by targeting a covert research site within the Parchin military complex, officials revealed to Axios.
A Russian man went on trial Thursday on charges of high treason for a video he had allegedly sent to Ukraine’s security services, the latest in a growing series of
Elon Musk, a key adviser in President-elect Donald Trumps transition team, reportedly held a private meeting with Irans UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani in New York this week, the New York Times reported, in what two Iranian officials described as a preliminary attempt to ease longstanding hostilities between Iran and the United States. The meeting, […]
Senator John Fetterman sharply criticized former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her role in pressuring President Joe Biden to abandon his re-election bid, calling her actions “hypocritical” and suggesting its time for her to step aside. In an interview with Politico released Thursday, Fetterman didnt hold back, slamming Pelosi for orchestrating Bidens withdrawal and then […]
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