Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring countries. In Pakistan, a helicopter carrying relief supplies to the flood-hit northwestern Bajaur region crashed due to bad weather, killing […]
Erin strengthened into a hurricane on Friday as it approached the northeast Caribbean, prompting forecasters to warn of possible flooding and landslides. The storm is expected to remain over open
A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for filing submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments generated by artificial intelligence. The
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell this week to its lowest level in nearly 10 months, giving prospective homebuyers a sorely needed boost in purchasing power that
Dr. Jason Graham, Chief Medical Examiner of New York City — who oversees the largest medical examiner’s office in the world — toured Achiezer’s state-of-the-art tahara facilities this week, accompanied by top members of his leadership team. The Achiezer facility is the only halachically-compliant tahara center in New York City outside of Brooklyn. Dr. Graham […]
A fourth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City, health officials disclosed Thursday as they revealed that some cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria are in city-run buildings. The outbreak in Central Harlem has sickened dozens since it began in late July. Seventeen people were hospitalized […]
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, he said it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the U.S. “an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.” Today, the program provides benefits to almost 69 million Americans each month. It’s a major source of income for […]
Thousands of Bnei Torah converged Thursday night outside the Beit Lid military prison, protesting the continued imprisonment of yeshiva bochurim who refused to bow to the government’s renewed draft decrees. The demonstration, called for and attended by HaRav Dov Landau shlit”a, came at the climax of a week of demonstrations against the army’s escalating campaign […]
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — once Donald Trump’s most bitter political adversary — said she would support awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize if he can secure a lasting end to the war in Ukraine without yielding to Moscow’s demands. Speaking on Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov’s Raging Moderates podcast, Clinton laid out […]
Iranian operatives infiltrated the Telegram account of former Israeli minister Ayelet Shaked during June’s 12-day war with Iran — Operation Rising Lion — according to Israeli security sources. The breach took place between June 13 and June 24, in the midst of one of Israel’s most tense military confrontations in decades. Shaked, who served as […]
In a leaked recording aired by Channel 12 on Thursday, former IDF intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva — who resigned in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 massacre — can be heard sharply criticizing the Shin Bet for failing to anticipate and prevent the devastating cross-border attack. “Where were you, Shin Bet, with all […]
A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department, Attorney
A federal immigration office in Lower Manhattan was evacuated Thursday afternoon after several envelopes containing an unidentified white powder were discovered inside, prompting a swift hazmat response and a full-scale
An IDF combat reservist was found dead Thursday in the Switzerland Forest area near Teverya, marking the latest apparent suicide in a military increasingly grappling with an alarming rise in such cases. The 28-year-old officer, a Teverya resident, served in the IDF’s 99th Division — a unit active in the Gaza Strip — and was […]
The Taliban leader warned God would severely punish Afghans who are ungrateful for Islamic rule in the country, according to a statement released Friday marking the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power. The Taliban seized Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, as the U.S. and NATO withdrew their forces at the end of a two-decade war. Since […]
U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for a high-stakes summit that could determine not only the trajectory of the war
Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of the tragedy of war and the bitter lessons from the era of Japanese militarism. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed “remorse” over the war — the first […]
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir delivered a blunt warning to one of Israel’s most notorious terrorists on Thursday, during a high-profile visit to Gannot Prison with Israel Prisons Service (IPS) Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi and senior IPS officials. The visit, aimed at personally overseeing what Ben-Gvir described as the “tightening of conditions” for incarcerated terrorists, included […]
South Sudan has quietly agreed to take in Gaza residents who choose to leave the Strip, as part of a high-stakes, four-nation initiative involving Israel, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates — but deep internal resistance could derail the deal before it takes shape, The Telegraph reported Thursday. A senior source in South […]
A Massachusetts man who waged a months-long campaign of violent, antisemitic threats against Jewish institutions has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison. John Reardon, 60, was
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