When Rabbi Jacob Schacter visited the Normandy American Cemetery in 2014, one detail stayed with him long after his return home. The observation seemed insignificant at first. But for Schacter and the historians and genealogists who would later found Operation Benjamin, it raised a troubling question: Why did there appear to be so few Jewish […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) highlighted Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Rep. James Talarico (D-TX), and former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper as three Democrats he sees as “leaders” in the party who are “stepping up” and prioritizing the people. Booker told Jake Tapper on State of the Union on Sunday his party “desperately needs new leadership” […]
United States officials said Sunday that negotiations between the U.S. and Iran have been slowed in part because Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is operating from an extremely isolated location that has made communication inside the Iranian government difficult. Iran’s supreme leader “is effectively holed up in an undisclosed location with little access to the outside world […]
President Donald Trump endorsed Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson for governor of Kansas on Sunday, formalizing support for the Trump-aligned candidate. Trump cited Masterson’s record on the Second Amendment, cutting taxes, and keeping the border secure in the announcement, saying Masterson will “work tirelessly to Champion Kansas Values.” Masterson has been linked prominently to Trumpworld […]
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on Sunday said Republicans no longer worried about reelection have the freedom to more openly criticize President Donald Trump and his allies. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Tillis joked that lawmakers no longer facing voters can finally drop the political “filter” that shapes many public comments. “You know what […]
A suicide bomb killed 23 people and wounded 70 others on a railway in Pakistan, with the Balochistan Liberation Army, a separatist militia group, claiming responsibility for the attack on a passenger train. The suicide bomb attack derailed the passenger train and caused two cars to catch fire, according to the Associated Press. The attack, […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) blamed his reelection loss to challenger Ed Gallrein on the times he has worked across the aisle with Democrats instead of voting with Republicans, particularly pointing to his advocacy for the release of the Epstein files. Massie fell to Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL backed by President Donald Trump, by a […]
President Donald Trump said his administration will “not to rush into a deal” with Iran as the two nations near a peace agreement, emphasizing that the Islamic regime “cannot develop or procure a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb.” “The negotiations are proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner, and I have informed my representatives not to […]
Russia hit Ukraine with a nuclear-capable Oreshnik ballistic missile for the third time on Sunday morning during an airstrike barrage that killed four people and injured about 100, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Moscow’s missile and drone attack was concentrated in Kyiv and damaged 30 residential buildings, Zelensky said in an X post. The […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Donald Trump “the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House” as he spoke out Sunday morning against the shooting near the White House, but stayed mum on the current Iran peace deal. Two people were shot outside the White House on Saturday evening when a […]
