2025

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An IDF tank driver from the 79th Battalion in the 14th ‘Machatz’ Brigade, was killed in combat in northern Gaza, the IDF announced Thursday.The soldier was identified on Friday morning as St.-Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Asaf Cafri, from Beit…

An IDF tank driver from the 79th Battalion in the ‘Machatz’ Brigade, was killed in combat in northern Gaza, the IDF announced Thursday.The soldier had not been named by press time but his family was been notified.Additionally, an officer in…

Democrat National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg is under fire from within his own tent for promising to primary incumbent Democrats. For obvious reasons, the DNC is supposed to remain neutral in primary races. The entitled and…

U.S. President Donald Trump slammed Russia for launching a major air strike on the Ukrainian capital overnight, calling for a peace deal to get signed. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has cut short his diplomatic visit to South…

President Donald Trump meets with Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in the Oval Office on Thursday, April 24. Trump continues to host foreign leaders at the White House since the beginning of his second presidential term,…

"Stop disgracefully weaponizing antisemitism to attack universities," New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer told US President Donald Trump in a post to his social media accounts on Thursday, the day Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance…

In this video we discuss the Latvian government’s exoneration of Latvian Nazi war criminal, Herberts Cukers, and how this is a reflection of the zeitgeist we are living in wherein Nazism is gradually going through a revival: [youtube…

Pope Francis, the first pope from the Americas, died Easter Monday at age 88. The Onion honors the late pontiff by looking back on his life and legacy. 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Italian immigrants…

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa is open to normalizing relations with Israel, a Republican congressman who recently visited Syria told The Jerusalem Post.“Sharaa said that he was open to the Abraham Accords, which would put them in good…