CBS political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns confronted former President Donald Trump on his refusal to accept the outcome of the 2020 election during an interview in Pennsylvania on Monday.

Two missing hikers were thankfully found in good condition by Chaveirim of Rockland volunteers after being lost all night in Slide Mountain Wilderness. Sources tell YWN that the mother of the of the two hikers, aged 17 and 21, called Chaveirim at around 8:00PM Monday night reporting that their son had called saying they were lost on Slide Mountain, and then lost phone service. Chaveirim deployed dozens of volunteers to the scene and located their car at around midnight.  An intense search was launched on the trails in the area The were found by Chaveirim after being notified by a passing motorist who said she saw two people wandering on a nearby road at around 7:30am. Catskills Hatzolah arrived in the morning hours to assist with the search.

Fred Trump III, the nephew of former President Donald Trump, has raised concerns about his uncle’s mental health, suggesting that the 77-year-old might be showing signs of dementia. In a recent interview on The Dean Obeidallah Show, Fred Trump III spoke about the potential decline in Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities, which he believes could be linked to a family history of dementia. “I know the warning signs from both of my grandfathers,” Fred said during the interview, referencing his grandfather Fred Trump Sr., who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s before his death. He noted that dementia runs in the family, citing other relatives, including Donald Trump’s older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, who also showed signs of cognitive decline in her later years.

Protesters broke through a fence set up by police near the site of the Democratic National Convention on its opening day Monday as thousands took to the streets to voice their opposition to the war in Gaza. As the larger group marched, a few dozen who broke away tore down pieces of the security fence. Some protesters, dressed in black with their faces covered, dragged pieces of the fence back to a park near the United Center, where the convention is being held. Several protesters who had managed to get through the fence were detained and handcuffed by the police. Authorities said the inner security perimeter surrounding convention site was not breached and there was no threat to those attending the convention.

IDF troops from the 7th Brigade have expanded their operations in the Gaza Strip, targeting areas around Khan Yunis and the outskirts of Deir al-Balah. As part of these operations, IDF soldiers are eliminating terrorists and dismantling combat compounds both above and below ground. In a significant find, the 603rd Battalion uncovered dozens of rockets, launchers, and several anti-tank missiles in one of these compounds. With intelligence assistance, the 603rd Battalion, in coordination with the Yahalom Unit, located and destroyed an underground tunnel approximately 1.5 kilometers in length. The tunnel, used by Hamas, contained weapons, explosives, and equipment for long-term habitation. The terrorists occupying the compound fled as IDF troops arrived. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Chabad bochurim Yisroel Andrusier from Florida and Zalmy Gurary from Montreal, students of Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in the Brunoy village in France, were helping Jews put on Tefillin in the Jewish quarter in Paris, known as the Pletzl. Collive reported on a moving encounter they had with a special Jew, Raphael Benguigui, and his wife Lorena, residents of Paris and Lisbon, Portugal. Raphael, who doesn’t have hands, agreed to put on Tefillin. Lorena told the bochurim later that Raphael used to daven with tefillin on a regular basis but stopped when he was diagnosed with leukemia and later suffered from septic shock. “My husband needed this,” she said, explaining that “after what we call ‘the life accident,’ he didn’t do it every day anymore. He had some anger to deal with.

Fox News’ chief political analyst Brit Hume said that former President Donald Trump has a real chance of winning the 2024 election, but believes the race will be extremely close due to Trump’s unpopularity among a significant portion of the electorate. The conversation followed an interview between Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream and Senator JD Vance, where Bream highlighted that while Republicans claim to have a strong message, network polling shows that 65 percent of voters are dissatisfied with the direction of the country. Bream posed the question of why Trump is still statistically tied with Vice President Kamala Harris, despite the public’s dissatisfaction. “Because he’s Trump,” Hume responded. “When you get down to it, the past eight to ten years have been about Donald Trump.

Rav Yehudah Meshulam, the Gabbai of the Rashbi shul in southern Tel Aviv, where a great neis occurred on Sunday evening when a suicide bomber’s powerful bomb prematurely exploded ten meters away from it, spoke to the media on Monday about the magnitude of the neis. “The explosion was louder than I’ve ever heard before,” he said. “The whole shul shook like in a powerful earthquake. The electricity went out in part of the building and the glass of the windows shattered on people. Miraculously there were no people on the street at the time except for one passerby who was injured and we daven for his speedy recovery.” “They saw on the security cameras that the terrorist had already approached the entrance of the shul, checked out the area and saw that there was a shul there full of people.

A number of Jews in Iran were certified as Rabbanim, shochtim and sofrei stam in a festive ceremony on Sunday headed by the Rav of Tehran, Rav Yehuda Gerami. Two of the Jews who received semicha will serve as Rabbanim in Tehran and one will serve in the city of Isfahan. Fifteen Jews from Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz were certified as shochtim and sofrei stam. A Siyum HaShas was also held at the ceremony and was attended by about 300 members of the Jewish Kehilla. At the beginning of the month, HaRav Gerami held a siyum on Masechtas Brachos with his talmidim in Isfahan. At the end of the ceremony and siyum, the participants danced to the songs of “מי שמאמין לא מפחד” and “לא לפחד כלל.”   (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Chicago is set to witness a series of large protests as the Democratic National Convention (DNC) takes place at the McCormick Place Convention Center. Organizers anticipate that nearly 100,000 demonstrators will participate in at least seven planned rallies and marches across the city. The demonstrations are expected to be a mix of causes from across the political spectrum, including groups advocating for the end of U.S. aid to Israel and backing pro-Palestinian causes, some of which have drawn criticism for their affiliations with Hamas. Some rallies, including a major march toward Grant Park organized by far-left group Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws, are scheduled to kick off Sunday ahead of the DNC’s official start on Monday.