Congressman Mike Lawler, a Republican from Rockland County, has endorsed Nachman Caller in Tuesday’s special election for the New York State Senate. “Our communities need Nachman in Albany to fight for Brooklyn, support our schools, and help keep our streets safe,” Lawler said. Lawler’s endorsement highlights the importance of the race, as Republicans seek to flip a seat in a district that overwhelmingly supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. The 22nd Senate District includes the frum neighborhoods of Borough Park, Midwood, Flatbush, and Marine Park.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation. The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month. The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife. (AP)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clinched the political support needed to become the nation’s top health official by pledging to work within the decades-old federal system for approval and use of vaccines. Yet his regulators are promising big changes that cloud the outlook for what shots might even be available. The Food and Drug Administration will soon “unleash a massive framework” for how vaccines are tested and approved, according to Commissioner Marty Makary. Details aren’t yet public but the plan is being overseen by the agency’s new vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, an outspoken critic of FDA’s handling of COVID-19 boosters.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the Democratic New York attorney general’s real estate transactions, Director Kash Patel confirmed in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. The investigation is focused on whether the state Attorney General, Letitia James, committed fraud on a mortgage application. A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia has issued subpoenas on the matter. James, who won a civil case last year against the Trump Organization and Trump himself over allegations of faulty business practices, is the first public official who investigated the president to now face potential criminal prosecutions themselves.

Whether it’s a road trip to a nearby lake or jumping on a plane to explore a big city, Americans are expected to get away in record numbers over the long Memorial Day weekend even as economic and technical worries rattle the U.S. travel industry. Over 45 million people — 1.4 million more than last year — will venture at least 50 miles from their homes between Thursday and next Monday, with the vast majority going by car, auto club organization AAA predicts. The holiday’s previous domestic travel record was set 20 years ago. AAA spokesperson Aixa Diaz said the analysts who prepared the forecast weren’t sure when they started their research if concerns about the economy would cause fewer U.S.

Former President Joe Biden’s recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer, with a Gleason score of 9 and metastasis to the bone, has not only elicited bipartisan sympathy but also ignited a firestorm of accusations that the Biden administration, his medical team, and a complicit mainstream media concealed critical information about his health for years—potentially as early as 2022, when Biden himself appeared to let slip that he had cancer. The cover-up, encompassing both his physical health and widely observed cognitive decline, may well be remembered as the most significant political scandal of the 21st century. The timeline of Biden’s health saga raises damning questions.

President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul how U.S. elections are run includes a somewhat obscure reference to the way votes are counted. Voting equipment, it says, should not use ballots that include “a barcode or quick-response code.” Those few technical words could have a big impact. Voting machines that give all voters a ballot with one of those codes are used in hundreds of counties across 19 states. Three of them — Georgia, South Carolina and Delaware — use the machines statewide. Some computer scientists, Democrats and left-leaning election activists have raised concerns about their use, but those pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election have been the loudest, claiming without evidence that manipulation has already occurred.

House Republicans narrowly advanced President Donald Trump’s big tax cuts package out of a key committee during a rare Sunday night vote, but just barely, as conservative holdouts are demanding quicker cuts to Medicaid and green energy programs before giving their full support. Speaker Mike Johnson met with Republican lawmakers shortly before the meeting and acknowledged to reporters that there are still details to “iron out.” He said some changes were being made, but declined to provide details. It’s all setting up a difficult week ahead for the GOP leadership racing toward a Memorial Day deadline, a week away, to pass the package from the House.

The families of the hostages from the right-wing Tikva Forum spoke to the press on Monday following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to allow the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip. The families vehemently called on the government to stop “courting Hamas” and to act to release all the hostages in a decisive and uncompromising military operation. Boaz Miran, brother of hostage Omri Miran, said: “The Prime Minister justifies his surrender and the entry of humanitarian aid with the risk to the military operation. Following the entry of this aid, soldiers will be killed and the release of the hostages will be delayed, as has happened throughout the war until now. They talk about international pressure – I ask, does Hamas abide by humanitarian laws towards our hostages?

Two people were killed and at least one person was missing after multiple pedestrians were struck by a train in northern Ohio, authorities said. The group was hit Sunday evening in Fremont, near Lake Erie between Toledo and Cleveland, WTOL-TV reported. Fremont Mayor Danny Sanchez confirmed two fatalities, telling reporters they were a 58-year-old woman and her 38-year-old daughter. He said a toddler was hurt and that the missing person is a 5-year-old child. He said crews were searching the Sandusky River near the Miles Newton Bridge. Sanchez said the group was from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and on a fishing trip. Freemont police said on X that the bridge was closed and urged people to stay away from the area. Multiple law enforcement agencies were on the scene.