The recommended reading list contained some works of fiction. It also contained some works that were, in fact, actually fictional. The content distributor King Features says it has fired a writer who used artificial intelligence to produce a story on summer reading suggestions that contained books that didn’t exist. The list appeared in “Heat Index: Your Guide to the Best of Summer,” a special section distributed in Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer last week. More than half of the books listed were fake, according to the piece’s author, Marco Buscaglia, who admitted to using AI for help in his research but didn’t double-check what it produced. “A really stupid error on my part,” Buscaglia wrote on his Facebook page.

A new 5,000-ton destroyer key to North Korea’s naval advancement was damaged during its launching ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un, state media reported Thursday. The ship slid off the ramp and became stuck after the flatcar failed to move alongside it, throwing off its balance and crushing parts of the ship’s bottom, according to the Korean Central News Agency. The accident at Wednesday’s ceremony at the northeastern port of Chongjin was an embarrassing setback for Kim, who has emphasized naval advancement as key to his nuclear-armed military.

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Many people work in real estate, but only a select few are actual real estate professionals. Mark Feld’s training program teaches real estate finance in a clear, easy to follow format, showing the process of modeling real estate deals using actual deals on the market.

Tucker Carlson, during a recent episode of his podcast, echoed concerns raised by his guest about the overlap between President Trump’s diplomatic efforts in the Middle East and the expansion of the Trump Organization’s operations in that region, suggesting it “seems like corruption.”
Speaking with Shawn Ryan, a former Navy SEAL and current podcast host, Carlson prompted a discussion about how the Trump administration is performing. Ryan began by applauding Trump’s rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, as well as certain reforms at the Department of Government Efficiency. However, he admitted there may have been excesses.

WASHINGTON (Israel Hayom) – Elias Rod

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood early Thursday, setting about 15 homes fire and evacuating homes along several blocks, authorities said.

WASHINGTON – Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew criticism after her response to the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staff at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., failed to explicitly mention the victims’ Jewish identity or ties to Israel.

Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman has filed a criminal complaint with the police against Rav Yitzchok Yosef, the former Sephardic chief rabbi, along with several senior chareidi rabbinic figures. The complaint centers around their open calls urging bochurim in yeshivos to refuse orders to report for IDF service—actions Liberman says blatantly break the law.
Speaking to The Times of Israel, Lieberman explained that he had twice appealed to the Attorney General and the national police to take legal action against these prominent rabbonim. “If there is no response to the second letter, then we will turn to the High Court of Justice,” he said at a press briefing held before Yisrael Beytenu’s weekly Knesset gathering.

President Donald Trump’s “ no tax on tips ” pledge became a catchphrase for his 2024 campaign. Now it’s inching closer to reality. The idea is firmly planted in the sprawling tax cuts package Republicans are hashing out in the House and aiming to pass in the coming days. And in a surprise move, the Senate voted this week to unanimously approve the idea. The proposal has widespread support from the public, lawmakers in both parties and employers who believe such a law will bring relief to the working class. But many critics say that it would come with an enormous cost to the government while doing little to help the workers who need it most. Here’s a look at the proposal and its potential impact: What’s in the ‘No Tax on Tips’ provision?

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Our Identity

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
President Donald Trump returned from a highly publicized and triumphant visit to three Arab capitals, bringing with him promises of over $1 trillion in investments in the United States and elated by the royal treatment he received. It was, by many accounts, one of the most financially successful diplomatic trips ever undertaken by a U.S. president. Yet, unsurprisingly, his opponents offered little acknowledgment or credit.

House Republicans early Thursday took a major step forward on President Donald Trump’s agenda, approving a legislative package that combines tax breaks, spending cuts, border security funding and other priorities. House committees labored for months on the bill, which underwent late changes to win over holdouts in the Republican conference. It exceeds 1,000 pages and is titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a nod to Trump himself. Republicans made one last round of revisions before the bill reached the House floor, boosting the state and local tax deduction to win over centrists and speeding up the work requirements in Medicaid to win over those who didn’t believe the bill did enough to curb spending.

IsraAID, an Israel-based humanitarian organization, said the Washington, DC event whe

The terrorist who murdered Yaron Lischinsky Hy”d, and Sarah Milgrim, H’yd, was identified as Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old resident of Chicago. Witnesses said that Rodriguez told the police as before being arrested, “I did it, I did it for Gaza. Free Palestine!” Rodriguez was a member of the far left-Marxist pro-Palestine group, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), which accuses Israel of “genocide” on its social media pages. In 2020, he made a political donation to Joe Biden. In 2017, he participated in a protest over the death of a black teenager who was shot by a Chicago police officer. “The wealth that Amazon has brought to Seattle has not been shared with its Black residents,” Rodriguez was quoted at the time in PSL’s Liberation newspaper.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated on Wednesday that there could be more Arab countries formalizing diplomatic relations with Israel within the coming months, as the administration continues to prioritize expanding regional normalization, especially with Saudi Arabia, according to AFP.
Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rubio expressed optimism about the trajectory of these diplomatic efforts. “I think we may have good news, certainly before the end of this year, of a number of more countries that are willing to join that alliance,” Rubio said, referring to the Abraham Accords.

With just weeks to go until New York City’s mayoral primary, one of the leading candidates, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, finds himself under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. He seems to think it might actually help. In a new advertisement released Wednesday, the Cuomo campaign seized on the investigation as a potential selling point to voters, calling it an attempt by the Trump administration to “interfere with New York City’s election.” “Why? Because Andrew Cuomo is the last person they want as mayor,” the ad says.

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