Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, has unveiled Syria’s new national emblem.

Reports indicate that Hamas may be willing to agree to a set of Israeli conditions in exchange for a ceasefire and the resumption of consistent humanitarian aid to Gaza.
According to the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, sources within Hamas have expressed a preliminary willingness to accept Israel’s core demands in exchange for a halt to fighting and a withdrawal of IDF forces from the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s demands reportedly include the disarmament of Hamas, the expulsion of remaining Iranian operatives and commanders from the territory, and the formal replacement of the Hamas regime in Gaza.

VIRGINIA (JNS) – When pro-Hamas protests and ideology exploded on university campuses across the country after Oct. 7, Jason Miyares, the Virginia attorney general, brought police chiefs from all of the commonwealth’s campuses to the capital in Richmond for a meeting and a briefing. “A lot of them, at a time, felt at some of […]

Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees. The Army has posted thousands of the warnings in New Mexico and western Texas, declaring a “restricted area by authority of the commander.” It’s part of a major shift that has thrust the military into border enforcement with Mexico like never before. The move places long stretches of the border under the supervision of nearby military bases, empowering U.S. troops to detain people who enter the country illegally and sidestep a law prohibiting military involvement in civilian law enforcement.

HY’D: The IDF has announced the death of Sergeant Assaf Zamir, z”l, who was killed during combat in Gaza. Two other soldiers from the 53rd Battalion of the 188th “Barak” Armored Brigade were seriously injured in the same incident and evacuated to the hospital. Their families have been notified.

Israeli forces reportedly staged a prolonged incursion into Syrian territory overnight Friday, according to the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen network and Syrian sources. Three IDF helicopters are said to have landed at a facility once tied to the presidential guard of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in the Yafour area, roughly 10 kilometers west of Damascus. The Israeli troops allegedly held their position for nearly five hours before withdrawing. Simultaneously, three IDF armored vehicles reportedly crossed into Syrian territory near the Lebanese border, entering the village of Rakhla under the cover of night.

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, Tehran’s prayer leader, said today that according to his interpretation of Islamic law, President Trump and Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu should be executed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he didn’t know the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders.

Joe Biden stepped back into the public eye on Thursday to sharply criticize President Donald Trump’s major legislative achievement, taking to X shortly after the House approved the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of drone and missile attacks tar

Waves of drone and missile attacks targeted Kyiv overnight into Friday in the largest aerial assault since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, officials said, amid a renewed Russian push to capture more of its neighbor’s land. The barrage injured at least 23 people and inflicted severe damage across multiple districts of the capital in a seven-hour onslaught. Blasts lit up the night sky and echoed across the city as air raid sirens wailed. The blue lights of emergency vehicles reflected off high-rise buildings, and debris blocked city streets. “It was a harsh, sleepless night,” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Russia has been stepping up its long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities.

President Donald Trump campaigned on keeping the United States out of foreign wars, but it didn’t take long to convince him to come to the direct aid of Israel, hitting Iranian nuclear targets with bunker-buster bombs dropped by B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from a submarine. Beyond the attack’s immediate impact on helping bring the 12-day war to a close, experts say Trump’s decision to use force against another country also will certainly be reverberating in the Asia-Pacific, Washington’s priority theater.

Alarmed by the policies of President Donald Trump, millions turned out last month for protests around the United States and overseas. Mindful of next year’s 250th anniversary of American independence, organizers called the movement “No Kings.” Had the same kind of rallies been called for in the summer of 1775, the response likely would have been more cautious. “It (‘No Kings’) was probably a minority opinion in July 1775,” says H.W. Brands, a prize-winning scholar and chair of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin. “There was a lot of passion for revolution in New England, but that was different from the rest of the country,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate vying for the mayoralty of New York City, marked “Black or African American” on his 2009 application to Columbia University, despite now saying he doesn’t consider himself Black, according to a Thursday report in The New York Times.
The revelation comes from leaked Columbia admissions data, which surfaced after a cyberattack on the Ivy League university exposed archived applications and internal records.
At the time, Mamdani was a senior in high school. On the application, he also selected “Asian” and handwrote “Ugandan” in a section that allowed applicants to elaborate on their heritage. Although his father teaches at Columbia, Mamdani was ultimately not admitted.

(AP) – Republicans muscled President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cut bill throu

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