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One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island, began spewing lava from the north vent Wednesday, the latest event in an ongoing eruption that began almost six months ago. Lava fountains reached heights of more than 330 feet (100 meters) and feeding multiple lava streams. Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the fountains were likely to go higher. The latest event was preceded by gas-pistoning, in which gas accumulates at a lava column’s top within a vent, on Tuesday. The observatory said this process causes the lava surface to rise or piston. “Eventually, gas escapes as splatter/lava is erupted, and lave drains back into the vent,” the observatory wrote on its Facebook page.

An emotional pidyon haben ceremony was held last week for a firstborn baby boy born to a couple who had waited 19 years to embrace a child of their own.
The remarkable story behind this long-awaited yeshuah centers on the guidance of the Rosh Yeshiva of Ateres Shlomo, Rav Chaim Feinstein, and an unusual segulah he shared with the couple that changed the course of their lives.

BREAKING: US officials say, Israel is fully ready to launch an operation into Iran, with the US anticipating that Iran could retaliate against US sites and assets prompting evacuation.

UPDATE: The Levaya for Yaakov Yisroel Jurkansky, an einikel of Hagaon Harav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva of South Fallsburg, who was tragically killed in an accident in the Catskills on Wednesday afternoon, will take place at approximately 8:00 PM at the Har Shalom Beis HaChaim in Airmont. Besuros Tovois!

The majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America with implications for U.S. relations. Brazil’s top court decided to rule on two different cases to reach an understanding on how to deal with social media companies as reports of fraud, child abuse and violence among teenagers become rampant online. Critics warn such measures could threaten free speech as platforms preemptively remove content that could be problematic. Gilmar Mendes on Wednesday became the sixth of the court’s 11 justices to vote to open a path for companies like Meta, X and Microsoft to be sued and pay fines for content published by their users.

President Trump was asked earlier while leaving the White House on the way to the Kennedy Center, why military dependents and diplomats were being evacuated from the Middle East, to which he shrugged and responded, “You’ll have to see, thank you.”

BREAKING: Likud MK Yuli Edelstein, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, announced that after extended deliberations, coalition members have reached an agreement on core principles for the new enlistment law. Edelstein described the development as “historic news,” signaling the end of the coalition crisis and the start of a legislative push to expand the IDF’s conscription base. “Only a real, effective bill like this will come out of my committee,” he said, without sharing further details. “We’re on our way to real change in Israeli society and strengthening the State of Israel’s security.”