NEW YORK – Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist mounting a strong campaign in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, has consistently declined to say he wou

Russia unleashed its most extensive drone assault on Ukraine since the war began, with nearly 500 aerial attacks carried out, just one day after American officials had warned that such a large-scale response from Moscow was imminent.
According to the Ukrainian air force, Russian troops launched 479 drones along with 20 missiles during the overnight offensive. The barrage marked a dramatic escalation in Moscow’s military operations.
Ukrainian defense forces intercepted and destroyed all but 19 of the drones and only one missile managed to evade their air defense systems, the air force reported in its statement Monday.

While tens of thousands gathered to celebrate kavod haTorah at the Adirei HaTorah event, a profoundly unique and awe-inspiring maamad for Torah unfolded in a Brooklyn home. This celebration marked the completion and publication of a sefer on Chumash—not an ordinary sefer, but a masterpiece written by Reb Yisroel (Sruly) Schubert, who, despite battling the devastating effects of ALS, typed every word using only his eyes. For the past three years, the Mirrer Rosh Yeshiva, Harav Elya Brudny, has delivered a weekly Thursday night vaad at the Schubert home, rarely missing a session. Following the Rosh Yeshiva’s divrei Torah, Reb Sruly shares his own dvar Torah, painstakingly typing each letter with his eyes in an extraordinary display of mesiras nefesh.

California Governor Gavin Newsom escalated an already heated standoff with the Trump administration by directly challenging the president’s immigration enforcement chief, Tom Homan, to detain him over his refusal to crack down on anti-ICE demonstrators in the state.
“Come after me. Arrest me. Let’s just get it over with, tough guy,” Newsom declared in a defiant interview with NBC News on Sunday.
His remarks came shortly after Homan warned that both Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass could be criminally liable for allegedly interfering with federal immigration operations across the city.
“I’ll say it about anybody,” Homan asserted during a weekend interview, as scenes of protest and unrest unfolded in Los Angeles.

China’s exports to the United States fell 35%

Transportation Minister Miri Regev said on Monday that the government is planning to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Mirara even if the Supreme Court rules that it is “illegal.” Speaking in an interview with Ynet, Regev responded to a question about the government’s approval of a new procedure to fire the Attorney General: “Isn’t establishing a committee now changing the rules of the game?” Ynet asked “Not at all,” Regev responded. “The government that approved the committee can also be the government that cancels the committee.”

A major wildfire in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem is being fought by 35 fire crews, 8 planes, and a helicopter across Carmit Road, Ein Kerem Spring, and the Swedish Village, which is currently under evacuation.

During recent operations of the Paratroopers Brigade and Yahalom combat engineering unit in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, the military says it located and demolished a kilometer-and-a-half-long tunnel.

Lebanese media reports an Israeli drone strike on a car in Nmairiyeh, about 20 km from the Israeli border. The IDF has yet to comment on the air strike.