Politics
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Warsh Signals the Fed Is Not Done Fighting Inflation
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh delivered his first keynote as chairman on Friday — and the subtext was as hawkish as the tone was measured. Warsh signaled the central bank “may not be done” fighting inflation with… Read more
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Hegseth Weighs a Second Quantico Summit for Generals
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering summoning hundreds of senior military leaders back to Marine Corps Base Quantico for a second all‑hands address this year, U.S. officials told WSJ. Last September, the surprise gathering of every general and… Read more
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Nepal Floods: Missing Count Doubles to 1,900
A Himalayan flash flood swept through the Tibetan borderlands, killing hundreds and leaving nearly 2,000 missing, with hundreds linked to a hydropower project. The U.S. says its citizens are among those unaccounted for. Read more
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CIA Chief Ratcliffe Flew to Moscow in a Secret White House Mission
Trump personally dispatched the CIA director on a sensitive trip to Russia, one even senior White House aides did not know about. Read more
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right-Wing Voters Studied Little — Bonaccini’s Comment Sets Off Firestorm
Stefano Bonaccini (PD, outgoing MEP) claimed the right-wing vote comes from those who studied little. Meloni fired back: ‘Those Italians studied the left on their own skin.’ Read more
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Noemi Impellizzeri Found Dead in Her Home as Ex Boyfriend Under Investigation
A 33-year-old Sicilian mother of three was found hanged in her home in Riposto. Her ex-boyfriend, who claims she was already dead when he found her, is the sole suspect in the possible femicide and the fire that followed. Read more
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Jerusalem Light Rail Gets Another Riot Night as Haredi Extremists Attack Construction Site
Dozens of Haredi extremists rioted on Bar Ilan Street in Jerusalem Thursday night, attacking ongoing construction of the city’s light rail Green Line, setting fires, uprooting metal fences, and hurling stones at police. Two suspects were arrested; Israel National News… Read more
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US House Democrats Name Pro-Israel Moskovitch as Top Middle East Policy Voice
Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives have appointed one of the party’s strongest and most consistent supporters of Israel to a pivotal foreign-policy post — a move that immediately put progressives on the defensive. Representative Gregory Meeks, the… Read more
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Gantz and Erdan meet to discuss a Blue and White–Unity merger — the third bloc just got more real
Benny Gantz met with Gilad Erdan this week to discuss a potential electoral merger between Blue and White and the Unity party – both of which have been struggling to clear the 3.25% threshold in the new Knesset elections. Read more
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Poll: Winter’s party at 6 seats, Religious Zionism drops below threshold — Netanyahu begs Ben Gvir to hold the line
Winter’s People of Israel is at 6 seats in a new ToI poll, pushing Religious Zionism below the threshold. Netanyahu is publicly begging Ben Gvir and Smotrich to unite — an unusual act for a PM who usually holds them at arm’s length. Read more