Amid ongoing soaring tensions between the West and Russia, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) scrambled American fighter jets to identify and intercept four Russian warplanes flying near Alaska.
NORAD indicated in a fresh statement that the incident occurred Wednesday, and involved a pair of Russian Tu-95 long-range strategic bombers and a pair Su-35 fighter jets traversing the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).




House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan claimed Tuesday on X that Google, under GOP pressure, had committed to offer “ALL creators” banned from YouTube for “political speech” the opportunity to return to the platform, but he appears to have simply been lying. 


US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, to deny the claim that Israel is committing genocide, said during a speech last week that Israel warns Palestinians to get out of the way of their strikes, but Hamas purposefully “moves [Palestinian] civilians right to those targets” just to make Israel look bad. 




The Trump administration, through the National Endowment for the Humanities, is giving the largest grant in the agency’s history — over $10 million — to the Jewish-American neoconservative Tikvah Fund to counter “the pathology of anti-Semitism” and teach the Talmud.