Hamas will send the bodies of two children and their mother back to Israel Shiri Bibas and her children (via Wikimedia Commons) Hamas killed two-year-old Kfir Bibas and five-year-old Ariel Bibas, the youngest hostages it took during its October 7 attack on Israel, according to a Hamas announcement on Tuesday. The terror group will release
Trump has also nominated a commissioner for the agency. President Donald Trump has replaced the head of the Social Security Administration (SSA), the White House said on Feb. 18. “The agency will be led by a career Social Security anti-fraud expert as the acting commissioner,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields told The Epoch Times in
Elon Musk can only advise Trump and communicate the president’s directives, a White House official said. Elon Musk is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and does not have the authority to make decisions, the White House said in new court filings on Feb. 17. Both DOGE and a subunit of
Contract cancellations alone accounted for about 20 percent of the overall savings, DOGE stated. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, led by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, said its cost-cutting efforts across several federal agencies have saved an estimated $55 billion as of Feb. 17. The savings came from a combination of fraud deletion, contract
Last month, we broke the news about an Israeli plan to maintain buffer zones indefinitely in Lebanon, Syria, and the Gaza Strip. That plan is coming to fruition in Lebanon, our Andrew Tobin reports. IDF troops “will remain deployed to recently built posts at five strategic locations along the Lebanese side of Israel’s border” past
George Mason University, the Northern Virginia school that has grappled with high-profile instances of pro-terror student radicalism, hosted an anti-Israel professor who delivered a lecture aimed at “shattering this idea that anything that is to do with Jews, the Holocaust, Israel is somehow unique.” The Washington Free Beacon attended the Thursday event—titled, “Pedagogy and Palestine
A Northwestern Law School clinic is providing free legal defense to a group of anti-Israel radicals who organized a blockade of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport that shut down travel last spring. One of the organizers is benefiting from that defense after repeatedly accusing Northwestern of “anti-Palestinian discrimination.” Sheila Bedi, a Northwestern law professor who leads