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Americans believe the Biden administration was wrong to unfreeze $6 billion of Iranian assets in a prisoner swap deal last month, according to an exclusive DailyMail.com poll. The issue has been in the headlines all week after Iranian proxy Hamas launched a bloody attack on Israel. The money was quietly put off limits again this week after Republicans hammered the administration for being too soft on Iran. Some 43 percent of Americans in our poll said unfreezing seized assets was the wrong thing to do, while 29 percent said it was right. The results come from a poll of 1000...

The controversial ex-CEO of Barclays will pay a major fine after texts and emails showed the extent of his relationship with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Jes Staley, who ran the major U.K. bank between 2015 and 2021, was hit with a £1.8 million ($2.2 million) fine by the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and banned from holding senior positions in the financial services industry. The FCA released a 79-page dossier outlining its extensive three-year investigation into the U.S. banker’s ties with Epstein. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges including soliciting sex from girls as young as...

Jon Rettinger has not let his children wear their yarmulkes in public this week, afraid they could be targeted for being Jewish. The father of three in Orange County, California, said he has tried to keep his children, ages 10, seven and four, from watching or reading news, but they are still coming home from school with questions about the conflict in Israel and Gaza. One of them has asked if they were going to be kidnapped, Rettinger said. “It’s horrible for any family to have to explain to children that people hate them because of who they are,” Rettinger...

A diplomatic effort to evacuate U.S. citizens from Gaza faltered after Egyptian officials said they would only allow foreigners to cross the border if aid could pass in the opposite direction. Egypt’s refusal on Saturday, confirmed by three officials and in an announcement on state television, thwarted the latest U.S. push to evacuate any of the 500 or more Americans in Gaza wishing to leave through the enclave’s southern border with Egypt. Israel—which has sealed off Gaza’s northern border with a ground invasion by Israeli forces believed imminent—said Saturday that it would give a few hours of safe passage for...

The Justice Department this week hit Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) with a superseding indictment including a new but all-too-familiar charge: being an unregistered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). I cannot recall another sitting member of Congress being criminally charged as a foreign agent. Yet even if this is the first such case, the charge has been freely used by the Justice Department in all but one case: Hunter Biden. The indictment accuses Menendez of being a foreign agent on behalf of Egypt. Also charged under the law is Menendez’s wife, Nadine, and Egyptian American businessman Wael...

Israeli boy featured in COVID vaccine campaign dies of heart attack at age 8After a distinguished physician's grandson who appeared in vaccine promotions tragically passed away, one commentator asked, 'How many more children will die on the golden altar?'JERUSALEM, Israel (LifeSiteNews) – An Israeli boy featured in a video used to push COVID vaccines on children in a nationwide campaign died tragically from a sudden heart attack in late September. The boy was only 8 years old.According to reports, Yonatan Moshe Erlichman, grandson of a distinguished physician in Beit El, Dr. Mati Erlichman, “died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest while taking...

Morbidity typically refers to having a specific illness or health condition, while mortality refers to the number of deaths that a specific illness or health condition caused. As we move through the COVID-19 pandemic, you may have encountered two terms: morbidity and mortality. These related terms are commonly used in the field of epidemiology. Morbidity and mortality describe the frequency and severity of specific illnesses or conditions. There’s often confusion between morbidity and mortality, so this article will help explain the difference between them, along with several examples of each term.

BREAKING: Iran has sent a warning message to Israel through the UN saying that Iran will have to intervene if the IDF operation in Gaza continues - Walla https://t.co/rDLHMEwb51 pic.twitter.com/2AR6QsoiVs— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) October 14, 2023

Explanation: Want to see a ring around the Sun? It's easy to do in daytime skies around the world. Created by randomly oriented ice crystals in thin high cirrus clouds, circular 22 degree halos are visible much more often than rainbows. This one was captured by smart phone photography on May 29, 2021 near Rome, Italy. Carefully blocking the Sun, for example with a finger tip, is usually all that it takes to reveal the common bright halo ring. The halo's characteristic angular radius is about equal to the span of your hand, thumb to little finger, at the end...

'Why didn't Trump do something about it?' An incredulous Ron DeSantis is yet again addressing the former President’s contention that the 2020 election was “stolen,” saying that’s an “untenable position.” Speaking at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics’ “Politics and Eggs” event, the Florida Governor didn’t hold back when asked to evaluate Donald Trump’s ongoing contention that he didn’t lose fairly to Joe Biden. “If that is true, he was the sitting President of the United States and let that happen to him. I would never let that happen. As Governor, would I just sit there and let something like...

The couple has donated to crises in the past.Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are donating to yet another cause. The couple donated $1 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday “to help children in Israel and Gaza,” a source confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. They have four children and are adamant about sending financial aid to causes that are important to them. In the past, Lively and Reynolds matched up to $1 million in donations that were sent to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees after Russia invaded Ukraine, as well as $500,000 to...

#Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently holding a meeting with the leaders of the emergency war cabinet. We are expecting the ground operation in #gaza to start tonight.— Globe Sentinel (@GlobeSentinels) October 14, 2023

Have you noticed that the ghouls of the gun grabber lobby have been awfully quiet the past few days? These cynical control freaks who are all too ready and willing to exploit other people’s pain for their political gain would normally be coming out of the woodwork with all the ‘gun violence’ going on, citing the mass Hamas attack in Israel. Why has it only been crickets from the gun confiscation crowd? Despite perceptions, Israel was a dream state for these people. Israel had strict controls on guns, and the people’s common sense civil right of self-defense. That made it...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday reiterated the need for bipartisanship amid the race for Speaker — but suggested the Republicans’ most recent choice wasn’t the answer. House Republicans delivered Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) the second GOP nomination for the leadership role on Friday — a day after first choice and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) withdrew from the race.

A Brooklyn cop and Seventh Day Adventist was derided as a “scammer” after she requested to be off on Saturdays to worship, according to a lawsuit. When she signed onto the job in 2016, Johanne Saint-Jean claims she was told she’d be able to adhere to her faith, a Christian sect that observe the sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Instead, she spent the next eight years being chastised by superiors who allegedly told her, “‘You’re not Jewish. Why are you practicing like you’re Jewish?’” *** A supervisor also said her religion was “not for black people” and she...

CNN debunked a viral video circulating on social media claiming correspondent Clarissa Ward’s reporting in Israel was staged. “The audio in the video posted and shared on X is fabricated, inaccurate and irresponsibly distorts the reality of the moment that was covered live on CNN, which people should watch in full for themselves on a trusted platform,” a CNN spokesperson told The Post Friday. The footage in question depicted Ward and her crew, running for cover and hitting the ground when they heard a barrage of rockets nearby during an attack near the Israel-Gaza border. The footage depicted the journalist...

Thomas “Tommy” Gambino, the oldest son of crime family founder Carlo Gambino, has died. He was 94. The longtime Upper East Side resident died Oct. 3 of natural causes. The New York Times reported in 1992 that the Mafia captain had “at least $75 million in cash, bonds and blue chip stock.” He was the nephew of “Big Paul” Castellano, who succeeded Carlo as the head of the family but was rubbed out in 1985 on the orders of eventual Gambino godfather John Gotti.

Protect Women Ohio (PWO), the coalition opposing Issue 1, released a new ad today featuring Governor Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine highlighting the radical nature of Issue 1 and urging Ohioans – to vote NO on Issue 1. The ad features the Governor and First Lady speaking directly to camera, explaining they have carefully studied the amendment language and concluded Issue 1 goes too far by allowing late-term abortion through all nine months of pregnancy and gutting parental rights. “Issue 1 would allow an abortion at any time during a pregnancy, and it would deny parents the right...

Saying she has had enough, retired Chicago Public School teacher Doris Lewis on Sunday, September 10, said she is going to file an injunction against migrants who were relocated from the Second District police station into the Lake Shore Hotel, located across the street from where she has lived for 50 years, creating a nightmare for nearby residents. In an exclusive interview with the Chicago Crusader, Lewis vowed to file an injunction against the migrants, who were sleeping inside and outside of the Second District police station prior to being relocated to the Lake Shore Hotel, 4900 S. Du Sable...

Ukrainian officials reported intense combat, characterized by relentless assaults by Russian forces, as the ongoing attack on an eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka entered its fifth consecutive day Saturday. "The enemy has not stopped either assaulting or shelling positions" around Avdiivka, city head Vitalii Barabash said on Ukrainian television. Barabash also reported Moscow was deploying additional forces to encircle the strategically important city in the eastern Donetsk region, situated just north of the Moscow-held regional capital, also called Donetsk.