Open Thread

In recent weeks, London has seen a drone scare near the Israeli embassy, four Hatzola ambulances torched in Golders Green adjacent to a synagogue, an attempted arson attack on Finchley Reform Synagogue, another attempted firebombing at the former Hendon site of Jewish Futures, and now an attempted arson attack on Kenton United Synagogue. British counterterror […]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will appear in front of two congressional committees on Wednesday and Thursday for their first public hearings since the Iran war began. The pair is set to testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday morning and […]

The national average price for regular gas kept soaring on Wednesday, rising to a new yearly high of $4.229 per gallon, according to AAA. This is a greater-than-5-cent-per-gallon increase from Tuesday and more than 20 cents per gallon more expensive than just a week ago.  Wednesday’s new yearly high gas price came just a week […]

People attend an HIV clinic day at the TASO Mulago service center in Kampala, Uganda, on February 17, 2025. | Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images When the Trump administration began dismantling US foreign aid in January 2025, many global health experts feared that the consequences would be catastrophic, with models projecting thousands of deaths as a direct consequence of the cuts. Across nine countries, 3.4 million fewer people were tested for HIV in just the first half of 2025, according to one re