Car Rams Into Chabad Headquarters in New York City
A man was arrested Wednesday night after repeatedly crashing his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, according to the Associated Press (NPR News). The incident occurred while people were gathered for prayer at the revered Hasidic Jewish site.
The driver struck a door of a building in the complex multiple times, reversing and ramming it repeatedly, NPR reported, citing police reports. No injuries were reported. Police Commissioner Jessi confirmed the arrest, though further details about the suspect and potential motives were not immediately available. The extent of the damage to the building was not specified.
The Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters is a significant site for the Hasidic Jewish community. The building serves as a central location for prayer, study, and community gatherings.
Trump Names First-Ever ‘Fraud Czar,’ Raising Concerns of Politicized Investigations
President Donald Trump has nominated a federal prosecutor to a newly created role of fraud investigator after the Trump Administration urged the Justice Department to investigate fraud in Democrat-led states, Time reported.
If confirmed by the Senate, Colin McDonald would lead a new DOJ unit as first ever Assistant Attorney General for National FRAUD Enforcement, Trump announced. The position would be directly supervised by the White House instead of the Justice Department, which has raised questions around the potential politicization of law enforcement investigations. The role will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud, Vice President J.D. Vance said earlier this month.
Vances communications director William Martin appeared to embrace a nickname for McDonalds role, quoting on X a laudatory
Trump Rallies Business Leaders to Fund Accounts for Babies
President Donald Trump rallied business leaders to supplement the thousand dollars that his Administration is giving every American child born between the years 2025 and 2028 in new Trump Accounts later this year, Time reported.
In an ebullient event in Washington, D.C., the President joined with a group of celebrities, CEOs, and members of the Administration to stoke support for the accounts, a modernized form of baby bond that can be invested more widely. Even people that truly hate me are making this investment, said the President.
Under the new initiative, which was part of the Big Beautiful Bill, each newborn American will be given what the President called a beautiful nest egg of 1,000 as seed funding for an account that will be invested in the SP 500. No money can be withdrawn from the account unt
Rotterdam Film Festival Aims for Accessibility
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is known for its highbrow programming, but thats not all it offers viewers, argues Variety. Festival heads Vanja Kaludjercic and Clare Stewart emphasized a desire to be accessible to a wider audience.
Social Media Posts Linked to Retractions of Scientific Papers
Posts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act as early warning signs of problematic articles, according to two large studies, Nature reported. The findings reflect how post-publication commentary can help to identify errors or fraudulent results, say scientists.
Previous research has shown that potentially problematic articles get substantial attention on social media before being formally retracted1, and receive more attention than do similar articles that do not get retracted2. Er-Te Zheng, a PhD student studying computational social science at the University of Sheffield, UK, wanted to find out whether social-media platforms such as X could be used to identify integrity issues in a
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