(Worthy Insights) – The United States on Wednesday backed an Israeli ban that prevents the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from operating in the Gaza Strip.

“An occupational power retains a margin of appreciation concerning which relief schemes to permit,” U.S. State Department Legal Advisor Joshua Simmons stated at an International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing in The Hague on Wednesday, presided over by Judge Yuji Iwasawa.

“Even if an organization offering relief is an impartial humanitarian organization, and even if it is a major actor, occupation law does not compel an occupational power to allow and facilitate that specific actor’s relief operations,” Simmons added. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Abortion advocates, their allies in the corporate media, and even the U.S. Food and Drug Administration insist the pill responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions is “safe and effective.” A new, wide-ranging analysis of insurance claims regarding the abortion drug regimen, however, found that the rate of life-threatening complications due to mifepristone is at least 22 times higher than what the FDA and Danco Laboratories, manufacturer of mifepristone pill Mifeprex, suggest.

In the “largest known study of the abortion pill,” Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson and Director of Data Analysis Jamie Bryan Hall used purchased Medicaid, TRICARE, Medicare, Department of Veterans Affairs, and private medical insurance claim data to determine that 865,727 mifepristone abortion prescriptions for 692,873 women were handed out between 2017 and 2023.

Approximately 10.9 percent of those claims, or 94,605 chemical abortions, involved potentially life-threatening “serious adverse events” such as emergency room visits, hemorrhage, sepsis, infection, and/or follow-up surgeries for the women who had downed the abortion drug within the last 45 days. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Workers throughout China are flooding the streets in revolt as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs slam the fragile Chinese export economy.

From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of Inner Mongolia in the northeast, furious workers are demanding backpay and protesting mass layoffs as factories shutter under pressure from Trump’s tariffs.

Outside a LED light manufacturing plant near Shanghai, thousands of unpaid workers shouted furiously at company managers over wages that haven’t been paid since January. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Republican, signed legislation on Monday to prohibit the state’s agencies from using the term “West Bank.”

The bill, which passed in the Arkansas General Assembly earlier this month, is considered to be the first time that a U.S. state has required its documents to call the area that Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War by the biblical names of Judea and Samaria.

“It is the intent of the General Assembly to: (1) Refer to the land controlled by Israel from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War by its historical name of ‘Judea and Samaria’, with the land south of Jerusalem being considered ‘Judea’ and the land north of Jerusalem being considered ‘Samaria’; and (2) No longer use the term ‘West Bank’ in official government materials.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Spain and Portugal achieved net zero on Monday, but not the way anyone would want to achieve net zero: By going back to the cavepeople times with no electricity.

How does anyone “lose” 15 gigawatts of electricity, accounting for about 60% of Spain’s consumption at the time?

Sure, they are looking into a cyberattack, or a terrorist act, or a rare weather event involving magnetic fields, or maybe some bad maintenance, and they should. But they have gone remarkably quiet lately, making one think of the one possibility they might want to be quiet about. [ Source (Read More…) ]

For those keeping score at home:

April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.

April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history. pic.twitter.com/S6wsaHEePK

— Will Hild (@WillHild) April 28, 2025

(Worthy Insights) – A bill advancing in Colorado could make it illegal to refer to someone by the wrong pronoun or use their birth name—an idea supporters say protects transgender individuals, but one that faith leaders call “godless” and a threat to religious freedom and parental rights.

House Bill 1312 would add “misgendering” and “deadnaming” to Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act if it becomes law. It has passed the House and now awaits a Senate vote that could send it to Gov. Jared Polis’s desk.

The bill defines “misgendering” as intentionally referring to someone using a different pronoun, while “deadnaming” means purposely using their birth name rather than their chosen name. At the center of the controversy is a provision calling on courts to consider a parent using either of those toward their child as coercive control in custody cases. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Israeli archaeologists are inviting Israelis to see a unique artifact found outside Jerusalem as part of their Independence Day celebrations. The discovery is unique because it contains an iconic Jewish symbol found in a Christian site.

The 1,500-year-old ornate limestone piece once sat on top of an ancient column. The carved image on it surprised archaeologists.

Excavation director Dr. Uzi Ad recalled, “At first, when we found it, we didn’t even recognize it was a menorah, because it was sitting upside down. Only afterward, when we started to examine it and flipped the image, we realized it was an eight-branched menorah.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The Trump administration continues its talks with Iran, and Israelis are addressing the potential outcomes of those negotiations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that any deal cannot give Iran a path to nuclear weapons.

“A bad deal is worse than no deal. We need a good deal,” Netanyahu declared.

At the JNS International Policy Summit, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer noted that President Trump pulled out of the previous nuclear deal with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed by President Barack Obama. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – “We don’t do prayer.” Those were the words uttered by a mayor in a southern California city trying to silence Tarin Swain, a mother of six who has spoken out against what she has described as the “social transitioning” of her daughter at the hands of the public school system.

Swain attended a Ventura County City Council meeting on March 18, where she took to the platform to speak out against the proposed Community Autonomy, Rights, and Equality (CARE) Policy, a statute that asserts, in part, “The City of Ventura and its law enforcement agencies shall not: Participate in the enforcement of any federal or state law that criminalizes or restricts access to reproductive healthcare or gender-affirming care for adults or minors, provided such care is delivered with the approval of a licensed healthcare provider and, in the case of minors, with parental consent in accordance with current California state law.”

If approved, the policy would make Ventura a “sanctuary city” for LGBT advancement among children and abortion, dubbed “reproductive rights” by the language in the statute. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – One in ten patients experience a “serious adverse event” after taking the abortion pill, according to a study released Monday by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative think tank and advocacy group.

The study found that 10.93% of women experienced sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days after a mifepristone abortion. The real-world rate of serious adverse events after mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of “less than 0.5%” in clinical trials reported on the drug label, according to the study. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The Israeli Air Force received three more F-35I “Adir” fighter aircraft on Thursday night, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The U.S.-produced Lockheed Martin fifth-generation stealth fighter jets landed at the Nevatim Air Force Base near Beersheva, the military said in a statement published on Friday.

Since the beginning of the Swords of Iron war in October 2023, the 140th “Golden Eagle” Squadron has operated “under unprecedented pressure, participating in both defense and attack missions across various arenas,” the IDF stated. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The sacred vessels of the Bais Hamikdash such as the Menorah and the Shulchan (table) are the holy implements of our divine service. They are the very heartbeat of the Jewish people. These treasures, rumoured to be languishing in the Vatican’s vaults, are not relics to be bartered or forgotten but the very soul of our nation, stolen by Rome’s imperialist hand. Yet, for reasons that defy comprehension, this issue of utmost importance has been ignored except for sporadic campaigns.

The vessels’ retrieval is not merely a political act but a spiritual imperative, a step toward cosmic rectification. Today, as the papacy shifts and the world trembles, the moment is ripe to demand their return.

The importance of these artifacts transcends history or archaeology. Their captivity in gentile hands is a desecration, a mockery of Jewish sovereignty. [ Source (Read More…) ]