Hamas has signaled it will release all hostages under the U.S. framework, with the
Israel is not pulling back:
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
President Trump said Thursday that he’s still weighing the idea of giving Americans up to $2,000 in rebates derived from the revenues his tariff agenda has generated.
Trump’s proposal to share some of the hundreds of billions of dollars the federal government has collected since he slapped foreign nations with steep levies in April, comes as the Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments in a case next month that will decide whether the president has the power to impose sweeping global tariffs.
“They’re just starting to kick in,” Trump said of the tariffs in an interview with One America News Network, “but ultimately, your tariffs are going to be over a trillion dollars a year.”
What does he plan to do with the money?
“Number one, we’re paying down debt,” Trump said, “because people have allowed the debt to go crazy.”
The president then argued that the $37 trillion national debt is actually “very little, relatively speaking” because the government is now taking in unprecedented sums of money from tariffs.
“With that being said, we’ll pay back debt, but we also might make a distribution to the people,” Trump continued.
Trump described his plan, which he’s floated before, as “a dividend to the people of America.”
“We’re thinking maybe $1,000 to $2,000 – it would be great,” the president said of the size of the checks Americans might get.
Any disbursement from the federal government would require congressional approval.
The federal government has raked in about $214.9 billion in revenues from tariffs this year, according to Fox Business, citing data from the Treasury Department.
The $31.3 billion in tariff revenue collected in September, however, was $73 million less than the August record.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has repeatedly said that he expects the US to generate at least $300 billion in tariff revenue by the end of the year.
In August, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that most of the president’s tariffs were not covered by an emergency powers law – a decision that followed two lower courts finding that most of the levies imposed on US trading partners were illegal.
The appeals court allowed Trump’s tariffs to remain in place pending his administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court.
The justices on the high court will hear oral arguments in the case in the first week of November.
Bessent warned the justices in a filing that the government could be forced to refund between $750 billion to $1 trillion in collected and projected tariff revenue if the Supreme Court finds the duties are illegal.
British police have identified the suspect in the deadly Yom Kippur terror attack outside a Manchester shul as Jihad al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent.
Greater Manchester Police confirmed that Al-Shamie was shot dead by armed officers after ramming his car into a group of mispalelim outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in the Crumpsall neighborhood and stabbing at least one person. Two people were tragically killed and four others injured in the assault. One of the victims was reportedly the shul’s security guard.
“This is the day we hoped we would never see, but which deep down, we knew would come,” Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said in a statement. He blamed what he called an “unrelenting wave of Jew hatred” across Britain — on the streets, on campuses, and online — for creating the environment that enabled such an attack.
Rabbis Mirvis praised Rabbi Daniel Walker, the rav of the shul, who was credited by witnesses with barricading the sanctuary doors and preventing the attacker from entering. “His courageous leadership, together with the resilience of his congregation, are an inspiration to us all,” Chief Rabbi Mirvis said.
“This is not only an assault on the Jewish community, but an attack on the very foundations of humanity and the values of compassion, dignity and respect which we all share,” Rabbi Mirvis added.
Alan Skorski sat down with Ryan Mauro, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, whose groundbreaking research exposed direct connections between George Soros, his Open Society Foundations, and Hamas-supporting groups in America.
Mauro originally broke the news during an interview with Glenn Beck, who for years has warned Americans about Soros’ dangerous ties to anti-Israel and anti-American movements.
In a 90-page report titled Exclusive: Soros’ Open Society Gave Terrorist and Pro-Terror Groups Over $80 Million, Mauro documents how since 2016, Soros’ Open Society—now operated alongside his son Alexander—funneled more than $80 million into extremist groups. According to Mauro, “The evidence is stark: Open Society has sent millions of dollars into U.S.-based organizations that engage in ‘direct actions’ the FBI defines as domestic terrorism.”
The sole purpose of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla is provocation. Israel, Italy, Greece, and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem have all offered and continue to offer the flotilla a way to peacefully deliver any aid they might have to Gaza. The flotilla refused because they are not… pic.twitter.com/pLQj1FLIPA
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 1, 2025
The Israeli Navy on Wednesday evening began to intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is attempting to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, activists aboard the vessels claimed.
Footage posted to social media showed a Navy vessel near one of the boats. Al Jazeera reported that IDF troops had begun to arrest participants in the flotilla.
Later, the Foreign Ministry posted footage of environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who is taking part in this flotilla and was previously deported by Israel in June after taking part in another flotilla, the Madleen.
“Already several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port. Greta and her friends are safe and healthy,” it said.
So far, the takeover of the flotilla is proceeding without unusual incidents. Due to the size of the flotilla, approximately 50 vessels, the operation is expected to continue into the night and deep into Yom Kippur.
Earlier, the Israeli Navy issued a final call to the activists to change course.