Former vice president, the latest in a series of officials from Trump's administration declining to back his presidential bid, says it 'should come as no surprise'

Telegraph says Israel's thwarting of overland arms transfers has led Tehran to send materiel via sea, with vessels then continuing to Europe to allay suspicions

Patients diagnosed with flea-borne typhus and leptospirosis at area hospitals have reported seeing the rodents in their neighborhoods, and even in their homes

Remarks to security cabinet anger fellow Likud members; defense minister reportedly responds by saying 'the ones paying the price for the lack of decision-making are IDF soldiers'

Accused of being nefarious lobbyists, Aussie Jews are shaken by increasingly bold displays of hatred amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war

Head of Democratic group says Senate chief was speaking more to US Jews and progressives than Israelis, who professor notes broadly support war effort and oppose two-state solution

NYT reports that US in turn asked for Tehran to halt attacks by its proxies in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, which Iranian officials claim they can't do unless fighting ends in Gaza

Top figures from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and PFLP held discussions with Yemen's Iran-backed rebels last week on 'next stage' of war, Palestinian sources say