The news cycle gets ahead of all of us.  Get caught up each week with Crosstalk and the Friday News Round-Up!  Here’s a sample of what Jim presented to listeners:

–Hezbollah launched 140 missiles at northern Israel overnight with Israel responding by carrying out a targeted strike on Beirut. 

–Israel has condemned an adopted U.N. resolution demanding that all Israeli forces and civilians pull out of Palestinian areas within a year.

–Hamas terrorists have confiscated so much humanitarian aid that the terror group is struggling to find space to store it.

–Israel’s atomic chief has warned that Syria built an undeclared nuclear facility after Iran, which he said has, “in alarming amounts conducting covert nuclear activities.”

–Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reiterated that the kingdom would not recognize Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state, according the Times of Israel. 

–Invited by Senate Democrats, Maya Berry, an Arab-American pro-terrorist testified at an antisemitism hearing on Tuesday.  Berry is the executive director of the Arab American Institute; a virulently anti-Israel organization.  Jim provided audio from the hearing.   

–The man suspected in an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump evidently spent nearly 12 hours in the bushes around the former president’s golf course before Secret Service agents spotted his rifle and opened fire. 

–Representative Matt Gaetz said a senior Homeland Security Department official  approached him as a whistleblower shortly before the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life and alleged U.S. officials are aware that five different assassination teams are pursuing the president.

–More than one in four Democrats believe America would be better off if former President Donald Trump had been assassinated.

–Former President Trump hosted deputies from the Martin County Sheriff’s Office who arrested his alleged would-be assassin at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

–America First Legal has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security for allegedly concealing government documents in relation to the July 13^th assassination attempt on former President Trump. 

–Former President Trump addressed a packed crowd inside Nassau Colosseum for a campaign rally Wednesday night, his first on Long Island.  He leaned heavily on his message on immigration.

–Multiple people seated near former President Trump at one of his campaign rallies have come down with a set of suspicious symptoms, leading medical professionals to believe that the victims had been sprayed with something.

–A man in Alaska has been arrested for allegedly threatening six justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

–The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mailed ballots must include a proper date on their return envelopes to be valid, potentially affecting thousands of voters this November.