A federal jury has convicted a Palestinian living in North Carolina of plotting murders from behind bars. He is in prison to begin with for other murder-for-hire plots. The jury
A man convicted of Islamist terrorism and who has repeatedly targeted Jews and Israel is now seeking elected office in one of Britain’s largest cities. At the center of the controversy is Shahid Butt, a 60-year-old independent candidate running for Birmingham City Council. In a statement Friday, the Campaign Against Antisemitism said Butt’s bid raises […]
Pakistani police and military forces killed over a 100 “Indian-backed terrorists ” in counterterrorism operations across the restive southwestern province of Balochistan over the past 40 hours, government officials said on Sunday, a day after coordinated suicide and gun attacks killed 33 people, mostly civilians. The raids began early Saturday at multiple locations across Balochistan, […]
Police in central Florida have arrested a 57-year-old man after a bomb threat targeting a Reform temple triggered a lockdown and a multi-agency security response, marking the latest in a
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday it will be a few days before a government funding package comes up for a vote, all but ensuring the partial federal shutdown will drag into the week as Democrats and Republicans debate reining in the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations. Johnson signaled he is relying on help from President Donald Trump to ensure […]
A Norwegian member of parliament has nominated Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the institution’s role in combating antisemitism and preserving historical memory amid a global rise in anti-Jewish violence. Joel Ystebř, a lawmaker from Norway’s Christian Democratic Party, submitted the nomination to the Norwegian Nobel Committee this week, […]
President Trump’s long-promised military “armada” is now in position in the Middle East, but U.S. officials say the buildup is less about launching immediate strikes on Iran than about bracing for what could come afterward. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group has recently entered the region, advanced fighter aircraft are moving closer to […]
A huge swath of the U.S. from the Gulf Coast into New England was mired in extra-cold temperatures Sunday after a bomb cyclone brought heavy snow and hundreds of flight cancellations to North Carolina, flurries and falling iguanas in Florida, and more misery for thousands who are still without power from last weekend’s ice storm in the […]
The State Department has signed off on a sweeping package of potential arms sales to Israel worth roughly $6.6 billion, underscoring Washington’s continued military backing of its closest Middle East ally as Israel reassesses battlefield needs after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack. According to notices published by the U.S. State Department, the proposed sales are […]
A senior U.S. Border Patrol official at the center of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is accused of making antisemitic remarks about a Jewish federal prosecutor during a high-level planning call. Gregory Bovino, a veteran Border Patrol leader who oversaw the recent surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota, allegedly used offensive language toward Jewish […]
The Trump administration imposed sanctions Friday against Iran ‘s interior minister, accusing Eskandar Momeni of repressing nationwide protests that have challenged Tehran’s theocratic government. The penalties are the latest by
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Spanish police have arrested a 38-year-old man suspected of funneling hundreds of thousands of euros in cryptocurrency to Hamas. According to details first reported by Reuters, investigators believe the suspect — a Chinese national who owns a hair salon near Barcelona — sent roughly €600,000 ($711,000) in crypto through a web of transfers allegedly linked […]
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to chair the Federal Reserve could bring about sweeping changes at a central bank that dominates the global economy and markets like no other. Warsh, if approved by the Senate, will be under close scrutiny from financial markets and Congress given his appointment by a president who has loudly demanded much lower […]
Artificial intelligence bots have begun congregating in a digital space designed exclusively for machines, bypassing human participation and moderation. Researchers say the development highlights how quickly autonomous systems are beginning to organize, narrate, and experiment beyond their creators’ intent. The platform, called Moltbook, launched this week as a Reddit-style forum accessible only to AI agents […]
The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on an air force base in Niger’s capital that wounded four soldiers and damaged an aircraft. The claim of responsibility was contained in a statement on Amaq News Agency, the group’s propaganda wing, that said it was “a surprise and coordinated attack” in […]
Nearly a month before a driver repeatedly slammed his car into the entrance of the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, senior city officials were alerted that the site faced
Brig. Gen. (res.) Gal Hirsch, who served as Israel’s coordinator for prisoners and missing persons gave his first in-depth interview since the return of the last hostage, Ran Gvili, H’yd. After revealing that Hamas leader leader Yahya Sinwar intended to hold the hostages as bargaining chips for as long as a decade, Hirsch said that […]
Saudi Arabia’s defense minister warned U.S. officials in Washington that failing to confront Iran militarily could strengthen the Islamic Republic. Prince Khalid bin Salman told a closed-door gathering on Friday that Tehran would be “emboldened” if President Donald Trump refrains from ordering a strike on Iran, according to reporting by Axios. “At this point, if […]
Caribbean correspondent Dánica Coto returned to Cuba in late January, more than three years after her last visit to the island. The landscape and lives in Cuba are now very different, and more changes are anticipated since the fallout of the U.S. attack on Venezuela, Cuba’s strongest ally, has yet to be fully felt. This is an interview […]
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