August 17th, 2025

• ​Commentary: The folly of recognizing a Palestinian state - Such a move would derail peace efforts and destabilize the region by giving the false hope that statehood could be achieved outside of direct bilateral talks with Israel
• 'Two-state illusion': Foreign Minister Sa'ar rejects Palestinian statehood, warns of security threats
• World largely decries new settlement plan, warns it will scuttle 2-state solution
• Danish PM opposes immediate recognition of Palestinian state, calls Netanyahu 'a problem'
• Netanyahu has become a 'problem,' says Danish PM, wants EU to weigh sanctions - Center right leader Mette Frederiksen affirms support for Israel, but says it has gone 'too far'; France blasts E1 settlement plan as 'colonization,' 'serious violation'
• UN human rights office: E1 plan is illegal, settling occupied land is a war crime
• Hamas signals flexibility regarding hostage talks, Israel insists terror group disarms
• Netanyahu insists on comprehensive deal for all hostages; won't end war unless all his demands met
• Israel prepares plan to relocate Gazans to 'safe zones' in southern Gaza
• Israel to resume supply of tents, shelter gear as it readies to move Gaza City residents
• Frauds: UN Dropped Measurement for 'Famine' by 50%, Giving Media What It Needed to Show Israel Starving Children
• UN says 13,000 children treated for malnutrition in Gaza in July as aid trickles in
• Woman from Gaza evacuated to Italy in a 'state of severe physical deterioration' dies in hospital
• The other battlefield: Surge in opioid use among wounded Gaza soldiers
• Albanese claims Hamas should be understood as a 'political force,' not 'fighters'
• 681 days of hell: Israeli hostage families' launch 'nation-wide shutdown'
• 'Prayers are not enough': Hostage families urge ceasefire deal on eve of national strike
• 'Day to save lives': Relatives of hostages and bereaved families launch nationwide strike
• Thousands storm Manhattan calling for 'global intifada,' a phrase with a pending violence designation - Bipartisan legislation would classify the phrase a call to violence against Jewish people worldwide
• 'They're in Wall Street, they're in the White House': Thousands protest Israel in NYC - Protesters call to 'stop starving Gaza' at New York's largest pro-Palestinian protest in recent months; Mahmoud Khalil tells crowd Israel 'deliberately' killing Gazans with US tax money
• Gal Gadot Says "Pressure" To "Speak Out Against Israel" Led To 'Snow White' Flopping: "I Was Disappointed"
• Anti-Israel protesters chant 'RAF shame on you' at air base demonstration
• Ex-chief rabbi pans Haredi leaders for trusting 'atheist' Netanyahu on conscription bill - Shas spiritual leader Yitzhak Yosef accuses military police of disproportionately targeting Sephardic draft dodgers, repeats threat that Haredi community will leave Israel en masse
• Hundreds in Syria's Sweida demand Druze self-determination; some wave Israeli flag
• Israel's UAE envoy said to anger Emiratis by violating country's security protocols - Yossi Shelley, the Netanyahu ally mired in controversy, shares photo from his Abu Dhabi embassy office on X, potentially revealing location amid heightened terror threat
• Houthis say Yemen power plant was hit by 'aggression' without identifying source
• IDF confirms strike on Yemeni power plant 'used by the Houthi terror regime'
• Israeli Navy missile boats strike Houthi power plant near Yemen capital
• Jihadist gunmen kill Iranian police officer in shootout in volatile southeast province
• Erdogan Calls It an Anticorruption Drive. His Rivals Call It a Political Crackdown - Turkey has arrested at least 390 people associated with the political opposition since March
• Turkish authorities detain Istanbul district mayor in sweeping crackdown on opposition
• Dozens of opposition party members detained in Turkey
• Polish army to mark 1920 military victory with large Warsaw parade
• Maher: 'Zombie Lie' That Trump's Pro-Putin, Trump Bombed Putin's Ally in Iran
• A fire at a Russian industrial plant kills 11 and injures 130
• Zelensky Says Ukraine Anticipates Russian Attacks "to Create More Favorable Political Circumstances for Talks with Global Actors" Following Trump-Putin Peace Summit
• 'Feeding a narcissist:' Ukraine reflects on Trump-Putin summit
• First lady Melania Trump in a letter to Putin urges him to consider suffering of Ukraine children
• Melania Trump Urges Putin to Protect Children in Letter Amid Push for Ukraine Peace Deal
• Senators Eye Terror Label for Russia Over Ukrainian Kids
• Putin made maximalist claims to Ukrainian territory in Trump summit: Sources
• Putin Proposes, in Return for the Control of the Donbas Region, to Freeze the Frontlines in Ukraine's Southern Kherson and Zaporozhie, No More Russian Territorial Conquests
• Marlow: The Left's Reaction to Trump/Putin Summit Reveals Their Thirst for Nuclear War
• EU Leaders Praise Trump on Alaska Summit
• Ukraine Closer to Peace After Trump-Putin Summit, UK Prime Minister Starmer Says
• Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says Russia refusing ceasefire 'complicates the situation' for ending war
• Trump says Russia-Ukraine war should be resolved through settlement, not via ceasefire
• Trump Says Zelensky will Come to DC on Monday - Zelensky and European Leaders Agree They Should go "Directly to a Peace Agreement" Following Trump-Putin Meeting
• Zelenskiy braces for perilous Trump talks in Washington on Monday
• Trump Reportedly Pushing for a Trilateral Summit With Putin and Zelensky Next Friday, August 22
• Trump Now Open to US Security Guarantees for Ukraine
• Astorino: Trump 'Global Peacemaker,' Deserves Nobel
• Obama's Disgraced CIA Director John Brennan Follows Clinton's Playbook - Calls for Trump to Get Nobel Peace Prize, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor
• Nothing to See Here: World Economic Forum Internal Investigation Clears Founder Klaus Schwab of Wrongdoing
• Mamdani's socialist, city-run grocery plan faces backlash from Hochul: 'I favor free enterprise'
• Accused Minnesota Assassin Vance Boelter Calls Tim Walz as 'Traitor to the American People,' Claims Governor Pushed Chinese Influence and Government Control in Wild Rant
• Declassified: FBI Was Investigating 19 Clinton Foundation Bank Accounts For Campaign Finance Fraud Before DOJ Shut Down Probe
• Newly Declassified Clinton Foundation Investigation Timeline Reveals How Obama's DOJ and FBI Protected Hillary, Buried Evidence of Global Pay-to-Play, and Rigged Justice Against the American People
• The '10X Watergate' Lawfare Scandal That Everyone Is Ignoring - Breaking the Law: Exposing the Weaponization of America's Legal System Against Donald Trump
• Marlow: Investigation Season - Lawfare Judge Boasberg's Russiagate Connection Revealed
• Leftist New Republic Editor Calls to Scrap Electoral College, Add New States to Fix 'Ideological Imbalance'
• President Trump Says Putin Told Him He Won the 2020 Election and That No Country Has Mail-In Voting "He Said You Lost It Because of Mail in Voting"
• Bolivians go to polls in election that could end 20 years of socialism
• Top British Army Officer Predicts Civil War as 'Rabbit in Headlights' Leaders Incapable of Political Solutions
• Bollywood Producers Stealing Actors' Voices to Generate AI Dialogue Without Paying Them
• 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton Wants Machines to 'Care for Us, Like We're Their Babies'
• Senior Dies While Trying to Meet Meta's Flirty Chatbot Who Convinces Him She's Real
• 5.8 magnitude earthquake hits near Poso, Indonesia
• M5.6 earthquake, largest onshore in Queensland in 50 years, strikes near Kilkivan, Australia
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Takanabe, Japan
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits southeast of the Loyalty Islands
• 5.5 magnitude earthquake hits south of Tonga
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Puerto San Jose, Guatemala
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Hengchun, Taiwan
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Port-Olry, Vanuatu
• Klyuchevskoy volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 32,000ft
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 22,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 21,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 14,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Hurricane Erin Explodes to Catastrophic Cat 5
• Hurricane Erin is one of the fastest rapidly intensifying storms in Atlantic history
• 220 killed in Pakistan floods as rescuers pull more bodies from landslides - Higher-than-normal monsoon rains devastate country's northwest Buner district, sweeping away homes as rescuers race to find survivors
• Spain, Portugal, and Greece battle wildfires as heat wave is expected to last for days
• Canadian government intervenes in Air Canada flight attendant strike grounding 700 flights Saturday
• Amnesty International calls for freeing of 11 Christians imprisoned in Libya
• DHS Sec Kristi Noem moves to military housing after 'vicious doxxing,' death threats from 'terrorist organizations, cartels'
• "These are Criminals who Support Crime" - Trump Responds to Democrats Paying Protestors to Fight DC Crime Crackdown
• States move to send hundreds of National Guard members to Washington
• West Virginia deploys hundreds of National Guard troops to support DC crime crackdown
• Far-left agitators clash with National Guard troops in DC as protesters march against Trump crime crackdown
• D.C. Police to Notify ICE When They Encounter Illegal Aliens
• Anti-ICE Colombian TikTok Influencer Arrested During Livestream After Using Social Media to Incite Mobs Against ICE and Law Enforcement in California - Pulled Out of Car After Resisting Arrest
• Greece Declares "National Emergency" and begins mass deportations amid influx of illegal immigrants to Crete; over 7,000 detained this week
• Life Sentence for 'Babysitter From Hell' Who Took In Autistic Toddlers For Her Boyfriend To Molest
• Welcome To Church: Atheist Pastors, Drag Clowns And Terrorist Apologies
• California County Board Bans Trans Athletes from Girls' Sports
• Giant dormant virus discovered in algae could revolutionize gene editing
• Senior health officials responsible for the pandemic response mischaracterized an early study on COVID immunity, downplayed natural immunity data and never updated messaging about natural immunity vs. vaccination because it would be "too costly" not to