August 1st, 2025

• ​Germany Calls for Formal Launch of Palestinian State Recognition Process
• En route to Israel, German FM urges 2-state process, says too soon to recognize Palestine
• Portugal to consider recognizing Palestinian state in September
• As more countries express willingness to recognize a Palestinian state, some express reservation over Hamas role - Hamas official praises push for recognition of Palestinian state: 'Victory and liberation are closer than we expect'
• 'Misdirected by the misinformation' - Reactions to British PM Keir Starmer's statement on recognizing Palestinian state in September
• If the UK recognises Palestine does it risk breaking international law? Senior lawyers criticising Starmer's pledge have cited the Montevideo convention, which sets out four criteria
• Starmer 'listening to hostages' but intends to stick to Palestine statehood plan - Freed British-Israeli accuses PM of 'moral failure' over move to recognise Palestine at UN unless Israel changes course
• Starmer rejects ex-hostage's criticism of move to potentially recognize Palestine - UK PM says he 'absolutely understands' horror endured by Emily Damari in Hamas captivity but doubles down on position, citing Gaza 'humanitarian catastrophe'
• State Department denies visas for Palestinian Authority amid statehood push - The action comes as some of the U.S.'s strongest allies are attempting to recognize a Palestinian state as part of a so-called two-state solution, Israel and Palestine
• Trump Slaps Sanctions on Palestinian Authority; Blocks Officials from Traveling to UN for 'Palestinian State'
• Sa'ar thanks Washington for sanctions on PA, says it 'must pay a price for policies'
• Arab League backs call for Hamas to disarm for a two-state solution
• Witkoff meets Netanyahu after Hamas torpedoes ceasefire talks
• 'No more partial deals': Official says Israel, US now back comprehensive plan to end war
• Trump: Best Way to End Gaza Crisis Is for Hamas to Release Hostages
• Islamic Jihad airs video of hostage Rom Braslavski; 'They broke him,' family says
• Hamas cut off contact, escalation in Gaza likely unavoidable, Israeli official tells 'Post'
• Amid coalition calls for annexation, settlement movements march to border, demand return to Gaza
• Times of Israel poll: Narrow majority of Israelis oppose annexation of Gaza territory
• Commentary: Inside Hamas's Scheme To Steal Aid, Fund Terror, and Fool the World
• Anger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel Increasingly Isolated - Global outrage at the Netanyahu government's actions has grown since the war began, and the suffering of children in the enclave has accelerated the disdain
• Shaun King Publishes Fake News About 'Starved' Palestinian Child with Genetic Disease Who Was Helped by Israel
• Aircraft from Arab nations airdrop food packages in Gaza
• ‘Irredeemably Compromised': Trump Admin Tells Congress Hamas-Linked UNRWA Must Be Dismantled - The assessment indicates that the US has fully lost faith in the organization after months of revelations that at least a dozen UNRWA employees participated in Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks against Israel
• Billions in damages: Israel rebuilds after Iran war, destruction in south and north
• Investors bet on Israeli resilience: Wartime stock market is world's fastest growing - And even with conflict still raging in the Gaza Strip and an economy saddled with war debt, the shekel is at recent highs against the euro and dollar
• Report: Trump convinced Netanyahu prolonging Gaza war for political reasons - US president, eager to fulfill promise to end Gaza war and foster peace, said disenchanted with PM; Trump also reported to tell Jewish donor: 'My people are starting to hate Israel'
• Republican infighting expands to an unusual place: Israel
• Trump administration refers Harvard to Justice Department over alleged antisemitism
• Jewish organizations urge Israel to criminalize antisemitism globally
• Poll: Australians believe 28% of their fellow citizens view Jews negatively
• How a Nazi-Obsessed Amateur Historian Went From Obscurity to the Top of Substack - Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the "most important popular historian working in the United States today." His background is more extreme than previously reported.
• Slovenia becomes first EU state to ban arms trade with Israel
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren falls on Senate floor as Republicans offer bipartisan assistance during Israel vote - The fall happened as the Senate was taking a vote on two resolutions to block military sales to Israel, which Warren voted in favor of
• A Majority of Senate Democrats Voted to Block Weapons Sales to Israel. Is the Party Turning?
• US increases pressure on Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah, sets it as condition for IDF withdrawal - Gulf states join in sanctioning Hezbollah financial institution used to create separate economy
• Moneygrab: Iran Wants U.S. to Pay 'Compensation' for Future Talks
• Former Iranian foreign minister proposes regional nuclear pact - Javad Zarif floats Middle East cooperation forum to solve impasse over Iran's nuclear programme
• UK, US and allies accuse Iran of cross-border assassination plots
• 14 Western allies denounce surge in Iranian assassination and kidnapping plots - Statement by UK, US, France, and their allies accuses Tehran of working with international criminal networks to carry out attacks 'in clear violation of our sovereignty'
• UK, US, France, 11 other nations condemn Iranian intelligence threats
• Israel evacuates diplomats from UAE after identifying heightened security risk
• Israel insists during talks with Syria: Southern Syria must remain demilitarized
• Syria's new rulers set up a committee to probe attacks on civilians in recent sectarian violence
• 'Killed for what, religion?': inside the horror of southern Syria's sectarian violence
• U.N.: Over 2 Million Syrians Have Returned Home Since Assad Fall
• Syrian FM meets Putin and Lavrov, in first Russia visit since fall of Assad regime
• Syria Sends Foreign Minister to Make Amends with Russia
• Zelensky Calls For Regime Change in Russia to Remove Putin Threat Permanently
• Golden Toilet Secrets: Ukrainian Sources Allege Anti-corruption Wiretaps Recorded Zelensky's Shady Deals in His Friend and 'Treasurer' Mindich's Gilded Bathroom
• Mexican cartels using Ukrainian frontline to learn more about drone warfare
• Trump warns Russia's Medvedev is 'entering dangerous territory' with criticism of US foreign policy
• Speaker Johnson: Threat of war with China is real - 'very dangerous time' - we must be 'prayerful' as Trump tries 'heroically' to deescalate tensions over Taiwan & trade
• Trouble Brewing: Why a Brazilian Tariff Might Cause Coffee Prices to Soar
• Trump Tariff Threat Triggers Political Firestorm in India
• US imposes 15% tariff on goods from Israel as part of sweeping new trade policy
• Trump hikes tariff on Canadian imports to 35% over inaction on fentanyl
• President Trump Announces Deal with Mexico for 90 Days with Continued Fentanyl Tariffs
• President Trump releases updated tariff rates on over 70 countries, delays deadline by one week
• Trump Tells Reporter "I was Fighting Lunatics Like You" When Asked why he Didn't Impose Tariffs During First Term - "We Took in Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, but You People Didn't Cover it Very Well"
• "He's a Political Hack. He's not a Smart Guy" - Trump Slams Jerome Powell for Sabotaging him with High Interest Rates: "Biden Only Extended Him Because He Knew I Couldn't Stand Him"
• Jonathan Turley: Democrats pulled the greatest political con job ever on Americans. It's finally unraveling - New declassified documents offer startling revelations about the Hillary Clinton campaign's alleged plan in 2016 to tie Trump to Russia through FBI and media
• George Soros' Open Society Foundations linked to Russia collusion hoax: Durham annex
• Declassified Durham annex reveals FBI ignored evidence of a Clinton plan to create Russia hoax
• Newly declassified evidence suggests FBI conspired with Clinton to legitimize Russiagate allegations - The declassified annex is expected to show not only that the Clinton campaign had a plan to generate the Russia hoax, but that the FBI was a willing participant in the plo
• Durham Appendix: Clinton Supporters in FBI Lacked "Conclusive Irrefutable Evidence" of Russia's Involvement of DNC Email Scandal - And Lisa Page Knew This
• Whistleblower Reveals How They Were Threatened to Go Along with Obama-Directed Russia Hoax
• Gen. Mike Flynn Demands Prosecution of Obama and Deep State Minions for Conspiring to Overthrow the United States: "We Now Need to See Some Accountability!"
• Kash Patel's Girlfriend, 26, Denies MAGA Spy Accusations While Spilling on Their Relationship
• Trump says he doesn't know why Epstein took young women from Mar-a-Lago - Virginia Giuffre's family wants to know what Trump knew about Epstein
• Virginia Giuffre's family expresses shock over Trump saying Epstein 'stole' her
• Family of Epstein Victim Virginia Giuffre Begs Trump Not to Pardon 'Monster' Ghislaine Maxwell
• Biden 'Politburo' member Steve Ricchetti appears before House investigators in Comer cover-up probe
• Daily Beast forced to retract story falsely linking Melania Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, issues apology
• Daily Beast pulls story alleging Melania-Epstein connection after lawyers dispute framing
• Longtime Biden aide testifies he stood to earn up to $8M had president won re-election
• Lithuanian Prime Minister Resigns Over Corruption Allegations
• Trump Declares Brazil a National Security Threat, Imposes Sanctions on Rogue Supreme Court Judge
• Laboratory for Lawfare: How the Left Is Test-Running Censorship Tactics in Brazil
• AI bots collude on their own to rig markets, fix pricing: Wharton researchers
• Tel Aviv startup raises $100 million to secure AI applications and autonomous agents
• London airport: Passengers left stranded as radar glitch cancels flights at Heathrow and Gatwick
• Moon mining takes giant leap forward with plans to harvest lunar soil
• Ring Of Fire Awakens: Pacific Megaquake First Sparked Tsunami, Now Eurasia's Tallest Volcano Erupts
• Mystery over what happened to Russian nuclear submarine base near megaquake epicentre
• Russian nuclear submarine base damaged by Kamchatka tsunami - Satellite images show pier affected by huge wave generated by earthquake, although fleet unlikely to have been harmed
• 5.7 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• 5.7 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.5 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• 5.5 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Ozernovskiy, Russia
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Ozernovskiy, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Gorontalo, Indonesia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Ozernovskiy, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Pond Inlet, Canada
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Ozernovskiy, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Machali, Chile
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• California struck by two earthquakes within minutes as 4.4 magnitude tremors shake Los Angeles - There have been three earthquakes nearby in the past 10 days
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 24,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 21,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• 'Megaflash' lightning bolt traveled over 500 miles, setting a new record, study says
• Typhoon Co-may makes double landfall in Shanghai and Zhejiang, bringing record rains
• Flash floods kill one in Maryland, trigger states of emergency in New York and New Jersey
• New York City Mayor urges some residents to move to higher ground amid heavy flooding
• Monsoonal rain triggers flash floods at burn scars in Ruidoso, New  Mexico
• Hawaii faces wildfire risk amid drought, winds - As tropical systems fade or move away, winds paired with drought conditions will keep the wildfire risk elevated.
• Mel Gibson Calls Out Gavin Newsom: 'He Wants to Do the Maui Plan' – People in the Crowd Yell 'Mel for Governor'
• A New Satanic Neo-Nazi Group Is Recruiting Children as Young as 12 - Milikolosskrieg, an extremist youth group based around the messaging app Signal, is already discussing attacks on schools and places of worship
• Islamist terrorists kill 49 Christians in African church massacre; eyewitness reveals horrific details
• India - 'I will be with my Maker': Pastors suffer life-threatening wounds in ambush attack by men wielding knives, axes
• Alleged bitcoin torturer walks free on $1M bond after two-month Rikers Island detention - John Woeltz faces home confinement after alleged kidnapping involving electric shocks, beatings
• She Was Murdered in Midtown Manhattan. The Internet Celebrated It. Wesley LePatner was a mother, a wife, and a beloved boss. But to a growing number of people, she was a symbol of everything they hate.
• Three major broadcast networks didn't report on heinous Cincinnati brawl, review finds
• Tom Tiffany Calls For Cutting Off Funding to Wisconsin Sanctuary County Where Hallie Helgeson and Brady Heiling Were Killed
• Activists Delete Fundraising Campaign for Arrested Migrant Who Turns Out to Be Murder Suspect
• ICE on manhunt for two illegal immigrant suspects who tried to ram agents with vehicle in Colorado Springs
• ICE officers could face jail time under Mich. bill to ban masked police - Trump administration officials say this practice is needed to safeguard ICE officers and their families from being harassed or threatened in public and online
• Coalition of Dem AGs Sue Trump Administration over Effort to Remove Noncitizens from SNAP Program
• Jim Jordan's 'Censorship Files:' UK Government Tried to Censor Criticism of Mass Migration, 'Two-Tier' Policing
• 'Disaster' - Mass Migration Driving Record Population Growth in Britain
• VP JD Vance Slams Europe's 'Civilizational Suicide' for Refusing to Control Its Borders and Curb Mass Migration
• Greece Declares Migrant Crisis an 'Invasion' - Suspends Asylum Claims and Detains All New Arrivals
• Newsom, Eyeing Presidential Run, Repeals Own Law Decriminalizing Loitering, Which Had Led to Sex Trafficking
• Women abused as children by Rotherham gangs say police also sexually assaulted them
• Biden takes aim at Trump as 'existential' threat to Black Americans in speech to lawyers group
• Ideological Confusion on the Streets: Woman Claims Her Dog Is Gay
• 40 pastors urge Trump to crack down on abortion pills mailed to pro-life states
• New Implant Offers Hope for Easing Rheumatoid Arthritis - The device stimulates the vagus nerve, signaling the body to tamp down the inflammation that contributes to the disease
• Bernie Sanders Launches Investigation of RFK Jr.'s Attacks on Vaccine Access - By firing all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine panel, RFK Jr. has imperiled vaccine access in the US, critics say
• States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines - As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations
• 32 cases, 8 deaths from 'flesh-eating' infection recorded in Gulf Coast states
• Rare tick-borne virus causing neurological symptoms diagnosed in Northeastern state - Powassan virus spreads much faster than Lyme disease and can cause fatal brain inflammation