August 5th, 2025

• 'We will not commit suicide': Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett rejects all international pressure to accept a Palestinian state
• Commentary: Declaring a Palestinian state with no government or defined territory - You really have to wonder about the twisted logic behind the rush to declare a Palestinian state, at a time when there is neither any feasible leadership nor reasonable governmental option to take over the reins of such a country
• House Democrats sign on to letter urging Trump to recognise Palestinian statehood - Draft backed by over a dozen Democrats says Palestinian rights 'as a people and nation' must be urgently upheld
• US State Department imposes sanctions on Palestinian Authority, PLO over incitement to violence and 'undermining prospects for peace' - Move appears to be part of broader strategy to end Gaza War and Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Two-state solution conference against Israel relies on Hamas' lies
• Hundreds of Israeli ex-officials appeal to Trump to help end Gaza war
• 'We pray the US will always stand with Israel': Speaker Mike Johnson leads Republican delegation on visit to Israel
• Operation 'Gideon's Chariots' comes to a close, with promised goals unfulfilled - Israel failed to attain objectives of 'conquering Gaza,' moving Palestinian population south, preventing Hamas from taking control of aid, and most importantly, releasing hostages
• Netanyahu reportedly approves full military occupation of Gaza - "The die is cast. We are going for a full occupation of the Gaza Strip," an unnamed senior Israeli official told Israeli media
• Netanyahu approves plan to fully occupy Gaza Strip, force Hamas to release hostages
• 'Die is cast': Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaning toward full occupation of Gaza strip despite objections within IDF, global pleas to end war
• Netanyahu to urge 'full conquest' of Gaza as ceasefire talks reach an impasse
• 'Hamas doesn't want a deal': Netanyahu said to seek hostage release through military decision - Hostage families warn 'expanding the war endangers the hostages'
• Netanyahu said set to order full takeover of Gaza, despite IDF qualms, risk to hostages
• Israel Reportedly Set To Operate In Areas Where Hostages Are Being Held As Part Of Move To Occupy Gaza
• Israel's Netanyahu appeals to Red Cross after 'profound shock' of Gaza hostage videos - Hamas says it will allow aid for hostages if Israel halts air strikes, opens permanent humanitarian corridors
• Red Cross renews its call to be 'granted access' to hostages in Gaza after dire videos
• Israel Challenges New York Times to Publish Photo of Starving Hostage
• Facebook deletes video of Israeli hostage, sparking outrage over double standards
• 'Fruits of October 7': Hamas Leader Boasts Massacre Spurred Western Recognition of Palestinian State
• 'Palestinian state is the fruit of Oct 7' - Hamas rejects calls to disarm; says its weapons led to push for statehood - Hamas demands 250 aid trucks per day before resuming hostage-ceasefire negotiations
• Hamas: No ceasefire talks until Gaza 'hunger ends'; Trump again calls Hamas to surrender, release hostages
• For first time in nearly a year, Israel to gradually allow flow of goods to Gaza's private sector
• Trump: No Genocide in Gaza
• With US poised to present new Gaza aid plan, Israel continues combating int'l attacks over claims of 'famine'
• Commentary: Are loaded labels like 'famine' and 'genocide' undermining peace?
• In first for Republican, US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says Israel is committing 'genocide' - Greene's remarks come after fellow Republican lawmaker tells Gazans to 'starve away'
• New York Times accused of weaponizing sick toddler amid starvation crisis in Gaza
• NY Times' erroneous cover photo of Gazan child joins series of media blunders framing stories against Israel - Numerous errors by news outlets appear to all go in one direction
• 'Never again is now': Leftist Jews in NYC protest against Israel over Gaza war
• Tens of thousands anti-Israel activists in Sydney demand sanctions against Israel
• 'Free Palestine' written on Kosher meal on Iberia Airlines flight, Argentine Jewish group says
• Trump admin. to withhold disaster funding for states, cities that boycott Israel - The condition applies to at least $1.9 billion that states rely on to cover search and rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries, and backup power systems, among other expenses
• Trump Admin Drops Israel Boycott Conditions from Disaster Aid Guidance After Intense Backlash
• DHS Shuts Down Rumors of FEMA Funding Tied to Israel Support - Confirms No Political Litmus Test
• Many Jewish Voters Back Mamdani. And Many Agree With Him on Gaza.
• Trump Administration Impounds $250 Million From UCLA, Citing Antisemitism
• Athens Mayor Accuses Israel of Genocide After Criticism of Greek City's Antisemitic Graffiti
• 'Child-killing Jew-monsters': Spate of synagogue attacks intensifies
• Dutch nurse accused of threatening to kill Israeli patients with lethal injections
• Netanyahu's son calls Qatari leader 'modern-day Hitler'
• Israeli government votes to dismiss attorney general, escalating standoff with judiciary
• Israel attorney general before dismissal hearing: 'They're firing the chief prosecutor in the PM's trial'
• Government fires attorney general; High Court immediately freezes her dismissal
• A sign of the times? Unofficial road signs to the Third Temple appearing
• 'Disarmament is the only option': Lebanese state ups pressure on Hezbollah - Lebanon prepares for fateful Cabinet meeting on disarming terror group
• Hezbollah chief rejects disarmament under ceasefire deal, claims it serves Israeli interests
• Israeli military operation in Syria 'not helpful,' US envoy says - Tom Barrack told reporters that Washington does not hold a "common understanding" with the Jewish state about how to move forward with the new Syrian government
• Fresh clashes break out in Syria as the interim government struggles to ease tensions
• IDF intercepts missile from Yemen, 68th launched by Houthis since March
• Rocket alert sirens send millions to shelter as missile launched from Yemen
• Iranian foreign minister denies ceasefire with Israel as army chief warns regime is 'ready for operations'
• US imposes new sanctions targeting 'shipping empire' involved in Iran's illicit oil trade
• Hunger mounts, cemeteries grow in Sudan's besieged al-Fashir
• Cambodia and Thailand begin talks in Malaysia amid fragile ceasefire
• South Korea begins removing border propaganda speakers in conciliatory gesture toward North
• India and the Philippines stage joint naval drill in the disputed South China Sea
• Japan clinches landmark $6.5 billion warship deal with Australia
• Authority restored, Ukraine agency charges six with arms-related corruption
• Putin's 'secret daughter' laments father who killed 'millions' and 'destroyed' her life as she pivots to support Ukraine
• Russia Abandons INF Missile Limits in Wake of NATO, Trump Moves
• Russia Says It Will Stop Abiding by Missile Treaty - The United States has accused Russia of violating the pact, which expired in 2019, for more than a decade
• Russia's Medvedev warns of further steps after Moscow abandons missile moratorium
• Russia moves nuke bombers closer to Europe just days after explosive Trump WW3 row - The strategic aircraft are often used to bomb Ukraine, and reports suggest they have been loaded with missiles, leading to a "high probability" of an imminent major attack
• Kremlin plays down Trump's nuclear rhetoric as US envoy set to visit Moscow
• Missionn Impossible: US Envoy Steve Witkoff Goes to Moscow on Wednesday, Trying to Salvage Ukraine Peace Process Two Days Before New Trump Sanctions Are Expected to Hit Russia
• Top Trump aide accuses India of financing Russia's war in Ukraine
• Trump to raise tariffs further on India over Russia oil purchases
• NYT Admits Trump's Tariffs Are Generating 'Significant' Federal Income - Already Generated $150 Billion in Revenue
• The vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds
• Chinese buyers, flush with cash, are swooping in on California homes
• FBI opens first office in New Zealand, sparking backlash in China
• US Defense Companies 'Panicked' as China Withholds Crucial Rare Earth Materials
• Judicial Watch Uncovers FBI and DHS Docs Revealing Biden Regime Covered Up Counterintelligence Concerns Over Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's Ties to Communist China
• 'China is happy:' New memos expose Homeland Security's concerns about Tim Walz CCP connections
• AG Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama officials over Trump-Russia 2016 collusion investigation
• CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Patel Set to Release More Damning Documents Proving FBI Covered Up Clinton's Collusion Hoax While Amplifying Steele Dossier
• Hillary Clinton's 2016 election post-mortem confirms plan to smear Trump with Russia, like intel
• Hunter Biden laptop letter author helped Clinton tie Trump to Putin in 2016
• Miranda Devine: Russiagate lies are being exposed - and everybody is watching, even the Dems
• People involved in this 'soft coup' are 'starting to sweat,' says Buck Sexton
• 'Breaking the Law': Expose Reveals Biden White House Orchestrated Lawfare Against Trump to Rig 2024 Election
• How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data
• Trump, Republicans race to redraw Texas congressional map as Democrats threaten legal war
• Congressional plan would flip five seats from Democrats to Republicans
• Facing Loss of Nearly Half of Their House Seats, Texas Dem Lawmakers Literally Flee State to Stop GOP Redistricting
• Texas Democrats Who Left State Prevent Vote, for Now, on Trump's Efforts to Add GOP House Seats
• Redistricting clash escalates in Texas after Democrats scatter, denying state House a quorum - Democratic lawmakers fled to Illinois and other states Sunday in a bid to deny Republicans a quorum when the state House meets Monday
• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled over redistricting
• Texas Dems also skipped town in 2021 to avoid a vote, and several caught COVID-19 in DC
• Kathy Hochul welcomes to New York Texas Democrats who fled redistricting vote: 'This is a war'
• "We Are At War... The Gloves Are Off" - Tyrannical New York Governor Kathy Hochul Vows Revenge as Texas Seeks to Redistrict
• Kathy Hochul says NY 'exploring every option to redraw our state congressional lines' to counteract Texas' new map
• 'All-out war': Fleeing Texas Dems side with Newsom as redistricting standoff continues: 'fire with fire' - California governor threatens retaliation if Texas Republicans advance redistricting plans
• Schwarzenegger to Fight Newsom's Plan to Redraw California Congressional Map - The actor feels that "it's truly evil for politicians to take power from people," and that he has called "gerrymandering evil."
• Eric Holder: Proposed Texas Congressional Map Violates Voting Rights Act
• Dem TX Rep.: Illinois' Gerrymandering Is Different Because It's Legal
• Texas is doing what it's allowed to 'by the law,' says Gov. Greg Abbott
• Texas AG Ken Paxton Issues Blistering Statement Slamming Rogue Democrat Lawmakers - Citing 2021 Texas Supreme Court Ruling Authorizing Their Arrest
• Jeffries: Texas Redistricting an Effort 'Steal the Midterm Elections'
• New York City's Ranked Choice Voting System Favors Socialist Mamdani
• 'Straight-up communism': Bill Maher gives dire warning to Dems over Zohran Mamdani, left-wing radicals
• Elizabeth Warren Embraces the Commie Ideas of Zohran Mamdani: 'That is the Democratic Message'
• Even Cory Booker Can't Bring Himself to Endorse Radical Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Mamdani
• House Dems Trash America At Radical Summit In Mexico: "I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American," declared Ramirez in Spanish, whose parents immigrated from Guatemala.
• The DHS responds to Rep Ramirez: "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance." - Theodore Roosevelt
• WH Preps Order to Fine Banks That Drop Customers for Political Reasons: WSJ
• Trump Media CEO Nunes loses defamation lawsuit over Rachel Maddow show
• Feds say Smartmatic bribed Venezuela's top election official with luxury home
• Under Heavy US Sanctions, Brazil's Tyrant Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes Orders the House Arrest of Former President Jair Bolsonaro
• The US State Department has condemned a Brazilian Supreme Court order for the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election
• Colombia Sentences Conservative Ex-President alvaro Uribe to 12 Years House Arrest
• Police nationwide are embracing a new first responder: Drones
• Airbnb Tries to Stick Traveler with $7,000 Repair Bill After Host Uses AI-Generated Images to Claim Damage
• Report: Companies Are Slashing Jobs Thanks to AI
• 'Hunger Games' Screenwriter Billy Ray Warns 'Existential Threat' AI Is to Hollywood: 'Bad Movies, Bad TV Shows, and a Lot of People Out of Work'
• AI search pushing an already weakened media ecosystem to the brink - Generative artificial intelligence assistants like ChatGPT are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the advertising revenue they desperately need, in a crushing blow to an industry already fighting for survival
• 'Absolute insanity': Ex-CNN host Jim Acosta 'interviews' AI recreation of teen killed in Parkland shooting
• China closes gap in AI model development - China 'could absolutely catch up if the United States falls off its game,' expert warns
• U.S. said to fast-track plan for nuclear reactor on the moon
• 3 powerful solar flares erupt in less than 24 hours, ending weeks of calm on the sun
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Bam, Iran
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Ozernovskiy, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Vilyuchinsk, Russia
• Klyuchevskoy volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 25,000ft
• Krasheninnikov volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 20,000
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 20,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 14,000ft
• Tropical Storm Dexter forms off the U.S. Coast
• Record winds hit Northern Ireland, as Storm Floris lashes United Kingdom
• Storm Floris batters Scotland with 90 mph winds, disrupts travel and festivals
• Southern Taiwan lashed by torrential rain, 4 dead
• Hong Kong issues highest weather warning, as rains shut schools, courts and hospital wards
• Japan sets record high temperatures, worries mount over rice crops
• Extreme heatwave not seen in nearly a century set to hit Israel
• Iran orders government offices to close Wednesday as heatwave strains power grid
• California wildfire explodes to over 65,000 acres, shuts down highway
• White South African farm owner on trial for allegedly murdering two Black women and feeding their bodies to pigs
• Surveillance video released of a immigrant kidnapping a girl at a shopping mall in Fairfax, Virginia
• Kristi Noem says "Alligator Alcatraz" to be model for ICE state-run detention centers
• Britain Has Awakened: Manchester Massive Anti-Immigration Protest Shows Citizen Pushback Against Starmer's Suicidal Policies Has Gained Unstoppable Momentum
• State Department to limit visa overstays by requiring applicants to post at least $5K bond
• USCIS moves to keep foreign men out of women's sports ahead of LA Olympics - "The Trump Administration is standing up for the silent majority who've long been victims of leftist policies that defy common sense," USCIS said
• Florida: Migrants Accused of Repeatedly Raping, Molesting 7-Year-Old Girl
• Florida Arrests over 40 Pedophiles in Undercover Operation, 7 on ICE Holds
• Nolte: Woke Gestapo Target 'Registered Republican' Sydney Sweeney for Thoughtcrime
• Notorious Org's Members Tried Pushing 'Developmentally Delayed' Young Adult into Sex-Change Operation
• VA Moves to Scrap Biden-Era Rule Forcing Taxpayers to Cover Abortions
• HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Vows to End Horror Story of Hospitals Harvesting Organs While Patients Still Showed Signs of Life
• How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It - As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits?
• Cholera spreads in North Darfur, 640,000 children under threat, UNICEF warns