July 17th, 2025

• ​Israel conducts airstrikes in Damascus, demands Syria withdraw regime forces from Druze areas - Syria condemns 'Israeli aggression', touts rights to 'defend its land'
• Syrian president condemns Israel's attacks on Damascus and vows to protect Druze community
• After IDF strikes, Syria's Sharaa accuses Israel of seeking 'chaos and destruction'
• Border chaos as 1,000 Druze breach frontier into Syria; heavy IDF strikes hit Damascus
• IDF prepares for days of battles in Sweida, carries out aerial strikes on 160 Syrian targets
• Israel Bombs Syria - Military Strikes on Syrian Defense Ministry and Presidential Palace
• Jordan wants stability in southern Syria but unclear if it's willing to help - The Jordanian spokesperson "reiterated Jordan's support for the Syrian government's efforts to rebuild the country on foundations that guarantee its security, stability, unity, and sovereignty."
• Syrian gov't forces begin withdrawing from Sweida as Israel vows to protect Druze
• After powerful Israeli strikes on Damascus, Syria withdraws troops from Suwayda city to avoid 'open war'
• Syria's Druze reach new ceasefire deal with government in Sweida, religious leader says
• Ceasefire reached in Syria amid US pressure
• Rubio says parties have agreed on steps to end 'horrifying situation' in Syria
• Rubio says US 'very concerned' over Syria violence; Trump administration said to ask Israel to halt strikes
• Rubio says Israel strike on Syrian military headquarters 'likely a misunderstanding' - Rubio looks to deescalate Israel-Syrian tensions as Trump seeks broader peace deal
• Netanyahu trial adjourned amid strikes on Syria
• Huckabee Attends Netanyahu Corruption Trial in Tel Aviv, in Unprecedented Move
• Ambassador Huckabee Compared to 'Godfather' Character After Show of Support at Netanyahu Trial - 'We condemn the improper attempt by the American ambassador, Mike Huckabee, to influence an Israeli judicial procedure,' a group of former Israeli diplomats, the Foreign Policy Forum, writes in a statement
• International summit on Palestinian state set for September, French source says - World leaders expected to meet in New York ahead of UN General Assembly following minister-level conference
• Paris court rules Gazans eligible for refugee status in France due to 'Israeli persecution'
• Entire UN commission investigating Israel resigns
• Donald Trump hints at Israel-Gaza ceasefire, 'We have some good news...'; commends Steve Witkoff for 'fantastic job'
• Trump to meet Qatar's PM, with Gaza ceasefire said to be key talking point
• Official says Gaza deal 'more likely than not,' as Israel said to retract pullback demands
• EU accused of 'cruel and unlawful betrayal' of Palestinians over failure to confront Israel
• European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in Gaza
• Hamas' Oct 7 attack was 'righteous Jihad against infidels', hundreds of Muslim clerics declare in Turkey - Convention in Turkey shows Erdoğan tries to legitimize Hamas support, says expert
• Gaza aid group says 20 killed in crowd crush, blames armed Hamas agitators
• 'Manifestly illegal': In Katz's plan for Gaza 'humanitarian city,' experts see war crime
• Ed Davey calls on government to sanction Netanyahu over Gaza 'ethnic cleansing'
• Two troops seriously injured in northern Gaza fighting
• Is the new 'Superman' movie about the war in Gaza? Viewers clash over political subtext - Director James Gunn says he wrote the screenplay before Oct. 7, but that doesn't stop anti-Israel audiences from embracing it as a metaphor – and Israel advocates from denying the comparison
• Republican Rep. Burgess Owens Calls Out Georgetown University Interim Pres. for Allowing Antisemitism on Campus: 'Would You Allow the KKK to Speak?'
• 'Israel out': Pro-Palestinian protester disrupts Tour de France, calls for Israel's exclusion
• Ireland's proposed boycott of Israeli businesses creates dangerous legal trap for American investors - Legal experts warn companies to conduct compliance audits as Irish BDS law conflicts with US anti-boycott regulations
• Zohran Mamdani says he would 'discourage' phrase 'globalize the intifada' but not 'the idea behind it': report
• Shas decides to quit government, but is not leaving coalition or pushing for elections
• Shas spiritual leaders order party members to quit government - Shas's leaders directed MKs not to topple the government, though their decision shrinks Netanyahu's coalition to 29 MKs
• With Shas Party also set to leave coalition, Haredi parties are blaming Likud MK Edelstein for destroying the gov't - PM Netanyahu reportedly offered to fire Edelstein to placate Haredi parties
• Turkish media: 'Coup against Erdogan - Israeli takeover attempt' - The pro-government Turkish daily Turkiye devoted its front page to the bizarre claim that the 2016 military coup in the country was orchestrated by Israel
• IDF intercepts ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthis
• Khamenei says Israel launched war to 'overthrow system' in Iran
• Through Trial and Error, Iran Found Gaps in Israel's Storied Air Defenses - The proportion of missiles that slipped through doubled during the 12-day war, data show
• Concern over homegrown Iranian spies prompts Israeli PR campaign to dissuade them
• As Iran Deports a Million Afghans, 'Where Do We Even Go?'
• Afghan Women and Girls Deported From Iran Fear 'Coming Back to a Cage'
• Revealed: Trump has launched as many air strikes in five months as Biden did in four years - Despite pledging not to engage in conflict overseas, the US president has sharply escalated attacks
• Top EU Diplomat Gripes That US Is Not Paying for New Weapons for Ukraine, Thinks 50-Day Ultimatum for Russia 'Is Too Long'
• Russia Launches Drone Swarm Attack on Ukraine as Trump's Peace Deadline Nears
• Sen. Curtis says D.C. shouldn't dictate 'red lines' for Ukraine attacks on Russia - Sen. Curtis was 'pleased' with Trump's decision to restart weapons shipments to Ukraine
• NATO Chief Warns Brazil, China, India to Stop Doing Business with Russia
• China's Economy Slows Under Tariff Pressure
• Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna Says Fed Chair Jerome Powell's Firing Is "Imminent"
• President Trump Drafted Letter to Fire Jerome Powell... But Trump Says 'Highly Unlikely' He will Fire Fed Chair
• Trump Has Draft of Letter to Fire Fed Chair. He Asked Republicans if He Should Send It - Mr. Trump has been increasing his angry rhetoric around Mr. Powell - whom he attacks for not cutting interest rates while overseas counterparts have done so
• GOP senators warn Trump that firing Powell would send 'shock wave' through economy
• Democrat Senator Tina Smith Hospitalized and will not be able to help Democrats try to block tonight's recession package vote
• VP Vance Breaks a Tie and DOGE Cuts Inch Closer to Becoming Law
• Sunny Hostin: Trump Administration Is Committing 'Crime Against Humanity' over the results of cuts to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• USAID food for nearly 30,000 hungry kids to be destroyed: Official
• Sperry: Secret Meeting Opens Document Floodgates on Trump-Russia Hoax
• Shocking Memo Reveals Judge Boasberg, DC Judges Admitted Bias Against Trump Administration at Judicial Conference with Roberts
• Jill Biden's Chief of Staff Pleads the 5th on Alleged Cover-Up of Joe Biden's Cognitive Decline
• Cybersecurity Expert: American Trains Are Vulnerable to Remote Hacking
• Cambodia makes 1,000 arrests in latest crackdown on cybercrime
• Report: Microsoft's Chinese Engineers Access Pentagon Systems with Minimal Oversight from 'Digital Escorts'
• Elon Musk's Tesla to Face First Federal Jury Trial over Fatal Crash Involving 'Autopilot' System
• Larry Ellison Surges Past Mark Zuckerberg To Become World's Second-Richest Person As Oracle's AI Deals With OpenAI, US Government Drive Massive Stock Surge
• CoreWeave CEO says AI, computing power will be the defining technology for next stage of human development
• Rise of the Machines: Inside Hollywood's AI Civil War - The technology is already transforming the industry and could forever change the entertainment we consume. But the battle to contain it has just begun.
• Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm - New technologies are paving the way for farms that can run themselves, with minimal human input
• Waymo Vets Are Automating Construction Sites With Self-Driving Dirt Diggers
• Dangers of AI in criminal activity examined by House Judiciary Subcommittee
• The World's First Nuclear Explosion Created a Rare Form of Matter
• 7.3 magnitude earthquake rattles Alaskan island, prompting tsunami advisory
• 5.7 magnitude earthquake hits near Sand Point, Alaska
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Sand Point, Alaska
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Atka, Alaska
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Sand Point, Alaska
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Sand Point, Alaska
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Sand Point, Alaska
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits the South Sandwich Islands region
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Lospalos, Timor Leste
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits south of Tonga
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 21,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ft
• Sakurajima volcano on Japan erupts to 15,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Marapi volcano in Indonesia erupts to 13,000ft
• Kirishimayama volcano on Japan erupts to 10,000ft
• New volcanic eruption opens 1 km-long fissure southeast of Litla-Skogfell, Iceland
• Volcanic eruption in Iceland forces tourists to evacuate Blue Lagoon, as lava flows near town of Grindavik
• Scientists Warn of Massive Eruption Threat as Mount Rainier and Pacific Volcanoes Stir
• Is The Ground Beneath Us Getting Restless? Volcanoes Are Waking Up Across America
• Olympic Medalist Audun Groenvold Dead at 49 After Being Struck by Lightning
• Lightning strike at New Jersey archery range kills 1, injures 13 others
• Gulf Coast braces for flooding as storm builds into possible tropical depression
• One month's worth of rain in 2 hours floods roads and tunnels in Moscow
• One dead, 12 injured after severe flooding in La Martinica, Zapopan, Mexico
• Floods create sinkholes, submerge roads in central North Carolina
• Large tornado captured on video near Dodgeville, Wisconsin
• Utah hit by Rare EF-2 Firenado - This "firenado" produced winds up to 122 miles per hour, carving a path of destruction as it traveled across dry brush and rugged rural terrain
• Area 51 at risk as huge fire creeps closer to base with black smoke filling air sparking wild UFO conspiracy theories
• Burn It Down, Build It Back Woke: Newsom to Dump Low-Income Housing in Million-Dollar Pacific Palisades Neighborhood
• 'Recession pop' and new Christian music surge in the US as streaming growth slows
• Paranormal Investigator Dies Suddenly While on Tour With "Haunted" Annabelle Doll
• Iraqi parents face trial in attempted honor killing of high-school age daughter in Washington state
• Doctor Death: German Physician on Trial for Alleged Mass Murder of 15 Patients Under His Care
• Germany's globalist authoritarian police commissioner demands ban of conservative cops in brazen anti-AfD crackdown
• NYPD run like a 'criminal enterprise,' ex-commissioner says in bombshell lawsuit
• Report: Stricter Gun Control States Lead in Adolescent Firearm Deaths
• From tourism to terror: The Caribbean island torn apart by gangs and guns
• Violent Riots Explode in Spanish Town After Pack of African Migrants Savagely Beat Elderly Man
• MSNBC Contributor Implies Violence Against ICE Agents is Justified: 'Lawful Right of Self-Defense'
• Booker: Trump's Mass Deportation a 'Violation of the Values of Our Nation'
• Kristi Noem in Talks with 5 Red States to Construct Detention Facilities Inspired by Alligator Alcatraz
• DHS Highlights Crimes of 'Uniquely Barbaric' Migrants Deported from U.S.
• 3 alleged MS-13 gang members charged with fatally stabbing homeless Maryland man
• ICE Arrests MS-13 Member and Fentanyl Dealer in Providence, RI - Local Officials Worried That Police May Have Assisted
• Trump Signs Halt Fentanyl Act into Law - Says Bill Strikes a "Righteous Blow to the Drug Dealers, Narcotic Traffickers, and Criminal Cartels" - Slams Biden for "Surrendering our Borders" to Invasion
• 'We will not bow in fear': California pastor defiant after ICE arrest at her church
• Colombian President Gustavo Petro: Move Statue of Liberty from U.S. to Colombia in an unhinged rant against the United States' illegal immigration policies
• Mexico Considering Legal Action Against ICE Over Migrant's Death
• ICE seizes 6-year-old with cancer outside L.A. court. His mom is fighting for his release
• DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children - The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects "indefinitely"
• ICE Agents Arrest Illegal Alien with 40 Criminal Convictions, Including Child Sex Abuse
• Puerto Rico: Religion Teacher Charged with Sex Trafficking Two Teen Boys
• Jayapal: Congress Needs to Act 'Right Now' - Trump 'Is Hiding Something' about the Jeffrey Epstein materials
• Charlie Kirk: Special Prosecutor for Epstein Scandal Will Create 'Harmony' Between Trump, MAGA Base
• Trump Supports 'Deep State' Special Prosecutor That will Include Investigation Into Epstein
• Jeffries: Calls for an Epstein Special Counsel a 'Diversionary Tactic'
• At Least Six Republicans Have Signed on to Support Legislation to Release Epstein Files
• Reps. Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduce Discharge Petition to Force Vote on Releasing Full Epstein Files
• Loomer delivers searing warning: Epstein could 'consume' Trump presidency - The president has tried to tamp down the rebellion among his supporters
• Trump slams own supporters as Epstein row grows
• Trump Melts Down Over Epstein 'Hoax,' Slams Supporters Who Believe 'This BS': 'I Don't Want Their Support Anymore!'
• Trump Asked About Epstein Files, Says It's a Hoax - "Stupid Republicans and Foolish Republicans Fall into the Net and Do the Democrats' Work"
• Trump: 'Jeffrey Epstein Hoax' Is Left's Latest Media Scam to Distract from My Success
• Trump Defends Pam Bondi's Handling of Epstein Case, Says "Republicans Got Duped" - "What More Can She Do?"
• Dershowitz: 'There Never Has Been' an Epstein Client List
• Ghislaine Maxwell's family appeals to Trump amid battle over Epstein files - Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse in 2022
• Political Earthquake: DOJ Fires Maurene Comey, Federal Prosecutor Who Filed Key Court Docs to Keep Epstein Files Under Seal
• Justice Department Fires Ghislaine Maxwell Prosecutor Maurene Comey - Daughter of former FBI Director James Comey had also worked on the cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Sean 'Diddy' Combs
• Former alt-right influencer Lauren Southern accuses Andrew Tate of sexual assault
• Woman arrested for allegedly enticing Thai Buddhist monks into sex, then blackmailing them
• 'Genderfluid' Michigan teen charged with attempted arson of Republican lawmaker's office
• He/They Xe/She Arrested in Rural MI Upper Peninsula Community After Being Caught On Surveillance Camera Throwing Molotov Cocktail Into Local GOP Office
• Equal Employment Agency Begins Processing Workplace Discrimination Lawsuits from Transgender Plaintiffs
• America Ferrera left Pixar's 'Elio' after studio cut 'queer themes'
• Sam Ponder Ties ESPN Firing to Her Opinion on Transgender Athletes
• Appeals court upholds abortion pill ban in third recent win for battered pro-life movement
• Report: Chinese couple arrested in California after authorities find their 21 children born through 'rent-a-womb' surrogacy scheme - "Babies are being neglected, then transported back to China," a federal source said
• Inside the Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies
• Eight healthy babies born after IVF using DNA from three people - Genetic material from mother and father transferred to healthy donor egg to reduce risk of life-threatening diseases
• Obama-Biden Holdovers at NIH Continue Spending Tens of Millions on Cruel Dog Tests, Despite Claims of Phasing it Out
• Johnson & Johnson Scientist Who Admitted Covid Vaccine Was "Not Safe and Effective" Flees Into Women's Bathroom When Confronted by O'Keefe
• As nicotine pouches' popularity soars, they're also responsible for more poisonings in young kids, study finds
• Four people dead in Florida from flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters