October 24th, 2025

• ​Israel approves new UAE embassy tower in Herzliya, marking boost for Abraham Accords
• Smotrich on Saudi normalization: 'No thank you, keep riding camels' - Opposition denounces finance minister's ignorance, as he rejects idea of Palestinian state, defying Riyadh's precondition for diplomatic ties, ahead of Trump-Saudi talks; he later apologizes
• In pursuit of normalization: How an American rabbi befriended Arab monarchs - Marc Schneier, from the Hamptons, is known as "rabbi to kings," because of his rapport with Saudi, Qatari, and Emirati leaders. He has been advocating for Israel from palace halls across the Muslim world.
• Trump predicts Israel and Saudi Arabia will normalize ties by end of year; disses PA's Abbas, weighs intervening on jailed Barghouti
• Trump suggests he could ask Israel to free imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader, as the United States aims to fill a leadership vacuum in postwar Gaza
• Who is Marwan Barghouti, known as 'Palestine's Mandela'? He appeared in a video for the first time in many years as an Israeli minister threatened him inside his prison cell
• US Jewish community leader lobbied for prominent Palestinian prisoner Barghouti's release - Ronald Lauder offered to travel to Sharm el-Sheikh to make case during final negotiations, but idea was nixed by Netanyahu's office amid overwhelming opposition from cabinet ministers; Barghouti serving five life terms
• Commentary: Recognition not annexation - Legal brief and historical proof of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria
• JNS: Palestine recognition is not about human rights - This is not a diplomatic achievement; it is a pacifier tossed to angry mobs waving foreign symbols in foreign tongues
• Rubio meets Netanyahu in Jerusalem to press Trump Mideast peace plan - Rubio has been an "extraordinary friend of Israel," Netanyahu said, "and now we face days of destiny."
• Vance and Rubio criticise Israeli parliament's vote on West Bank annexation
• Israel would lose 'all support' from the US if it annexes West Bank, Trump warns - VP Vance says Knesset preliminary vote on matter was 'very stupid' and an insult to him, marring his visit; US president predicts Saudi normalization this year, weighs intervening for Barghouti
• 'Threatening to the peace deal': Trump administration chides Israeli Knesset vote on West Bank
• Trump says 'Israel not going to do anything with the West Bank' as US fumes over annexation vote
• West Bank won't be annexed by Israel': VP Vance blasts 'stupid political stunt' while Trump warns Israel will 'lose all US support' - Gov't distances itself from vote, blames opposition for 'provocation'
• Netanyahu Slams Annexation Bill, Rebukes Opposition for 'Deliberate Provocation' During Vance Visit
• Dramatic reductions to IDF troops in Judea and Samaria will put communities at risk, MK Sukkot warns' - IDF says no decision made yet, notes improvement in community defenses and alert units
• Ultra-Orthodox IDF draft issue again rocks coalition stability: Shas quits coalition posts while senior rabbi schedules mass protest - Netanyahu under pressure from all sides, new bill to be presented within a week
• Shas quits its coalition posts to protest failure to legislate Haredi draft exemption - But ultra-Orthodox party remains in the coalition, pledging to return to its government and Knesset roles 'when the status of yeshiva students is resolved'
• How US President Trump kickstarted the latest push to end PM Netanyahu's corruption trial
• Should Israel be worried? Inside Sisi's five-point plan to boost Egypt's armed forces - The military buildup has come as Sisi has been working to boost his nation's influence in the Middle East
• US, Egypt & Israel continue to disagree over next step in ceasefire agreement with Hamas
• Qatar, New York Times Blame Netanyahu, not Hamas, for Ceasefire Violations
• US establishes int'l command center on Gaza border to monitor ceasefire during VP Vance's visit - VP asks people of faith to 'pray that the Prince of Peace can work a miracle in this region'
• U.S. Plan Would Split Gaza, Make Hamas Control Temporary: Plan that would divide the Gaza Strip into two zones — one administered by Israel, the other left temporarily under Hamas authority
• Vance: Coalition Will Handle Disarming Hamas
• Research Confirms That Israelis Have Been Turning to God in the War - New research confirms a quiet spiritual awakening as many cry out to the Lord amid crisis
• IDF says terrorists who abducted Noa Argamani, Avinatan Or and Eitan Mor killed in war
• Israeli officials reportedly tell Vance that Hamas can reach 10 of 13 remaining deceased hostages
• The UN's top legal body, the International Court of Justice, has said Israel has an obligation to ensure the basic needs of civilians in Gaza are met - It has also addressed Israeli claims that parts of the UN's Palestinian aid agency involve Hamas members
• 'UNRWA won't step foot in Gaza': Israel rejects ICJ ruling demanding it let UN agency provide Gaza aid - ICJ dismisses evidence of Hamas infiltration, says UNRWA must be allowed to work
• Gazans released by Israel in ceasefire deal allege mistreatment and abuse in prison
• High Court gives state 30 days to clarify policy on press entry to Gaza amid ceasefire - Foreign Press Association petitioned court in 2024, asserting ban on independent access violated fundamental democratic principles of freedom of press and expression
• 'We want to have a voice': NY Jews hit the streets for Mamdani ahead of election - Jewish supporters of far-left Israel critic candidate are motivated by his focus on affordable living, say fears of antisemitism are unwarranted despite warnings from community leaders
• NYC Mayor Adams backs Cuomo, citing Mamdani's stance on call to 'Globalize the Intifada'
• Andrew Cuomo Suggests Zohran Mamdani Would Celebrate Another 9/11
• Bernie Sanders 'absolutely' sticking by US Senate candidate after Nazi tattoo revelation
• Trump's ambassador nominee struggles to explain antisemitic record in contentious Hill hearing - Both Republican and Democratic senators grilled Amer Ghalib over his extremist comments; GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said he'll vote against him
• BBC producer faces backlash for post describing Charlie Kirk's widow as 'Zionist handler'
• Islamic State Rises Again in Syria, Filling a Void Left by U.S. - Attacks by the militant group are up as it exploits a reduced American presence and the collapse of the Assad regime
• IDF says it busted attempt to smuggle firearms from Syria into Lebanon
• IDF targets Hezbollah sites in series of airstrikes across Lebanon; 4 said killed
• Iraq heads to elections marred by violence at sensitive moment for Middle East - Vote comes as PM Sudani faces US pressure to disarm pro-Iran militias; incumbent faces challenge from former premier Maliki, while popular Shiite Sadrist Movement boycotting
• RSF drones target Sudan's Khartoum in fourth day of sustained attacks
• Burma Army's "Scorched Earth" Campaign Against Civilians Ahead of National Elections
• Japan's new leader vows to further bolster defense buildup and spending as regional tensions rise
• China Refuses to Congratulate Conservative Japanese PM, Lectures Her About Taiwan Instead
• Russian Official Confirms North Koreans Operating Along Ukraine Border
• North Korea to build museum glorifying its troops fighting against Ukraine
• Russia Exercises 'Strategic Nuclear Forces' With Missile Launches by Land, Sea, and Air
• Russia violates NATO airspace in Lithuania amid Putin warning on long-range missiles
• Russian drone kills two Ukrainian journalists on Donetsk eastern front line - Proliferation of cheap and deadly drones used by both sides makes reporting from front line increasingly dangerous
• Trump's Sanctions on Russian Oil Sector Ratchet Up Economic War
• After waffling between Russia and Ukraine, Trump slaps Kremlin with oil sanctions
• China, India curb Russian oil purchases after Trump sanctions Rosneft, Lukoil
• European Union Agrees on Plan to Phase Out Russian Gas by 2028
• EU vows to bankroll Ukraine for next two years as it eyes Russian frozen assets
• Russian Foreign Minister Maria Zakharova Brushes Off Latest Trump Sanctions: We Have 'Strong Immunity'
• Oil surges 5% after US sanctions Russian firms Rosneft, Lukoil
• Putin defiant after Trump sanctions Russian oil majors over Ukraine
• Putin calls Trump's new Russian oil sanctions an 'unfriendly act'
• Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets - China and Russia are sending attractive women to seduce tech workers - even marrying and having children with their targets. 'It's the Wild West out there,' says insider
• Trump Terminates All Trade Negotiations With Canada After Government of Ontario 'Fraudulently' Uses Ad Campaign Featuring Ronald Reagan Speaking Negatively About Tariffs
• Major airports issue ground stops due to air traffic controller staffing shortages amid government shutdown - Reagan National, Newark and LaGuardia ground or delay flights as shutdown staffing crisis hits air travel
• Government Shutdown Will Hit Air-Traffic Controllers Soon - Senate measures to pay federal workers fail to advance
• Dems refuse to pay soldiers, air traffic controllers until illegal immigrants are ensured healthcare subsidies - Pennsylvania Congressman John Fetterman was the sole Democrat who voted in favor
• Speaker Mike Johnson: Democrats Trying to Blame Republicans for Healthcare Crisis 'They Themselves' Created
• Sen. Cory Booker Blames Trump for Food Stamp Cuts Caused by Schumer Shutdown
• New Virginia DA Lindsey Halligan Indicts Comey and Letitia James, Fires Corrupt DOJ Attorneys, and Ends Special Counsel in Her First Month
• Biden AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray Personally Approved Opening of "Arctic Frost" Investigation Into Trump
• Grassley releases memo showing DOJ 'unleashed unchecked government power' on Trump associates
• Trump's Russiagate Lawsuit - Biased Media Got Us to This Point
• Trump Trolls Democrats with White House Timeline Showing Scandals of Biden, Clinton, Obama
• Democrat Scott Wiener Claims U.S. 'Slipping into Fascism' in Congressional Campaign Launch
• Rosie O'Donnell Calls for American Economic Blackout in Social Media Post, Gets Absolutely Dragged in the Comments
• Instagram Users Reject Rosie O'Donnell Call for 'Economic Blackout Protest': 'Easy for a Multimillionaire to Say,' 'How About We Boycott Celebrities'
• Unhinged Democrat Strategist James Carville Fantasizes About Trump "Collaborators" Being Shaved, Forced Into Orange Jumpsuits, Paraded Down Pennsylvania Avenue, and Spat On by the Public
• 'WIPE OUT EVERY REPUBLICAN': Dem Texas State Rep Jolanda Jones uses violent rhetoric against conservatives in concerning CNN appearance
• "I'm From the Hood, OK?!" - Texas Democrat State Rep. Jolanda Jones Says She Will Slash Republicans Across the Throat if They Bully Her
• Candace Owens Says She's 'Lost Faith' in Donald Trump as She Puts Blame on Feds for Killing Charlie Kirk
• Candace Owens: "I'm not saying I'm going to stab Elon, but I'm not sure he would bleed if I did." - She claimed that Elon Musk, along with Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, is a "hybrid droid" ushering in "demonic AI."
• Hypemaster: Elon Musk's Tesla Earnings Call Focuses on Robots Ending 'Poverty' Instead of Selling EVs
• Elon Musk wants $1 trillion to control Tesla's 'robot army'
• Lawsuit Accuses Google's AI of Fabricating News Articles That Never Existed
• Federal judges acknowledge court ruling errors tied to staffers' AI use after Grassley inquiry - Judges in New Jersey and Mississippi said the staff members used ChatGPT and Perplexity without authorization
• Netflix Goes 'All In' on AI to 'Enhance' Content Creation
• Meta cuts 600 jobs amid AI expansion push - as automation replaces human staff
• Trump Pardons Binance Founder After Helping Boost His Family's Crypto Empire - Trump on Thursday pardoned Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, the convicted founder of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange
• Kristi Noem pledged to boost the nation's cybersecurity. She gutted it instead. The cyber community fears that the administration's continuous cuts have weakened our cyber defenses.
• Fair Election Fund Launches Ad Campaign Highlighting Microsoft's Censorship, Election Meddling
• Researchers: China's TikTok Boosts Pro-Mamdani Content in Algorithm
• Tom Renz: The Rise of Digital ID in the United States - A Legal and Privacy Crisis
• Alaska Airlines issues nationwide ground stop over IT outage, second since July
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Tual, Indonesia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Pante Makasar, Timor Leste
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits the South Sandwich Islands region
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Tomioka, Japan
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Falkland Islands region
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Hicks Bay, New Zealand
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 22,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 15,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 14,000ft
• Tropical Storm Melissa may reach Category 5, poses great danger to Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti
• Tropical Storm Melissa to begin intensifying with 'life-threatening flooding' possible in Jamaica, Hispaniola
• You can walk faster than Tropical Storm Melissa is moving. It's a new, troubling tendency for Atlantic storms
• DHS: Biden-era FEMA workers felt 'unsafe' at Trump supporters' homes, tracked disaster survivors' political beliefs across US - Employees with FEMA "systematically refused to visit the houses of disaster survivors" that displayed supportive signs and flags for Trump's 2024 campaign and other causes
• No More Climate Hoax: Trump Ramps Up Pressure on the EU Against Its 'Corporation Greenhouse Gas Pollution' Regulation
• Trump plans to eliminate threat of cartels: 'The ISIS of the Western Hemisphere'
• Trump Says He'll Brief Congress on Cartel Plans; Land Targets Next
• Mexican President Sheinbaum Rejects U.S. Strikes Against Alleged Drug Boats: 'There Are International Laws'
• Report: Trump Backs CIA Effort to Topple Maduro
• Maduro boasts of 'thousands' of Russian anti-aircraft missiles as Trump threatens military action inside Venezuela
• U.S. Sends B-1 Bombers Near Venezuela, Ramping Up Military Pressure - The flights signal possible widening of U.S. campaign against cartels and alleged drug traffickers
• US Bombs 9th Alleged Drug Boat in Latin America - US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the bombing campaign will continue 'day after day'
• US kills three in second strike on alleged drug boats in the Pacific
• Bolsonaro's Son Calls on US to Strike Rio Drug Boats
• Illegal immigrant truck driver charged with DUI, killing 3 people in California crash was released into US under Biden
• Gavin Newsom admits intoxicated illegal immigrant truck driver who killed 3 had California license, blames Trump anyway
• Illegal immigrant arrested for ramming federal vehicles was awarded by LA City Council for 'efforts to safeguard our neighborhoods' from ICE
• Illegal Alien Shot in LA After Ramming ICE Vehicles in Brazen Escape Bid is a Well-Known TikTok Influencer, City Councilman Praised Him as 'Pillar of Our Community'
• Trump cancels plans to send federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown
• 70% of Dems support amnesty for illegal immigrants: Rasmussen poll
• ICE agents storm Manhattan's Chinatown 'like a war zone' grabbing vendors and protesters
• Bernie Sanders Admits Trump is Doing a Better Job Than Biden Did on Border Security
• Pritzker: We Don't Have Border Problems Since Trump Took Office - But he wishes Trump would pursue comprehensive reform
• Pritzker: I'm Not Undercutting Integrity of Election by Saying Trump Will Steal It, Trump Is 'By Sending Troops Into Our Cities'
• "Careful Pritzker" - Deputy AG Fires off Preservation Letter, Threatens to Arrest Politicians Fueling Violence and Threatening Prosecution Against ICE Agents
• DNI Gabbard: Left-Wing ICE Threats 'Not the Values of the First Amendment and Peaceful Protest'
• Disgraced ex-Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot creates 'ICE Accountability Project' to 'unmask,' prosecute federal agents
• DHS Rebukes California Democrats' Plan to Launch 'ICE Tracker' to Dox Immigration Agents
• ICE Is Mounting a Mass Surveillance Campaign on American Citizens - Without strict oversight, the agency's new technology threatens Americans' free speech and privacy
• Zohran Mamdani Calls ICE 'Reckless Entity' in Vow to Make New York City's Sanctuary Policy More Extreme
• Zohran Mamdani Suggests 'Mental Health Experts' Should Respond to Crimes Rather than Police
• NBA superstars and mafia among 31 arrested as part of major illegal gambling crackdown in United States
• Sports World Explodes Over 'CRAAAAAZY' Gambling Arrests of NBA Head Coach and Star Player: 'We Still Have the Mafia?'
• How NBA figures and mafia families allegedly stole millions in rigged poker games: "Very sophisticated cheating technologies"
• LeBron James, Anthony Davis injury information leaked to bettors, NBA gambling indictment suggests
• FBI Director Kash Patel warns illegal gambling sting is 'just the start' in nationwide takedown - Crime families like La Cosa Nostra are accused of having ties to the illegal gambling empires
• 'Healing of history': King Charles and Pope Leo pray together in 500-year first - This was the first joint worship between a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII's split from Rome
• King, Pope Pray Together at Sistine Chapel in Historic Symbol of Reconciliation Between Churches
• King Charles Escapes His Andrew Nightmare to Make History With the Pope
• Melania Trump Sued By Michael Wolff In Response To First Lady's $1B Defamation Threats Over Jeffrey Epstein Statements: "Turning The Tables On The Trumps," Says Journo
• Zohran Mamdani: My Politics Are Built on Extending Human Rights to 'Queer and Trans Ugandans'
• Newsom Signs Bill Pointing Kids Toward LGBT Site with Possible Predators
• Ex-ESPN Host Sam Ponder Furious Over Daughter Playing Basketball Against 'Obviously Naturally Born Boy'
• Trans Swimmer Banned for Refusing Gender Test, Blames Insurance Costs
• Federal judge ends Biden-era attempt to broaden Title IX protections to include transgender people
• Cash-Strapped California Spends $140 Million to Shore Up Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinics
• California to invest $140 million in Planned Parenthood to compensate for loss of federal funds - The state funding for the organization is meant to preserve access to what Newsom said were life-saving critical health care centers
• Colorado Clinic Offers Abortions Up to 34 Weeks for 'Any Reason'
• Late-Term Abortion Clinic Expected to Open in New Jersey
• The sperm black market where men donate via 'natural insemination' - Soaring costs of fertility treatment are driving a growing number of women to use online forums to realise their dreams of parenthood