September 18th, 2025

• ​Starmer to recognize Palestine this weekend, after Trump's UK visit, report - Washington has consistently opposed official recognition of Palestine, with Trump warning that it could be seen as rewarding Hamas
• Rubio insists Britain recognising Palestinian state will make 'no impact whatsoever'
• Report: Palestinian Authority Finally to Abandon 'Pay-to-Slay' Policy
• Qatar says it is pursuing legal action against Israel at ICC to "respond to the Israeli aggression against the State of Qatar"
• Senior Hamas official appears for first time since Qatar bombing: 'We are not the only target; the entire nation is'
• Qatar 'conquered the West,' aims to restore Islamic empire, ex-Mossad division head claims - "Conquest does not necessarily mean taking over territory; conquest is also the ability to paralyze your enemy's decision-making processes," Dr. Udi Levy said
• EU's top body presents proposal to suspend free trade agreement with Israel - Israel's top trading partner accuses Jerusalem of violating human rights in Gaza and West Bank, calls for measures to pressure government into 'changing course' in Gaza
• Knesset Speaker Ohana accuses UN of spreading modern 'blood libel' against Israel with new genocide report
• Spain says it will probe 'rights violations in Gaza' to assist International Criminal Court
• Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza - Vermont senator had taken flak for avoiding term as UN panel says Israel's conduct meets criteria for genocide
• Another South African Accuses Israel of 'Genocide' at United Nations
• 'Undertones of antisemitism' in attempts to define Gaza a genocide
• IDF report on its investigations into Oct 7 failures delayed due to Gaza City op, expected to cause internal upheaval
• Smotrich says Israel sitting on a 'real estate bonanza' in Gaza, talking to the US about dividing it up
• Revealed: Tony Blair's US-backed proposal for ending the Gaza war and replacing Hamas - After receiving Trump's blessing, the former British PM has been rallying international stakeholders to form a transitional authority to govern the Strip before it gets handed over to the PA
• Israel Opens New Route Out of Gaza City for 48 Hours as Tanks Advance
• WHO chief says northern Gaza hospitals on 'brink of collapse' due to new offensive
• IDF says airstrike targeted Gaza City arms depot used to store explosives
• Internet down as Gaza 'cut off from outside' after IDF bombs down communication towers
• More Than a Boat: The Gaza Flotilla as a Symbol of a Growing Global Movement
• UN Watchdog exposes terror takeover of UNRWA schools in Gaza and Lebanon
• Nearly half of Israeli men oppose posthumous sperm use by parents, study finds - Over 900 soldiers have been killed in the current war and the possibility of genetic continuity can 'relieve some of the pain'
• Breakthrough: Israel's 'Iron Beam' Laser Defense System Operational, Intercepts Missiles at Near-Zero Cost
• Successful test of Iron Beam laser defense system - Defense Ministry says the laser defense system 'proved its effectiveness in a complete operational configuration by intercepting rockets, mortars, aircraft, and UAVs across a range of operational scenarios' and will be deployed by the end of the year
• Israel's 'Iron Beam' fully operational to hit missiles along with drones - Firing Arrow interceptors can cost millions of shekels, Iron Dome interceptors can cost tens of thousands of shekels, but firing the Iron Beam is as cheap as turning a light on
• Spain's prime minister sparks outrage over alleged nuclear threat against Israel - While Spain doesn't have nuclear weapons, critics say Pedro Sanchez's comments fuel antisemitism
• Germany's Merz warns criticism of Israel used as guise for 'poison of antisemitism'
• Merz says criticism of Israel in Germany has become pretext for hatred of Jews
• Podcasts, going off-script, now fertile ground for antisemitic sophistry, critics warn - As long-form podcasts and other types of alternative media bring Holocaust denial and anti-Zionist revisionism to fresh audiences, a newcomer to the field aims to correct the record
• Canadian reporter suspended over antisemitic remarks: 'Major cities are run by Jews, Hollywood is run by Jews'
• Anti-Israel Public Broadcasters Threaten Eurovision Boycott If Israel Allowed to Participate
• In St. Peter's Square, pilgrims hail new 'Millennial' saint, unaware of anti-Jewish undertones
• Montreal man who attacked Jewish father in front of his children will not be prosecuted: 'Not a hate crime'
• Iran executes man for alleged spying for Israel; activists say he was tortured into false confession
• US judge orders deportation of Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader Khalil - Activist decries ruling by 'kangaroo immigration court' as his legal team contests judge's plan to deport him
• Immigration Judge Orders Radical Islamist Mahmoud Khalil Deported to Syria or Algeria
• Syria's Sharaa: Security pact talks with Israel could yield results 'in coming days' - 'It's a difficult case - you have negotiations between a Damascene and a Jew,' Syrian leader says of US-mediated negotiations while ruling out discussions on Golan as premature
• Pig Organ Transplants May Pose a Dilemma for Some Jews and Muslims - The taboo against pork is deeply entrenched in both religious traditions. But the prohibition is not absolute.
• Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact as Gulf Arab states grow wary of US security guarantees
• Saudi Arabia signs mutual defence pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan - Pact declares any attack on Saudi Arabia or Pakistan an attack on both, deepening shared security alliance
• Myanmar airstrike: Why 500-pound bombs were dropped on schools in Rakhine State - At least 18 students were killed and 22 were wounded after the airstrike hit schools as students slept
• Gunmen kill 22 after shooting at baptism ceremony in Niger - reports
• Rwanda-backed rebels parade new recruits raising questions over Congo peace deal
• Brazil Fines Political Prisoner Jair Bolsonaro $189,000 for 'Recreational Racism'
• Bolsonaro Taken to Hospital as His Health Takes a Turn for the Worse During His 'Witch Hunt' Trial for Planning a 'Coup'
• Coup plot charges for former Romanian presidential candidate
• Romanian prosecutors indict pro-Russian former presidential candidate - Calin Georgescu and 21 others accused of instigating violence after presidential election was cancelled over alleged Russian meddling
• Double Trouble: EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen Faces Another Two No-Confidence Votes in October, Is Sued for Defamation by Opposition MEPs She Called 'Putin's Friends'
• Alexei Navalny was poisoned before dying in Russian prison, his widow says, citing lab tests
• Russia Developing Starlink Rival at 'Rapid Pace,' Space Chief Says
• Four-pronged Russian attack fails to crush Ukraine this summer - Zelenskyy reveals staggering losses
• Germany's Merz accuses Putin of murder and trying to destabilise West
• Trump and Europe Are at Odds Over How to Sanction Russia - EU also looks to tap billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets for first time in conflict
• Kremlin: More EU Sanctions Will Not Force Russia to Change Course
• NATO jets scrambled to Russian warplanes carrying supersonic missiles
• Europe on the Brink of a New War: Participants in the "Anti-Trump" project are preparing to send Ukrainian troops into Moldova
• Denmark to buy long-range precision weapons to counter Russian threat
• Denmark Held One of Its Largest Ever Military Exercises in Greenland. The U.S. Was Left Out
• Taiwan shows off first missile to be jointly manufactured with US arms maker
• Experts warn Federal Reserve has 'frozen up' the American dream with 'incompetence' - Trump advisor Peter Navarro calls Fed policy 'a disaster' as central bank cuts rate by 25 basis points
• As U.S. jobs disappear, the Federal Reserve returns to rate cuts
• Fed announces first rate cut in nine months, signals more reductions to come
• Trump crashes the Fed's consensus - The threat of stagflation means the risk of getting the policy wrong is high for Powell - and no less so for Trump, whose presidency could ride on the outcome
• Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy - The next few months could be the most consequential period for US constitutional law since the Roosevelt administration
• Government shutdown odds go up after party leaders exchange fire
• Kash Patel doubles down on his handling of the Epstein files in heated Hill testimony
• Kash Patel Melts Down In Congressional Hearing When Asked About Trump's Name Being In the Epstein Files
• Patel says he will be investigating Trump's claim that the birthday note to Epstein isn't real
• Schiff: FBI Director Kash Patel Is an 'Incompetent' Internet Troll
• House Democrat drafts articles of impeachment for Bondi, Patel - It's unclear what the basis for the impeachment is, or when the articles might be filed
• Republican Brad Raffensperger to run for Georgia governor after defying Trump over 2020 election
• Trump invokes Churchill and 'special relationship' as questions over UK free speech grow
• Japan political party to install AI leader
• Eight percent of the world's population uses ChatGPT weekly: ChatGPT
• AI is helping to decode animals' speech. Will it also let us talk with them?
• Expert predicts AI is going to spearhead the technology sector leading to a massive shift
• YouTube, new leader of US media industry, bets on AI as key for creating content
• Meta launches smart glasses with built-in display, reaching for 'superintelligence'
• Taliban orders ban on internet in northern Afghanistan 'to prevent immoral activities'
• Taliban chief orders internet blackouts, calling the web the 'root of all evil' - The emerging policy threatens to disrupt government services that had moved online in recent years and to stall humanitarian operations in Afghanistan
• 'Dystopian' toilets won't give you loo roll unless you watch an advert first
• Trump Executive Order Quietly Declared That NASA Is Now a Spy Agency
• Panama man's claims of 'alien life' on meteorite spark internet debate
• Viral TikTok video from Panama shows alleged meteorite with 'Alien Life' - Discovery or Hoax?
• 2 billion people will be able to see 'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis when it buzzes Earth in April 2029 - "This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be."
• Scientists think they found evidence of a hidden planet beyond Neptune and they are calling it Planet Y
• 'The sun is slowly waking up': NASA warns that there may be more extreme space weather for decades to come
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Sarangani, Philippines
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Isangel, Vanuatu
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 21,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 21,000ft
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 20,000ft
• Sheveluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 16,000ft
• Marapi volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 14,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 14,000ft
• Tropical Storm Gabrielle formed Wednesday morning over the central Atlantic Ocean, becoming the seventh named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
• At least 18 dead, 16 missing after cloudbursts and landslides in northern India
• Floods in Pakistan leave nearly 1,000 dead, 6.3 million affected and 2.9 million displaced since June 26
• 120 land and environmental defenders killed or disappeared in Latin America last year, report finds
• State of emergency declared as violent protests rock South American nation over diesel price hikes - Government redirects $1.1 billion from fuel subsidies to social programs
• Al-Qaida-linked militants target fuel trucks in Mali in a blockade that could squeeze the economy
• Thai Buddhist Leader Advocates for Peace and Meditation at Global Interfaith Summit
• Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks new social studies standards critics deride as 'Christian nationalist'
• Air Traffic Control Tells Spirit Pilot to 'Pay Attention' After Close Encounter With Air Force One
• Spirit Airline Pilots Rebuked by Air Traffic Controller for Flying Too Close to Air Force One: 'Get Off the iPad!'
• Mississippi Grieves After Two Men Found Hanging From Trees - The deaths of a Black student and a homeless white man, discovered hours apart, spark sorrow, speculation, and calls for federal investigation across Mississippi
• California nurses decry Ice presence at hospitals: 'Interfering with patient care'
• America Loves Cocaine Again - Mexico's New Drug King Cashes In - The Trump administration's war on fentanyl created an opening for 'El Senor Mencho' to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. by the ton
• Two cartel-controlled states in Mexico cancelled their Independence Day celebrations on Monday in several of their communities over concerns of cartel attacks and violence
• Venezuela Claims Evidence of Drug Trafficking a 'Hollywood' Lie in Five-Page Rant
• Southern Command Releases Video of US Forces Training Amphibious Landings in Puerto Rico as Siege of Venezuela Gains Momentum
• Pittsburgh FBI Office Attack: Car Rams Into FBI Building, Officials Call It 'Act of Terror'
• Suspect in custody after allegedly ramming car into FBI Pittsburgh field office in "targeted attack"
• 5 police officers shot, 3 dead in Pennsylvania, FBI investigating
• Man With Rifle Looking For Louisiana's Republican Attorney General Taken Into Custody
• Trump to designate antifa a 'major terrorist organization' - Trump described antifa as 'sick, dangerous, radical left disaster'
• Jasmine Crockett doubles down on smearing Republicans as 'fascists' after Charlie Kirk killing
• Crockett dismisses critics who think 'Hitler' and 'fascist' comparisons contribute to political violence - Jasmine Crockett previously called Trump 'Temu Hitler' and 'enemy to the United States'
• JB Pritzker Claims He Has Never Called Republicans 'Nazis' - Gets Proven Wrong by Videos of His Own Words
• George Takei: Trump Employing 'Nazi Playbook' to Exploit Charlie Kirk's Assassination
• Fetterman: Hitler Comparisons 'Will Incite' Violence
• Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions
• Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk's Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division
• Obama Defends His Mass Migration 'Experiment' After Charlie Kirk Shooting
• Obama appears to blame Trump for 'extreme views' that contributed to Charlie Kirk assassination - "Those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn't empowering them. I wasn't putting the weight of the United States government behind them."
• Obama condemns 'horrific' Kirk shooting, but defends the right to criticize the founder of Turning Point USA - The former president suggested Republicans have deepened the nation's polarization in response to the killing
• Marlow: Obama Never Missed an Opportunity to Divide Country
• Actor John Cusack Reacts to Charlie Kirk Assassination By Continuing to Spread Hateful Rhetoric: 'A Fascist'
• Actress Amanda Seyfried Calls Charlie Kirk 'Hateful;' Suggests He 'Invited' His Assassination - Attempts to Walk It Back Following Backlash
• Joy Reid Praises Musician, Drinks Wine While He Sings Song Justifying Charlie Kirk's Assassination
• Leftwing Magazine Calling Charlie Kirk 'Racist' Denies Soros Ties Exposed by JD Vance
• Charlie Sheen: Charlie Kirk Assassination Was this Generation's 'JFK Moment'
• Jay Leno Calls Charlie Kirk's Assassination 'The Death of Free Speech' - 'This One Really Struck Me'
• Trump's threat to target 'radical left' after Kirk killing raises fears he's trying to silence foes
• JD Vance blames Kirk assassination on 'left-wing political radicalization' of shooter
• 4 House Republicans vote with Dems to block resolution censuring Ilhan Omar for Charlie Kirk comments
• Ilhan Omar slams Nancy Mace's attack on her for Kirk remarks. 'You belong in rehab'
• President Trump Responds to Senate Report that the Biden Regime and Jack Smith Were Targeting Turning Point - "They Tried to Force Charlie, and Many Other People and Movements, Out of Business"
• Trump Jr: Getting Fired for Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death Is 'Consequence Culture'
• ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel's show 'indefinitely' after remarks about Charlie Kirk suspect - Kimmel said the MAGA movement was trying to score political points by trying to prove that Kirk's alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was not one of its own
• Dozens of ABC stations to air Charlie Kirk tribute special during Jimmy Kimmel's timeslot - Sinclair Broadcast Group called Kimmel's comments 'inappropriate and deeply insensitive'
• Disney's ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after FCC chair criticizes the host's Charlie Kirk comments
• Jimmy Kimmel under federal investigation for MAGA supporter claim
• Schumer: Gov't Pushed ABC to Suspend Kimmel, Should Be Lawsuits Over That
• Inside the Leftist Push to Label Charlie Kirk's Assassin a Conservative Christian
• Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Security Surge Across Fox News, CNN and Political Podcasters: 'The Climate Feels More Dangerous Than Ever'
• Steam, Discord, and Twitch Execs Summoned to Testify Before Congress About Radicalization on Their Platforms in Wake of Charlie Kirk Assassination
• Phoenix Police Bomb Squad Sent to Investigate "Suspicious Bag" at TPUSA Headquarters
• Rattled Lawmakers Demand Extra Security Protection - House GOP leaders propose $30 million to help protect elected officials after Charlie Kirk shooting
• Charlie Kirk funeral has cops on high alert as security compared to 'Super Bowl levels'
• 'I'm not buying this': Maga dismisses claims Kirk assassin acted alone - Steve Bannon claims truth behind conservative podcaster's death is 'far deeper and far more malignant'
• Jewish and Christian worshipers sing and pray at Temple Mount in memory of Charlie Kirk - Group led by former Likud MK who survived an assassination attempt worships openly on Temple Mount in remembrance of slain conservative influencer: 'We are here to pray'
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Issues Warning About Jews Taking Over 'Christian Patriotic Turning Point USA'
• Nolte: ABC's Matt Gutman Says He Didn't Mean to Romanticize Tyler Robinson's Texts to Trans Lover, Gets Busted for Fake Quote
• Montel Williams says suspected Charlie Kirk assassin driven by love, not politics - Williams argues Tyler Robinson was 'emotionally stunted' person trying to defend significant other
• Montel Williams claims Charlie Kirk's killer was 'emotionally motivated,' a 'love-torn child,' not driven by hate - Scott Jennings set the record straight. "He said 'Charlie Kirk, I can't stand his hate anymore. I'm going to take him out.'"
• A Pride flag at half-staff to honor Charlie Kirk: Trump order to lower flags spurs SoCal furor
• The Advocate: Charlie Kirk did say stoning gay people was the 'perfect law' - and these other heinous quotes
• Activist Seattle-area judge frees teens accused of brutally assaulting transgender person - Judge Galvan released both boys on electronic monitoring with permission to participate in "pro-social activities" such as football
• Trump Admits He Would Remove Pride Flags If the 1st Amendment Didn't Stop Him
• Sen. Joni Ernst Moves to Stop Funding 'Transgender Apps,' Other 'Woke Nonsense' in Key Defense Tech Program
• Ben & Jerry's founder Jerry Greenfield resigns, says he's 'been silenced' over LGBTQ+ rights
• Sickening sex dolls that look like kids advertised for sale on Facebook - Social media giant Meta has profited from over 1,300 ads from websites promoting child-like sex dolls despite the ban on importing them to the UK
• 'Flesh-eating' Vibrio kills fifth Louisiana resident, health officials warn
• New AI tool can predict a person's risk of more than 1,000 diseases, say experts - Delphi-2M uses diagnoses, 'medical events' and lifestyle factors to create forecasts for next decade and beyond
• Moderna Founder Launches Aerial-spraying of RNA to Alter Gene Expression of Crops
• Rand Paul clashes with top Democrat over CDC pushing vaccines on infants
• Ousted CDC director says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to change childhood vaccine schedule
• 'Radical transparency' comes for CDC director fired by RFK Jr., Fauci, pharma-funded GOP chair - Susan Monarez still clinging to COVID dogma rejected by Biden CDC director four years ago, that vaccines reduce viral load and hence transmission. Rand Paul planning Fauci subpoena after new emails suggest he lied under oath.