The boom of Israeli defenses knocking down missiles from Gaza echo in the sky above a sterile glass police building near Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, where terrified people are desperate to find out anything about their missing loved ones. They plead for information about friends and family who disappeared in …
Read More »RFK Jr.'s Family Bashes Him After Third Party Announcement
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in Philadelphia on Monday that he will launch an independent, third-party run for the presidency, abandoning his previous bid to topple President Joe Biden asthe Democratic nominee. “I’m here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States,” he said to cheers …
Read More »Trolls Push Video Game Clips as Real Gaza Conflict Footage — and It's Working
Trolls, clout-chasers, and the merely clueless are flooding social media with clips from a military video game, passing them off as footage of the unfolding conflict in Gaza. The fake videos come as misinformation about the conflict overflows on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Following Saturday’s large-scale attack …
Read More »Trump and MAGA Allies Push Conspiracy Theory About Hamas Crossing Southern Border
Responding to an eruption of deadly violence between Hamas militants and Israeli Defense Forces that threatens to claim many more lives in the days ahead, Donald Trump and far-right allies are using the crisis to push a familiar anti-immigration narrative back home. According to MAGA world, Hamas won’t stop at …
Read More »'I Felt Hunted': Israeli Rave Fan Describes Fleeing Massacre
Amir Ben Natan, 37, is a stock trader from Herzliya who attended the psytrance Universo Paralello rave – titled Supernova Sukkot – near the Gaza Strip on the morning of October 7, 2023. He was separated from his friends as missiles and bullets rained down and hundreds of festivalgoers were …
Read More »Extreme Heat, Palm Trees and Crocodiles in Wyoming and the Craziest Climate Crisis Theory of Them All
After having witnessed the warmest summer on record, many are understandably wondering just how hot it could get? Perhaps there are some clues in Earth’s past. If we’re looking for a paleo-analog for the deadly heat we might face if we continue to warm our planet through fossil fuel burning …
Read More »Blinken: U.S. Attempting to Verify Reports of Several Americans Killed, Missing in Israel
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. is “working to verify” reports that “several Americans were killed” and others were taken hostage in Israel over the weekend. “We have reports that several Americans were killed. We’re working overtime to verify that. At the same time, there are reports …
Read More »Families Cry Out After Israeli Rave Attack: 'Nobody Is Helping Us'
An outdoor music festival near the Gaza-Israel border turned into a battlefield as militants opened fire on hundreds of attendees. Around 260 bodies were found at the site, according to Israeli rescue service Zaka. And now, families are begging for help to find their missing loved ones. “We didn’t even …
Read More »American Hostages Captured in Assault, Israeli Ambassadors Say
Americans have been captured and are being held hostage by Hamas amid the militant group’s attack on Israel that began Saturday, two Israeli ambassadors said, although the number of American hostages remains unconfirmed. Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan said that “dozens” of Americans are being held in Gaza amid a …
Read More »Nancy Mace Wants Jim Jordan as Speaker, Claims Ignorance About Allegations He Ignored Abuse
Rep. Nancy Mace announced she plans to support Rep. Jim Jordan to replace ousted House speaker Kevin McCarthy, whom she voted to remove from office last week. When pressed about the allegations that Jordan ignored sexual assaults by a team doctor while he was a wrestling coach at Ohio State …
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