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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Saturday rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, the largest such recovery operation since the war began. At least 94 Palestinians including children were killed as heavy fighting continued around the sites in central Gaza, the Health Ministry said. Saturday’s hostage recovery operation brings the total of rescued captives to seven. Two men were rescued in February and a woman was rescued in the aftermath of the October attack. Israeli troops have recovered at least 16 bodies of hostages, according to the government. The latest rescue...

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Anti-Israel virtue signaling is usually reserved for know-nothing college students who may or may not be smart enough to realize how antisemitic their movement is. Sometimes, though, even whole countries find out how virtue signaling can backfire.Ireland, Norway, and Spain all decided to reward Hamas’s massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians and promise to continue to try and kill Israeli civilians by declaring that they would recognize “Palestine” as an independent state. As part of that process, Norway will be turning its diplomatic office in the West Bank into an embassy, and Ireland announced it would create an embassy as well.Spain,...

Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a biological female who identified as a transgender male at the time of her March 27, 2023 attack, wrote a three-page journal entry titled “My Imaginary Penis” that was included in the writings recovered from her vehicle. The Tennessee Star confirmed on Wednesday it obtained nearly four dozen pages of Hale’s writings from a source familiar with the Covenant investigation, including the March 11, 2023 entry discussing her desire to have a male anatomy. Hale’s diary or journal entry begins with the title “My Imaginary Penis” and includes a crude drawing. “My penis exists...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to enact tougher measures to deport criminals, terrorists, and terror supporters after a 25-year-old Afghan man committed a fatal stabbing last week. Currently, Germany does not deport people back to Afghanistan or Syria partly due to the harsh conditions and oppressive leadership in those countries. Afghanistan is run by the Taliban, a brutal Islamist militant organization with which Germany does not have diplomatic relations, while Syria is led by Bashar al-Assad, the Iran-backed leader who has been accused of mass war crimes during his country’s ongoing civil war. But Scholz is looking to restore...

A large part of Russia's mauled Black Sea Fleet was seen leaving the port of Novorossiysk this week, with satellite images suggesting the berths of the southern Russian port had been largely emptied despite the ever-present threat posed by Ukrainian maritime drones and missiles. The intentions of the vessels departing Novorossiysk—further from Ukrainian-controlled territory and considered safer than the Crimean ports repeatedly bombarded by Kyiv's forces—remain unclear. -snip- The Black Sea Fleet has been forced to largely abandon its traditional bases of choice on the occupied Crimean Peninsula because of numerous—and ever more sophisticated—Ukrainian long-range attacks. Despite having no conventional...

WASHINGTON, DC — In a little-publicized move, the Biden Administration recently recruited a former NASCAR pit crew to make lightning-fast changes to the President's diaper whenever he soils his pants. The scheme was first revealed after NASCAR crew leaders began to be bombarded with ads seeking a "Race Car Pit Crew That Can Also Change Diapers." The ads specified that the crew would have to be able to change a diaper within 3.4 seconds, or "fast enough that nobody can notice it." "We initially responded to the ads and were asked to come try out," said Brandon Keyes, rear changer...

The first thing to say about the Democratic lawfare campaign against former President Donald Trump is that it has been a smashing success. With help from a senior Biden Justice Department official and a Biden-donor judge, Manhattan Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg set out to convict the former president on 34 felony counts and ended up convicting the former president on 34 felony counts. By any measure, that is a triumph for a prosecutor — and his party. Now, though, comes the task of converting a win in court into a win in the presidential election, which has always been...

A predominantly Black neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, hoping to fend off violent crime, has turned to an armed group of citizens to patrol their streets by land and by air. The so-called “Self-Defense Brigade” — made up of about 40 legally armed citizens — are voluntarily patrolling the streets of Hartford’s North End wearing body cameras mostly on nights and weekends, according to the group’s founder, Cornell Lewis. When the armed volunteers are not on the streets, the group monitors video feeds from a dozen drones hovering over the neighborhood, and 75 home surveillance cameras in the neighborhood. “The Democratic...

SEATTLE (AP) — Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90. His son, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Greg Anders, confirmed the death to The Associated Press. “The family is devastated,” Greg Anders said. “He was a great pilot and we will miss him terribly.” William Anders has said the photo was his most significant...

A worrying new Wall Street Journal report confirms that Joe Biden’s stumbling, fumbling and bumbling have not only unnerved America — they’ve undermined faith in him across the corridors of power in DC. That’s among GOPers and Dems alike, though lefty journos are mid-meltdown that the Journal would dare to quote Republicans for the story, as if they don’t deserve to comment on the obvious decline of the most powerful man in the world. But national Democrats and their proxies are circling the wagons for good reason: Apparently, Geriatric Joe’s gotten so mentally feeble he needs the equivalent of cue...

We've been writing about Joe Biden's travails while he's been in Normandy, France for the 80th anniversary. One video has gotten a lot of attention on social media -- the one where while the Jill and the Macrons were standing next to him, he looked out of it as he was shaking Macron's hand. Then he tried to sit. It prompted a lot of questions about what he was doing because it was odd that while everyone was standing he was trying to sit and then he seemed to stop in the middle and then just stand there in a...

An officer of the elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit wounded in the hostage rescue operation in the central Gaza Strip has succumbed to his wounds, police say. He is named as Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora. Zamora was brought to a hospital in Israel in critical condition, where his death was declared a short while later.

Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark will reportedly not make the final 12-player USA women's basketball team for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, according to USA Today's Christine Brennan and The Athletic. Here is what the expected roster will look like, which will be led by Cheryl Reeve, Minnesota Lynx head coach and president of basketball operations. Kahleah Copper Chelsea Gray A'ja Wilson Breanna Stewart Diana Taurasi Brittney Griner Alyssa Thomas Napheesa Collier Jewell Loyd Kelsey Plum Jackie Young Sabrina Ionescu The final Olympic roster isn't only Reeves' call. A committee that includes three women's college basketball coaches — Dawn...

Daily Readings from the USCCBHe went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. Luke 2:51p> Over and over, the Scriptures reveal to us that the Blessed Virgin Mary “kept all these things in her heart.” What things? She continually pondered the great mystery of the life of her Son as His sacred life unfolded before her eyes. A mother’s love is strong. Many times, a mother is more aware of the details of her child’s life than even the child itself. She is attentive, consoling,...

Late News from Gen. Grant--An Attack on Burnside Repulsed--Exchange of Flags of Truce in Reference to the Killed and Wounded--Grant Besieging Lee in his Lines. [OFFICIAL.] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, June 7 -- 10:15 P.M. Major-Gen. Dix: Dispatches from headquarters, Army of the Potomac, dated 9 o'clock this morning, have been received. An assault was made on BURNSIDE about midnight, and successfully repulsed. In the preceding afternoon, a hundred picked men of the enemy made a rush to find out what was the meaning of HANCOCK's advancing siege lines. Nine of the party were captured, and the rest killed or driven...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (6/8/24)[Prayer]The Names and Titles of God (The Just One) Acts 7:52King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

Now law is the $750 million in tax increases to fund Illinois’ largest spending plan in state history. But so is a measure increasing the state’s debt by $8 billion while giving schools more taxing authority. Pritzker signed the $53.1 billion budget Wednesday. Friday, he signed the tax measure that includes capping the credit businesses can get for claiming net operating losses and capping the discount retailers get for collecting and remitting sales taxes. Hours later, Pritzker defended another tax increase, the tiered tax on sports betting companies. “In fact, if you look at what we did, really our focus...

For much of the last three years of legislative sessions, hard-line conservative state House members have clashed with Republicans on whether they’re conservative enough. Now those clashes will play out at the ballot box. More than 30 seats represent the battlefield for the Republican Caucus versus hard-line conservative Freedom Caucus in Tuesday’s legislative primary elections. The outcomes of these primary races may influence how conservative the House gets, how well the chamber functions, and whether hard-line members gain or lose influence. ecause most state Legislative districts are drawn in favor of one party over another, the winners of primary races...

There will be changes in the Montana Legislature’s Republican caucus next year, as six incumbent lawmakers lost in this week’s primary elections. In total, there were 59 legislative primaries with multiple candidates: 44 on the Republican side and 15 on the Democratic side. Five sitting representatives and one senator, all Republicans, lost their bids for another nomination. Several more House members were defeated while campaigning to move up to the Senate.