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A man who survived the Bondi Beach attack has described the moment his best friend died a hero while trying to stop the alleged gunmen. Reuven Morrison, who serves as an assistant at Bondi's Wellington Street synagogue, put himself in harm's way after meeting his friend Vladimir at the Hannukah event at Bondi Beach on Sunday. An emotional Vladimir, who says he would have been caught up in the gunfire if he hadn't needed to find parking, said of the shooting: 'I saw everything and now my best friend is dead. He died in front of me.' Vladimir, who is...

Sen. John Fetterman broke with Democrats on Sunday, siding with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham as he accused members of his party of embracing antisemitic rhetoric after a deadly terror attack during a Hanukkah celebration in Australia over the weekend. Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures," Fetterman said he agreed "with virtually everything" Graham warned about earlier in the program. Graham had raised concerns about empowering Hamas by moving toward Palestinian statehood. "It’s an absolute betrayal for Israel and for the worldwide Jewish community," said Fetterman. "Whether it's France or Australia or any of these nations, our Western allies now calling for...

A father and son have been identified as the shooters behind the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach that has left at least 16 people dead. Naveed Akram, 24, and Sajid Akram, 50, opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah event shortly before 7pm on Sunday. The 50-year-old was shot and killed by police, while the 24-year-old was shot before being taken into custody in a critical condition. The death toll on Monday morning has risen to 16, including a girl, 10, and man, 40, who both died in hospital. NSW Police say the dead range in age from 10 to 87...

There’s a quote, attributed to the intellectual Eric Hoffer, that describes much of what happens in Washington and the activist world: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Now the Justice Department has given us new evidence that Black Lives Matter, the cause that was so prominent in 2020, in what was sometimes called the great “racial reckoning,” actually began as a racket and went downhill from there.Do you remember when BLM was raising money that it said would be used to post bail for protesters unjustly arrested in demonstrations over...

Most establishment Democrats believe the party’s 2028 nominee needs to tack to the center, especially on social issues, to maximize the party’s chance to win. That looks sound on paper, but implementing it faces a serious obstacle: the party’s primary voters.Democratic Party primary voters are significantly more progressive and left-leaning than they were even in 2008. That fact was driven home in two high-profile mayoral races, in New York City and Seattle, where little-known progressive challengers easily defeated well-known establishment figures.Those contests are especially significant when one applies those results to the method by which Democrats traditionally apportion convention delegates....

A person detained in connection with a shooting at Brown University is reportedly from Wisconsin and not a student, having traveled to the area to commit the shooting that left two dead and at least nine wounded Saturday night. Authorities believe the individual traveled from Wisconsin to Rhode Island to carry out the shooting, according to CNN sources. The investigation remains ongoing. The person of interest was in custody Sunday after a shooting during final exams at Brown. The attack Saturday afternoon set off hours of chaos across the Ivy League campus and surrounding Providence neighborhoods as hundreds of officers...

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The hours-long suspension of CME Group's global futures trading platform on November 28 was not prompted by a cooling failure at a data center, as officially maintained, but by huge silver purchase orders from Chinese buyers, London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program. The Chinese orders, Maguire says, broke the silver price suppression scheme and required official intervention to avoid a declaration of force majeure on the New York Commodities Exchange and an explosion of metals derivatives internationally, an outcome no one in authority...

Could someone explain to me, like I am 8, why we need data centers, centralized processing, and AI ? Why? Who decided?

The person of interest taken into custody Sunday in connection to the deadly mass shooting at Brown University has been identified as Benjamin Erickson, law-enforcement sources told The Post. Erickson, 24, was nabbed at a local hotel room after a gunman opened fire at the Ivy League institution’s Providence, RI, campus during a final-exam study session Saturday. The shooter was armed with a handgun and fired more than 40 .9mm rounds during the chaos, law-enforcement officials said.

In Slovenia, the ancient Pust festival happens each year before Easter to mark the end of winter. Locals wear masks and costumes to chase away winter and celebrate the coming of spring. Images of the festival captured by photographer Ciril Jazbec offer a glimpse into a ritual that has great significance for the community. The Little-Known Ancient Festival to Chase Away Winter | 3:10 BBC Global | 717K subscribers | 95,245 views | March 5, 2025

Baosberg has planned contempt hearings over the administration's response to his orders, despite the Supreme Court previously shutting down his initial stays. The Department of Justice on Friday asked a federal appeals court to remove U.S. District Judge James Boasberg from an ongoing case over the administrations invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Venezuelan gangs. Baosberg has planned contempt hearings over the administration's response to his orders, despite the Supreme Court previously shutting down his initial stays. The DOJ made its request to remove him in a filing to the Court of Appeals for the D.C....

New South Wales Police say 15 people, including a child, were killed in a shooting at Bondi Beach on Saturday - their ages range from 10 to 87 The attack happened while an event was being held to mark the start of Hanukkah - police say they're treating it as a terror incident The two gunmen were father and son, police say. The 50-year-old man also died at the scene while the 24-year-old remains in hospital in critical condition Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls the attack "an act of pure evil" that "deliberately targeted" the Jewish community One video gives...

Reports and eyewitness accounts circulating since the Brown shooting claim the attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire. Police have not publicly confirmed the words, and most major outlets are using vague language like “he shouted something.” If authorities have audio, bodycam, or corroborated witness statements, they should release or formally clarify what was said—because it directly bears on motive and public safety. They have a suspect and lord knows how much video footage from CCTV but the only thing they shared is a grainy, short clip of the killer from the back. The shooting occurred in the classroom of...

What a difference a year makes. After devastating defeats in 2024, Democrats are closing out 2025 with wind in their sails. They won double-digit victories in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races. And last week they got a stronger-than-expected showing in a Tennessee special election. Republicans and Democrats now talk openly of a likely tsunami of wins for Democrats in the 2026 midterms. If true, Democrats better get a surfboard and make plans to ride that big wave into the 2028 presidential election.That means creating their own version of the Republicans’ Project 2025.They will need Project 2027 for their...

President Herzog and Foreign Minister Saar say government ignored the rise of Islamist extremism and antisemitismAt least 12 dead in Australia, including suspected shooter, after Hanukkah event shooting Yael Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, reacted to the shooting that killed at least 12 people during an attack on a Hanukkah event in Australia. Israeli officials were quick to lay blame for the deadly shooting in Sydney, Australia, at the feet of the nation's government on Sunday, saying it had ignored "countless warning signs" of antisemitism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu read aloud at a government...

Explanation: What would it be like to fly over the largest moon in the Solar System? In 2021, the robotic Juno spacecraft flew past Jupiter's huge moon Ganymede and took images that have been digitally constructed into a detailed flyby. As the featured video begins, Juno swoops over the two-toned surface of the 2,000-km wide moon, revealing an icy alien landscape filled with grooves and craters. The grooves are likely caused by shifting surface plates, while the craters are caused by violent impacts. Continuing on in its orbit, Juno then performed its 34th close pass over Jupiter's clouds. The digitally-constructed...

WORLD — Fake news media across the globe have reported that a mass shooting occurred in Australia, which is literally impossible because guns are illegal there. Despite the patent absurdity of criminals using guns, which are banned, several major news stations in the United States repeated the obviously fictional story, "It's embarrassing how many news outlets were duped by this clearly fake story," said misinformation expert Harold Cannon. "It would have taken thirty seconds for these so-called news stations to simply Google gun laws in Australia, and they would have known the story couldn't be true. You simply can't have...

The man arrested in connection to the deadly shooting at Brown University drove from Wisconsin to Rhode Island with a laser-equipped firearm, according to law enforcement. Aged in his 20s, the unidentified gunman killed two Ivy League students and injured several more before FBI agents snared him at the Hampton Inn hotel in Coventry. Sources told CNN he drove from Wisconsin to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island - a journey which would have taken around 17 hours. The person of interest also had two guns in his possession at the hotel and one of them had laser sight, sources...

U.S. President Donald Trump expressed uncertainty about whether Republicans would keep control of the House of Representatives in next year's midterm elections because some of his economic policies have yet to take full effect, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Trump, in an interview conducted on Friday, told the Journal, "I can’t tell you. I don’t know when all of this money is going to kick in," when asked about the whether Republicans would lose the House in November. The White House did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment. The president has argued that his economic policies,...