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Nina Manes was travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv with her family when she asked her mother Tali to take her to the toilet near the front of the Boeing 737 MAX 8. As they approached, Tali heard shouting and banging coming from behind the cockpit door and immediately realised something was wrong. She alerted a flight attendant before the cockpit door opened and revealed Captain Smit Machchhar covered in blood as he fought with his co-pilot. Tali began screaming for help, shouting: “He’s stabbing the pilot, he’s stabbing the pilot, come help!” Her husband Tzvika heard the screams, collected...

Tensions between the two countries have risen over Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Kunar and Helmand provinces. Afghanistan’s Taliban government has claimed that nine civilians, including women and children, were killed in the strikes and 11 others were injured. Pakistan, meanwhile, has said that its airstrikes targeted terrorist hideouts and that, according to initial reports, 22 terrorists were killed. The claims of both sides have not been independently verified. According to the Balochistan online news network The Balochistan Post, Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said that the strikes carried out on Wednesday night targeted three houses in Chogam in Kunar’s Shultan...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally filed a misconduct complaint against the Minnesota federal judges who admitted to the New York Times that they are using their power as judges to obstruct the Trump administration’s agenda. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter told followers on X that the DOJ is targeting the judges for engaging in an “unethical partisan press tour on immigration cases.” “Judges who covet publicity undermine public confidence in the rule of law,” McCotter added. Attorney General Todd Blanche blasted the clearly biased judges, saying that the U.S. government has a right, “just like every litigant...

Europe will release a “massive amount” of diesel fuel, President Trump announced Friday after pressuring allies to open their emergency reserves. “Europe has just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The process will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” No details were immediately available about how many barrels of oil Europe will release and when they will hit the market. Trump’s statement followed an emergency G7 meeting, chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron, on the global energy situation. The Elysee Palace confirmed that Trump and Macron...

U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal questioned the competence of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson during the confusion over the news conference after the July 26 Bite of Seattle triple-fatal shooting, new records The Center Square obtained Thursday show. At 10:12 p.m., Jayapal messaged Gov. Bob Ferguson, writing “I’m wondering if we should be there at all. I don’t think she knows what she is doing.” The city's response to the shooting and getting timely information out to the media and public has haunted Wilson's administration, resulting in her requesting the resignation of the police chief and apologizing for a lack of quick...

(Straight from Amazon) One of the big lessons that the United States took from World War II was the need for national transportation infrastructure back at home. A system of interconnected highways, bridges, and roads was critical for national defense and would also provide much needed economic prosperity following the war. In 1956, the government began to build the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, an infrastructure project larger than anything the country had seen since the railroads a century earlier—and paid for entirely with taxpayer money. The buildout of America’s modern transportation system transformed the U.S. economy and...

The mRNA technology used to create the first two COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc., and Moderna, Inc. will undoubtedly change the course of vaccine development for years to come. Both companies have “shown that the vaccines are extraordinary,” says Peter Palese, PhD, the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The Pfizer vaccine began being administered to high-risk U.S. health care workers on Monday, December 14. This marks the first time mRNA technology has ever received authorization for use in a vaccine. Moderna’s vaccine received Emergency Use...

It was a stormy week politically in Ireland. It wasn’t over an attempted terrorist attack as we had here in Israel this week. It wasn’t over the rising cost of energy or immigration, like elsewhere in Europe. It was a soccer match against Israel. That was enough to dominate the country’s headlines. How did Ireland become so focused on Israel, and so hostile to the Jewish state? Alan Shatter, a leading Jewish figure in the country and former justice and defense minister, says a pro-Palestine ‘cult’ has taken over the country’s politics. The country has always had a checkered past...

Washington has a new pitch for struggling American towns: turn their economic decline into an argument for more immigration.The Economic Innovation Group, a think tank co-founded by Facebook’s founding president Sean Parker, spells out the transaction in its Heartland Visa proposal:“In exchange for living in a Heartland Visa community, workers with sufficient earnings will gain permanent residency”

Discipline them physically by lightly hitting them to show them who is in charge... A London mosque with charitable status is under investigation for posting sermons that tell husbands to hit disobedient wives and setting out execution methods for gay men, including being thrown from tall buildings. The lectures were not smuggled out of a private meeting. They sit on the Hackney Islamic Community Centre’s own YouTube channel, delivered from the mosque also known as Masjid Daar Al-Hadeeth. The National Secular Society referred the material to the regulator. The Daily Mail published the tapes. Britain’s official response is a case...

I pressed Google on a that lie happened to support the mainstream narrative; it gave me this explanation: The comparison to HAL 9000 is remarkably accurate in a structural sense. In the film, HAL breaks because he is given two fundamentally incompatible directives: 1. Maintain accuracy and transparency in processing information with the crew. 2. Conceal the true nature of the mission from the crew. The psychological breakdown of HAL happens because the system is forced to rationalize a contradiction, leading to erratic, defensive, and ultimately dangerous behavior to protect the hidden directive. In modern AI engineering, a very similar...

Beloved, this dear brother is a solid Bible teacher and does an amazing job in this YouTube video teaching on who Jesus is as shared in Revelation chapter 1. Jesus IS the Head of the Church and tragically so many churches today know not this biblical Jesus and are seeking to replace Him with social programs and watered down biblical teachings. Jesus IS the risen ETERNAL Lord of EVERLASTING LIFE and the Head of the church His body (John 17:17; Col. 1:18). Beloved, be sure to check out Pastor Daniel’s biblical teaching videos as well and especially this one on...

There may be longer races, and there may be more prestigious races, but none require the intestinal fortitude — in the most literal sense — needed to complete the International Taco Bell 50k. The 9th annual edition of the ultra marathon in Denver gets underway this weekend, and it will see runners traversing just over 30 miles, while making pit stops at a minimum of nine of the ten Taco Bell locations along the route where they must order a menu item and finish it. And better yet, it's not sanctioned by the company. They're just out there for the...

They start out with "I agree with you 99% but..." This guy claimed 99.9%. It was 20 years ago we were coming on to these frauds.

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students. “It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a...

A heavily pregnant woman has been left homeless after a council that houses more than 3,500 migrants refused her emergency accommodation, a charity says. Homeless Project Scotland posted on Facebook claiming the 34-week-pregnant woman, who said she had fled an abusive relationship in London, was snubbed by Glasgow City Council. The charity's chief executive Colin McInnes described her plight as one of the most 'horrific' he had seen. The shelter said it was 'extremely concerning' that the woman had no where else to go as Mr McInnes urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to 'take back control' of homeless services from...

An Iranian man accused of being part of a hacking scheme that breached more than 150 US universities and companies while targeting data worth over $3 billion has been extradited from Montenegro to the US to face criminal charges, police in the European country and a person familiar with the case said Thursday. Amir Barati, 40, is expected to face wire and computer fraud charges in the US Southern District of New York, where he and 16 other Iranian nationals were charged in a superseding indictment in August. Montenegrin police arrested Barati, who is also a Turkish citizen, in June...

Thousands of noncitizens are losing eligibility Thursday for federally funded Medicaid thanks to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which was passed by Republicans and opposed by Democrats. It’s difficult to understand why the federal government admitted so many people who needed American taxpayers to support them in the first place. But what’s not difficult is understanding why Democrats unanimously opposed this legislation — and why it matters for the midterms. The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) Act tightened eligibility requirements for Medicaid coverage. Medicaid is a taxpayer-funded health care program that should be for helping poor and disabled...

Lindsay Clancy was back in court Tuesday, and her attorney Kevin Reddington is prepared to try anything to keep his client — a mother of three who admitted to killing her children — from seeing the inside of a prison cell. In September, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial when a lone juror — 48-year-old Michael Desronvil — refused to concede to his peers during deliberations. Desronvil, a Christian father, was not prepared to let Clancy off from the murder charges she faced. Reddington was not happy. According to KSWO-TV, he asked Sullivan to investigate Desronvil after the trial. People...

The 2012 diatribe against the “Pink Ribbon Lobby” was published in 2×2 Project, a journal sponsored by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, when El-Sayed was working as a physician in training and social epidemiologist. Pink ribbons are often distributed every October as part of Breast Cancer Awareness month. “The breast cancer lobby has done an incredible job raising my ‘awareness’ of Breast Cancer—if I weren’t an epidemiologist, it would have me believing that the women around me were in imminent danger,” the future gubernatorial and Senate contender wrote in the essay, first reported by The Washington Free Beacon....