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More than a dozen state attorneys general signed a letter to media outlets such as the New York Times and Reuters, putting them "on notice" that providing material support to terrorist organizations such as Hamas is illegal, Fox News Digital exclusively learned. " (excerpt) The letter went on to argue that the issue of providing material support to terrorist organizations is not new, pointing to a watchdog group telling the AP five years ago that "one of its journalists worked for the Hamas-affiliated Quds TV." While The New York Times, the AGs continued, published an op-ed in 2020 penned by...

US forces in Iraq have come under attack again by Iranian-backed terrorists who launched rockets and clashed with soldiers at the base. According to local media, militants calling themselves the al-Dafirin attacked the base with bombs or missiles before exchanging fire with US forces in the base. US bases in the region have been targeted multiple times in the last 24 hours. The attacks come as a spokesman for Hamas's military wing - the al-Qassam Brigades - called for escalation on "all resistance fronts".

Democrats in Virginia on Tuesday night retained their majority in the state Senate — a blow to Republicans who were hoping to achieve total control of the state legislature and boost Gov. Glenn Youngkin in his final two years in office. The GOP also lost control of Virginia’s House of Delegates, with Democrats set to win at least 51 seats in the 100-member lower chamber.

The Rafah crossing to Egypt was opened for the first time on Wednesday since the devastating Hamas attack on October 7, allowing dozens of foreign passport holders and injured people trapped in Gaza to leave the Strip. While convoys of much-needed aid have been moving between Egypt and Gaza, people had not been allowed to cross until now. This development is expected to enable around 400 foreigners and dual nationals to depart from Gaza today.

U.S. forces in western Iraq were targeted in another drone attack early Tuesday morning, according to a report, marking the latest in a string of assaults on American troops in the Middle East as the Israel-Hamas war continues. Two armed drones were used against Iraq’s Ain al-Asad airbase, Reuters reported, citing a security source and a government source. The base hosts international troops that assist Iraq in defeating a terror group called the Daesh, or the Islamic State. No casualties or damage were reported.

A team of American military veterans with the nonprofit Project Dynamo is on the ground in Israel with plans to start rescuing Americans trapped in the warzone. Bryan Stern, a U.S. Army and Navy vet and international security consultant who formed the donor-funded rescue operation during the bungled American withdrawal from Afghanistan, said his case managers in the U.S. have “been awake for three days just fielding hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of requests from Americans who are stuck.” (excerpt) Stern expressed frustration with the Biden administration, which he believes should be taking the lead on getting Americans...

Charlotte Sena, the 9-year-old girl who went missing last weekend while on a bike ride at an upstate New York park, has been found, police announced Monday evening. "Charlotte Sena has been located and in good health. A suspect is in custody," New York State Police said in a statement. "This is still an active investigation." New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said at a Monday night news conference that the case started to break around 4:20 a.m. Monday morning, when a car pulled up to the mailbox at the family’s home and left what turned out to be a ransom...

A woman is dead after authorities say she was struck by a plane while mowing the lawn in Oklahoma last week. The woman, identified as 27-year-old Samantha Hayes, was on a lawn mower at the Broken Bow Airport in McCurtain County Friday afternoon, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. At the same time, a 1972 Bonanza A36 piloted by a 70-year-old man was coming in to land on the runway.

Americans around the country will see their phones light up this week following a nationwide test of emergency alert systems. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission are planning to test both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on Wednesday, October 4, at 2:20 p.m. Eastern. The test will be conducted in two parts, with one set to go to cell phones and the other to radio and TV stations. FEMA says the alert will have a unique tone and vibration to make the alert accessible to all recipients. Phones should receive the...

A rare and powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night and killed more than 2,000 people in the country's strongest quake in more than a century, according to Morocco's Interior Ministry. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the quake had 6.8-magnitude when it hit at 11:11 p.m. locally, with shaking that lasted several seconds. Morocco’s National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network measured it at 7 on the Richter scale.

* New Jersey's nursing homes are battling COVID-19 once again as new variants spread through the US. *One in every four facilities has reported an outbreak over the past week, according to state data. *The surge comes with both hospitalizations and deaths from the virus steadily rising.

Hussein Mousavian headlined STRATCOM's Deterrence Symposium U.S. military leaders earlier this month hosted a former top Iranian official who came under fire last year for bragging about the hardline regime’s efforts to assassinate American leaders. U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) tapped Hussein Mousavian, a former member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team who works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, to headline its 2023 Deterrence Symposium, a high-level powwow that brought the former Iranian official shoulder-to-shoulder with America’s top military brass. Mousavian’s appearance at the mid-August gathering, which came to light on Monday after STRATCOM posted...

On Wednesday, October 4 at 2:20 p.m. ET, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an emergency alert, accompanied by a notice along these lines: “This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the United States from 14:20 to 14:50 hours ET. This is only a test. No action is required by the public."

Everyone in his administration had to cringe when they heard this.

Tinker Air Force Base officials say 17 personnel have died this year. After being first reported by military.com, Tinker Installation Commander, Col. Abigail Ruscetta now confirms that Tinker Air Force Base has ‘experienced 17 deaths since January.’ According to Ruscetta, 11 uniformed and civilian Airmen died as a result of natural causes or accidents. The six remaining deaths are a result of other causes, some of which remain under investigation. Ruscetta says most of those who died were civilians

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Biden's answer to a question during his Weather Channel interview... "Is it the responsibility of the U.S. to protect migrants who might be fleeing extreme weather in their countries?" "Look, I think the United States should do everything we can to help people in desperate need who have no other means of help. And we've always done that. It is not our, it's just who we are. We're the United States of America. And the idea to begrudge the ability to do the, for example, One of the things we're doing is we're providing for changing the environment the the...

An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers. Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government, which security researchers call ScarCruft and Lazarus, secretly installed stealthy digital backdoors into systems at NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, a small town on the outskirts of Moscow.

I learned to swim at the U.S. Embassy swimming pool in Niamey, Niger, in 1976. Little did I know, that would lead to a career as a U.S. Navy diver. It wasn’t pool parties, picnics or watching movies at the Recreation Center, the only entertainment in a country that didn’t have television, that prompted my 25-year career as a special operations officer. It was the Marines from the Security Guard Detachment that stood watch at the embassy all day, every day. -excerpt- President Biden has abandoned his sixth U.S. embassy in less than three years. -excerpt- When there is a...