Year: 2024

Some migrants have mixed feelings over their situation in New York City. On Monday, the New York Times released a report on some of the 55,000 migrants who are still sheltering in New York City. It focused specifically on people living in hotels, reconverted office buildings and tent dormitories constructed at Floyd Bennett Field. At…

TEL AVIV – Amid negotiations to forge a hostages-for-cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and as the truce with Hezbollah in Lebanon mostly holds, Jerusalem has an opportunity to direct additional military resources to cut Yemen’s Houthi leadership down to size, according to former Israeli officials. “Israel has to accelerate and expand attacks…

Gaius Octavius was born in 63 B.C. in Rome. When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for subverting the Roman Republic, the young Octavian, only 18 at the time, became his heir. And though Julius is remembered as a great general and the man who set in motion Rome’s transition from Republic to…

Going into 2024, Evan Gershkovich’s future looked anything but certain. All the Wall Street Journal reporter and his allies saw was indefinite detention at the mercy of a repressive regime using him as a high-stakes bargaining chip. But a year later, Gershkovich is home with his family and even reporting again. The nightmarish ordeal, which…

A Texas man has been accused of killing his wife, who was pregnant at the time of her death, while their other young children were reportedly home.  Authorities say Lee Mongerson Gilley, 38, allegedly strangled his wife, 38-year-old Christa Bauer Gilley, to death at their home in Houston on Oct. 7, killing both her and…

While the world can often feel like a discouraging place, there are plenty of people – both those who have sworn to protect and serve, as well as regular citizens – who are willing to go above and beyond for others.  Here are some examples of law enforcement officers and good Samaritans taking heroic action…

Donald Trump says it is “an absolute necessity” for our country to own Greenland. He says the U.S. should take back the Panama Canal unless the “ridiculous” shipping fees are lowered. He threatened that any Republican who opposed him on the bill to avoid a government shutdown can and should be primaried. The president-elect is…

The U.S. military conducted an airstrike on Monday in Syria, where they killed a pair of ISIS operatives and destroyed a truckload of weapons, according to U.S. Central Command. A precision airstrike in the Dayr az Zawr Province, which was formerly controlled by the Syrian regime and Russians, killed two ISIS operatives and wounded another,…

Green Bay Packers fans could have gotten a jump start on wrapping Christmas gifts for their loved ones as their team dominated the New Orleans Saints on Monday night, 34-0. The Saints’ defense had no answer for Packers running back Josh Jacobs and as they inched closer to the red zone on each drive, they…

Police in California released a video of a trio of alleged shoplifters who were shocked to find out that the penalty for their crime had recently changed.  In the viral surveillance video shared by the Seal Beach Police Department on Sunday, three women can be seen walking into an Ulta Beauty store, browsing the shelves,…