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According to a Reuters report, Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate after accusing Israel of detonating pagers in a series of blasts that killed at least 11 people and wounded 2,750, including Hezbollah fighters and Iran’s envoy to Lebanon. The pagers, used as a low-tech communication method by Hezbollah, exploded in various Hezbollah strongholds in southern…
Two Springfield elementary schools, Simon Kenton and Kenwood, were evacuated Monday due to unspecified threats, according to the Springfield City School District as reported by The Columbus Dispatch. Students were safely transferred to an alternate location for dismissal. These incidents follow a pattern, as six schools in the district have faced similar threats in the…
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Jibbain on July 11, 2024. Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian militant group Hamas, have exchanged near daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted on October 7, stoking fears of an escalation into all-out war. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP
A senior Biden adviser, Amos Hochstein, cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday against initiating a wider war against Lebanon, three sources familiar with the meetings told Axios. Hochstein’s message came as the Israeli military and security cabinet have been ramping up preparations for a war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which they hope would…
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald White says Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt on former President Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course, did not have line of sight on the former president and did not fire his weapon after a Secret Service agent spotted his rifle barrel poking…
A picture is emerging of the suspect who officials say pointed a high-powered rifle through the fence line of a Florida golf course where former President Donald Trump was golfing Sunday afternoon. The FBI and U.S. Secret Service are investigating the incident, which the FBI said “appears to be an attempted assassination of former President…
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday increasing the number of soldiers in the Russian military by 180,000, bringing the total number of active servicemen to 1.5 million for this upcoming winter. The decree, which takes effect Dec. 1, sets the overall number of military personnel within Russia’s army at 2,389,139, including 1.5 million servicemen. Continue Reading
On Thursday, Ukrainian combat engineers breached Russian defenses along the border near the village of Novyi Put, around 20 miles west of the 400-square-mile Ukrainian salient in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. What at first appeared to be a brief and shallow Ukrainian assault in fact developed into something far more dangerous to Russian control over Kursk. Ukrainian armored trucks swiftly…
China has released David Lin, who has been imprisoned since 2006 on fraud charges, that the US believes were unjust. David’s daughter, Alice Lin, says that she was notified of her father’s release over the weekend that he’d be coming home the following day. “We’re overwhelmed with joy, there’s so much to make up for,”…
In a recent report by ProPublica, it is revealed that at least two women in Georgia have died due to their inability to access legal abortions and timely medical care. The report highlights the tragic case of Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old medical assistant who died after a severe infection was left untreated due to…
