Masked Israeli settlers attacked and injured a Palestinian woman and members of an NBC News team reporting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday. Three members of an NBC team were interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah and her family in the Palestinian town of Jalud, near Nablus, when the attack occurred. Abdullah said they had been driven out of their home by Israeli settlers, and the team was walking down a hill toward the house. A gray car with Israeli license plates then drove in reverse up the hill toward them, video of the incident shows. A masked man in a blue tracksuit, holding a stick, was leaning out of the rear passenger window as the vehicle approached. When the car stopped, at least four men in dark clothes and with their faces covered leaped out, hitting Abdullah and the crew with sticks and throwing rocks at them.
Donald Trump's war on Iran has driven the US military into a severe financial crisis, with the US navy forced to transfer money from its payroll and other sources to cover the costs of combat, according to documents seen by the Guardian, and interviews with navy officials, contractors and defense analysts. The US-Israeli operation, which has depleted US munitions stockpiles and prompted retaliatory Iranian strikes that have wrecked strategic bases across the Middle East, is piling pressure on budgets across the military. One Pentagon memo about navy funding seen by the Guardian warns that there are "shortfalls in payroll" accounts due to the department "raiding" them to fund combat operations.
The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing " including 90 Americans " might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Trump administration, former USAID disaster-response chief Jeremy Konyndyk suggested on Saturday. A series of catastrophic flash floods hit Nepal near its border with China on Wednesday causing unprecedented destruction. The event is believed to have been caused by a glacier collapse in the Himalayas. Read more
The surging Democratic left is taking its ideology onto America's preeminent conservative network, and at times showing some growing pains.
The Trump administration is eyeing a land swap that would give part of Yosemite National Park to a private company, according to a document submitted to Congress.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to spend up to $2 million on robot dogs, according to a federal procurement notice.
The Boston Dynamic SPOT Robots will help "support public safety and law enforcement operations by providing a remotely operated robotic capability for inspection, situational awareness, and hazard assessment in environments that may pose risks to personnel," according to the notice.
"This downward spiral is antithetical to our Constitution that recognizes our right to speak freely," a San Francisco federal judge wrote in a case by international students who had their visas threatened.
Several baby goats at a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina were infected with rabies, and authorities are asking anyone who had contact with the animals to reach out to health officials. Rabies can be deadly if people don't receive treatment before symptoms begin. Residents in western North Carolina may have had contact with the infected goats from Farm Adventures at the mobile petting zoo's location in Harmony or at off-site events between July 28 and August 27, local officials said in a statement. Farm Adventures is based in Iredell County and books events in surrounding communities, and officials say the owner has been cooperating with the investigation. Read more
Fallout continued Thursday for content creator and apparel brand Good Good Golf over an ad that was supposed to promote a new Callaway driver but ended up being criticized for portraying violence against women. Good Good announced it would no longer be the title sponsor of a new PGA Tour event in Austin, Texas, in the fall, saying in a statement that the decision came "after thoughtful discussions with the PGA Tour and careful reflection." The controversial ad for the Good Good Callaway Quantum Driver depicted a man, played by Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark, shoving a woman to the ground as she reaches for one of his golf clubs. "Do not touch my new driver," he says menacingly as he stands over her. The ad was posted on Friday and deleted hours later. Read more
Wyoming's attorney general is investigating how two U.S. Department of Justice officials monitored poll workers and observed voters in the state's most populous county during the Aug. 18 primary, a spokesperson for Republican Gov. Mark Gordon said Friday.
Gordon called the monitors' behavior "a bit aggressive" and "irregular" in an otherwise routine meeting to confirm the election results in the mostly rural and Republican state.
"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport, also known as BNA, announced their intent to name BNA in honor of Dolly Parton, creating a lasting tribute to her indelible legacy and the generations of people she inspired across Tennessee and around the world."
Dolly Parton was a genuine humanitarian
In a recent fundraising email, Mike Rogers (R-MI) mislead supporters when he suggested that he had played an active role in the killing of Osama bin Laden on 1 May 2011: "I saw the dead body of Osama bin Laden with my own eyes, knowing that together, we had delivered justice for America." House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R) was relaxing comfortably at home when D/CIA Leon Panetta telephoned this fabulist that USN SEALs killed UBL in Abbottabad Pakistan, an act of vengeance the Archbishop of Canterbury decried as a miscarriage of justice.
Was the US Marshal Service (USMS) in SDNY ready to receive international fugitive Osama Bin Laden for his mandatory appearance before a USDJ in Manhattan Federal Court on 1 May 2011?
Laura Loomer, the Maga influencer who first reported Mr Yiannopoulos to Homeland Security, said: "For years, I have been warning the American people and the federal government that Milo Yiannopoulos is an illegal alien. "It should shock the American people that disgraced former Congresswoman Marjorie Traitor Greene once had this alleged illegal alien living in her home and working for her in her congressional office. It's a great day for America and our immigration system that a Brit who excused paedophilia is being deported from America."
Senators are renewing calls for anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy to step down or be ousted -- and at least one is calling for a criminal investigation -- amid the release of documents they say prove Kennedy lied to them during his confirmation hearings last year. "This is a pattern, not a slip," Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) said in a statement. "RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate, lied to the American people, and jeopardized the health of children to advance his anti-vaccine agenda."
xAI has now been accused of training Grok on child sex abuse materials (CSAM), as regulators and courts continue to probe how far the problem goes, and some Grok users have been arrested. In a complaint filed on Wednesday, a plaintiff known as Jane Doe explained that she was preschool-age in the early 2000s when adult men repeatedly raped her to create CSAM to sell to pedophiles online. Since then, Doe's images have been hashed by groups like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (CCCP). For her safety, Doe has opted to receive alerts from the US Department of Justice Victim Notification System any time she may be a victim in a new criminal investigation. Although she has received countless alerts, she was shocked when the CCCP notified her that it had identified AI-generated CSAM on xAI that depicted her.
Donald Trump unleashed a vicious attack Friday on New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman over her story, bylined by 3 other reporters, about his plans not to attend the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 because they wouldn't let him give a speech.
