Two Americans were "severely" beaten Thursday and Friday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and outrage poured in as U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee remained silent on the matter. Heidi Levine, a veteran journalist and photographer for The Washington Post, was "severely" beaten Friday, the Post reported, while "wearing a protective vest clearly marked PRESS on front and back." She was "kicked repeatedly" after being knocked to the ground, and "stripped of her cameras and phone" by Israeli settlers. "I just got back actually two days ago from three weeks in Ukraine," Levine said from a hospital bed, video shared by independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel showed. "I've been covering this conflict here for over three decades, and this is the second time that I've been brutally attacked " 15 years ago I was also attacked in front of the [Israeli] army." read more
Reuters reported Thursday that the order to limit Starshield, the military-grade version of SpaceX's Starlink service that Ukrainian troops use for drone operations and battlefield communications, came from inside the White House, according to two U.S. officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. read more
Two women this week sued former GOP Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and two others " including a former state legislator " in federal court and accused the men of engaging in an alleged sex trafficking scheme during a time when Gaetz was still in Congress. The lawsuit, which seeks damages from Gaetz and other defendants, was filed in Orlando by two women who were in their early 20s when they first met Gaetz. The women are not named in the lawsuit. The details mirror allegations that were at the center of a House Ethics Committee probe that found Gaetz had sex with a minor, solicited prostitutes and used illegal drugs.
In a manifesto, Alexandros Paporakis identified as "a sociopathic white supremacist Neo Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day," according to court records. Prosecutors say Paporakis, 19, spent two years planning a mass shooting and had been targeting a Hindu worship center in Aurora for two months. But Sunday, when the day came to carry out the attack, Paporakis' AR-style rifle jammed as Paporakis tried to shoot a man from a car, prosecutors said in a proffer. Paporakis sent messages to a co-worker at a Taco Bell in Arlington Heights, saying the man was "certainly saved by his God today," prosecutors said. That co-worker and another employee called 911, and Paporakis was found in the parking lot of a Palatine apartment complex, prosecutors said. A search of Paporakis' apartment uncovered a rifle, bullet magazines, 300 rounds of ammunition and a gas can, as well as Nazi ephemera, they said.
Six people are dead following a plane crash Tuesday night near Reedsburg, Wisconsin, according to a statement from the Sauk County Sheriff's Office. read more
Youngest victim in Oregon school shooting ID'd as 5-year-old kindergartener Rhoam Summer
Get over it!
~pedo 47~