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'Backing Settler Terrorists Is Its Policy': IDF Ignored Distress Calls Before Attack on European Diplomats

The Israeli military reportedly ignored repeated distress calls before masked settlers attacked a group of European diplomats with metal bars during a visit to the illegally occupied West Bank this past weekend, sparking international outrage. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that "despite the warnings, security forces were not sent to the area to…

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Ilhan Omar Is the Right Kind of American. Trump Is the Wrong Kind.On October 15, 1969, Somali President Abdurashid Ali Shermarke was slain by an assassin’s bullet. Unrest had prevailed in the country ever since … well, in many ways, ever since independence was won in 1960, but particularly over the previous couple years. Then as now, Somalia didn’t register much in most Americans’ minds, but the editors of The New York…

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Hegseth’s future as Pentagon chief at center of lame-duck defense battleSenate Democrats are quietly floating the ouster of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after the Nov. 3 election as the political price for cooperation on key defense-related issues in the post-election lame duck session, and they may have some GOP support to shake-up the Pentagon’s leadership, according to Senate sources. The Defense Department has set...

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A Guide to Trump’s Body PartsThe forthcoming midterm elections are a referendum on President Donald Trump’s policies, not his health. But when those policies include renaming the Atlantic “Trump Ocean,” or affecting indifference about whether Iran might “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego, or prohibiting nominees for executive branch positions from saying out loud, “Joe Biden won…

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Texas man seeks to have armed robbery conviction tossed over no-warrant Flock camera searchDefense lawyers asked a federal appeals court to void the conviction, arguing the cameras give police more power than the Constitution allows.

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The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong?Documents obtained by The Intercept show the military is trying to deploy autonomous AI agents to hack its adversaries. The post The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong? appeared first on The Intercept .

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‘He has time to tweet’: Hegseth skewered in court as fed-up judge refuses to back downA federal judge took a sharp swipe at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to remove her from an unrelated case. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes made the remark in a footnote to a 13-page opinion filed Sunday denying a motion to disqualify her from a lawsuit over the administration’s tree-clearing at Washington’s…

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71% of Americans Think US Is on the Wrong Track: NBC News PollPresident Donald Trump is playing defense and heading to typically red states like Kansas where Democrats are showing signs of progress. A new NBC News poll shows 71% of Americans believe the United States is on the wrong track. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY.

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Pete Hegseth Saying 5 Countries Fought in Afghanistan Criticized by VeteransThe U.S. invoked NATO's Article 5 mutual defense clause shortly after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, preceding the Afghanistan war.

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What we know so far about deadly fire at Canadian military baseAt least four people are confirmed to have died after a huge fire swept through the base.

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Ousted Trump official's allies answered her SOS by deleting their photos together: reportFormer Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle reached out to Donald Trump and to conservative influencers for support in what the Daily Mail described as a desperate bid to salvage her job as ambassador to Greece. Trump refused her calls, and her allies instead began deleting anything that might link them to her , reported the Mail. Once Guilfoyle saw…

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