At least seven of these businesses recently promoted products and services directly related to settlement, including housing, an expedited gun license programme, and machinery used in the demolition of Palestinian property.

Scores of poor Black Louisianans had volunteered for what was effectively Russian roulette, risking their own lives in the hope of a onetime payout. The attorneys were well educated and mostly white, and would almost certainly have been loath to go looking for a truck to hit.

Before his ill-fated presidential run in 2019, which only lasted three months, Alex Evans, a former senior Swalwell adviser, put together an informal inventory of possible reasons he could lose. The first word on the list: hubris.

Members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated. A request for “breaching equipment”—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.

Others in the business intelligence sector have cast doubt on Steele’s analytic abilities – a shortcoming that may have led him to place unjustified trust in unverified reports from his sources. ‘He’s very bad at distinguishing truth from fiction.’

The breathtaking fall was nudged along by the influencers... They went so far as to craft talking points in advance of publication of reports they had never seen. “We didn’t know exactly what’s going to be in it,” Hunt said. “Turns out, we were spot on.”

“I have a lot of regrets about our Middle East policy, and it’s hard to see Brett as anything but the singular driving force behind it.”

“He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”

One former cook recalled that one night in 2011 Mr. Redzepi noticed that he had left a tiny tweezer mark on a flower petal as he placed it onto a dish. Mr. Redzepi, he said, grabbed the straps of his apron and slammed him against the wall, then punched him twice in the stomach.

The group’s July 2025 report lays out a novel methodology for demonstrating sexual violence on 7 October, one that lowers the evidential standards typically relied upon in conflict situations: “Our goal is to propose a scheme of deducing premeditation from circumstantial evidence.”

“Moon treated Japanese members like slaves. There was part of me that was, like, it’s awful that someone died, but finally people are going to see just how fucked up things are.”

Hungary’s national tax and customs administration said it had opened a money-laundering investigation over the shipment, which it said was made up of $40m and €35m in cash, as well as 9kg of gold. It said one of those arrested was “a former Ukrainian intelligence service general”.

Experts say that Hindmarsh’s calculations are wrong and the prosecution theory that insulin was delivered via the feed bags is not plausible.

Former Adeso staff described a culture of fear and bullying at odds with the organisation’s external messaging on decolonisation. At least six board members resigned in 2024. New investigation by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social

The withheld files included FBI notes documenting a series of interviews a woman gave to agents in 2019 in which she alleged sexual misconduct by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor.

The operation was "highly likely" to have been state-directed. The state in question is Ukraine – the very country the German government has been supporting with many billions of euros since the Russian invasion.

A former [Myanmar military intelligence] chief propagandist was simultaneously supplying the armed forces and holding a financial stake in a major media outlet, a conflict of interest never disclosed to Frontier’s journalists, funders or audience.

"The Epstein files will serve to reinforce the suspicions of those who claim that a highly networked Norwegian cosmopolitan elite, living in luxury and harbouring deep contempt for ordinary people’s lives, regard themselves as masters and architects of the world by right."

Remember: even if @unocha.org & others CAN 'ringfence' US funding, ALL recipients of the funds, and UN implementing partners, are still 100% subject to the rule - so this is just offloading the problem to NGOs and CSOs

"Rather than pushing back [against aid worker arrests], several aid workers complained that senior humanitarian leadership — particularly within the UN — has opted to fall in line with the authorities, even helping them reinforce official narratives that the conflict is getting better."

The @intl-pride-centre.bsky.social is urging donors to stop giving money to the @unocha.org pooled funds “until the funds’ independence is guaranteed”.

“It’s just impossible to imagine a negative interaction with him. And the fact that he was killed on city streets — as an employee of the U.S. government, by the U.S. government — it’s blowing my mind.”

New reporting shows @iom.int is invoking UN “privileges and immunities” to refuse disclosure of documents about its EU-funded Assisted Voluntary Returns and Reintegration (AVRR) programme in Greece – even though it’s paid with public funds.

McCarthy came to consider Greene a good-faith actor who sometimes lacks good information... “So she assumes certain things,” McCarthy said. “But you can break through that.”

During the breakup of Flight 7, the FAA kept airspace closed for roughly 86 minutes. However, Diez, the SpaceX executive, told attendees at the industry conference that, in fact, it had taken “hours” for all the debris to reach the ground.

He said there was now an established pattern of Thailand taking action against Cambodia's "scam-invested oligarchs" followed by Cambodia escalating tensions with Thailand then issuing "a punishing, over the top military response".

Yes, Lakanwal was radicalized, but it was the CIA, not the Taliban, who accustomed him and thousands of other Afghan men to wanton violence. – @alibomaye.bsky.social

Thieren accused the UN of enabling antisemitism and compared world leaders’ discussions on Palestinian statehood to making a deal with a “Nazi devil”.

This account is the most comprehensive to date of the backlash against Kirk’s critics, tracing how senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, local Republican lawmakers and allied influencers mobilized to enforce the Trump movement’s views.

Anduril’s setbacks underscore a broader challenge: America’s defense industry, long defined by costly world-class systems such as jets, missiles and aircraft carriers, must adapt to a battlefield where cheap, mass-produced drones have become central to modern warfare.

Victoria was quiet on the other end of the line. I actually emailed the professor, I explained. “And she said she never spoke with you.” In the silence that followed I realized Victoria had hung up. She has not responded to my emails since.

Professor Wisit Wisitsora-at promised to speed up fraud investigations when he became SEC Chairman. 16 months later, he's done nothing on Finansia X. Documents reveal why: he is compromised.

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.

The next phase of the administration’s escalating pressure campaign on the Maduro government could be sabotage or some sort of cyber, psychological or information operations.

That means that in the 48 days between Oct. 6, when he landed in Albania, and Sunday, when he is scheduled to return to New York, Mr. Adams will have spent roughly 27 percent of his time thousands of miles away from the city he governs.

He has dedicated years to research and has interviewed more than 100 people who say they either know of or have entered the supposed tunnels. But the owners of the historic homes that allegedly lead to them have uniformly declined to participate in his inquiry.

More than 60 percent of Sixteen Thirty Fund’s revenues in 2024 came from just five benefactors who cut eight-figure checks to the group, including one who gave $58.9 million and another who gave $51.4 million, according to the filings.

It is extremely unusual for judges to examine how prosecutors act in front of grand juries, let alone to openly criticize their conduct. But that is exactly what Judge Fitzpatrick did to Ms. Halligan.

“The Austrian government and intelligence service helped Mossad and helped their war criminals,” Mr. Almousa said. “This is the worst level of criminality.”

After everything the Nordenströms had told me about her, she assumed I might take their side: “The babysitter always goes down, right?” But after months reviewing court documents, family photos, and copies of several forged checks, I found that the contours of her story turned out to be true.

Former union officials interviewed by ESPN said that Players Way appeared to be a landing spot for Clark's loyalists -- and, said one, "Few players knew anything about it."

Nearly every judge who reviewed Fraser’s trial found something wrong with it—even if they didn’t agree on what that was.

On at least three occasions in the past two weeks, an official Post editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's official editorial line landed in sync with its owner's financial interests.

Epstein was an invaluable resource for Israel’s former prime minister... sharing whispers from within Russian elite circles and intel on Putin’s interlocutors in Europe and the U.S—and even advising him on how to engage with the Mossad.

The so-called suspicious activity report that JPMorgan filed identified transactions with Leon Black, the co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; Glenn Dubin, a well-known hedge fund manager; the lawyer Alan Dershowitz; and trusts controlled by Leslie Wexner, the retail tycoon.

The Union County district attorney’s office, about 2,500 miles away from Washington, D.C., had become perhaps the most unlikely casualty of the Trump administration’s sweeping budget cuts last spring.

“A very good analogy for Aaron is Fox Mulder. Everyone sees him as this guy shouting at the heavens about aliens. But at the end of the day, the aliens exist.”

“We really want to put our energy into what we can build together with the power of a mayoral administration and the power of not only DSA but of a broad left-labor coalition. I think we have the opportunity to really transform the city in ways that haven’t been seen before.”

“They live with relatives in the city. They only come here in the morning to see if an NGO will give them something. They have learned that if you stay in the community, you will never get aid.”

“Assad’s men are drinking whiskey and playing cards in Moscow, or they are lounging in some Emirati villa,” a friend of several top-ranking regime officials said. “They have forgotten about any place that was called Syria.”