Dozens of Israeli Air Force planes, working off intelligence provided by the IDF, carried out a wave of attacks on Thursday against facilities belonging to the Houthi regime in and around Sanaa, the Yemeni capital.
The strikes hit multiple high-level targets, including the Houthis’ General Staff Command Headquarters, compounds belonging to the group’s security and intelligence divisions, their military public relations offices, as well as training and weapons camps where Houthi fighters were located.
The IDF emphasized that the strikes were retaliation for repeated assaults carried out by the Houthis against Israel and its citizens, specifically attacks involving UAVs and missiles fired toward Israeli territory.
“The security and intelligence apparatus is one of the internal security mechanisms of the Houthi terrorist regime; it takes part in terrorist activities and directly contributes to military actions against the State of Israel that undermine stability in the Middle East. The security and intelligence apparatus is also involved in repressing regime opponents through the use of political prisons and torture,” the IDF noted in its statement.
The military further explained that “the military camps that were struck are used by the Houthi terrorist regime to store weapons and to plan and execute terrorist attacks against the State of Israel. The Houthi terrorist regime operate under Iranian direction and funding in order to harm the State of Israel and its allies. The regime exploits the maritime domain to project force and carry out terror activity against the global shipping and trade routes.”
This operation marked the fifteenth Israeli strike in Yemen. Roughly twenty aircraft participated, releasing more than sixty-five bombs on seven separate sites—five command centers and two weapons storage facilities—located 2,200 kilometers from Israel. It was the largest number of munitions used in a single strike against the Houthis to date.
Defense Minister Yisroel Katz confirmed the operation, saying: “We have just delivered a powerful strike against multiple terror targets belonging to the Houthi terror organization in Sanaa as part of operation ‘Package Delivered.’ The IDF struck several military camps, including a Houthi General Staff camp, eliminated dozens of Houthi terrorists, and destroyed UAV and weapons stockpiles. As I promised yesterday, whoever harms us will be struck sevenfold.”
The decision to carry out the strike was made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while traveling to New York aboard the “Wing of Zion” aircraft. He received ongoing updates on the operation from the Defense Minister, the IDF Chief of Staff, and his Military Secretary.
In a related incident, a UAV struck a tourist center near the Mall Hayam mall just before the end of Rosh Hashanah, leaving more than twenty injured.
Three of the victims were critically hurt and flown from Yoseftal Hospital in Eilat to Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva for further treatment.
The drone exploded near the Club Hotel in central Eilat. According to MDA, casualties were reported inside the hotel lobby as well as in a nearby restaurant.
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An aid worker and a local group in Sudan said a drone strike by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed 15 people at a bustling market in the besieged city of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. The strike on Tuesday came only a few days after the RSF reportedly struck a mosque in the city, killing at least 70 people, including worshippers and three medical personnel. The latest drone strike also wounded 12 people, an aid worker with the Emergency Response Rooms, or ERR, told The Associated Press on Wednesday, citing doctors and other ERR team members on the ground. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from the RSF. The aid worker said the attack happened Tuesday afternoon in a busy market in the city. Meanwhile, the Resistance Committees in el-Fasher, a network of local people, including activists, who are tracking the fighting and war-related abuses, confirmed the attack and the date in a statement on Facebook. The group called it a “brutal attack that comes in a series of countless repeated massacres” carried out daily by the RSF “to bring the city to its knees and break the will of its residents.” The RSF didn’t mention the incident on their Telegram channel but said that its fighters are making advances in the city, and claimed it was evacuating “hundreds of civilians from el-Fasher,” without providing evidence. The fight between the RSF and the military erupted in 2023 and soon turned into a civil war that enveloped the country, killing at least 40,000 people, according to the World Health Organization, displacing as many as 12 million others. Over 24 million people are acutely food insecure, according to the World Food Program. El-Fasher is the military’s last stronghold in the sprawling Darfur region. Fighting between the two sides intensified in recent months and hundreds of civilians were killed in RSF attacks in the area since Apr. 10, according to a Friday report by the U.N. Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. Some areas in Darfur currently face a dire situation, impacting people’s access to healthcare, food, and clean water, according to aid organizations. The number of reported cholera cases is increasing and more than 3,000 people across all of Sudan have died from the illness over the last 14 months of civil war, the U.N. health agency said Tuesday. The current outbreak of the bacterial infection caused by contaminated food or water has spread to all 18 states in the war-torn country after it was declared an outbreak since July of last year, the WHO said. Both warring sides have been accused of committing atrocities, including ethnic cleansing, extrajudicial killings and sexual violence against civilians, including children. (AP)
A new Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday shows that a majority of liberal voters, along with a sizable portion of Democrats, said they considered the assassination of Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk to be “understandable.”
According to the survey, 54% of liberal respondents felt that Kirk engaged in “hateful” speech and therefore described his killing as “tragic but understandable.” Among Democrats overall, 40% shared that view. In contrast, only 9% of Republicans agreed with that assessment.
The poll phrased the finding this way: “Charlie Kirk was speaking hateful words, and his murder was tragic but understandable,” with 54% of liberals and nearly half of Democrats concurring.
When the broader public was asked, however, the results were different. A majority said they believed Kirk served more as a unifying figure. Rasmussen reported that 62% of likely voters agreed with the statement: “Charlie Kirk was peacefully and respectfully debating people, and it is a tragedy that he was murdered.”
This is among the first polls to gauge how Americans view Kirk’s life and work following his assassination on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem. The survey was completed before Sunday’s large-scale memorial service at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
The poll also highlighted broader security concerns. Sixty percent of those surveyed said domestic terrorism is the greater danger facing the United States, compared to 24% who pointed to foreign terrorism.
Rasmussen conducted the poll from Sept. 16–18, surveying 1,165 likely voters nationwide. The margin of error was ±3 percentage points.
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Russia is currently tracking two Intelsat satellites used by the German military, a senior minister said on Thursday German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius revealed the active operations as he announced a €35 billion ($41 billion) investment in his country’s space programs over the next five years. Pistorius said Russia and China have the capability to engage in space warfare and already occupy strategic positions in space. “They can jam, blind, manipulate, or kinetically disrupt satellites,” he told a space conference in Berlin, adding that the German military has already been targeted by jamming attacks. Pistorius said two Russian Luch-Olymp reconnaissance satellites are tracking two Intelsat satellites that are used by, among others, the German armed forces. The minister said that as he was speaking, “39 Chinese and Russian reconnaissance satellites are flying over us,” with their observations being transmitted in real-time. “So be careful what you say,” he added. Europe lags behind the United States, China and Russia in space. For decades, Europe has relied upon the U.S. for its security in space, but the Trump administration’s “America First” policies, plus a commercial market that’s growing exponentially, has prompted Europeans to rethink their approach. Currently, Europe’s only space base capable of launching rockets and satellites into orbit is in sparsely populated French Guiana, an overseas department of France in South America that’s roughly 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of the equator. Otherwise, Europe borrows NASA’s Cape Canaveral in Florida. (AP)
Eight members of a single family were evacuated to Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning caused by leaking generators in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Yerushalayim during Rosh Hashanah.
The incident took place on the first afternoon of the Yom Tov, when the family began experiencing symptoms after inhaling toxic fumes inside their home. Fire and rescue crews, along with emergency medics, were called to the scene. They ventilated the apartment, cleared it of the hazardous gas, and carried out a full search to ensure no one else had been harmed.
Itzik Cohen, a volunteer with United Hatzalah, said after the Yom Tov ended: “The family members suffered from paleness, dizziness, and headaches due to inhaling the poisonous substance. We were informed that it came from a generator leak. The eight were transported to Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital.”
Pini Weiss, the Yom Tov shift medic for the Hatzalah Team, added: “When I arrived, I found eight family members showing signs of paleness, dizziness, and headaches after inhaling toxic fumes, apparently from a generator operating nearby. Together with additional MDA medics and paramedics, we provided them with immediate medical care, and they were taken by MDA ambulances to Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital for further treatment.”
Incident commander Reshef Shai Drori explained: “We received a report of several residents feeling unwell in a basement apartment, and there was immediate suspicion of carbon monoxide poisoning. Firefighters, together with the regional monitoring unit, detected high concentrations of CO gas. They worked quickly to ventilate the premises and confirm that no further danger remained for other residents in the building.”
Magen David Adom later stated: “At 12:33 p.m. on Tuesday, a call was received at MDA’s Yerushalayim dispatch center regarding eight family members exposed to toxic fumes in a home on Rechov Meah Shearim. MDA medics and paramedics treated six individuals in mild condition, showing symptoms of paleness, dizziness, and headaches, and transported them to Hadassah Har HaTzofim Hospital. Two additional patients made their own way to the hospital for care.”
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Israeli police arrested a man from Kiryat Gat after he walked into a station on Rosh Hashanah and announced he planned to buy a gun and assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Officers immediately detained him, and his arrest has since been extended. The incident comes just weeks after a woman in her 70s was indicted for plotting to kill Netanyahu with an anti-tank weapon.
Hassan Chokr, a Dearborn, Michigan resident, has been sentenced to 34 months in prison after pleading guilty to illegally possessing guns as a felon and making antisemitic threats outside a Jewish preschool. Prosecutors said his threats and weapons showed a clear intent to carry out violence. “Chokr’s sickening antisemitic threats and his apparent attempt to make good on them with guns are part of an alarming pattern of violence against believers,” said interim U.S. Attorney Jerome Gordon Jr., vowing to protect Americans’ right to worship without fear.
Even for an agency accustomed to criticism, this summer’s debate over Republicans’ big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts was a harsh one for the Congressional Budget Office. “Notorious for getting it wrong,” was the judgment of Speaker Mike Johnson. “Making the same mistakes,” was the refrain from House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. And President Donald Trump dismissed the CBO as “very hostile.” For CBO Director Phillip Swagel, the “incoming fire,” as he calls it, is simply part of the job. “We’re just trying to get it right and inform the Congress and the country,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press. “There’s no agenda here.” Tasked with producing nonpartisan analysis for Congress, it’s up to Swagel and expert staffers at the CBO to assess the impact of legislation on economic growth and the nation’s finances — producing “scores,” in the parlance of Washington, that often reverberate across the dominant political debates of the day. Both major political parties often dispute the agency’s findings, particularly when their top priorities are at stake. “Sometimes it’s noise, sometimes it’s not. But we just tune it out. Here we do our work,” Swagel said. “The thing that I do care about a lot is to make sure our work is accurate.” It’s a low-key approach Swagel has maintained at the CBO since 2019, when congressional leaders appointed him the director after stints in both Republican and Democratic administrations. An economist by trade, Swagel brings an inquisitive and genial approach to the job, his knowledge of government forged by work at the Council of Economic Advisers in the White House, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund. “The challenge of doing analysis now,” Swagel said, “is the changes we’re seeing in our economy are really large.” From the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans, to the unprecedented implementation of sweeping tariffs on countries around the world, to massive tax and spending cuts passed into law this summer, assessing the trajectory of the U.S. economy has grown more difficult. Swagel recently sat down with the AP to talk at length about analyses from his agency, the future of the nation’s entitlement programs and the pressure to remain unbiased when data itself is at risk of being politicized. How Trump’s tariffs are upending economic models Trump’s sweeping tariffs plan has posed challenges to the CBO’s standard models for assessing trade. The baseline tariffs on all countries and higher rates on Trump’s “worst offenders” list are different from what “we’ve seen in more than 100 years,” Swagel said. It’s a dramatic shift away from the low-tariff era that has existed since World War II. “We’re going to be looking carefully to see if those models still apply, or if tariffs that are this large, do those have effects that we just haven’t counted on?” he said. So far, the CBO estimates the tariffs could reduce the national deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade, helping to offset the deficit increases it projects will result from the Republicans’ big bill passed this year. “It’s a huge impact,” Swagel said. The CBO also anticipates Trump’s tariffs will cause roughly two years of elevated inflation, Swagel said, causing price increases for businesses and customers. But he says those effects will be temporary. “As the tariffs go up and the prices go up with the […]
The 2025 New Jersey governor’s race is neck-and-neck, with a new Emerson poll finding Mikie Sherrill (D) and Jack Ciattarelli (R) tied at 43% each, and 11% of voters still undecided.
After 43 hours trapped, 23 miners were rescued Wednesday from the collapsed La Reliquia gold mine in northern Colombia, where a geomechanical failure caused the cave-in.
U.S. jobless claims fell to 218,000 last week, the lowest in two months and well below forecasts, showing layoffs remain low. But other data paints a weaker picture: August saw just 22,000 new jobs, job openings hit their lowest since 2021, and revisions show nearly 1M fewer jobs were added in the past year than first reported. The Fed, worried about slowing hiring, cut rates last week to boost growth — though inflation remains above target.
Over two dozen masked robbers stormed Heller Jewelers in San Ramon, California, stealing an estimated $1M in merchandise. Armed with guns, crowbars & pickaxes, the suspects smashed display cases—only to get trapped inside when new security doors locked. They fired shots to break out before fleeing in six cars. Police, aided by drones & surveillance, arrested 7 suspects (ages 17–31, all from Oakland) but say others remain at large and may be tied to a larger theft ring.
Secretary Hegseth has ordered hundreds of US generals and admirals worldwide to attend an urgent, unexplained meeting next week at Quantico, Virginia.
Starbucks is closing hundreds of U.S. & Canadian stores and cutting 900 corporate jobs as part of a $1B restructuring plan. The chain expects to end the fiscal year with 18,300 North American locations — 124 fewer than last year — with closures starting immediately.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy warned world leaders at the U.N. that we’re in “the most destructive arms race in human history,” urging action to stop Putin before Russia’s war spreads further in Europe. He said weak institutions have failed to halt wars from Ukraine to Gaza, and that “weapons decide who survives.” Zelenskyy thanked the U.S. and Europe for support, stressing that stopping Russia now is “cheaper than catastrophe later.” He also called for urgent global rules on AI weapons as drones reshape modern warfare.
The Justice Dept. is preparing to seek an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, accused of lying to Congress about the Trump-Russia probe. The 5-year deadline to bring charges expires next week. If indicted, Comey would be the first senior official charged in connection to Trump’s long-running grievances over the Russia investigation.
The White House is warning federal agencies to prepare for mass firings, not just furloughs, if the gov’t shuts down next week, as Republicans and Democrats bicker over health care and spending. A White House memo says jobs tied to lapsed funding and “not consistent with the President’s priorities” could be permanently cut — a sharp break from past shutdowns. Dem leaders Schumer & Jeffries blasted the move as intimidation, vowing not to cave.
Merriam-Webster is rolling out the 12th edition of its Collegiate Dictionary on Nov. 18 — the first full overhaul in 22 years. It adds 5,000+ words including “petrichor,” “teraflop,” “dumbphone,” “ghost kitchen,” “cold brew,” “farm-to-table,” “adulting,” “cancel culture,” “beast mode,” “doomscroll,” “WFH,” and “side-eye.” Print dictionary sales may be down, but M-W says the new edition is designed to be fun, practical, and beautiful — proof that dictionaries aren’t dead yet.
Hezbollah’s liaison and coordination chief, Wafiq Safa, arrived in Beirut’s Raoucheh district to take part in the anniversary commemorations of Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination.
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