A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee has been fired for directing relief staff responding to Hurricane Milton to avoid houses with signs supporting former president Donald Trump, the agency said Saturday.
FEMA Director Deanne Criswell called the action “reprehensible” and wrote online that the behavior wouldn’t be tolerated. She added that the situation has been referred to the office of the special counsel.
“I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct,” Criswell said. “I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again.”

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Melhem Asad, a resident of the Druze town of Kisra-Sumei and a fan of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team, told Channel 12 news how he yelled in Arabic at a group o

Qatar will end its role as a mediator between Hamas and Israel in pursuit of a Gaza-ceasefire and hostage-release deal, an official “briefed on the matter” told Reuters on Saturday.
“The Qataris have said since the start of the conflict that they can only mediate when both parties demonstrate a genuine interest in finding a resolution,” the official added, according to Reuters.
Since diplomatic negotiations have not yielded fruitful results for months, the Gulf state concluded that Hamas’s political office in Doha “no longer serves its purpose,” the official was cited as saying.

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a significant blow for Hamas, Qatar, a country which had

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Qatar has reportedly issued a message to Hamas, informing the organization that it is no longer welcome within its borders, as reported by KAN on Friday through a source knowledgeable about the situation.
According to multiple sources, this decision has been unfolding over recent days, with three separate sources sharing insights with KAN. One of these sources indicated that the shift is a result of mounting pressure from the United States.
The report states that Qatar’s initial stance on hosting Hamas leaders was based on a strategy to aid in dialogue, particularly for negotiations related to hostages.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is discontinuing a program that provided migrants in city-run shelters with prepaid debit cards to purchase groceries.

One of President-elect Donald Trump’s lead attorneys, Todd Blanche, has been informed by the FBI that his cellphone was hacked by Chinese hackers, as part of a wide scale operation targeting Republicans and Democrats that has been ongoing for months.
According the the FBI, the hackers were able to listen to some of Blanche’s recordings, and read texts.  However at this time they do not believe any of the conversations breached involved Trump.
Back in August, CNN reported that another Trump attorney, Lindsey Halligan, was targeted in an Iranian hack.

Amsterdam has imposed a three-day ban on public demonstrations after Israeli soccer fans were targeted in violent incidents overnight, which the mayor described as attacks by “antisemitic hit-and-run squads.” In response, Israel announced plans to bring numerous fans back home.
Mayor Femke Halsema stated that fans of Maccabi had been “attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks” in various parts of Amsterdam. Riot police intervened to shield the fans and guide them to their accommodations, with at least five individuals requiring hospital treatment.
To counter the disturbances, Amsterdam has prohibited demonstrations over the weekend and granted police enhanced search-and-seize authority. The incidents highlighted intense anger related to the Gaza-Israel conflict.