A passenger aboard a domestic Mexican flight attempted to hijack the plane and steer it toward the United States on Sunday morning. The suspect, identified only as Mario, a 31-year-old Mexican national, reportedly attacked a flight attendant and tried to force his way into the cockpit. The incident occurred on Volaris Flight 3041, which was traveling from El Bajío Airport in León to Tijuana. In a statement, Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) confirmed the suspect’s actions and credited the flight crew with intervening quickly to restrain him. The pilot issued an alert code and diverted the flight, safely landing at Guadalajara International Airport in central Mexico.

While the election was over a month ago, voters in some parts of the country are discovering that having their say at the ballot box is not necessarily the final word. Lawmakers in several states have already initiated or indicated plans to alter or nullify certain results. Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are moving to undercut the authority of the incoming Democratic governor, Republicans in Missouri are taking initial steps to reverse voter-approved abortion protections, and Democrats in Massachusetts are watering down an attempt by voters to hold the Legislature more accountable. The actions following the Nov. 5 election continue a pattern that has accelerated in recent years and has been characterized by critics as undemocratic.

Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein on Monday rejected the State Prosecutor’s request that the main defendant in the classified documents leak case, Eli Feldstein, be detained until the end of the proceedings and ordered that he be released to house arrest subject to electronic monitoring. However, Stein ruled that the second defendant, an IDF reservist non-commissioned officer who has not been named, will remain in custody until the end of proceedings.

A Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider was acquitted on Monday in a death that became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism. A Manhattan jury delivered the verdict, clearing Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely’s death last year. A more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed earlier in deliberations because the jury deadlocked on that count. Both charges were felonies and carried the possibility of prison time. Penny, 26, gripped Jordan Neely around the neck for about six minutes in a chokehold that other subway passengers partially captured on video.

Even before the French and German governments collapsed, Europe’s economy had enough difficulties. Tepid growth and lagging competitiveness versus the U.S. and China. An auto industry that’s struggling. Where to find billions for defense against Russia? And now Donald Trump threatening tariffs. Solutions will be harder to find while the two countries that make up almost half of the eurozone economy remain stuck in political paralysis well into 2025. Where once there was the so-called French-German axis to push Europe ahead, now there’s a vacuum. French Prime Minister Michel Barnier resigned Thursday after losing a vote of confidence, and while President Emmanuel Macron will appoint a successor, the new head of government will lack a majority.

The IDF has announced the deaths of three soldiers and injuries to 12 others during clashes in northern Gaza earlier today. The fallen soldiers are: – Staff Sgt. Ido Zano, 20, a combat medic with the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Yehud-Monosson. – Staff Sgt. Barak Daniel Halpern, 19, a squad commander in the same battalion, from Kiryat Ono. – Sgt. Omri Cohen, 19, also of the Shaked Battalion, from Ashdod. Among the injured are a Givati reservist and a Sky Riders Unit soldier from the Artillery Corps, both in serious condition. The IDF has yet to release full details about the incident, which occurred in the Jabalia area. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Hundreds of Syrian refugees gathered at two border crossings in southern Turkey on Monday, eagerly anticipating their return home following the fall of President Bashar Assad’s government. Many arrived at the Cilvegozu and Oncupinar border gates at daybreak, draped in blankets and coats. Some camped by the barriers of the border crossing, warming themselves with makeshift fires or resting on the cold ground. The crossings correspond to the Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salameh gates on the Syrian side of the border. Among those waiting at Cilvegozu was 28-year-old Muhammed Zin, who was excited at the prospect of returning home. He fled Damascus in 2016 and has been living and working in Istanbul. “Assad was shooting us, killing us,” he told The Associated Press. “I will return to Syria now.

Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to meet with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Moscow following the surrender of the Syrian army to rebel forces. According to a report by the Qatari Al Arabiya channel in Moscow, Putin sent Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to meet with Assad in his place. The Kremlin spokesperson clarified that there is also no planned meeting between Putin and Assad. Russian sources told Al Arabiya that Lavrov conveyed a message from Putin to Assad stating that Russia would not intervene in the internal crisis in Syria: “You must solve your problems by yourself.” The Kremlin spokesperson refused to disclose Assad’s location in Russia but admitted that President Putin personally ordered the granting of political asylum to Assad.

Donald Trump said he can’t guarantee that his promised tariffs on key U.S. foreign trade partners won’t raise prices for American consumers and he suggested once more that some political rivals and federal officials who pursued legal cases against him should be imprisoned. The president-elect, in a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, also touched on monetary policy, immigration, abortion and health care, and U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Israel and elsewhere.

In a dramatic response to the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime, Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter jets conducted extensive airstrikes across Syria on Sunday, targeting weapon stockpiles and military infrastructure that Israel feared could fall into the hands of hostile forces. Dozens of IAF aircraft struck numerous targets described as “strategic weapons,” including advanced missile storage sites, air defense systems, and weapon production facilities, according to defense sources. Reports also indicated that Israeli jets targeted a chemical weapons site overnight Sunday. Key sites hit in the strikes included the Khalkhala air base north of Sweida, where Syrian forces had reportedly abandoned large stockpiles of missiles and munitions.