A 19-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday in a deeply emotional court session for the murder of an Israeli man who was visiting Baltimore.
William Holloman, 19, was found guilty in July for his involvement in the fatal shooting of Efraim Gordon in 2021. Efraim, who was in Baltimore for a cousin’s wedding, was fatally shot in the chest during a botched robbery while walking to his aunt and uncle’s home on Fords Lane in the Park Heights area.
Holloman was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder, attempted armed robbery, and gun-related offenses.
Judge Melissa Phinn of the Baltimore City Circuit Court sentenced Holloman to life in prison, with all but 50 years suspended. She also recommended that he be placed in the Patuxent Youth Program.

The attorney for Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder case, speaks to reporters after his client’s extradition hearing.

The World Central Kitchen food aid organization has fired dozens of it’s Palestinian employees in the Gaza strip for “security reasons,” two WCK workers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
According to the pair of sources, an Israeli assessment of the workers indicated they were affiliated with terror organizations, prompting the WCK to fire them.
In an internal message to employees, WCK did confirm it “made changes” after Israel demanded an investigation into its hiring practices in Gaza.

Two Israelis were wounded, one seriously, in a stabbing on Tuesday afternoon at the entrance to a police station in the northern city of Karmiel, the Israel Police announced.
The motivation for the attack—which was first reported as a criminal incident—was not immediately clear, with the police saying in a later statement that all possible motives were being investigated.
The perpetrator, identified as a resident of the nearby Arab village of Nahf in his 20s, was arrested after a search, according to the statement.
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency response group said that the seriously wounded victim, reportedly the station’s security guard, was evacuated by ambulance to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.

Jack Danaher Molloy, 24, a dual Irish-American citizen, traveled to Lebanon in August and to Syria in October trying to join the Hezbollah terror organization, according to a federal complaint unsealed on Monday.
In Lebanon, “Molloy was told by multiple individuals that the time was not right and that he needed to take other steps before he could join the foreign terrorist organization,” per the 27-page complaint. He then “traveled from Lebanon to Syria in October 2024 in the hopes of joining the Syrian branch of Hezbollah.”

New Jersey residents continue to raise questions over drones spotted flying throughout the state.

Troy Miller, the top official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection during most of President Joe Biden’s term, is preparing to retire at the end of December, according to an email sent to agency staff Tuesday. He is a 31-year veteran of the agency.
Miller ran the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency during a period of record illegal crossings along the U.S.- Mexico and widespread disaffection among Border Patrol agents tasked with managing the influx.
CBP has not named an interim replacement for Miller, who was never formally nominated for the commissioner role but instead held the top job with the title “Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned during a meeting at the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces in Tel Aviv on Tuesday that if the new Syrian jihadist regime befriends Iran, Israel will take decisive action against it.
“If this regime allows Iran to regain its foothold in Syria—or allows the transfer of Iranian weapons or any other weapons to Hezbollah—or attacks us, we will respond forcefully and we will exact a heavy price from it,” he said.
“What happened to the previous regime will happen to this regime as well,” he warned.
Israel has no intention of interfering in Syria’s internal affairs, the prime minister said, but would take action it deemed necessary for its security.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) fell during a closed-door Republican lunch Tuesday, spraining his wrist and sustaining a minor cut to his face, according to his office.
The outgoing Senate leader was treated and has resumed his duties, his office said. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming), the No. 3 Senate Republican, told reporters that McConnell, 82, was walking by himself after the fall and seemed fine.
McConnell was back on the Senate floor by the second round of votes Tuesday, wearing a bandage on the left side of his face and a brace on his left hand. He told an ABC News reporter he was feeling “good.”

An Israel Defense Forces aircraft killed 10 of the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the deaths of three soldiers in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the military announced in a statement on Tuesday morning.
“In a joint operation of the 401st Brigade and the air force, an aircraft attacked and eliminated ten of the terrorists who took part in yesterday’s terror act, in which Staff Sgt. Ido Zano, Staff Sgt. Barak Daniel Halpern and Sgt. Omri Cohen, of blessed memory, fell,” the army stated.
The three soldiers, all members of the Givati Brigade’s “Shaked” Battalion, were reportedly killed by a Hamas anti-tank missile during counterterror operations in the Jabalia area of the northern Strip.