The IDF released for publication on Wednesday morning that three IDF soldiers were killed while battling Hamas terrorists in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The soldiers were killed in an explosion in a booby-trapped building. The blast also seriously wounded two officers and another two soldiers. The soldiers, who served in the Nachal Brigade, […]

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Two former FBI officials have reached a tentative settlement with the Justice Department to resolve claims that their privacy was violated when the department leaked to the news media text messages they had sent one another that disparaged former President Donald Trump. The tentative deal was disclosed in a brief court filing Tuesday that did […]

Bette Nash, recognized as the world’s longest-serving flight attendant, has died. She was 88. American Airlines, Nash’s employer, announced her death on social media Saturday. The carrier noted Nash spent nearly 70 years warmly caring for customers in the air. “Bette was a legend at American and throughout the industry, inspiring generations of flight attendants,” […]

In less than 24 hours, multiple violent storms producing blinding rain, hail and winds over 70 mph battered Dallas, Houston and other parts of northern and eastern Texas, leaving nearly 1.4 million customers in the dark. The storms in the Houston area hit just 12 days after it was clobbered by a derecho, or violent straight-line windstorm, that killed eight people and unleashed 100 mph wind gusts.
The storms cut power to nearly 400,000 customers in Dallas County and 280,000-plus in Harris County, home to Houston. Dozens of counties to the southeast of Dallas and north of Houston had extensive outages affecting 30 percent to 60 percent of total customers.
Additional storms were possible in western and southern portions of Texas into the evening Tuesday.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had a “visceral reaction against” the removal of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s statue in Charlottesville.
Speaking to podcast host Tim Pool in a “Timcast IRL” episode Friday, Kennedy – who is mounting a long-shot bid for the White House – said he doesn’t think “it’s a good, healthy thing for any culture to erase history,” when asked for his thoughts on the removal of Confederate monuments around the country.
“I have a visceral reaction against, against the attacks on those statues,” he said. “There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves and, you know, I just, I just have a visceral reaction against destroying history. I don’t like it. I think we should celebrate who we are.”

The U.S.-built temporary pier taking humanitarian aid to Palestinians will be removed from the coast of Gaza to be repaired after getting damaged in rough seas and weather, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Over the next two days, the pier will be pulled out and sent to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, where U.S. Central […]