Israeli attacks on Wednesday, Sept. 11, killed more than two dozen Palestinians as hope for cease-fire appears to be dimming. An Israeli strike reportedly killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank while a separate strike in the Gaza Strip killed at least 20 people, including 16 women and children. Israel said the strikes were…

New footage from North Korea shows teenage girls being publicly shamed and arrested for watching banned South Korean dramas, further highlighting the regime’s extreme media control. The video, obtained by South Korea’s KBS Media, captures a group of young girls, including a 16-year-old student, confessing to consuming what the regime labels “impure” media. The girls…

Pavel Durov, the Russian billionaire founder of the encrypted messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France on Aug. 24. Telegram has been accused of facilitating international crimes by refusing to cooperate with national and international law enforcement efforts. The app is also widely used by Russian military units in their invasion of Ukraine. Watch the…

Ghosts and sharks often top the list of things people fear. It is unclear if defense contractor Anduril had this in mind when naming its advanced extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle, but the name’s attention-grabbing nature earned the Ghost Shark a feature as the weapon of the week. Ghost Shark is a product of a 2022…

A little more than a month ago, the Ukrainian military showed that it was not afraid to take the fight to Russia on Russian soil. The offensive push into Kursk Oblast caught Vladimir Putin and the rest of the world by surprise, and Russia is still trying to muster forces to mount a viable defense…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for fundamental changes in how Israeli security forces operate in the occupied West Bank. His comments come after the Israeli military admitted it was “highly likely” that its forces unintentionally shot and killed an American citizen during a protest. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was a 26-year-old who held dual…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has gone against President Joe Biden’s order to remove barriers from Fronton Island in the Rio Grande between the United States and Mexico. In 2021, Abbott had officials put up razor wire fencing to prevent illegal border crossings as part of his Operation Lone Star initiative.  On Sept. 9, Abbott sent…

Russia is conducting its largest naval drills in three decades, termed “Ocean-2024,” involving over 400 ships, submarines and 120 naval aircraft, with 90,000 personnel. The exercises extend across the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and into the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic Seas. These maneuvers, set to continue until the week of Sept. 16, are seen by…

Early Tuesday, Sept. 10, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, four private astronauts, led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, embarked on a landmark space mission aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. The SpaceX mission, dubbed Polaris Dawn, is set to reach an unprecedented altitude of 870 miles above Earth — the highest since the Apollo moon…

Some developing news from the wars in Europe and the Middle East on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Ukraine struck Moscow and parts of western Russia in one of its biggest-ever drone attacks. According to Russia, at least one woman is dead and dozens of homes have been destroyed.  Russian officials said they destroyed at least 20 drones over Moscow alone, and…