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by Jason Ditz, antiwar.com

US-born Jewish photojournalist had been covering Israel since 1983

Violence against Palestinians and the press has been on going problem in Israel in general for years, but the level of such incidents in the occupied West Bank has reached a fevered pitch in recent months, with Israeli settlers attacking people with virtual impunity.

At least 350 Palestinian children currently face “harsh conditions” in Israeli prisons.

aljazeera.com

On Tuesday, Israeli forces arrested at least six children from Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the report said.

The organisation said information regarding the number of children arrested in Gaza is unclear, given the thousands of missing persons in the besieged Gaza Strip, including children, and the ongoing policy of enforced disappearance.

Sgt. Jamie Milliman drove to Elser's Fort Logan home on September 27th, 2025, with the criminal summons already in hand.

The accusation: she had stolen a $25 package from a neighbor's porch five days earlier.

The evidence: a Flock Safety automated license plate reader showing her vehicle had driven through the area 20 times over the prior month.

Andrew Day , theamericanconservative.com

Trump is now joined in that ill-advised effort of mixed messaging by America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who recently gave an intellectual twist to Trump’s hostility to Iranian civilization. Predictably, the Islamic Republic pointed to Rubio’s remarks as further evidence that the U.S. is at war with Iran’s people and indeed its entire history and culture, not just its government.

Posted by Tyler Durden:  By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com,

The United States is putting another 17 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on offer, one day after the IEA accelerated emergency stock releases as governments scramble to get more oil and fuel into a tight market.

Posted by Tyler Durden: Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,

The number of new annual dementia cases worldwide is estimated to increase more than twofold by 2050 from 2023 levels, according to a recently published peer-reviewed study.

Associated Press reports that Romanch Mahajan, an 18-year-old tourist from India, died after falling when a horse-drawn carriage bolted in Central Park. Reporters described it as the first known fatality since the tradition began in the park more than a century ago. City leaders seized on the tragedy to argue the rides pose a growing risk in crowded paths. The claim is stark and emotional. The hard truth is that one awful event can change policy, even when long-term risk data are thin.