Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican Party’s gubernatorial nominee in Ohio, confirmed on Wednesday that his campaign was behind a widely condemned attack ad featuring Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged biological mother, sparking fresh outrage less than two weeks before Election Day in the critical battleground state.
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‘Abolish ICE,’ Say Potential 2028 Candidates AOC and Khanna After Latest Shooting in NYC
“ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency,” said Ocasio-Cortez, who has been named as a potential 2028 presidential candidate or a contender for US Senate in New York, where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is up for reelection in 2028.
“It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “Abolish ICE.”
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), another potential candidate for president in 2028, joined the congresswoman in calling for ICE to be abolished—a demand once dismissed as a fringe viewpoint, but now shared by about half the country, including 77% of Democratic voters and 52% of independents.
Kidnapping Suspects Conducted Year-long Surveillance in Southern Denmark, Court Hears
(February 6, 2026)
The individual identified as the leader of the operation, a 68-year-old executive of an Israeli security firm, described in court the use of advanced monitoring techniques targeting the home of the children‘s father, Stephan Hensel.
According to court testimony, the surveillance extended beyond simple observation. The suspects allegedly installed electronic devices in the vicinity of the property as early as a year before forcibly retrieving the children. The objective of these actions was to gather information pertinent to an ongoing custody dispute between the parents.
The monitoring reportedly included both visual surveillance and attempts to intercept digital communications. The court heard that the suspects sought unauthorized access to the Hensel family‘s home network, aiming to monitor and potentially listen in on electronic traffic within the household. Despite efforts to extract information, including partial decryption of passwords, the surveillance team was unable to fully access the family‘s data.
•Max Blumenthal highlights former BND chief August Hanning’s Israeli intelligence connections …
…amid his arrest for treasonous espionage, noting Hanning introduced heiress Christina Block to CGI Group—led by ex-Shin Bet chief Yaakov Peri—to abduct her children from her ex-husband in Denmark and allegedly plant fake child abuse images.
•Hanning, who served on the board of another Israeli firm, faces charges including passing ~2,000 classified BND documents on Iran’s nuclear program and Russian forces; prosecutors confirmed the foreign service analysis was not for Russia, with the probe triggered by evidence from the Block kidnapping investigation.
•The October 6, 2026 arrests of Hanning and ex-BND employee Manfred D. stem from a Hamburg search in the Block case that uncovered unauthorized classified materials dating to 2022, years after Hanning left office.
Ex-Shin Bet chief involved in plot to kidnap German heiress’s children: Israeli media
(September 7, 2025)
The report said that the kidnappers “hit the father and dragged his 10-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter into a forest and through a stream before putting them into a car.”
“The children’s mouths were taped shut and one of them was tied up. It was also claimed that the kidnappers threatened to kill the children if they made noise,“ it added.
According to Haaretz, one of the hijackers, an Israeli, was arrested in the Greek Cypriot Administration, and extradited to Germany, where he is currently on trial.
Two other Israelis suspected of involvement have fled Germany, the daily reported.
Perry, 81, told the German court he “would agree to testify about Hanning’s role in the case if he was granted confidentiality.”
German heiress trial to be held behind closed doors amid concerns over German-Israeli relations
(October 19, 2025)
Judges reportedly warned that revealing further details could harm Germany’s security interests, prompting the decision to exclude the public and media from further sessions.
The court noted that the case now extends beyond a private family dispute and could affect diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel. Officials also discussed transferring elements of the file to national security authorities, though proceedings remain within the jurisdiction of the Hamburg court.
Durchsuchungen bei Sicherheitsunternehmen Ehemaliger BND-Präsident in Block-Verfahren verstrickt?
(September 16, 2025)
Außerdem sollen Hanning und sein Geschäftspartner gemeinsam mit Block geplant haben, „den Kindesvater und dessen familienrechtlichen Beistand durch wahrheitswidrige Vorwürfe aus dem Bereich der Pädophilie zu diskreditieren.“ Hierzu soll nach Erkenntnissen der GenStA eine Festplatte mit weit über 500 kinderpornografischen Bild- und Videodateien auf dessen Wohngelände platziert worden sein. Ein israelisches Sicherheitsunternehmen habe diese Festplatte beschafft.
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Das israelische Sicherheitsunternehmen steht wiederum im Verdacht, die Kinder in der Silvesternacht 2023/2024 aus Dänemark entführt zu haben. Wegen dieser Vorwürfe findet derzeit das Strafverfahren vor dem Landgericht Hamburg statt.
Was der Fall Block mit dem Spionage-Verdacht gegen Hanning zu tun hat
Hanning steht unter Verdacht, in den Komplex rund um die Entführung der beiden jüngsten Block-Kinder beim Vater in Dänemark verstrickt gewesen zu sein. Im Zuge dessen hatten Ermittlerinnen und Ermittler vor einem Jahr sein Haus und Geschäftsräume durchsuchen lassen, um Beweismaterial zu finden.
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Außerdem wird Hanning vorgeworfen, dass er zusammen mit einem ehemaligen Beamten des Landeskriminalamtes dem Ex-Mann von Christina Block, Stefan Hensel, gefaktes kinderpornografisches Material untergeschoben hat, um ihn zu diskreditieren. Hanning selbst bestreitet das alles. Beim Versuch, das aufzuklären, gab es dann offenbar den Zufallsfund in seinem Haus, der die Geschichte noch sehr viel brisanter macht.
Brazil vote set for runoff as Flavio Bolsonaro sees surprise lead
Brazil‘s presidential race is heading to a runoff after right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro outperformed polls to finish ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round. Both candidates now have three weeks to convince voters before a second-round showdown later this month. Reuters‘ Lisandra Paraguassu reports from Sao Paulo.
Flávio Bolsonaro inherited his father’s right-wing movement. Can he win Brazil’s presidency?
Flávio played recordings of the former president, promised to continue his legacy and said he had “humbly” accepted the mission his father had entrusted to him.
Convicted of more than 27 years in prison for plotting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat, Jair Bolsonaro has entrusted Flávio with continuing his legacy, while maintaining his innocence and hoping that his son’s path to the presidential palace could also lead to his own freedom.
Weighing 2028 White House Run, AOC Says Stakes of Race Would Be ‘All or Nothing’
As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighs whether to run for president in 2028, there are numerous factors that complicate her decision: her identity as a Latina woman, her role as a leader in a progressive movement on the verge of unprecedented power, and her considerations about raising a family in the future.
Whatever decision the 36-year-old Democratic congresswoman makes, however, it will be “all or nothing,” she said in an interview published Tuesday by The New York Times, in which she spoke candidly about the stakes of what would be a historic and potentially transformative bid for the nation’s highest office.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on 2028: ‘Life Doesn’t Wait for You to Be Ready’
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said she will weigh the decision of whether to run for president after the midterm elections. The decision is clearly already weighing on her.
In an interview with The New York Times, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez revealed the electoral equations she is crunching and the mental “math” she is calculating as she approaches the biggest crossroads of her political career.
Israeli Strike in Lebanon Kills 12 People From a Single Family, Including 6 Children
(September 9, 2026)
KFAR REMMAN, Lebanon—“They are killing children. That’s what they’re doing,” Baker Malak said, pointing to the tiny coffins being carried through the streets of the town of Kfar Remman in southern Lebanon on Tuesday. He walked alongside hundreds of mourners in a funeral procession to bury 12 members of a single family, half of them children, killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home a day earlier.
Nearby, mourners carried the coffin of 18-year-old paramedic Ali Shahrour, killed in a separate strike on the town the same day. The procession wound through streets scarred by months of bombardment as an Israeli drone buzzed incessantly overhead
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Washington Co. sheriff details how tip from retired detective brought in Tyler Robinson
(September 17, 2025)
Brooksby said he was winding down for the evening when, at approximately 8:02 p.m., he received a call from his friend, a retired detective.
According to Brooksby, his friend shakily said something along the lines of, „Hey, I know who Charlie Kirk‘s shooter is. I know the family through religious association, and he‘s in Washington County now.“
The retired detective said they were working to get Robinson to turn himself in voluntarily.
Robinson‘s family knew that he was involved with law enforcement and trusted that they could go with him.
After Israel killed her three sons, she found hope in a newborn. Then he was killed too
„On the day he was killed, he was restless in the afternoon and wanted to go outside. I told his sisters how much I wished I could take him out, but there are no places left for children to play.“
„He spent his whole life indoors. Even his cousins had been killed in Israeli air strikes, so he had no one to play with.“
Lebanese who fled the Israeli invasion visit to see what‘s left
Hamadi says the Basma family, who lived just across a lane from them in a neighborhood called the Nuns‘ Quarter, was killed in an airstrike in March — the parents along with all four of their children. The impact collapsed the house on top of them and two of the children — ages around 8 and 11 — are still under the rubble, she says.
„Now when I look at the neighborhood they are the only ones I can think about,“ she says.
She says in a quiet area full of older people, the family‘s four children brought life to the neighborhood. „They were the ones who made all the noise and activity,“ she says.
Hammadi says she used to drink coffee with the mother, who was in her late 30s. She would talk about waiting for her children to grow up.
„They were wonderful people,“ she says. „Now there‘s no one left from the family.“
US attack on Qeshm kills 3
The Fars news agency is now reporting that three people have been killed in the US attack on the residential building in Qeshm.
Citing the Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Fars said the victims were a couple and their two-year-old child. Two other children, aged seven and nine, who were wounded remain at the hospital.
‚Nowhere Is Safe‘: Israel Kills Gaza Families and Bombs Hospital Despite Ceasefire
Israel‘s US-backed assault on Gaza has left more than 250,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing since October 2023 and around 2 million people forcibly displaced, starved, or sickened. Over 21,500 children—1,022 of them babies—are among the more than 73,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces during the war that scholars, jurists, human rights groups, a panel of United Nations experts, and others say is a genocide.
Israel is facing a genocide case filed by South Africa at the International Court of Justice and supported by nearly 20 nations, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant—his former defense minister who ordered the „complete siege“ on Gaza that fueled famine and disease—are wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder and forced starvation.
‚America killed my son‘: The Ethiopians bombed by US in Yemen prison strike
Born into poverty and with little opportunity at home, Hiwot Mehari took the dangerous smuggling route out of Ethiopia and across the Red Sea to Yemen, from where he hoped to reach Saudi Arabia.
After two years in the deadly border region between Yemen and Saudi Arabia known as Rago, Mehari was caught by border security men and thrown into prison.
On 28 April 2025, he became one of dozens of Ethiopians killed in a US air strike on a migrant detention in Saada, northwest Yemen.
The next day, at noon, Mehari’s parents received the news at home from a neighbour in the Tsirae district of war-ravaged Tigray.
Watch | A Palestinian child breaks down over the bodies of his father, mother, and three siblings after his family was wiped out in a deadly Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment in Gaza City’s Al-Nasr neighborhood earlier today.
(July 18, 2026)
Israeli forces killed at least 11 people in Gaza on Saturday
“The family’s only surviving member is one child, who was not inside the house at the time of the strike,” Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the agency, told the AFP news agency.
Iran‘s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Remains Absent as Funeral Draws Global Attention, Fueling Succession Questions
(July 7, 2026)
His absence was particularly notable during the main funeral procession through Tehran on Monday, where three of Ali Khamenei‘s sons-Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud-were shown praying beside the family‘s coffins. Mojtaba did not appear alongside them, nor has he delivered a public speech or recorded message since assuming the country‘s highest office in March.
According to reports, Iranian security officials have discouraged Mojtaba from attending the remaining funeral ceremonies because they believe he could become a target for another Israeli attack.
Officials have reportedly rejected his request to attend the final burial in Mashhad, citing continuing security threats.
‘Sixty seconds, that’s all it took’: the clinical Israeli-US operation to kill Ali Khamenei
(March 1, 2026)
The timing of the assassination was determined by information the CIA gleaned about a meeting of top Iranian officials at a leadership compound in the heart of Tehran scheduled for Saturday morning. Most critically, the CIA was able to tell Israeli counterparts that Khamenei would be at the site and the timing of the meeting, according to the New York Times.
Israeli spies had also been tracking Khamenei for many years, building a minutely detailed file on his daily routine and those of his family members, associates, allies and those charged with keeping him safe.
“The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023
56. On 24 January 2024, at around 08:30, a family was preparing to evacuate from their ground-floor apartment in a seven-storey building at al-Amal, west of Khan Younis, following receipt of an evacuation order by the Israeli security forces. The father noticed quadcopters hovering over the area and presence of the Israeli security forces about 100 meters east of their house, instructing people to head west to Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis. His 15-year-old son stepped out of the house holding a white cloth, when the father, who was inside the house, heard a gunshot from the eastern side where Israeli soldiers were located. The boy was hit in the left foot, and he fell on his face. As he attempted to stand, two more gunshots were fired within seconds from the same direction. One shot hit the boy on his back and another on the left side of his neck. Seeing this, the boy’s 20-year-old brother ran towards him and was also shot on the left side of his chest. He collapsed on top of his younger brother.
57. The victims’ mother waved her hands at the south side window to signal for an ambulance when the Israeli security forces fired bullets which hit her too, slightly injuring her in her left hand. The father tried several times to pull away the bodies of both his sons but, every time he tried to advance towards them, the Israeli security forces fired in his direction. He then left the neighbourhood with the rest of his family. In early March 2024, he learned that two days after the incident, an ambulance arrived to retrieve his sons’ bodies. To date, the family is unaware where the bodies are buried.
58. The Commission assesses that the 15-year-old boy holding the white flag was shot by Israeli soldiers using a DAN.338 calibre bolt-action sniper rifle, commonly used by Israeli snipers, from a position located around 200 metres away. Given that sniper rifles used by the Israeli security forces normally have a precision accuracy range of more than 1,200 metres, the Israeli shooter should have been able to see that the target was a child and that he was holding a white flag. The additional two shots fired after the boy was hit were likely meant to ensure that he was dead. The additional killing of the boy’s brother points to a deliberate effort by the Israeli security forces to target the boy as well as any person that came to retrieve him. The Commission could not find any indication of a threat towards members of the Israeli security forces from the family’s location. The Commission finds that the Israeli security forces’ 98th Division were operating in the area at the time of the incident.
Injuring of a 10-day-old baby by quadcopter inside the tent in Nuseirat camp
59. On 12 April 2024 at 13:00, a 10 day-old-baby boy was shot by a quadcopter while being breastfed by his mother inside their tent in Nuseirat camp. The mother was alone in the tent, breastfeeding her baby, when a single bullet from a quadcopter hit the baby in the head and exited through the back of his head, hitting the pillow behind her. The baby survived but sustained brain injuries and now suffers from seizures.
60. The Commission viewed and analysed images of the bullet that hit the baby. The Commission concluded on reasonable grounds that the bullet was fired from a sniper rifle mounted on a quadcopter. Considering that the shooting occurred in broad daylight, the
Commission concludes that the quadcopter controller would have been able to see inside the tent and assesses that the target was a mother and a baby.
Injuring of a four-year-old girl in Khan Younis displacement camp
61. On 24 August 2024, at around 08:00, a four-year-old girl was hit by a bullet to her head while she was eating with her family in her tent in Khan Younis, southern Gaza…………..
HRC Press Conference: Commission of Inquiry (COI) on OPT, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
Press conference with the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, to launch their latest report.
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Speakers:
– Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission
– Florence Mumba, Commissioner
– Chris Sidoti, Commissioner
Israel continues to commit genocide, atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children, UN independent commission finds
Last year, the commission concluded that “Israel had committed genocide against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip, found that the intense scale and systematic nature of the Israeli military operations have continued, resulting in unprecedented death, injury and trauma of Palestinian children.”
Here are some findings in the commission’s latest report:
– Israel has killed 20,000 children and injured 44,000 more since 7 October 2023
– Severe physical and mental injuries, mass trauma, orphanhood, separation, disability, repeated displacements, starvation and the collapse of education and healthcare have erased childhood and will continue to affect children in Gaza throughout their lives
– Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, with no information on their whereabouts
– Israeli security forces have used sexual violence against children as part of the collective shaming and oppression, entrenched within a prolonged, ethnic, gendered and intergenerational pattern of occupation and hostilities
Israeli attack on car in Lebanon’s Tyre kills five
(9 min ago)
The death toll from an Israeli car attack in Tyre, southern Lebanon, has risen to five, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
The victims included Ali Muhammad Dahini and his son Rabih from the town of Toura.
Lebanese Civil Defence teams and the Al-Risala Health Ambulance Association transferred the dead and wounded to hospitals in the area.
The latest killing brings today’s death toll from Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon to at least 10.
McIver Speaks out Against Unlawful Abuse Against Protestors and Detainees at Delaney
(May 28, 2026)
“I’m hearing from advocates and families on the ground reports of ICE pepper spraying and beating detainees inside Delaney Hall. I have seen the horrific conditions and spoken to those inside about the disgusting food, lack of medical care, and violent and unsanitary conditions as recently as this week. With demoted former USCBP Commander Greg Bovino’s announcement that he is coming to Newark today and his threats online to tear gas our community, I have even more concern that he will only escalate the chaos at Delaney,” said McIver. “More ICE violence has never made a situation safer. The only solution to stop the abuse at Delaney Hall and quell this terror nationwide is to shut down the facility and abolish ICE. We will keep standing up to this administration’s terror campaign and we will keep fighting for justice.”
On Monday, McIver made her fourth visit to Delaney Hall. The chaos created by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during McIver’s first visit to Delaney Hall, led to the Trump administration bringing baseless charges against her for conducting oversight. Her second visit came on the heels of the death of Jean Wilson Brutus in ICE custody. Her third visit was following the release of the S.O.S. letter signed by 300 detainees.