Hassan Nasrallah, whom Israel believes it killed in a strike on southern Beirut, turned Hezbollah into one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the Middle East. His death caps a series of devastating blows for the group, already reeling from the humiliation of having its communications network comprehensively infiltrated, and suggests that one of Israel’s most formidable enemies is deeply ...
Israel’s audacious attack targeting Hezbollah’s leader on Friday has rattled the group, delivering its most severe blow since its founding. This has led its Iranian backers to warn that Israel has entered a dangerous phase of the conflict by altering the rules of engagement. As Tehran watches its most prized non-state ally take a beating, questions are mounting about how it may ...
A new rocket thruster could enable “never-ending” voyages into deep space by using any type of metal as fuel. A team at the University of Southampton is testing a new propulsion system which would allow metals found on comets and moons to be harvested in order to propel a spacecraft indefinitely. Most current rocket propulsion systems for spacecraft that have ...
NEW YORK — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed during a fiery address to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that his country would continue its military operation in Lebanon in defiance of a U.S. cease-fire proposal demanding a temporary halt in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. His swaggering, bellicose remarks included a warning to all of Israel’s enemies, namely ...
Former president Donald Trump is promoting $100,000 watches branded after him as he seeks a return to the White House, the latest — and priciest — product he has helped sell in a string of unusual for-profit enterprises for a presidential candidate. The Trump Victory Tourbillon is “almost entirely made out of 18 Carat Gold and decorated with 122 Diamonds,” ...
Among the allegations included in a federal indictment made public on Thursday is that prospective donors to New York Mayor Eric Adams were encouraged to avoid contribution limits by using straw donors, people who’d receive money from the actual contributor and give it to Adams under their own name. This allegedly helped Adams increase his contribution total and, as a ...
“It [the 2019 impeachment] was over a phone call with the president, and … he could have grandstanded and played cute. But he didn’t do that. He said President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong. He said it loud and clear.” —Former president Donald Trump, remarks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Trump Tower, Sept. 27 Zelensky was largely silent and ...
U.S. officials on Friday said they have agreed to a two-stage shift in the American military presence in Iraq that will allow for continued operations against Islamic State militants in Syria, but pointedly disputed Baghdad’s earlier assertions that a near-total withdrawal is underway. The announcement, coming two weeks after the Iraqi government said it had reached a deal with the ...
With fewer than six weeks left until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is significantly outspending Donald Trump’s on television and digital advertising, according to a new report from the Wesleyan Media Project released this week. Over the past two weeks, Harris’s campaign and supporting groups spent nearly $73 million on almost 73,000 broadcast television ads promoting her White ...
It’s been evident for some time that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) underwent a politically convenient evolution on Donald Trump. A staunch critic of Trump when he first ran for president in 2016, Vance gradually reinvented himself publicly and then fully embraced Trump for his own Senate race in 2022 — when he needed the votes of Trump supporters in a ...