Many of the city’s newly constructed buildings, including swanky digs with top-dollar rents, are mired in violations and complaints.

On Tuesday, March 10, a massive explosion shook the city of Beit Shemesh, just outside Jerusalem, in yet another Iranian ballistic missile attack during the ongoing war. Rescue services scrambled to the scene in search of possible casualties, though as it turned out, the projectile had struck a forested area just outside the city, around 500 meters from homes. On The Times of Israel’s liveblog that day, I reported that the missile had hit an open area and no injuries were caused, citing the rescue services, as well as footage that emerged showing the massive explosion caused by the missile’s warhead. But what I thought was a seemingly minor incident during the war has turned into days of harassment and death threats against me.

Trump’s decision last summer to launch a mission to strike three Iranian nuclear sites, known as Operation Midnight Hammer, convinced him that he could bomb Iran, absorb a brief backlash and then personally dictate the off-ramp, U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter said.

In an interview this week, Graham Platner started to push back instead, defending the tattoo as merely a 'skull-and-crossbones' and 'an eminently reasonable thing'.

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Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has also constricted the rights of pregnant women.

After about two days of deliberation, the 12 jurors found Benjamin Song alone was guilty of attempted murder, but defendants were convicted of rioting and other charges.

On Peru’s arid coast, some ancient elites signaled their power and standing by wearing headdresses festooned with brilliantly colored feathers from birds found in distant rainforests. A study out today in Nature Communications reveals how they acquired these showy ornaments more than 800 years ago: from wild Amazonian parrots captured hundreds of kilometers away in the Amazon and transported, live, high over the Andes. “It’s extraordinary the effort people went to, to obtain these prestigious objects that didn’t have anything to do with food or subsistence,” says Calogero Santoro, an archaeologist at the University of Tarapacá who was not involved in the research. The effort underscores their value, notes José Capriles, a Pennsylvania State University archaeologist who was likewise uninvolved. “Feathers were incredibly important for signaling wealth and prestige and had deep social and religious meaning for Indigenous societies across the Americas.” The feathers analyzed in the new study come from tombs of a pre-Inca culture called the Ychsma on the arid coast near present-day Lima, Peru. Feathers adorn only select Ychsma graves within a complex known as the Pachacamac necropolis. “The highest status individuals have feathers,” says Lucía Watson Jiménez, a Lima-based bioachaeologist who works with Poland’s University of Wrocław and is not involved in the new study.

The charges were later dismissed after bank records showed she was in Tennessee at the time

The videos had been posted on YouTube by groups who were suing to restore grants cut by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. [Cowards. --B.]

Just eight months in, not even the tech bros are eating there

In a new X post building on an earlier Hollywood action-clip montage, the White House tries to render the horrors of war as a Wii game.

Mainstream English-language outlets refer to the war as the “conflict in the Middle East,” as if the region just got up one morning and decided to set itself on fire.

Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

A Michigan woman is facing a felony charge after allegedly using her food stamp card to purchase ingredients for baked goods, then selling the goods to generate a profit. Authorities charged 32-year-old Talia C. Teneyuque of Saginaw, Michigan, with one count of food stamp fraud of $1,000 or more. According to MLive.com, prosecutors say that Teneyque used Facebook to market and sell baked goods from January 2022 to September 2023.

Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

The Trump administration has detained more than 900 children — including a boy with severe autism — for longer than allowed under a decades-old legal settlement.

Defectors say the movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and is now openly “cruel and fickle.”

The move was met Friday with dismay in Europe, where officials and experts feared it would aid the Russian war machine in Ukraine. The Kremlin pressed Washington to go further.

Army investigators are offering a reward of up to $5,000 as they search for whoever stole four drones from Fort Campbell.