What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 2023, and if you place what’s happening in the wider historical context of colonialism and anticolonial resistance, what’s most remarkable is that anyone in 2023 should be still surprised that conditions of absolute violence, domination, suffocation, and control produce appalling violence in turn.

General Dynamics and Raytheon execs tell investors that Israel’s war on Gaza will mean more business.

The Supreme Court’s new term opened this week with the extreme actions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit looming over the entire term. Among the most alarming cases to arise is the first major gun-safety challenge that will test the court’s new Second Amendment doctrine, adopted last year. Hanging in the balance of United States v. Rahimi, and less remarked upon than the Second Amendment implications, is the modern movement against intimate partner violence. The verdict will bring home how the court treats contemporary progress against endemic violence with the lives of real people literally in the crosshairs. Guns play an outsized role in the lethality of intimate partner violence. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reports that the presence of a firearm in the home increases the risk of homicide between 500 percent and 1,000 percent. While gender violence is a global epidemic, the Giffords Law Center estimates that women in the United States are 21 times more likely to die from guns than women in other high-income countries. Women of color are harmed at disproportionately higher rates. The consequences of firearms inside the home ripple outside immediately: In almost 50 percent of mass shootings, the perpetrator first shot an intimate partner or family member. As an unrepentant abuser, Zackey Rahimi is a far cry from the model citizens recruited for prior gun-rights cases. After assaulting his girlfriend in a parking lot in 2019, Rahimi shot at a witness. The domestic violence protective order issued against him by a Texas state court in February 2020 prohibited the possession and use of firearms. But Rahimi subsequently participated in five separate shootings over a two-month period, leading to a search at his house where police discovered several firearms. Rahimi’s continued gun possession violated his protective order under the federal provision he’s now challenging

In 2015, he decided to retrain as a diver. "I have faced a lot of my fears in my life, and I decided to face this once and for all," he said. “One day, instead of dying, I may decide to just kill God.” Okene now makes underwater repairs on oil and gas facilities, and can dive to a maximum depth of 165 feet, the outlet reported, far deeper than the site of the shipwreck that almost claimed his life.

Dozens of US states, including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platforms.

A new Scholastic policy, meant to protect schools from censorship laws, was criticized as caving to book-banners’ demands.

Spotify, already notorious for its insultingly low royalty rate, is reportedly planning to pay even less to artists who don’t already get a ton of streams. Billboard reports that the giant Swedish streaming service is restructuring its royalty system and that it “will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool.” Presumably, Spotify will frame this as a way to combat fraud and to limit payments to ambient-noise generators, but it could also have a tremendous effect on the service’s role within the independent music world.

Mike Johnson’s win marked a stunning turnaround after more than three weeks of chaotic limbo in the House.

Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.

The Pacific waters south of Mexico – warmed by a strong El Niño event atop long-term climate change – are spawning yet another landfalling hurricane. As of 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Tropical Storm Otis was located about 155 miles south-southeast of Acapulco, continuing on a steady north-northwest pace at 8 mph. Otis’s top sustained winds were up to 70 mph, and the National Hurricane Center predicts that Otis will reach hurricane strength on Tuesday before making landfall on Wednesday. A Hurricane Warning was in effect for most of the coast of Guerrero state, including Acapulco. UPDATE: As confirmed by reconnaissance and satellite data, Otis intensified at a blistering pace on Tuesday, far more quickly than expected, and it poses an increasingly serious threat to the Acapulco area. As of 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Otis had top sustained winds of 160 mph, putting it in the category 5 range, with a central pressure estimated at 927 millibars. Otis is predicted by the National Hurricane Center to make landfall early Wednesday morning at category 5 strength near Acapulco. Such a landfall scenario could put all or parts of the Acapulco area in the dangerous right-hand side of Otis’s core. Otis is a fairly compact hurricane, so the most destructive winds will be confined to an area near and just east of its landfall location. The strongest hurricane known to strike Mexico’s Pacific Coast was Patricia, which made landfall as a top-end category 4 storm near Cuixmala, Jalisco, on October 23, 2015, with top sustained winds of 150 mph.

According to the new Mitt Romney biography, Sinema thinks she single-handedly saved the Senate and can now retreat to a cushy post-Congress life.

Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.

We turned to Rashid Khalidi, a scholar of modern Middle Eastern History and an editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies for over twenty years, for some perspective. Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of eight books, including, most recently, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (2020). He also served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators during peace talks in the 1990s. We spoke with Khalidi about the response — in the U.S., in the Middle East, and elsewhere — to the events of recent weeks, the history of the Zionist project, past peace processes, and the distinctions he wishes young activists were making now.

Congressman George Santos can’t stop, won’t stop lying. Earlier this month, the representative from New York added 10 criminal counts to the 13 he was originally charged with in May, with federal prosecutors alleging he stole donor identities, used their credit cards to make more than $44,000 in charges, and wired some of the money to his own personal bank account and campaign coffers. Santos is facing the very real prospect of prison time—if convicted, a minimum of two years for aggravated identity theft and a maximum of 20 years for the other counts—and the equally real prospect of losing his seat in the House. That is, if he’s not booted by his own colleagues first. This is obviously a lot to handle, but is Santos allowing the stress of it all to stop him from doing what he loves, i.e., telling completely absurd lies for sport? No, he is not! Santos, speaking to The New York Times, claimed he had a “story that nobody talks about,” that his niece was kidnapped, likely in retaliation for his public comments about the Chinese Communist Party. “You think it was China?” reporter Grace Ashford, trying to nail him down, asked. “Look, I don’t want to go into like, conspiracy theory,” he said. “But you know, if the shoe fits, right?” According to Ashford, she subsequently got in touch with a high-ranking member of law enforcement, who told her that the matter had been looked into—and that there was no evidence of any kidnapping, period, or, really, any connection to the Chinese Communist Party. “We found nothing at all to suggest it’s true,” the official told Ashford. “I’d lean into, ‘he made it up.’” “He made it up,” is, of course, a phrase that could be applied to a significant amount of Santos’s claims, from the ones about working at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs to having grandparents who fled the Holocaust and a mother who was in the South Tower on 9/11.

A Muslim teen girl was attacked while riding the New York City subway to school in what police believe may have been another hate crime attack based on the victim’s faith.

Despite paeans to the importance of seeing “both sides,” Western media has been happy to throw its support behind Israel.

Just when the congressman thought he had neutralized Trump, the former president lowered the boom.

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

The Fugees singer is claiming his defense attorney botched his closing argument by using a proprietary prototype AI program.

There are still significant doubts that the Minnesotan has the near-unanimous GOP support needed to secure the gavel from the full House.