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Quote:President Trump signed an executive order Monday designating the shadowy, left-wing group Antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,” according to the White House.
The order comes after Trump teased slapping a terror label on the radical “anti-fascist” group last week.
“I hereby designate Antifa as a ‘domestic terrorist organization,’” read the president’s order.
“All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations – especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa provided material support, including necessary investigatory and prosecutorial actions against those who fund such operations.”
The president cited Antifa’s “pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law,” in making the designation.
Quote:President Trump urged pregnant women Monday to stop taking Tylenol, saying studies have shown that taking the common painkiller is associated with autism in children.
“With Tylenol, don’t take it! Don’t take it,” Trump told reporters from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in which he gave his opinion about pregnancy, women’s health, vaccinations, drug safety and autism.
He added: “Ideally, you don’t take it all, but if you have to, if you can’t tough it out, if there’s a problem, you’re going to end up doing it.”
Trump said that the only time pregnant women should take Tylenol, a common form of acetaminophen, is during a high-risk fever.
The new recommendation is at odds with physician groups, who say the drug — which has been on the market for 70 years — is safe. More than 50% of women report taking the drug during pregnancy, because it has long been regarded as the safest analgesic.
However, the Trump administration is pointing to a growing body of research that suggests a connection between autism in children and the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy.
In particular, a Mount Sinai and Harvard University study published in August reviewed the existing literature and concluded that a large majority of studies on the topic found autism diagnosis was more likely for expectant mothers who took acetaminophen.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is also recommending children who are exhibiting signs of autism take leucovorin, which helps correct folate deficiencies. Low levels of folate in pregnant mothers have been associated with neurological disorders in children, some studies show.
While not a cure, HHS said the drug may lead to speech improvements for children with autism.
The FDA will be updating the label on acetaminophen to relay the risk in pregnancy and will be sending out a letter to all doctors with the warning.
Quote:Jill Biden’s ex-spokesman Monday revealed how “mean girls” ruled a White House “cult” that once shielded the former first lady and her husband — griping that the “Biden Bubble was full of bullies.’’
Former Jill Biden rep Michael LaRosa, in a scathing Fox News op-ed, credited former Vice President Kamala Harris for exposing the bullying tactics in her new book, which is set to be released Tuesday.
“Harris’s forthcoming book, according to recently released excerpts, says what insiders whispered for years: the Biden bubble was full of bullies,” LaRosa wrote — adding that the veep was “finally saying the quiet part out loud.
“Inside the White House, the Regina Georges of Biden’s circle ruled like mean girls and policed loyalty,” he said, referring to actress Rachael McAdams’ nasty character in the hit flick “Mean Girls.”
“Staff weren’t serving a president and first lady — they were serving a cult,” LaRosa said. “You never knew when Regina was in charge or when the Bidens were. It was all blurred.
“Joe and Jill Biden were warm, decent, empathetic,” LaRosa recalled. “But they enabled some of the nastiest and most mean-spirted people I’ve ever encountered in politics. That contradiction defines the Biden era.”
“Biden’s final mission, he said, was to save the country from Trump — who Democrats consider to be the ultimate bully,” LaRosa went on. “But bullies are everywhere, even among Democrats, and despite his brand — even around Biden.”
LaRosa did not mention any specific names in his blistering op-ed.
Then-President Joe Biden had famously vowed in 2021 that “If you’re ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot.”
Quote:Jimmy Kimmel will be back on air Tuesday — but he won’t be apologizing for his false claim last week that Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer was part of the “MAGA gang,” The Post has learned.
The $15 million-per-year ABC late-night host negotiated his return to the airwaves directly with Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger and his No. 2, Disney Entertainment Co-Chair Dana Walden, sources with knowledge of the situation told The Post.
Kimmel will address the controversy during his monologue on Tuesday though he will stop short of apologizing, the sources said.
It’s not clear whether ABC’s two biggest station owners will carry the program after they pushed to yank him from the airways for the Sept. 15 comments about Kirk’s assassination.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns dozens of ABC affiliates, had publicly demanded Kimmel apologize to Kirk’s family and pledge a donation to Turning Point USA, the activist group Kirk founded.
The company signaled it could preempt the program if those conditions were not met. Nexstar Media Group also threatened to pull the show unless Disney acted.
Andrew Kolvet, chief spokesperson for Turning Point USA, wrote on X: “Disney and ABC caving and allowing Kimmell back on the air is not surprising, but it’s their mistake to make. Nexstar and Sinclair do not have to make the same choice.”
The Post has sought comment from Sinclair and Nexstar.
Quote:Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr on Monday rejected accusations that the government forced Disney to sideline Jimmy Kimmel — insisting the late-night host’s suspension instead stemmed from weak ratings.
“Jimmy Kimmel is in the situation that he is in because of his ratings, not because of anything that’s happened at the federal government level,” Carr said at a forum in New York.
Carr has faced bipartisan backlash since last week, when he told podcaster Benny Johnson: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday the comments were “absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this.”
“Any attempt by the government to get involved with speech — I will fight,” Paul added.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Carr’s warning was “right out of Goodfellas,” likening it to a mobster shaking down a bar owner.
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner called it “out-of-control intimidation” and said the network’s compliance raised questions about executives’ “political or financial self-interest.”
The White House defended the suspension.
“Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talent loser who has beclowned himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his audience,” spokesperson Steven Cheung told The Post.
Quote:Twin Long Island financial advisors swindled dozens of their clients out of more $5 million — including a blind woman duped into taking out a loan she didn’t actually need, the feds charged as their trial opened Monday.
Brothers Adam and Daniel Kaplan, 36, spent years lying to as many as 50 clients about investments and profit margins, forging bank records and checks, and pocketing the ill-gotten proceeds, federal prosecutors said.
“Adam and Daniel Kaplan stole millions and millions of dollars from their clients,” Assistant US Attorney Rebecca Urquiola told jurors in US District Court in Central Islip.
“From 2018 to 2021, Adam and Daniel worked as financial advisors,” Urquiola said.
“You will learn that Adam and Daniel defrauded their clients,” the prosecutor continued. “First by funneling money directly into their [personal] accounts. When funneling money directly to their bank accounts, the client would see on their bank statement that it would say, ‘Kaplan Sale.'”
The siblings were first charged with a 16-count indictment in July 2023, and Adam Kaplan was hit with two more counts in a superseding complaint in February for allegedly trying to intimidate witnesses and destroy evidence from April 2023 to last September.
Prosecutors said the Kaplans’ clients were duped into signing agreements that charged a 1% commission — but would instead charge the unsuspecting investors two or three times more.
In one instance, they allegedly forged a client’s $3,000 check, turning it into a $23,000 payment.
Quote:The owner of the New Hampshire country club where a deranged gunman allegedly opened fire at a wedding Saturday, killing one and wounding two others, slammed the shooter as a “coward” following a brief court hearing.
Hunter Nadeau, who reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” before opening fire at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, appeared briefly by video in a courtroom Monday where a judge asked him a few questions and set a probable cause hearing for Oct. 21.
He is charged with murdering Robert DeCesare, 59, who his wife said died trying to protect her and their daughter.
Club owner and longtime Nashua resident Rob Parsons said outside court after that he and everyone in the community are “heartbroken” over the weekend’s attack.
“This is the heinous act of a coward who will be held accountable for what he did,” Parsons said. “We will not let the cowardly acts of this perpetrator define us nor this community.”
Parsons said he’d spoken with DeCesare’s wife of 27 years, Charlene DeCesare. The couple are longtime members of the club, and she said she wouldn’t move from her and her husband’s home at Sky Meadow despite the tragedy.
“She wanted me to first say, ‘Everyone needs to know I am not leaving Sky Meadow and I’m not leaving this community. This is my solace, this is my home … and I’m staying,’” Parsons recounted the wife saying.
Quote:A Sacramento man who allegedly opened fire on the offices of a local ABC affiliate in a brazen drive-by shooting had handwritten notes in his car railing against President Trump and a bizarre calendar memo reminding him to “do the next scary thing,” prosecutors said Monday.
Anibal Hernandez Santana, 64, had a calendar note on his refrigerator to “do the next scary thing” dated Sept. 19, the day he allegedly blasted three bullets into the lobby window of ABC10’s Broadway headquarters, prosecutors announced on Monday.
Investigators also found an anti-Trump book and a handwritten note that said “For hiding Epstein and ignoring red flags” during a search of his car, Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho said.
The note mentioned FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, threatening that they were “next,” Ho added.
Hernandez Santana was arrested by local cops on Friday on state counts of assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into an occupied building, and negligent discharge of a firearm.
He was released hours later on $200,000 bail before being rearrested by the FBI on Saturday.
Hernandez Santana will also face federal charges related to interfering with a federally licensed station and discharging a firearm within a school zone, authorities announced.
Evidence points to a politically motivated crime, and “it appears that he was also looking at other places, other people,” Ho said.
Prosecutors didn’t confirm whether the shooting was related to ABC’s suspension of late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel over his controversial comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Furious protesters had lined up outside the station the previous day to demonstrate in support of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Fortunately, no protesters were outside when Hernandez Santana allegedly fired off shots just after 1:30 p.m. Friday, the Sacramento County Police Department told The Post.
Hernandez Santana first allegedly fired a shot into the air in the direction of the station, then drove to the front of the station and fired three shots directly into the building’s lobby while an employee was inside, federal authorities said.
No one was injured during the gunfire, police said.
In July, after Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” was canceled, Hernandez Santana raged online that “the authoritarian oligarchy is now complete” and urged others to “fight like hell.”
The alleged gunman, a former health policy analyst for the California Indian Health Board, posted on X the day before the shooting, seemingly wishing for Trump’s death, according to Variety.
“Where is a good heart attack when we need it the most??” the post read.
Quote:A federal judge has tossed a police brutality lawsuit filed by a Big Apple protester who claimed she was roughed up by cops during a demonstration — after NYPD bodycam showed she made it all up.
Kimberly Bernard claimed she was manhandled by New York’s Finest on May 8, 2023, and was left bruised, battered and bleeding outside an NYPD stationhouse while protesting the subway chokehold death of vagrant Jordan Neely one week earlier, court records show.
But US District Court Judge Denise Cote said in her Aug. 28 decision that police bodycam footage and eyewitness accounts didn’t back up Bernard’s story — and dismissed the claims.
“Bernard’s claims of excessive force are utterly discredited by the body camera footage submitted in connection with this motion,” the judge wrote in the 20-page decision.
“That footage clearly shows that there was no visible injury to her face, arms or shoulders during more than a half hour following her arrest,” Cote wrote. “The video footage also shows that the handcuffs were loosely hanging at Bernard’s wrists, such that she was able to freely slide them up her wrists.”
Bernard’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ruling.
The mother of three identifies herself as an organizer and activist on her online profiles, speaking at a 2021 demonstration at Washington Square Park and taking part in a 2020 “Black Lives Matter” march on Washington DC as co-founder of Black Woman’s March, according to reports.
Her more recent brush with the law began on May 6, 2023,when she joined a crowd of demonstrators at the Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street station to protest Neely’s death after a transit clash with ex-Marine Daniel Penny five days earlier.
Penny was eventually arrested but later acquitted of wrongdoing.
Bernard allegedly jumped onto the subway tracks, holding up Q train service for an hour.
Although she was not busted then, cops allegedly recognized her from surveillance footage two days later, when she joined a new crowd of demonstrators outside the 7th Precinct station house in Manhattan — and arrested her for the earlier trespassing.
She claimed in her federal lawsuit, filed on Aug. 7, 2024, seeking $150,000 that cops “forcibly grabbed” her and “shoved her into a brick building façade before pinning her against the wall.
“As a result of defendants’ conduct, Ms. Bernard has suffered physical and emotional injuries, pain and suffering, the effects of which are ongoing,” the lawsuit said. “The full extent of Ms. Bernard’s injuries is not yet known.”
Her lawsuit names the city, NYPD brass and more than a dozen unidentified police officers.
However, the judge said that bodycam footage “depicts a different version of events.”
Quote:A drug-dealing Long Island couple was caught with enough fentanyl to kill more than 42,000 people — in an operation so sprawling it’s “almost incomprehensible,” authorities said Monday.
Caleb Moran and Jessica Medina-Rivas, both 28, of Holbrook were charged with 56 combined counts of the highest narcotics offenses in the state after one of the largest drug busts in Suffolk County history, officials said
“This wasn’t just a drug bust. It was a ticking time bomb sitting in the middle of a quiet neighborhood,” Suffolk DA Ray Tierney said — as the suspects were arraigned and held on $2 million bail a piece.
Cops found 14 kilos of cocaine, 12 kilos of meth, thousands of pills, 3 ounces of fentanyl, black tar heroin and 20 pounds of cannabis among the stash in the pair’s home during a raid Aug. 22, Suffolk prosecutors revealed during the pair’s court hearing.
Authorities also recovered two unregistered guns in the home, a pair of bulletproof vests, blenders, digital scales, a pill press, packaging equipment, more than $118,000 in cash — and “dragon’s breath” shotgun shells that shoot out sparks, officials said.
The sprawling ring unraveled after the pair sold more than 2 ounces of coke at a time and various amounts of fentanyl to an undercover detective on five occasions over the summer, prosecutors said.
During one deal, Moran allegedly handed over fentanyl and warned the officer not to sell it “pure,” admitting the potent batch had already led to overdoses — including a fatal one.
The suspect recommended that his “buyer’’ use soap shavings to cut the lethal drug and stretch his product, authorities said.
“Two million dollars in product — among the largest seizures in Suffolk history,” county Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina told reporters.
“The scale of this alleged operation is almost incomprehensible,” he said.
Quote:President Trump on Monday shared a disturbing video of Caracas teaching civilians how to run with large assault rifles during a militia training event, as new polling indicates the majority of Venezuelans support the US leader’s crackdown on dictator Nicolas Maduro.
“TOP SECRET: We caught the Venezuelan militia in training. A very serious threat!” Trump posted to Truth Social, including a video allegedly showing the training.
It’s unclear whether the president was being sarcastic or was genuinely concerned about the mass-training of armed civilians. The training appeared disorganized with heavy shouting, and the video focused in on an overweight woman running with an AK-style rifle.
On Saturday, Caracas brought thousands of citizens in for a day of lessons on weapons handling and other “revolutionary resistance” tactics in response to Trump’s deployment of warships to the waters off Venezuela’s coast, AFP reported.
In another video, allegedly of the civilian training, ordinary Venezuelans are seen handling guns and being guided by uniformed troops who can be heard telling participants to “aim at Trump.”
The ships first deployed about a month ago and are backed by a deployment of F-35 fighter jets in Puerto Rico. Their mission is to counter Venezuela’s drug operations, and the Navy has killed 14 narcoterrorists in at least two strikes on Venezuelan drug boats since Sept. 2.
Venezuela’s president has accused Trump of seeking regime change in his country with his amped-up military pressure, which the US leader has denied.
The US does not recognize Maduro’s leadership as legitimate and this summer placed a $50 million bounty on his head related to outstanding drug charges he faces in New York.
Most Venezuelans do not consider Maduro legitimately elected after stealing the past two elections, most recently in July 2024, according to a survey by global strategic advisory firm Panterra exclusively shared with The Post.
UKRAINE WAR
Quote:Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would uphold the restrictions on nuclear weapons agreed under the New START Treaty with the U.S. for one year after it expires in February 2026.
Newsweek has contacted the State Department for comment.
Putin, speaking in Russian in comments broadcast live from a meeting of the Kremlin's Security Council on Monday, warned that its lapsing means the "imminent disappearance of the last international agreement on direct limitations of missile-nuclear potential."
The erosion of arms control agreements raises the risk of a nuclear war at a time when tensions between NATO and Russia escalate over Ukraine and a series of alleged airspace violations by Russian military aircraft, including those of allies Estonia and Poland.
Putin: New START Rejection 'Shortsighted'
Russia suspended the New START Treaty in February 2023 after the U.S. accused Moscow of being in violation of it, in particular Moscow's alleged failure to uphold the mutual monitoring elements of the agreement around inspections.
"A complete rejection of the legacy of this treaty would, in many respects, be a mistaken and shortsighted step—one that, in our opinion, would also negatively affect the objectives of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons," Putin said.
"To avoid provoking a further arms race, and to ensure an acceptable level of predictability and restraint, we consider it justified to attempt to preserve, at this turbulent stage, the framework that has been established thanks to New START."
The Kremlin has described NATO as at war with Russia, though neither side has declared war against the other. Russia has also said NATO allies have not provided evidence that it committed airspace violations.
Nuclear Arms Treaty Suspension
The New START, signed by then-Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers.
Its looming expiration and the lack of dialogue on anchoring a successor deal have worried arms control advocates.
The agreement envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance, but they have been dormant since 2020.
In February 2023, Putin suspended Moscow's participation in the treaty, saying Russia could not allow U.S. inspections of its nuclear sites at a time when Washington and its NATO allies have openly declared Moscow's defeat in Ukraine as their goal.
Moscow has emphasized, however, that it wasn't withdrawing from the pact altogether and would continue to respect the caps on nuclear weapons the treaty set.
Quote:Ukraine’s elite “Ghost” unit attacked a Russian Black Sea fleet, destroying a pair of amphibious war planes for the first time in the war, officials said Monday.
Ukraine’s military intelligence service (HUR) said the Ghosts carried out the operation on Sunday, aiming at Moscow’s naval aviation equipment parked in the occupied Crimea peninsula.
Footage from the strike shows how drones swooped over the military base and slammed into the Be-12 “Chaika” warplanes, with the assault also taking out an Mi-8 helicopter.
“This is the first ever destruction of Be-12 aircraft in history,” the HUR touted on social media.
The Be-12 Chaika (“seagull” in Russia) is a Soviet-era amphibious plane still in use along the Black Sea that can detect and take out enemy submarines.
The HUR did not reveal any more information about the strike in Crimea. The assault could not be independently verified.
The strike comes shortly after Ukraine claimed to have taken out another three Russian Mi-8 choppers and a radar station operating in Crimea.
The weekend assaults mark only the latest in Kyiv’s attacks on Russia’s Black Sea fleet, with Ukrainian soldiers destroying a spate of helicopters, radars and other military equipment earlier this month.
Quote:Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump's new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, delivered his first remarks before the Security Council on Monday after months of delays and procedural hurdles held up his confirmation. He was confirmed late last week.
Waltz spoke during an emergency session of the council on Russia's recent incursion into Estonian airspace.
"As we said nine days ago, the United States stands by our NATO allies in the face of these airspace violations," said Waltz, a former Republican congressman.
"I want to take this first opportunity to repeat and to emphasize: The United States and our allies will defend every inch of NATO territory."
Trump Set for 'Major' UN Speech
Trump will travel to New York City later Monday ahead of what White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described as a "major speech" Tuesday at the United Nations on the "renewal of American strength around the world" under his leadership.
Leavitt said Trump will also meet individually with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, along with the leaders of Ukraine, Argentina and the European Union. He is scheduled to hold a group session with officials from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
The president will return to Washington after hosting a reception Tuesday night for more than 100 world leaders.
White House Reacts to Russia's Nuclear Weapons Update
The White House on Monday said a Russian proposal to extend a nuclear arms control treaty by one year "sounds pretty good."
Leavitt told reporters that Trump is aware of President Vladimir Putin's offer to prolong the pact, which limits both nations' nuclear arsenals.
She added that while the president views the idea favorably, he plans to address it himself during an Oval Office appearance later Monday tied to an unrelated announcement on autism.
EUROPE
Quote:Russia is trying to interfere in Moldova's parliamentary elections and disrupt its ambitions to join the European Union, according to media investigations.
Bloomberg reported a Kremlin plot to undermine the chances of Moldovan President Maia Sandu's Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) and ultimately remove her from power.
A separate probe by the BBC found that a Russia-funded network was trying to influence the outcome of the ballot on September 28 in which pro-Russian parties are challenging Sandu's party.
Russia has repeatedly denied interfering in foreign elections and said claims that it meddled in last year's presidential ballot in Moldova were a result of "Russiaphobia."
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A former Soviet republic, Moldova is a battleground between pro-European and pro-Russian forces whose strategic significance is amplified by the presence of Russian troops in its breakaway state of Transnistria, which is under Moscow's occupation, according to the Council of Europe.
The pro-European Sandu won the presidential election last year in a ballot beset by accusations that Moscow had bought votes, funneled cash through proxies to voters and used social media to sow fears about EU membership.
Reports that Russia is trying to disrupt Moldova's parliamentary elections this month will add to concerns about Moscow's intentions for the wider region following its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
What To Know
Bloomberg said it obtained documents that showed Moscow's plans to disrupt Moldova's parliamentary election on September 28.
Aiming to undermine the PAS and Sandu's plans for EU accession, the plot included recruiting Moldovans abroad to vote, deploying others to stage disruptive protests, and a disinformation campaign on social media.
Another plan from Russian President Vladimir Putin's executive office involved the use of compromising material to pressure public officials to disrupt the electoral process, according to Bloomberg.
The outlet said it could not confirm whether the plans were being implemented as the election campaign in Moldova ended this week, but two unnamed European government officials said it was "almost certain" they would be carried out.
In a separate investigation, the BBC said it had uncovered a Russian-funded network that offered payments to people willing to spread pro-Russian propaganda and fake news aimed at discrediting Sandu's party.
The BBC said it found links between the network and fugitive pro-Kremlin oligarch Ilan Shor, who is sanctioned by the U.S. for "the Kremlin's malign influence operations" and the non-profit organization Evrazia.
Participants were paid to recruit supporters of pro-Russian opposition parties and conduct so-called polls on behalf of a non-existent organization, the BBC said.
Moldova has started talks to enter the EU and Sandu's party has promised to kick-start the process. But her party faces a challenge this month from several groups, including the nominally pro-EU Alternative Bloc and a pro-Russian party led by former Moldovan President Igor Dodon.
Bloomberg reported that documents showed Dodon had allegedly asked security services to monitor political opponents while in office, although Dodon has denied any wrongdoing.
In an open letter on social media, Dodon also accused the current government of illegally pressuring opposition parties.
Law enforcement agencies carried out more than 250 searches across the country in an investigation into plans to incite mass unrest and destabilization, Moldovan news outlet NewsMaker reported.
Quote:A German shop owner in the northern city of Flensburg posted a sign on Wednesday that Jews are banned from entering his store, sparking outrage among state officials in Schleswig-Holstein.
Hans-Velten Reisch, the 60-year-old owner of the store that sells Gothic-Utensils and technical literature, posted a sign that reads, “Jews are banned from entering here! Nothing personal. No antisemitism. Just can’t stand you.”
Germany’s largest daily newspaper, Bild, reported on Thursday that Reisch defended his anti-Jewish sign.
He told the paper that “I watch the news every evening. And when I saw what the Jews were doing in the Gaza Strip, I lost my temper and printed out the poster.”
Israel launched a defensive war against the Hamas terrorist movement in Gaza after Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 people on October 7, 2023, including American citizens.
Reisch said the police told him on Wednesday evening that he has to take down the poster.
The Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Culture Dorit Stenke and Gerhard Ulrich, the state’s controversial antisemitism commissioner, took Reisch to task for his reported antisemitism, issuing a joint statement on the state government’s website.
“A sign that denies Jews access to a store is a frightening signal and an attack on the principles of our free coexistence,” Stenke said in the statement. She continued, “We cannot allow such things to continue in our society and must take decisive action against it together. Antisemitism is a threat to our democracy and must not be tolerated in any form.”
MIDDLE EAST
Quote:Tehran and Moscow are set to sign a deal in the coming days for Russia to construct new nuclear power stations in Iran, according to Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
Eslami confirmed the imminent deal to Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). Russia and Iran have long cooperated on nuclear power.
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The agreement underscores the deepening strategic partnership between Iran and Russia, two nations under heavy international sanctions. Expanding nuclear energy capacity remains a central priority for Tehran, while Moscow's involvement strengthens its role in Iran's energy infrastructure and broader industrial projects.
The deal comes amid heightened regional tensions. During the 12-day war with Israel earlier this year, the United States bombed three of Iran's nuclear sites, demonstrating the vulnerability of Iran's nuclear infrastructure and the strategic stakes for all parties involved.
In this context, Tehran's cooperation with Moscow is closely observed by international actors, given its implications for energy production, regional security, and the broader geopolitical alignment in the Middle East.
What To Know
Eslami arrived in Moscow on Monday to lead a delegation to World Atomic Week, stating that his trip would include visits to factories and meetings with scientific and research institutes aimed at strengthening collaboration. He highlighted Iran's plan to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power, with Russia assigned a key role in developing new plants. Construction of the second and third units of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is already underway.
Bushehr, located on Iran's Gulf coast, was initially started with German assistance in the 1970s but was completed with Russian support, making it Iran's first and only operational nuclear facility. Eslami emphasized that these projects are a priority for both Tehran and Moscow, with ongoing negotiations expected to accelerate progress.
Quote:Three Palestinians accused of “collaborating” with Israel were executed by masked Hamas terrorists in front of a cheering crowd in Gaza on Sunday.
Ghastly footage of the killings, originally posted on a Hamas-affiliated Telegram group, shows the three doomed blindfolded men kneeling on the ground in front of a trio of Hamas gunmen holding automatic weapons as a fourth loudly reads in Arabic from a piece of paper.
“Pursuant to the content of Palestinian revolutionary law and based on the Palestinian revolutionary court, a death sentence was decided against those who betrayed the homeland, betrayed their people and betrayed their cause, and put [themselves] hand-in-hand with the occupation in order to kill their own people,” the terroristsaid, according to an English-language translation provided to the Telegraph by The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis.
The crowd can be heard chanting “Allahu Akbar!” — a Muslim prayer meaning “God is most great” — seemingly cheering on the brutal executions.
All three men were then shot in their heads and upper bodies, with the terrorists placing notes on their corpses reading, “Your betrayal will not pass without punishment. A harsh punishment awaits” in handwritten Arabic, the outlet said.
Hamas’ ministry of the interior called the men a “group of outlaws” who had collaborated with the Jewish state.
Take in consideration that Arab speakers have 2 distinct opinions on the meaning of Allah. The other interpretation is that's a proper name and can't be translated as God nor god.
Quote:The Israel Defense Forces is advancing into Gaza City, targeting Hamas’s main stronghold, with troops engaged in combat against terrorists both above and below ground, IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said on Sunday.
“Hamas has shown the world its true strategy: to exploit its own people and prolong this war,” said Defrin.
“Our forces are working day and night, turning over every stone, to bring our hostages home, dismantle Hamas’s terror networks, and secure a safer region for all,” he added.
Over the past week, Hamas had demonstrated its tactics by firing on a U.N. team, using stolen United Nations vehicles to obstruct the building of a new road for aid deliveries and robbing four UNICEF trucks at gunpoint, depriving thousands of infants of baby formula, said Defrin.
Hamas continues to block civilians from leaving combat zones, choosing to sacrifice Gaza’s residents rather than protecting them, he added.
The IDF has carried out a wide-scale operation to warn civilians and move them away from the fighting, using tools such as voice messages, leaflet drops, text messages and phone calls.
The military said it concurrently designated a humanitarian area in Khan Yunis and was working to expand related infrastructure in southern Gaza, including field hospitals, water pipelines, desalination facilities and the continued delivery of food, tents, medicine and medical equipment.
Defrin noted that tons of supplies were waiting at the Kerem Shalom crossing for collection by the United Nations and other international organizations, calling on them to deliver the aid directly to Gazans.
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Quote:Freed American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander is headed back to the Holy Land to fight against the very terrorists who held him captive for nearly 600 days.
Alexander, who has Israeli parents but grew up in northern New Jersey, announced his plans to return to the Middle East next month to rejoin the Israeli Defense Forces.
“Next month, God willing, I will return to Israel,” Alexander revealed during a dinner this week in Manhattan for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
He said serving Israel is “one of the greatest honors of my life.”
“I will once again put on the IDF uniform, and I will proudly serve alongside my brothers,” he told the more than 1,000 attendees.
“My story does not end with survival — it continues with service,” he said, as the crowd cheered him on,” according to northjersey.com.
Alexander, 21, was the last living US hostage being held by Hamas when he was released in May. He was among a dozen Americans taken hostage by the terror group on Oct. 7, 2023.
Alexander, who was serving in the IDF, was abducted from a military outpost near Kibbutz Nirim in southern Israel.
They kept Alexander holed up in Gaza for the next 584 days and occasionally used him as a pawn for propaganda videos and images. He was also interrogated and beaten by members of Hamas’ military wing.
“I fought every single day to survive in captivity, in the tunnels, in the darkness,” he explained, calling his days as a hostage “the hardest days of my life — days of struggle, pain, and separation from my family.
“While I am free, many others are still in captivity,” he added. “Their nightmare continues. Their families still wait. We cannot forget them. We cannot stop until they are all home.
FAR EAST
Quote:Japan—a key United States ally near Russia, China and North Korea—may consider developing nuclear-powered submarines amid threats posed by regional adversaries.
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Under the U.S. island chain strategy, Japan forms part of a north-south defensive line known as the first island chain, which helps Washington project military power to keep its adversaries—Russia, China and North Korea—at bay and deter aggression.
Nuclear-powered submarines have operational advantages because they offer virtually unlimited endurance, speed and range. Both Russia and China operate this type of submarine, while North Korea has reportedly received Russian help to develop its own.
Japan's potential development of nuclear-powered submarines comes as the Pentagon maintains a submarine presence in the western Pacific to bolster its defense posture.
What To Know
An expert panel formed by Japan's Defense Ministry to explore ways to strengthen the country's defense capabilities submitted a report to Defense Minister Gen Nakatani on Friday, calling for the development of advanced submarines, according to local media.
The report also highlighted the need to consider "next-generation propulsion systems." While it did not explicitly mention nuclear propulsion, The Asahi Shimbun reported that previous panel discussions suggested the term refers to "compact nuclear reactors."
Japan's defense white paper, released earlier this year, reported that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) operated 22 nonnuclear submarines as of March 31. The fleet is divided into the Oyashio, Soryu and Taigei classes, according to the JMSDF.
In addition to extended-range and long-duration capabilities, the advanced submarines proposed by the expert panel should be equipped with the vertical launching system (VLS) to fire long-range missiles for counterstrikes, directly striking enemy territory.
According to the defense outlet Naval News, a VLS-equipped submarine can enhance interoperability with the U.S. Navy, which equips most of its submarines with VLS-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles—a weapon of which Japan has acquired 400.
CENTRAL ASIA
Quote:The Taliban has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's demand to hand over Bagram air base, emphasizing Afghanistan's sovereignty.
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Bagram, located 50 kilometers, around 30 miles, north of Kabul, was the largest U.S. military installation in Afghanistan and served as the main hub for operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Control over the base carries both strategic and symbolic significance.
Trump's push to regain the site highlights ongoing geopolitical tensions and the continuing influence of U.S. policy decisions on Afghanistan. The base's location in northern Afghanistan gives it strategic significance, particularly in the context of regional security and proximity to China.
What to Know
On Sunday, Fasihuddin Fitrat, chief of staff at the Ministry of Defense told Afghan channel Tolo News, "We assure the people of Afghanistan that no agreement over even an inch of our soil is possible," directly rebuffing Trump's claim. Bagram has been under Taliban control since the U.S. and allied troops withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
Fitrat and the Taliban emphasized that Afghanistan's independence and territorial integrity are non-negotiable. Afghanistan issued a statement reaffirming its commitment to a "balanced, economy-oriented foreign policy" grounded in Islamic principles and mutual interests, noting that the Islamic Emirate seeks constructive relations with all states.
The statement also cited the 2020 Doha Agreement, under which the U.S. pledged not to use or threaten force against Afghanistan or interfere in its internal affairs, adding that Washington must remain faithful to these commitments.
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My Original Stories (available in English and Spanish)
List of Compiled Binary Executables I have published...
HiddenChest & Roole
Give me a free copy of your completed game if you include at least 3 of my scripts!
Just some scripts I've already published on the board...
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