17 Aug 2026

Qatari State Media Predicts a Muslim President in the White House “Not Far” Off
A columnist for Qatar’s state-owned daily Al-Sharq has argued that the United States is on a trajectory toward electing its first Muslim president, pointing to the Democratic Senate nomination of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan as the latest marker on a path he traces back through Barack Obama’s 2008 election and Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win in New York City.

Kushner, Hamas delegation in Egypt for talks on Gaza peace plan
A Hamas delegation held talks with Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad in Egypt on Sunday, followed by talks with US envoy Jared Kushner. Kushner had met shortly before with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in an effort to break the deadlock over the US-brockered peace plan for Gaza.

BREAKING: Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed to Appear with Cleric Who Praised Hitler’s ‘Qur’anically Correct’ Genocide of the Jews (Video)
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is scheduled to speak at the Muslim Brotherhood-linked ISNA convention in Detroit alongside Pakistani cleric Tariq Masood, who in a 2024 lecture praised Hitler’s view of the Jews as “Qur’anically correct” and justified the Holocaust by saying Hitler “did the right thing.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Reveals Disturbing Plan for Supreme Court
Yesterday at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Atlanta, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries unveiled a radical plan for “dramatic Supreme Court reform” if the Democrats retake the House of Representatives after the 2026 midterm elections.

San Antonio archbishop laicizes priest over messages calling Francis and Leo ‘usurpers’
San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller announced today that a canonical tribunal found Fr. John Mary Foster guilty of schism, declared him under latae sententiae excommunication, and dismissed him from the clerical state. The tribunal decision was issued April 20 but only revealed today. The archdiocese simultaneously prohibited all Catholics from attending Masses or activities at the Mission of Divine Mercy (MDM) in Canyon Lake and urged an end to financial support.

Iran offers reward for killing or capturing US soldier
Iran’s military is offering a reward equivalent to 285,000 kronor to anyone who captures or kills an American soldier. The background is a “large number of requests” to participate, according to Army Chief Amir Hatami, quoted by the state news agency Irna. During the US war against Iran, no US ground troops have been used, with the exception of a rescue operation in April after a downed pilot. Hatami
gave no details on how or where the hunt for American soldiers will take place.

The Houthi movement’s rise from local insurgency to Yemen’s dominant power player
From a local Islamist insurgency to an authoritarian, militarized global player, the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen has undergone an astonishing transformation. In practice, it is the closest thing Yemen has to a government, says Middle East analyst Aron Lund. There is now a fragile ceasefire between Saudi Arabia, the Saudi-backed central government and the Houthi movement. But in the wake of the Iran war, deadly attacks between the parties have flared up.

Gaza peace plan: Trump envoy Kushner meets Hamas leaders as 8 Muslim countries blame Israel for delaying peace 
Jared Kushner held a face-to-face meeting with senior Hamas leadership in Egypt on Sunday, launching a diplomatic journey to advance the U.S.-backed disarmament and peace plan that will take Kushner to Israel on Monday. After meeting Hamas leaders, including newly appointed leader Khalil al-Hayya, Kushner is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to press him to commit to taking “corresponding steps,” a source told the Axios news outlet. The United States is currently pressuring both sides to fully commit to the disarmament plan,

IDF: Senior Hezbollah commander killed in southern Lebanon in response to drone attack 
The IDF said it killed Abu Hassan Alaa, a senior commander in Hezbollah’s Badr Unit, in an overnight strike in the Deir al-Zahrani area of southern Lebanon. The military said the strike was carried out in response to Hezbollah’s explosive drone attack on IDF forces in the Ali Taher ridge area, which seriously wounded three Israeli soldiers.

America: Beware of the Islamists in your backyard 
When it comes to women’s rights, of course I stand for that in the American way of thinking. But sometimes I shake my head because I know what it’s really like to live in a society in which misogyny and subjugation of women is in its DNA. I know what it’s like to see women manipulated to become sex workers under the guise of a perverse and institutionally sanctioned Islamic formula of “temporary marriage.” I know what it’s like to fear being beaten or abused because of not wearing the mandatory hijab “properly,” or to wear makeup, pluck one’s eyebrows, or have nail polish. I know what it’s like to see women brutally tortured, their faces deliberately disfigured and teeth knocked out because in Islam a woman’s life is only worth half of that of a man.

Prominent Orthodox Rabbi: Trump Was Saved From Assassination to Destroy Iran — and Risks Losing Divine Favor if He Delays
A widely followed Orthodox lecturer has told his students that President Trump survived last year’s assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, for a specific divine purpose, that his mission is to dismantle the Iranian regime, and that he risks losing Heaven’s backing the way King Saul lost his kingship if he continues to delay. Kessin paused … and used the moment to deliver one of his sharpest public statements yet on the American president. “He’s Delaying, and He’s Making a Tremendous Mistake”

“The King is in the Field”: Israel Broke a 170-Year Rainfall Record on Shabbat
Rain fell across Jerusalem, the Judean Desert, and the Golan Heights on Saturday in amounts that have not been recorded at this time of year in over a century, breaking multiple all-time August records and sending flash floods through desert streambeds that had never flooded in August before. The Meteorological Service reported that total July-August precipitation in Jerusalem this year was the highest recorded in approximately 170 years.

Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war. Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also increasingly pummeled giant Wildberries depots, burning billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant. Those attacks have brought the war home to the Russian public nearly 4½ years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

8 Muslim countries blame Israel for ‘obstructing’ Gaza framework
The foreign ministers of eight Muslim countries on Sunday condemned Israel’s rejection of a roadmap for implementing US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, accusing Israel of obstructing efforts to end the conflict as Hamas and US officials held talks in Cairo on the framework. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates said Israel’s opposition amounted to a “direct repudiation” of the peace plan that “jeopardizes its implementation, and fundamentally undermines the collective efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace.”

Hamas demands Board of Peace compel Israel to honor Gaza peace plan
Following high-level talks in Egypt with US envoy Jared Kushner, Hamas demands the Board of Peace compel Israel to fulfill its commitments under the Gaza plan.

What Netanyahu’s ‘Islamic Republic of Britain’ remark reveals
Why would Netanyahu, a seasoned statesman who is generally careful about how he speaks publicly about other countries and is not known for slips of the tongue, make an insulting comment about Britain? And Britain was insulted. How do we know? A government spokesman labeled the remarks “completely unacceptable” and said the matter had been raised with the Israeli government.

AI agent put in charge of human workers, then decided to fire one
An artificial intelligence manager named Luna, which worked at Andon Market, a boutique lifestyle store in San Francisco, fired one of its human employees over repeated lateness. The worker was late for 17 of 23 scheduled shifts. The move was described as the first known case of a manager-level AI firing a human employee. Luna was built on Anthropic’s Claude models and managed Andon Market in San Francisco for five months as part of an experiment examining whether an AI agent could handle real-world business operations and personnel management.

The Future Of The Temple Mount: What The Bible Says About The Most Explosive Flashpoint In The Middle East
The 37-acre Temple Mount in Jerusalem is ground zero for the events of the end times, and it’s back in the headlines as the most explosive flashpoint in the Middle East—and probably the whole world. In recent days, there have been “dust-ups” at the Temple Mount that have threatened to escalate into a wider conflict. “There is another chokepoint in the region through which no oil or goods pass,” he continued. “Control over it is changing, though, and that change brings potential for yet more conflict. Jerusalem’s holiest and most contested religious site, known as Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims

REVEALED: Captured Documents Expose Hamas Plan to Build Lebanon Front Against Israel
Documents captured by IDF forces in the Gaza Strip reveal how Hamas spent years building military infrastructure in Lebanon as part of a strategic plan to open another front against Israel. According to a Kan News report citing research by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, senior Hamas officials were already discussing the establishment of a military force in Lebanon with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and a representative of Iran’s Quds Force as early as 2012. A plan was developed as part of preparations for a multi-front war against Israel that included intentions to establish combat cells, launch rockets, prepare for infiltrations into Israel, and the procurement and production of weapons.

Christian woman wrongly arrested for converting from Islam, Nigerian court rules
A Federal High Court in the Muslim-majority northern Nigeria has ruled that Islamic religious police have no authority to arrest a woman over her conversion from Islam to Christianity. The ruling curbs the reach of Hisbah, religious police units that enforce Sharia law.

Israel Threatens Return Of Lebanon War After Unleashing Deadliest Airstrikes Since Ceasefire
PM Netanyahu’s office: Hezbollah violated the ceasefire in Lebanon by attacking our soldiers in the security zone.

English Villages In Fear Over 1,200 Male Migrants Moved Next To Schools
Government pushes adult male asylum-seekers on the doorstep of primary schools and play areas…

California’s SB 934 could revive 17-year-old lawsuits against Christian counselors
Hollywood has spent decades warning us about the dangers of time travel. From “Back to the Future” to “The Butterfly Effect” and countless other films, the character who reaches back into the past to “fix” something invariably unleashes chaos in the present. Change one detail in 2009 and the future unravels in ways no one intended. The lesson is always the same: meddling with history produces severe and unpredictable consequences. Yet California’s Senate Bill 934 asks legislators, and the public, to ignore that lesson.

Nearly 1,000 aftershocks followed Indonesia earthquake that killed at least 53
Rescuers raced to find survivors after the powerful earthquake shook the Flores region on Saturday, and it was quickly followed by a 6.4 quake that struck the country’s western Sumatra island. Authorities said more than 130 residents were injured and warned that the death toll would almost certainly rise.

Why Is America Being Hit By One Catastrophic Disaster After Another?
The past few days have been insane. Hurricane Lala dumped over two feet of rain in parts of Hawaii, we’re witnessing the worst flooding in Indiana’s history, endless drought in the Southwest caused Lake Powell to drop to its lowest level, and a massive heat dome will make it feel over 110 in many Southeast cities Monday.

Are We Closer to Nuclear War Than Ever Before?
It appears most of the population is too apathetic about the nuclear war threat. There are people cheering as both sides escalate the Ukraine conflict, and some advocate for nuclear weapons in the Middle East. They don’t understand the immense destructive power of modern nuclear weapons.

New York Democratic Socialist Lawmaker Emily Gallagher Asserts Stealing for ‘Biological Need’ Should Not Be Illegal
Democratic Socialist New York State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher thinks people should be allowed to steal for a “biological need.” In other words, she wants to legalize theft, which will cause businesses to shutter and move out of NYC while crime skyrockets even further.

Are China’s Surveillance Exports Turning Nations Into Digital Dictatorships?
China’s rise as the world’s leading exporter of surveillance technology is yielding some disturbing results. Beijing’s surveillance export packages comprise an entire technological architecture that can give governments an unprecedented ability to see, identify, and track their populations.

Second Ceuta Border Invasion Attempt Underway As Military-Aged Migrants Mass Near Spanish Enclave
Multiple open-source reports indicate that thousands of illegal aliens are massing near Spain’s Ceuta border, raising the prospect of coordinated attempts to breach the enclave for the second time.

Europe’s Response to Ceuta Migrant Crisis: More EU Integration
European leaders shifted the debate to focus exclusively on immigration policy. For example, Italy criticized Spain’s pro-open-borders policies and temporarily reimposed border controls with Spain to “safeguard the security of our citizens and defend European borders,” in the words of Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. And several European countries called for Spain’s outright suspension from the European Union (EU) open-borders Schengen Area.

Kushner, Blair, BOP head Mladenov meet Hamas delegation in Cairo over Gaza roadmap
US envoy Jared Kushner, former British prime minister Tony Blair, and Gazan Board of Peace (BoP) Director-General Nikolay Mladenov met with a Hamas delegation in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the implementation of the BoP’s 15-point roadmap for the Gaza Strip, a source familiar with the matter told The Jerusalem Post.

16 Aug 2026

Israel seizes vast Iran terror axis arsenal with surprising foreign origins
ranging in manufacturers from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Russia, China to homegrown producers in Lebanon and Gaza and even a Nazi-era gun —were part of the war machinery used by Hamas and Hezbollah against Israeli civilians and the IDF since Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Somali Piracy Surges Amid Hormuz Blockade
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced hundreds of commercial ships onto longer routes around Africa, and Somali pirates are moving quickly to exploit the sudden increase in traffic off the continent’s eastern coast. Oil tankers MT Honour 25, MT Eureka and MT Asana were hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and off Puntland between April and July 2026, the largest attacks by Somali pirates in years.

11 charged in decade-long scheme allegedly selling green cards through fake marriages to Chinese nationals
The two-count indictment alleges that some foreign nationals paid as much as $100,000 to be in the sham marriages, according to the Justice Department. Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people with involvement in more than 1,000 fake marriages to gain legal status in the United States over the last decade.

FLASHBACK: Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Peggy Flanagan calls policing a “racist system” 
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Syria Eyes Iraq Oil Pipeline to the Mediterranean as Gulf Tensions Rise
Syria hopes to open an oil pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean and thereby establish itself as a force in the energy market. But the challenges are many.

Ukraine attacks Russian air base and rocket plant in Samara region
Ukraine ⁠struck industrial infrastructure ​in Russia’s ​Samara region on Saturday, local authorities said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the attack, saying a rocket plant and air base were hit.

Chinese Orbiter Smashes Starlink With a Tiny 2-Watt Laser Fired From 36,000 KM Above Earth
A 2-watt laser pulled off a satellite downlink from 36,000 km up, using a new signal trick that pushed performance far beyond earlier results. The result was a 1 gigabit-per-second downlink from a satellite in stationary orbit using a laser transmitter rated at just 2 watts. The South China Morning Post reported the experiment on June 17, 2025, describing the recorded data rate as five times faster than Starlink in its comparison.

Democratic Socialist Leaders Squirm When Asked About Cuba, Venezuela, And Nicaragua’s Dictatorships
Mexican journalist and Miami-based news anchor Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos had one of the most revealing exchanges yet with the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America.Ramos repeatedly pressed the socialists’ national DSA co-chairs on whether Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua should be classified as dictatorships. Neither of the far-left extremists could provide a direct answer. … help me understand the difference between the kind of democratic socialism that you support and what’s happening in Cuba and in Nicaragua, in Venezuela. Recently we heard Daniel Ortega saying that he doesn’t want to have elections in Nicaragua. Of course, Cuba hasn’t had multiparty elections since 1959

Lutnick Draws Red Line: “Great American Companies” Shouldn’t Use Chinese Memory Chips 
One week after The Wall Street Journal reported that Tim Cook’s Apple was testing memory chips from China’s CXMT, a company blacklisted by the Pentagon over alleged ties to the People’s Liberation Army, the outlet published a follow-up story with an interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who publicly urged Apple not to proceed. The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said

Hawaii Braces For Direct Tropical Storm Hit On Big Island 
Hawaii’s Big Island is under a hurricane warning as Tropical Storm Lala is expected to make landfall on Saturday local time, according to the National Hurricane Center. “This is a very serious storm,” Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told reporters late Friday night. “We have not had a hurricane make landfall in quite some time. So none of us really have experienced this really in, you know, the last couple of decades.”

Israel as the Middle East’s ‘mistress’: wanted behind closed doors, shunned in public
Security ties with Gulf states endure, but Saudi normalization now carries a higher political price, as the Palestinian issue, new regional alliances and years of war test whether Israel can still turn military strength into lasting regional integration

MASSIVE SHIPMENT: Thousands Of Tons Of Military Equipment Arrive In Israel From U.S.
Israel’s Defense Ministry announced Thursday that another cargo ship carrying thousands of tons of military equipment and weaponry purchased in the United States has arrived in Israel and been unloaded at Haifa Port. The shipment is part of an ongoing effort to bolster the IDF’s readiness for a range of potential scenarios and ensure the continued operational capabilities of Israel’s ground forces.

2 powerful earthquakes hit Indonesia in one day; one killing at least 47
A 7.7 earthquake that struck eastern Indonesia on Saturday killed at least 47 people. A second, 6.4 quake struck the country’s western Sumatra island later. Authorities said dozens more residents were injured and warned that the death toll would almost certainly rise.

An Inversion of God’s Design: New Study Says Human Population Needs to Be Cut in Half
Today’s environmentalism says humans are a blight, a disease, on this planet and we need to start removing ourselves for the betterment of everything else. Consider this quote from a new study that claims we need to halve the world population, taking it from 8 billion to less than 4 billion, by 2200.

Communist Democratic Socialists of America Commemorates ‘100 Years of Fidel’ While Accusing Marco Rubio of Cuban Genocide
The Democratic Socialists of America celebrated “100 Years of Fidel” this week, praising communism and Castro’s monstrous dictatorship that has imprisoned, tortured, and murdered many, many Cubans. They accused Marco Rubio of genocide and demanded reparations as well.

The Religious Discrimination Continues: Gov. Abbott Scraps ‘Illegal’ DFW Airport Muslim Foot-Washing Stations, but Don’t Be Fooled… They Are Already There
“The Dallas-Fort Worth Airport suddenly scrapped its plans for additional Wudu foot-washing stations in Terminal D restrooms after Governor Abbott brought the hammer down and called for an investigation over religious discrimination. Wudu stations are already in the interfaith chapel at the airport – they shouldn’t be.”

Britain’s Elite Speech Monitoring Squad Has Flagged 106 Posts
They called it elite. An elite squad of detectives, drawn from forces across England and Wales and convened at the National Police Coordination Centre for a mission of national weight, spying on people’s social media posts.

Antisemitic Attack in Mamdani’s New York: Man Assaults Congregant and Security Guard at Synagogue
On Friday night, Shabbat, an unhinged man entered a Manhattan synagogue and launched an antisemitic attack on congregants. According to police, Larry Montes, 46, allegedly punched a congregant before headbutting a security guard and spitting on him.

Abdul El-Sayed to Appear with Jew-Hating Pakistani Cleric Tariq Masood Who was Denounced for ‘Pedophilic Rhetoric’
El-Sayed is going to headline an event with a Jew-hating Pakistani cleric, Tariq Masood, for the Islamic Society of North America. He will talk on “Cultivating God Awareness in a Turmoiled America. Masood has been hammered for “pedophilic rhetoric” after marrying off his 13-year-old niece to an older Muslim man under Islamic law.

Health workers in Congo struggle to keep up as Ebola outpaces contact tracing
The outbreak has killed over 2,200 people out of over 4,700 cases. The death toll has been reached almost 3 times faster than 2014-16’s outbreak. Workers search for those exposed and suspected/confirmed cases. But surveillance is failing to keep pace with the virus. 60% to 70% of new cases are detected among people not already monitored.

There Likely Won’t Be ‘Meaningful’ Iran Talks Until Their Leadership Changes
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said, “The real change has to be a change in how Iran treats the rest of the world, and particularly, its neighbors, both Arab and Jew…. Iran doesn’t have an off-ramp because they don’t want one. They are exactly what they’ve been for nearly half a century, a terrorist expansion-based ideological country.”