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January 28, 2026

Palestinian Authority Secretly Paid Terrorists $200M

Despite public assurances that the controversial “pay-to-slay” system had been dismantled, new findings from the U.S. State Department indicate that the Palestinian Authority continued transferring hundreds of millions of dollars to convicted terrorists and their families through a rebranded payment mechanism in 2024 and 2025. A non-public State Department notice …

January 27, 2026

IDF Mobilizes After Suspected Border Infiltration Near Eilat

A high-alert security situation near Israel’s border with Jordan on Tuesday evening was ultimately declared a false alarm by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), following intensive military and police activity triggered by suspected infiltrators crossing into southern Israeli territory. Initial reports indicated that ten suspects had crossed near the communities …

January 27, 2026

Big Tech on Trial: Did Social Media Design Addict Teens?

Jury selection is now underway in Los Angeles County Superior Court for what plaintiffs’ attorneys are calling the first major bellwether trial over whether leading social-media platforms—Instagram (Meta), TikTok, YouTube (Google), and Snapchat (Snap)—were engineered to be addictive to minors in ways that foreseeably harmed teens. The case is explicitly …

January 27, 2026

An Inconvenient Legacy: Two Decades of Failed Climate Predictions

Twenty years ago, An Inconvenient Truth debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to a standing ovation. Released theatrically in 2006, the documentary—fronted by former Vice President Al Gore—became a cultural milestone. It helped propel climate change from a technical scientific debate into a dominant political and media narrative, shaping public …

January 24, 2026

Empire of Necessity: When Non-Intervention Fails

There is a taboo in polite American conversation: America as empire. Going to college during the War on Terror, partly out of contrarian instinct and partly to get a rise out of others, I began deploying my best neo-con arguments to anyone who would listen to my pro-Iraq War arguments. …

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