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    Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Foreign Donors to U.S. Colleges

    Oct 3, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

    From Judge Tanya Chutkan (D.D.C.) Thursday evening in Ass'n of Am. Univ. v. U.S. Dep't of Ed. : Section 117 of the Higher Education Act requires universities to report foreign gifts and contracts to the Department of Education, making those reports publicly available. Since 2020, the Department has also collected the names of individual foreign donors while stating that it would not publish them.

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    Trump thanks man who helped save Flydubai flight: 'What a job he did, he's a hero'

    Oct 3, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

    President Trump on Friday morning thanked the Israeli plumber, Yaniv Hayoun, who intervened after a pilot stabbed his co-pilot and attempted to crash a Flydubai flight this week. In a video message shared on Truth Social, the president praised Hayoun, saying he “did an amazing job.” “He’s my kind of guy,” he continued. “He can...

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    Predictions of GOP Midterm Doom May Prove Premature

    Oct 3, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

    Haven't we seen this movie before? Voters, weary of a Republican president whose foreign or domestic policies don't seem to be delivering as promised, seem on the verge of a massive rejection of his party. Polls show Democrats surging.

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    Axe-wielding FlyDubai co-pilot had been flagged over extremism concerns

    Oct 3, 2026 ·NewsNation(Center)

    CAIRO (AP) — The co-pilot accused of attacking the captain on an Israel-bound flight with an axe and trying to seize the controls was an Omani national who’d been barred from flying on his country’s airline because of concerns about extremist views, officials said Saturday. The co-pilot has been identified as Hamam al-Hammami, according to [...]

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    How foreign hackers could 'crumble' America by targeting one essential utility

    Oct 3, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

    A massive surge in cyberattacks on Americans' water supply in recent years has exposed a shift in hackers' focus from financially motivated ransomeware to attacks designed to disrupt one of the most essential pieces of civilian infrastructure, senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials told Fox News Digital. "Everyday life completely crumbles" when drinking water and wastewater systems

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    Israel’s Growing Allies on the Ground—and in the Sky

    Oct 3, 2026 ·Washington Free Beacon(Lean right)

    Israel is no stranger to diplomatic isolation, but the widespread condemnation it has received after Hamas's October 7 atrocities has been unusually strong and meritless. Last week, the dozens of delegates walking out on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations seemed to dramatize Israel's diplomatic plight. Bibi defied the well-heeled "moral cowards" of Turtle Bay and defe

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    Flydubai Hijacker Identified As Omani Citizen Who Struggled To Find a Wife

    Oct 3, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

    Hamam al-Hammami has been identified as the Omani pilot suspected of attacking his fellow pilot and attempting to hijack a Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight on Wednesday. Al-Hammami, an Omani citizen, was born in the United Arab Emirates to an Omani father and Syrian mother and spent several years of his life in the UAE, according to CNN . An Israeli official and Saudi state media have confirmed his

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    America’s New Relationship With Israel…It’s Complicated

    Oct 3, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

    When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the United Nations last month, diplomats streamed for the exits. Three years after October 7, when much of the Western world rallied behind Israel in the wake of Hamas’ attack, the political ground has shifted. jQuery(document).ready(function(){prx("https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?ge=prx_149_0824839a-e3ca-4c0a-9263-832ee73f063c&uf=https%3A

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    Scoop: Trump's top national security aides meet secretly at Camp David on Iran, Yemen

    Oct 3, 2026 ·Axios(Lean left)

    President Trump's top cabinet members huddled for hours at Camp David on Friday to discuss next steps in the Iran war and the Saudi-Houthi conflict in Yemen, three U.S. officials told Axios. Why it matters: The highly unusual meeting was not announced by the Trump administration. The last time a similar meeting took place was in June 2025, just days before Israel went to war against Iran. Behind t

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    Kushner pushes back on CNN report about Israeli investments tied to military

    Oct 2, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

    Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and U.S. special envoy, is pushing back on a CNN report alleging his private equity firm had ties to a company heavily involved in Israel’s military. “CNN published a deeply misleading story and headline suggesting that my diplomatic work in the Middle East somehow benefited investments in Israeli defense companies,”...

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    Former GOP Rep. David Rivera sentenced to 10 years for secret Venezuela lobbying

    Oct 2, 2026 ·PBS NewsHour(Lean left)

    David Rivera of Miami has been jailed since his conviction in May for conspiracy to commit money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent for the government of Nicolás Maduro.

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    Ex-Congressman Headed To The Slammer For Working With Commies

    Oct 2, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

    Former Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) was sentenced Friday to 10 years in federal prison for secretly lobbying on behalf of the Venezuelan government and laundering millions of dollars tied to the work. U.S. District Judge Melissa Damian handed down the sentence after a federal jury convicted Rivera, 61, in May of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, conspiracy to commit money laun

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    Oman Banned FlyDubai Co-Pilot Over ‘Radical’ Views Before Cockpit Attack

    Oct 2, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

    Oman had banned the FlyDubai co-pilot accused of stabbing his captain in an attempted hijacking from flying over concerns that he had adopted “radical ideological views,” according to a new report. Despite the ban, FlyDubai hired the Omani national, allowing him to fly the route between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal could not determine whether O

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    Red Mass Explosive Man Asked S. Ct. to "Remove Arizona from the United States" and "Declare It a 'Foreign Enemy'"

    Oct 2, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

    From a Justice Department press release Monday: Louis Geri, 42, of Vineland, New Jersey, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 70 months in prison in connection with threatening to detonate more than 100 homemade explosive devices on the steps of St. Matthew's Cathedral during the annual Red Mass attended by U.S. Supreme Court Justices and other senior government officials, announced U.S.

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    Salman Rushdie Attempted Murder Case: Court Upholds Jury Verdict …

    Oct 2, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

    From Judge Richard Arcara (W.D.N.Y.) yesterday in U.S. v. Matar : Following a jury trial, Defendant Hadi Matar was convicted of each charge contained in a three-count indictment. Count 1 charged Matar with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization ("FTO")—that is, Hizballah, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339B(a)(1). Count 2 charged Matar with committing a

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    U.S. Ushers $320 Million In Military Aid To Country That Just Completed Exercises With China

    Oct 2, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

    Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the flow of $320 million to Egypt on Thursday, bypassing human rights restrictions on foreign military aid to reward Cairo for aiding diplomacy in the Iran war. The funds, part of Washington’s annual $1.3 billion payment to Cairo, give President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi free rein to go shopping for American-made weapons. The State Department claims the move is c

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    'DSA jihadi': LA mayoral candidate torched after defending 'genocide' comment during Jewish forum

    Oct 2, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

    Nithya Raman, the far-left Los Angeles mayoral frontrunner, defended her appearance on controversial streamer Hasan Piker's program and stood by her use of the term "genocide" to describe Israel's actions in Gaza when pressed by a Jewish audience Tuesday night, raising alarm among some Jewish voters. Raman's appearance before hundreds of attendees at a Jewish community mayoral forum quickly turned

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    US sanctions Iran's auto and rail sectors amid Yemen escalation

    Oct 2, 2026 ·NewsNation(Center)

    Warplanes carried out 20 strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen's Taiz province in a three-hour period, the most serious clash since 2022.

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    Iraq sounds alarm on terror threat from Syria one day after US troops leave

    Oct 2, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

    Iraq is preparing for the possibility that Islamic State fighters could spill across the border from Syria, the country's foreign minister said Thursday. It comes just one day after the U.S. military formally ended its counter-ISIS mission in Iraq. Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein told reporters in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that Baghdad is closely watching recent ISIS activity in neighboring Syri

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    Terrorist’s Evil Posts Show Just How Deep His Hatred For Jews Ran — As Israel Vows He’ll Pay

    Oct 2, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that those responsible for the attempted terrorist takeover of an Israel-bound plane would “pay a very heavy price” as more details about the hijacker’s Islamic ideology emerge. Netanyahu’s comments come after Israeli officials said that the Omani co-pilot accused in the hijacking of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was deeply committed to Islamic “ji