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Abu Dhabi authorities will likely throw the book at 29-year-old terrorist Hamam al-Hammami, demanding the maximum sentence under law following the mid-air nightmare aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073. By Hank Berrien The terrorist co-pilot who tried to plunge a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv jetliner into a suicide dive is facing possible execution, according to a report from Israeli outlet Ynet citing a top Emirati official. Abu Dhabi authorities will likely throw the book at 29-year-old terrorist Hamam al-Hammami, demanding the maximum sentence under law following the mid-air nightmare aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073. Mossad operatives and Israeli aviation experts have arrived in Abu Dhabi to interrogate al-Hammami. They’re joining intelligence agents from Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the U.S. in a multi-nation probe. Investigators suspect Hammami wasn’t just trying to dump the Boeing 737 MAX 8 into the sea; he was plotting a horrifying, 9/11-style Kamikaze attack aimed straight at Tel A...

A wave of corporate relocations, Wall Street talent and the Texas Stock Exchange are transforming the Lone Star State By Amanda Macias As companies and capital flow away from traditional financial hubs like New York and California, one southern state is making an increasingly aggressive bid to become America's next financial powerhouse. Speaking with Fox News Digital from the Texas Stock Exchange's Dallas headquarters, former Congressman Jeb Hensarling, a strategic advisor to the exchange, said Texas is already becoming "the economic center of gravity in America." "Texas is really becoming the economic center of gravity in America," Hensarling said. "As New York is increasingly shoving capital out, Texas is saying, 'You're welcome.' We put out the welcome mat, whereas New York, capital isn't really made to feel at home, and capital wants to go where it's made to feel at home." As businesses leave high-cost ...

An inner Green Party motion passes with 56% support, defining Zionism as an ideology seeking a Jewish state "to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population". Resolution calls for a single Palestinian state with "equal rights for all" but makes no provision for Israel's continued existence. Just 1,835 of the party's more than 200,000 members voted. By ILH Staff The Green Party of England and Wales approved a controversial motion Sunday defining Zionism as racism, with delegates at its annual conference in Brighton voting 56% to 44% in favor despite opposition from several senior party figures. The motion, put forward by members of the Greens for Palestine group, describes Zionism as a political ideology that called for the creation of "an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population." The approved motion also calls for the establishment of a singl...

Fires, lightning strikes, injuries, deaths, and other strange events have followed filmmakers who dared to take supernatural evil seriously.   By MATT HIMES Horror has always had a respectability problem. But filmmakers eventually discovered a useful trick for getting around it: Make the monster a metaphor. The creature in "The Babadook" isn't merely a boogeyman under the bed; it's grief and depression . "It Follows" has been read as everything from an allegory for sexually transmitted disease to a story about sexual trauma and mortality . Jordan Peele's "Get Out" turned body-snatching horror into an examination of race and liberal paternalism . Even "Hereditary," which gives us actual demons, comes wrapped in grief, mental illness, and inherited trauma . Moore was said to have been decapitated, horribly echoing the death Richardson had devised for the movie. Nothing wrong with that. Horror works best when it gives physical...

By Ward Clark The state of education in the United States today is, frankly, a mess. We've seen too many teachers who replace education with activism; we've seen too many schools failing to do the one thing it are primarily charged with, namely, producing young adults with marketable skills.  This, though, may be one of the most egregious examples of public school failure we've seen in some time; a Nashville high school has reportedly invented fake classes to help its students to graduate, to obtain diplomas on false pretenses. In other words, they are teaching these students to lie .  A former assistant principal at Stratford High School says fake classes were created so students could graduate, the latest finding in WSMV4’s “Making the Grade” investigations. Stratford High School is currently under investigation by the state board of education for claims of grade manipulation. If these reports prove true, this is an inexcusable act, to say the least. Not only would t...

(The Record) By Aaron Zitner and Neil Mehta One key to victory in the midterm elections comes down to this question: How can each party win support from people who don’t like them? More voters say they dislike both the Democratic and Republican parties than in other recent elections, the result of economic anxiety and deep dissatisfaction with politicians and government. Some 21 percent of the voter pool holds an unfavorable view of both parties, a recent Wall Street Journal poll found, significantly above the 13 percent in the 2022 midterms and about 12 percent in the past two presidential elections. “I want the Republican Party and Democratic Party to wake up and start doing what they say they’re going to do,” said Troy Evans, 59 years old, a lifelong Republican in a suburb of Houston who works in sales for food companies. “I haven’t seen it in 40 years.” These dissatisfied voters, often called “double haters,” have been a bellwether in the past, siding with the winning par...

"The idea that Hitler just randomly rolled into Poland is a lie… Hitler repeatedly said, ‘I do not want to go to war with the UK,’” Tucker Carlson said in a recent interview with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. By GOLDIE KATZ, JERUSALEM POST STAFF Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson claimed that the UK fighting in World War II was not a good idea and appeared to defend elements of Adolf Hitler's justification for invading Poland during a Friday interview with former UK business secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. During the hour-long interview, as the two debated Britain's historical role in European conflicts and the legacy of World War II, Carlson asserted that he “never understood why fight the Second World War in the first place,” arguing that the UK should not have defended Poland from Nazi invasion because Britain “had nothing to do with it at all.” “Well, Hitler said that 15% of Poland was once Germany and it was given to Poland at the Treaty of Versailles...

Macron’s theory of liberty begins where the government’s permissions end. By Cam Wakefield French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks about free speech and online regulation have once again exposed the true nature of his policies, and the way he chooses to “explain” the need to restrict people’s freedoms. In the past, Macron has called online free speech arguments “pure bullshit” – and it’s hard to improve on that as a policy explanation, but he keeps trying. The latest attempt came during a Q&A session at the Complutense University in Madrid on September 29, during a state visit to Spain. The Elysee published the transcript in French; the quotes below are translations of it. He had some choice words for the American concept of free speech, which he said is “the opposite of free speech.” According to him, “there is no freedom if there is no limit on my freedom, which begins with the freedom of others and respect for a common framework.” Macron’s idea of freedom ...

By Jasmine Baehr Two members of Iran’s delegation to the United Nations General Assembly were “kicked out” of the U.S. after failing to comply with a State Department order to leave the country. “Secretary Rubio means business. Two more members of the Iranian delegation were found still in New York long after the UN General Assembly had passed. They have now been kicked out of the country,” a U.S. official told Fox News Digital. The State Department ordered Iran’s entire delegation to leave the U.S. immediately on Monday, but the two diplomats remained in New York, according to an Axios report. Iran’s mission to the U.N. was told Friday that the U.S. was aware the diplomats had not left and was again instructed that they needed to depart immediately, Axios reported. One diplomat left Friday night and the other Saturday morning, according to the outlet. Original Here ...

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By AG News Staff President Donald Trump announced Friday that European nations have agreed to release a substantial amount of stockpiled diesel fuel as ongoing conflicts in the Middle East continue to disrupt global energy markets. The move could provide relief to consumers and businesses facing volatile fuel prices, particularly industries that depend heavily on diesel for transportation, agriculture and manufacturing. “Europe has just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil. The process will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Truth Social screenshot The president did not specify how much diesel would be released, which European countries would participate or how quickly the additional supply would reach the market. The announcement comes as energy costs remain an economic concern ahead of November’s midterm elections. Republicans have faced challenges convincing voters of thei...

Adviser to Iran's supreme leader Mohsen Rezaei attends a farewell ceremony for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28 during Israeli and U.S. airstrikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on July 3, 2026. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters) By Greg Norman-Diamond Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei claimed President Donald Trump is "worst" president in U.S. history, before Trump took a swipe Friday at Iran's leadership during a rally in Alabama.  "After one failure after another, the worst president in American history just keeps talking — and talking — and now his words have even outrun his own fantasies," Rezaei wrote on X. "You can win every day in your own imagination. But reality is shaped by Iran — by its people, its soldiers, and its missiles."  Trump later ripped the Iranian regime, which was rocked at the beginning of Operation Epic Fury with the killing of former Ira...

By David Spector The crew of the hijacked flydubai plane shockingly clashed with heroic Israeli passengers who subdued the ax-wielding co-pilot after he attacked the pilot — demanding he be freed, two men who helped secure the terror suspect told The Post in exclusive interviews. “They were asking us to untie the terrorist — we had no idea why,” said banking executive Tzvika Manes, one of the three civilians who took down the would-be hijacker. “They were saying to free the terrorist — we got instantly suspicious of them,” said real estate professional Daniel Schlichter, who was sitting in the second row, close to the cockpit . Tzvika Manes helped subdue the terrorist who attempted to crash the flydubai plane. CNN Manes, 40, was traveling with his wife and three daughters aged 11, 7, and 6, after a family vacation in Japan, when the co-pilot, identified by The Wall Street Journal as an Omani national Hamam al-Hammami, began hacking at the Indian pilot, Capt. ...