The Daily Beast

Festival Attendee Abducted and Paraded by Hamas Was Beheaded: Israeli Prez

Israel Foreign Ministry XA young German-Israeli woman seen lying in the back of a pickup truck after being abducted from a music festival by Hamas gunmen is dead, Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed Monday.The family of Shani Louk, 23, said they were informed of her killing earlier in the day. Her aunt, Ruthi Louk, said on Israeli radio that a fragment of her niece’s skull had been recovered from the rave site, according to The New York Times.Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, reported that the Nati

The Hill

Trump rips Barr after remark about ‘limited’ verbal skills

Former President Trump lashed out Sunday at his former attorney general, Bill Barr, who had criticized Trump’s verbal skills in a public forum Friday. In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump suggested Barr was trying to “get even” with him for being tough on him while in office. “I called Bill…

The Canadian Press

House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors

WASHINGTON (AP) — Before House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected to public office, he was the dean of a small Baptist law school that didn’t actually exist. The Judge Paul Pressler School of Law was supposed to be a capstone achievement for Louisiana College. Instead, it collapsed roughly a decade ago without enrolling students or opening its doors amid infighting by officials, accusations of financial impropriety and difficulty obtaining accreditation. There is no indication that Johnson engaged

The Daily Beast

Ukrainian Soldiers Say the Wagner Implosion Has Allowed Them to Make Breakthroughs at Last

Oleh Arkhanhorodsky/Global Images Ukraine via Getty ImagesNEAR ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine—A young man emerged from the basement bleeding from his stomach. With his mohawk, pierced ears, and tattoos, everyone calls him ‘Cossack’ because of his similarity to the 17th century Ukrainian swashbucklers.Smoke was rising from all sides from the recent Russian shelling salvos all around us, although the countryside was eerily quiet. He was still grinning and excitedly sharing a story as he entered the ambulance

The Canadian Press

'Absolutely not': No more carve-outs when it comes to carbon pricing, Trudeau says

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there will be no further carbon price carve-outs,including for natural gas heating, as criticism mounts of his decision to temporarily exempt home heating oil from the policy. The promise is landing with a political thud, with both Conservative and NDP leaders accusing Trudeau of regional favouritism to save his political skin in Atlantic Canada, and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney saying he would have found a different way to ease the rising cost of

The New Voice of Ukraine

Russia completes troop withdrawal from Belarus

Russia has withdrawn the grand majority of its military personnel from Belarus, and has not replaced them, Ukrainian State Border Guard Service spokesperson Andriy Demchenko announced on national television on Oct. 31.