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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir published footage on August 18, 2026, showing construction of a facility intended to carry out executions by hanging. The footage showed Ben-Gvir standing near wooden and metal structures at a construction ...

Estonia's governing coalition lost its parliamentary majority on August 10, 2026, after two members of parliament left parties belonging to the government. The defections reduced the coalition led by Prime Minister Kristen Michal to 50 seats in Estonia's 10...

The European Commission proposed changes to the European Union's temporary protection scheme that would exclude Ukrainian men aged 23 to 60 who are not legally permitted to leave Ukraine because of military obligations. The proposal was presented alongside ...

Rabbi and counselor Shaya Lunger was released on bond on April 21, 2026, following a second arrest connected to separate allegations involving two teenage girls. Authorities stated that the cases are being handled as distinct investigations and remain ongoi...

Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she was “devastated” after reports alleged that her husband, Bryon Noem, engaged in online activity involving payments to fetish models and the sharing of personal images. The claims were fir...

Donald Trump has been married three times, first to Ivana Trump in 1977, then to Marla Maples in 1993, and finally to Melania Knauss in 2005. His marriages and relationships have been accompanied by multiple allegations of affairs and sexual misconduct span...

On March 29, 2026, Israeli police prevented senior Catholic leaders from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, along with the Custos of the H...

American artist Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, held a large concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, in March 2026, marking a return to live performance following a period of public controversy. The concert took place months after Ye issued a pu...

An analysis published on March 25, 2026, reported that no Israeli citizens have been prosecuted for killing Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank since 2020. The findings were based on a review of legal data and public records, highlighting a lack...

A Palestinian child was reported killed and several others injured by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip on March 24, 2026, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The incident was reported in multiple locations across the territory during the day. WA...

A newly disclosed 2009 email from Donald Trump’s attorney contradicts Trump’s repeated claim that Jeffrey Epstein was banned from Mar-a-Lago, according to statements from Rep. Dan Goldman on March 21, 2026. The unredacted document, revealed as part of ongoi...

On March 19, 2026, an 18‑month‑old Palestinian toddler was reportedly returned to his family in Gaza with injuries following detention by Israeli forces during a security operation near the Al‑Maghazi refugee camp. The child had been taken along with his fa...

Shoshana Strook, the daughter of Israeli politician Orit Strook, was found dead on March 15, 2026, in a vacation rental in Amirim, Israel. Israeli police announced that they did not suspect criminal involvement in her death. She was 34 years old. In 2025...

As of March 10, 2026, Israel has launched a severe air campaign and a ground incursion into southern Lebanon following retaliatory attacks by Hezbollah. The escalation comes after tensions rose over the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israel...

Israel loses operational access to Dimona nuclear facility On March 9, 2026, Israeli authorities confirmed the temporary loss of operational access to the Dimona nuclear facility located in the Negev desert. The disruption followed a series of missile and ...

Rosanna Arquette has publicly questioned the reported circumstances of her friend Virginia Giuffre’s death, sparking online discussions. Giuffre, a prominent advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most well-known accusers, d...

On February 28, 2026, an airstrike struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in the city of Minab in southern Iran during the opening phase of military hostilities between Iran and a coalition involving the United States and Israel. Iranian auth...

United States President Donald Trump stated on March 6, 2026, that Cuba “is going to fall pretty soon” during a phone interview discussing foreign policy and ongoing international developments. The comments were made while he was speaking about military and...

Ukrainian support deployed against Iranian drone attacks On March 5, 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine would provide assistance to the United States and allied countries to counter Iranian drone attacks in the Middle East....

On March 4, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 357 to 65, with one member voting present and nine members not voting, on a motion to refer H. Res. 1100 to the House Committee on Ethics. The resolution was introduced by Representative Nancy Mace o...

Louisiana mayor convicted in juvenile misconduct case On March 3, 2026, a jury in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana found former DeRidder mayor Misty Roberts guilty on felony charges related to misconduct involving a minor. The case concerned an incident that o...

On March 2, 2026, Durham Regional Police Service issued a community safety alert stating that Darren Scott Ray, a 65-year-old man serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, had been granted a 72-hour Unescorted Temporary Absence Permit (UTA) and relea...

A former North Dakota state senator was sentenced in March 2026 to 10 years of imprisonment for traveling to Prague, Czech Republic, to engage in commercial sexual activity with minors, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Authorities stated that th...

On February 24, 2026, Bard College announced it had opened an independent review into the relationship between its longtime president Leon Botstein and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The college’s Board of Trustees hired an outside law firm to cond...

A Sydney man named Brandan Koschel was sentenced to one year in jail on February 18, 2026, after pleading guilty to publicly inciting hatred on the grounds of race for delivering an antisemitic speech at a “March for Australia” rally in Sydney on Australia ...

Squatty Potty creator faces child pornography charges in Utah On February 10, 2026, a federal grand jury in Utah indicted Robert "Bobby" Edwards, co-creator of the toilet stool brand Squatty Potty, on a charge of receipt of child pornograph...

CDC revises reporting methodology for adverse drug reactions On February 20, 2026, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced revisions to its reporting methodology for adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The new approach updates da...

Global Oil Prices Rise After Saudi and Russia Production Cut Extension On February 4, 2026, global oil benchmark prices increased following announcements that Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to extend voluntary crude production cuts through March....

Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American film director and producer known for commercial films such as the Rush Hour franchise and for directing the documentary Melania: 20 Days to History. In early February 2026, images from newly released files c...

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Danish Protests Erupt Over Trump Remarks and Greenland Dispute On January 31, 2026, large protests took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and other Danish cities in response to recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump about European NATO forces ...

On January 28, 2026, Israeli media outlets reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was presented with multiple opportunities in early 2023 to authorize an assassination of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, before the October 7, 2023 attack....

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the northern city of Sakhnin against a wave of violent crime, extortion and perceived police inaction. The protest comes amid a general strike called by local and regional Arab community leaders, with businesses, ...

Settlers Cross Into Gaza as Hundreds of Far‑right Israelis Hold Event Vowing Resettlement On December 18, 2025, a group of Israeli civilians from the far‑right Nachala movement crossed from Israeli territory into the Gaza Strip and raised an Israeli flag, ...

Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, was granted a full and complete presidential pardon by U.S. President Donald Trump on December 1, 2025. Hernández had been serving a 45‑year federal prison sentence in the United States after his con...

Mother Waits 36 Years for Israel to Return Son’s Body The article describes the story of a Palestinian mother who waited 36 years for Israel to return the body of her son, who was killed in 1979 during an armed clash with Israeli forces. After...

ICE Agent Fatally Shoots 23‑Year‑Old in Texas On March 15, 2025, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot 23‑year‑old Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen from San Antonio, Texas, in South Padre Island. According to agency records ...

Federal authorities in the United States sentenced three senior leaders of the Lev Tahor sect to lengthy prison terms following convictions for kidnapping and child sexual exploitation offenses. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New Yo...

On April 1, 2024, Yitzhak Meir Sabo, age 43, a rabbi and former Director of Jewish Life at Akiba Yavneh Academy in Dallas, Texas, was arrested and charged with indecency with a child involving sexual contact. According to arrest affidavits and court filings...

Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was convicted in federal court in November 2023 on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse of FTX. Prosecutors stated ...

Rachel Corrie, an American activist, was killed in Rafah, Gaza Strip, while participating in a protest against the demolition of Palestinian homes. The incident occurred on March 16, 2003. Corrie, a member of the International Solidarity Movement, was repor...

In the days following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody on May 25, 2020, large-scale protests erupted across Minneapolis and rapidly spread to cities throughout the United States. Demonstrations began on May 26, 2020, near the intersec...

George Floyd was a 46-year-old Black American man who died on May 25, 2020, during an arrest by Minneapolis police officers after a store clerk reported that he may have used a counterfeit $20 bill to purchase cigarettes. Minneapolis police officers resp...

A report presented in Israel in March 2019 estimated that about 14,000 people were engaged in sex work in the country, including an estimated 3,000 minors. According to the data, some individuals entered the cycle of prostitution as young as age 13. :conten...

Jussie Smollett Alleged Hate Crime Later Accused as Staged (USA, 2019) On January 29, 2019, actor Jussie Smollett, known for his role on the television series Empire, reported to Chicago Police that he had been the victim of a hate crime in the S...

On April 6, 2018, Yaser Murtaja, a 30-year-old Palestinian journalist and cameraman working with Ain Media, was shot and killed by Israeli forces while covering protests near the Gaza-Israel border. Murtaja was wearing a press vest and documenting the Great...

Cambridge Analytica Facebook Data Scandal In March 2018 it was revealed that British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained personal data from millions of Facebook users through a third‑party app called “This Is Your Digital Life...

Harvey Weinstein, an American film producer and co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company, was arrested on October 10, 2017, in New York following numerous allegations of sexual harassment, assault, and rape spanning decades. Weinstein, born March 19,...

Rory Amon, former New South Wales Liberal Party MP for Pittwater, appeared in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in March 2026 facing charges related to sexual offences involving a minor. Prosecutors stated that Amon had arranged a meeting with the indivi...

Samuel “Mouli” Cohen, an Israeli‑American businessman born in Jerusalem, was involved in multiple investment schemes targeting individual and institutional investors in the United States. Investigations revealed fraudulent misrepresentations, false promises...

On March 19, 2015, former United States Secretary of Energy and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson was named in civil court filings connected to Jeffrey Epstein. The filings included statements by Virginia Giuffre alleging that Epstein introduced her to se...

Washington, D.C., United StatesRabbi Bernard “Barry” Freundel was arrested in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2014, after police began investigating allegations that he had secretly recorded women in a changing and showering area at the National Capital Mi...

On March 21, 2013, President Barack Obama visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, during an official trip. He placed his hands on the stones in a gesture of respect and reflection. Photographs documented the visit, showing Obama following local custo...

Chaim Halpern is an Orthodox rabbi based in Golders Green, London, England, United Kingdom. He has led a synagogue and has been described in reporting as a prominent figure within segments of the Orthodox Jewish community in north London. In March 2013, Hal...

On 22 July 2011, during the Libyan Civil War, NATO aircraft struck a facility in Brega that manufactured large-diameter pipes used in Libya's Great Man-Made River water system. The facility was part of infrastructure supporting the country's major groundwat...

Moshe Katsav, the 8th President of Israel, served in office from 2000 to 2007. Following allegations made by multiple women who worked with him during his time as a public official, Katsav was investigated and prosecuted by Israeli authorities. On Decemb...

Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, a financier of Jewish faith, was sentenced on June 29, 2009, in Manhattan federal court to 150 years in prison for operating the largest known Ponzi scheme in U.S. history. The scheme defrauded thousands of investors and involved te...

Former student brings case against Orthodox yeshiva in New York for historical misconduct On March 12, 2026, a former student of a Williamsburg, Brooklyn Orthodox yeshiva filed a civil lawsuit in Kings County Supreme Court alleging historical sexual and ph...

On March 31, 2008, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Jerusalem, Israel, during an official diplomatic trip. She went to the Western Wall, a significant religious and cultural site in the Old City of Jerusalem. Photographs documented her visit, showing...

Background and Decision-Makers On March 20, 2003, the United States, the United Kingdom, and coalition allies launched a military invasion of Iraq. The primary justification presented to the public was that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapo...

Anfal Genocide On February 23, 1988, the Iraqi government launched the Anfal campaign against Kurdish populations in northern Iraq during the final phase of the Iran–Iraq War. The campaign was directed by Ali Hassan al-Majid under the authority of Presiden...

Guatemalan Maya Genocide On March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in Guatemala through a military coup during the Guatemalan Civil War. His government intensified counterinsurgency operations in predominantly Maya regions, particularly in ...

The Zebra murders were a series of killings and shootings committed in San Francisco between October 1973 and April 1974. The attacks resulted in 14 deaths and seven or eight nonfatal injuries, depending on the historical account. The victims were white, wh...

Bangladesh Genocide On March 25, 1971, the Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight in Dhaka and other major cities of East Pakistan, targeting Bengali nationalists, intellectuals, students, and civilians. The military operation aimed to suppress the m...

On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, carried out a mass killing of Vietnamese civilians in the hamlets of My Lai and My Khe in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam....

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington, advocating for racial equality, civil rights, and nonviolent protest in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was an American Baptist minister an...

On March 24, 1933, the British newspaper Daily Express published a front-page headline reading “JUDEA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY: Jews of All the World Unite.” The article reported on international Jewish protests and planned economic boycotts of German goods ...

Mahatma Gandhi led the Salt March in India, a 240-mile protest against British colonial salt taxes, employing nonviolent civil disobedience. This event inspired global nonviolent resistance movements and highlighted the power of organized peaceful protest ...

Charlie Chaplin married actress Lita Grey on November 25, 1924, in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico. Chaplin was 35 years old and Grey was 16. Their marriage followed a relationship that had developed while Grey was working in the film industry and was associated wi...

Pontic Greek Genocide On May 19, 1919, military operations intensified against Greek communities in the Pontus region along the Black Sea coast of the Ottoman Empire. The campaign formed part of broader actions against Christian minorities during and after...

Armenian Genocide On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. The arrests marked the beginning of a coordinated campaign against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire d...

Assyrian Genocide On January 1, 1915, systematic attacks against Assyrian communities began in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Assyrians, a Christian minority concentrated in regions including Hakkari, Van, and Tur Abdin, we...

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Alexander Orlov, born Lev Lazarevich Feldbin on 21 August 1895 in Bobruisk, was a Soviet NKVD officer from an Orthodox Jewish family. He later operated under several aliases, including Lev Nikolsky and Alexander Orlov. Alexander Orlov was the principal n...

On March 31, 1492, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering all Jews in Castile and Aragon to leave by July 31, 1492, unless they converted to Christianity. The decree restricted...

In early March 1371, Cham forces launched a significant raid on the Jiaozhi region of northern Vietnam. The attack targeted local settlements and disrupted the regional governance structure during the period of Champa and Dai Viet conflicts.The Cham sack of...

Carinus became Roman Emperor following the death of his father, Emperor Carus, in late March. His accession marked a period of internal instability as the empire faced multiple external threats and internal rivalries.Despite initial support, Carinus struggl...

Severus Alexander, the last emperor of the Severan dynasty, was assassinated by his own soldiers in March of 235 CE near the city of Mutina along the Danube frontier. His death marked the end of relative stability in the Roman Empire and triggered the Crisi...

Elagabalus, Roman emperor notorious for his controversial religious and political actions, was assassinated on March 11 after a brief reign. His rule was marked by significant unrest and opposition within the Roman Senate and military.The assassination took...

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, died at the military camp in Vindobona on March 17th. His death marked the end of the Pax Romana, a period of relative peace and stability across the empire.He spent his final days on the northern fronti...

Vitellius was declared emperor by the legions of Germania during the chaotic Year of the Four Emperors. After the death of Emperor Otho, Vitellius marched to Rome where he was formally recognized as emperor.This period was marked by civil war and political ...