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Cuba is experiencing a severe energy crisis, with nationwide blackouts affecting millions of residents. The national electrical grid has collapsed in several regions, leaving homes, hospitals, and businesses without power. The crisis has caused critical fue...

Strike on Girls’ Elementary School in Southern Iran During US‑Israel Military Action On February 28, 2026, during a coordinated series of military strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel, a girls’ elementary school in the city of Minab in Hormozgan...

On February 25, 2026, Nobel laureate Richard Axel announced he will resign from his role as co‑director of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University following scrutiny over his past association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Ep...

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...

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On February 13, 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and opposition leader Pierre Poilievre stood hand in hand with community members at a candlelight vigil in the northern British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge, mourning the victims of one of the coun...

On February 10, 2026, a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada, resulted in multiple deaths and injuries. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed that the suspected shooter was 18‑year‑old Jesse Van Rootselaar...

Kuwait School Bombed in Northern Gaza, Casualties Reported On February 6, 2026, the Kuwait School in northern Gaza was struck by aerial bombing, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries. Local health authorities reported at least 18 deaths, including ...

Israeli police arrested Mordechai Yom Tov in Jerusalem on November 20, 2025, after authorities located him more than two decades after he fled the United States while on probation following a criminal conviction involving sexual offenses against minors. Yom...

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...

Cynthia Perkins, a former teacher in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in February 2022 to multiple charges related to child sexual abuse and tampering with food given to students, according to court records. Authorities stated that Perkins assis...

In late November 2021, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) superintendent Helen Fisher informed the organizer of a book club event that students would not be permitted to participate in a planned event with Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Yazidi survivo...

A French schoolgirl later admitted that she had falsely claimed that her teacher, Samuel Paty, was Islamophobic. She said she had not been present in the classroom during the lesson in question and had misrepresented what had occurred. The false claim alleg...

On July 10, 2020, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under intense scrutiny regarding the federal government’s decision to award a $912 million student volunteer grant program to WE Charity, a non-profit organization with ties to Trudeau’s family. ...

Time magazine named Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as its Person of the Year on December 11, 2019. She was recognized for her global environmental activism and influence on climate policy discussions. Thunberg began her activism in 2018 by organizi...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global outbreak of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, first identified in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) was notified on December 31, 2019, after Chinese authorities reported clusters of pneumonia cases o...

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 February 4, 2004, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) canceled its LifeLog research program, which had been launched in 2003. The program was designed to explore technologies capable of collecting and organizing large amou...

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...

1948 Tantura Killings The events at the Palestinian village of Tantura occurred during the **1948 Palestine war**, when forces of the Haganah, specifically the Alexandroni Brigade, engaged in the battle for the village on the night of **22–23 May...

JFK Wrote in 1939 That Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away In July 1939, John F. Kennedy, then a 22-year-old Harvard student, visited Palestine during a trip arranged by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kin...

Abraham Isaac Kook (December 9, 1865 – September 1, 1935) was a Jewish religious thinker, rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine. He is known for his writings on Jewish law, mysticism, and the spiritual significance of Jewis...