Peter Schaktman arrest
Peter Schaktman, 66, a rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Utica, New York, was among eight people arrested during a New York State Police investigation. Schaktman was charged with second-degree ...
Peter Schaktman, 66, a rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Utica, New York, was among eight people arrested during a New York State Police investigation. Schaktman was charged with second-degree ...
Allison Alon, formerly known as Avishay Alon, is an Israeli national and former Israeli military intelligence officer who has been detained in the United States while subject to an immigr...
A 68-year-old man from Saint-Simon, New Brunswick, has been charged with arson in connection with a fire that destroyed the community's church on August 24, 2026, according to the Royal C...
A United States federal judge struck down a Trump administration policy on August 21, 2026, that suspended the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries. U.S. District J...
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...
A federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia, dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by Elsie Dominguez, a civilian marine engineer who alleged that she was raped aboard a U.S. Navy-operated transport v...
Israeli police arrested Rabbi Yosef Shoveli on May 7, 2026, following a covert investigation into allegations of serious sexual offenses. Authorities stated that the investigation began a...
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 t...
Hartmut Ebbing, a former member of the German Bundestag representing the Free Democratic Party and a former treasurer of the German-Israeli Society, is facing legal proceedings in Germany...
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 acc...
On March 30, 2026, Israel’s parliament passed a law authorising the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks, particularly those involving the killing of Israelis. The l...
Federal authorities arrested 26-year-old Alexander Heifler in March 2026 over an alleged plot to carry out a violent attack against New York-based Palestinian-American activist Nerdeen Ki...
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 b...
Kendra Duggar has been formally charged in Arkansas in connection with alleged sexual misconduct, according to statements from local law enforcement on March 21, 2026. The charges relate ...
Joseph Duggar was arrested on March 21, 2026, following allegations of sexual misconduct, according to law enforcement officials in Arkansas. The arrest stems from claims made by authorit...
An artificial intelligence pilot program in Los Angeles County courts is being introduced to assist judges in drafting rulings in certain cases, according to officials familiar with the i...
Actor Kevin Spacey has settled multiple sexual assault claims in the United Kingdom out of court, according to reports issued on March 19, 2026. The settlements involve civil actions that...
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 suspe...
On March 5, 2026, several social media influencers filed legal actions against the Government of Israel and related agencies in Israeli courts, claiming they were not paid for contracts t...
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 ...
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, a...
Robert “Bobby” Edwards, founder of :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}, has been arrested on charges related to the receipt of explicit images involving children, according to law enfor...
A court has sentenced the founder of a local pride advocacy group to a term of imprisonment following a conviction for the rape of a 12-year-old boy. The conviction was delivered after a...
A number of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have been held in Israeli detention facilities without formal charges or trial, including in an underground jail known as Ra...
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Prince Andrew Allegedly Witnessed Abuse by Ghislaine Maxwell On February 23, 2026, allegations surfaced claiming that Prince Andrew, former Duke of York, was present while Ghislaine Maxw...
Ghislaine Maxwell challenges release of Epstein documents On February 21, 2026, lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell filed legal papers in Manhattan federal court s...
Karl Jacobson faces embezzlement charges On February 20, 2026, former New Haven, Connecticut, Police Chief Karl Jacobson was arrested on two counts of larceny in the first degree after a...
Marc Donald Soucy, 59, of Cary, North Carolina, a fire engineer with the Cary Fire Department, was charged on February 18, 2026, with two counts of second‑degree sexual exploitation of a ...
Michael William Mohr charged with producing child pornography On February 19, 2026, 54‑year‑old Michael William Mohr of Springfield was charged in St. Louis by federal complaint with one...
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 antis...
Benjamin Shroats charged with sexual assault and indecency with a child On February 18, 2026, 47‑year‑old figure skating coach Benjamin Shroats was arrested in Allen, Texas, and charged ...
Israeli Soldier Charged With Looting In Gaza War On February 18, 2026 the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that only one Israeli soldier has been formally charged with looting durin...
On February 16, 2026, hotel magnate Thomas Pritzker announced he will retire as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, effective immediately, after details of his affiliation wit...
On February 14, 2026, court documents and the Jeffrey Epstein archives revealed that wellness author and public figure Deepak Chopra’s name appeared in communications connected to Epstein...
On February 14, 2026, newly released court documents and files from the Jeffrey Epstein archives revealed that singer Britney Spears’ name appears 115 times in the records. The documents ...
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On February 14, 2026, newly released communications between former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein revealed previously unknown details of a supposed p...
Alexander Lamar Banks Jr. attacked family outside Lansing On February 13, 2026, 21‑year‑old Alexander Lamar Banks Jr. was arrested in Delta Township, near Lansing, Michigan, after allege...
On February 11, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice, under the Trump administration, abruptly fired Donald T. Kinsella as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York just hours a...
Claims circulating online about “Keith Frankel in Epstein’s list” In early 2026 posts on social media platforms and internet forums claimed that an individual named “Keith Fran...
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...
On February 10, 2026, former cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman‑Fried filed a legal motion seeking a new trial in his long‑running fraud case tied to the collapse of the cryptocurrency ...
In early 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice continued releasing millions of pages of documents related to its investigation of deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. The...
Ori Solomon released ahead of trial in Las Vegas illegal biolab case Ori Solomon, 55, has been identified as the property manager of a Las Vegas residence where authorities unc...
Former Salt Lake City Fire Department battalion chief Kelly J. Carter arrested on child sexual exploitation charges On February 6, 2026, Kelly Jay Carter, a 51‑year‑old retired...
United Kingdom Tightens Speech and Online Controls In recent years, the UK government has expanded laws regulating online speech and public statements. Authorities can investigate indi...
International Criminal Court faces funding constraints amid expanded caseload On February 24, 2026, the International Criminal Court (ICC) reported that it is facing significan...
Beit Shemesh Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Spying for Iran On February 5, 2026, the Jerusalem District Court sentenced Elimelech Stern, a 22-year-old resident of Beit Shemesh, t...
Netanyahu Releases His Answers to State Comptroller’s October 7 Investigation On February 5, 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly released a 55-page document containi...
Former Israeli soldier Adi Karni becomes subject of U.S. war crimes complaint On February 4, 2026, the Hind Rajab Foundation, a Brussels-based human rights organization, filed ...
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Frank Stronach, an Austrian-Canadian billionaire businessman and founder of auto parts giant Magna International, is facing criminal charges in Ontario related to historical sexual assaul...
Trump Sues IRS Over Tax Return Leak by Former Contractor Charles Littlejohn Donald Trump, his adult sons, and the Trump Organization filed a federal lawsuit against the Interna...
Palestinians Face Fresh Slew of Evictions in Silwan, After Court Dismisses Appeal In Silwan, East Jerusalem, Palestinian residents are facing new eviction orders following the ...
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Avraham Gil, the 19-year-old son of an Israeli consular official in Miami, avoided jail time after completing the requirements of a plea agreement stemming from a motorcycle collision wit...
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On January 24, 2026, Iranian authorities reported the arrest of a suspected Mossad agent operating covertly within the country. The arrest is part of a broader crackdown that Iran claims ...
On January 24, 2026, a U.S. federal judge in New York ruled that congressional cosponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act may file a lawsuit to seek a court-appointed observer to en...
On January 23, 2026, Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court formally approved the resignation of President Rumen Radev, allowing him to step down before the end of his term, which was due to exp...
A district court in central Israel convicted a 22-year-old Israel Defense Forces reservist of dozens of sexual offenses in what prosecutors described as an unprecedented large-scale onlin...
On January 20, 2026, a man previously pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack was re-arrested on a federal weapons charge in Fl...
On January 14, 2026, RJ May, (Robert John May III), a former South Carolina state representative for District 88, was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison after being convicted of di...
On November 12, 2025, a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Jonathan Braun to **27 months in prison** after he committed several offenses following a previous sentence commutation by form...
Patrick Leonard, 23, and Lannee Ksigwa, 19, were sentenced to prison following convictions for the rape of a 12-year-old girl, authorities reported. The trial took place at Bradford Crow...
On January 4, 2026, Judge Benny Sagi, president of the Beersheba District Court in southern Israel, died in a motorcycle crash on Highway 6. Police reported that an off‑road vehicle veere...
Eric Gurvis, a former rabbi who previously served at Temple Shalom in Newton, Massachusetts, was arrested in December 2025 in Framingham, Massachusetts, as part of a law enforcement sting...
On December 10, 2025, federal prison officials informed a U.S. District Court in New York that former Abercrombie & Fitch chief executive officer Mike Jeffries is now competent to stand t...
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Colombian authorities removed 17 children from the Lev Tahor sect following reports from international child protection agencies regarding neglect and coercive practices within the commun...
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 followi...
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Dovid Akiva Shenkman, a former Chicago resident, pleaded guilty to federal charges involving possession and transportation of child pornography and was sentenced in September 2025 to near...
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Romanian Survivors File Lawsuits Against Harvest Christian Fellowship and Pastor Greg Laurie In September 2025, multiple Romanian men filed federal civil lawsuits in the United...
Haim Yosef David Abergel is an Israeli rabbi from Netivot, Israel, and the son of Rabbi Yoram Abergel. He is associated with Haredi religious communities and has been involved in educatio...
On August 16, 2025, Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, an Israeli cybersecurity official and senior executive at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, was arrested in Henderson, Nevada, as part o...
Brandon Keith Riley‑Mitchell, a 39‑year‑old Pennsylvania resident who is a Tier 1 registered sex offender, became a legal parent of an infant boy through a surrogacy arrangement in 2024, ...
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On April 27, 2025, actress Rosanna Arquette posted messages on social media raising questions about the reported death of Virginia Giuffre. Arquette wrote that the circumstances surroundi...
Robert Morris, an American televangelist and founder of Gateway Church in Texas, pleaded guilty in 2025 to charges related to child sexual abuse, according to court records. Morris, who h...
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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 of...
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 invo...
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João Teixeira de Faria, a Brazilian self-described spiritual healer also known as “John of God,” received an additional 99-year prison sentence in July 2023 after being found guilty of mu...
Stephen Weiss is an American rabbi who served as senior rabbi at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike, Ohio, United States. He had been affiliated with the congregation since 2001 a...
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Eliezer Berland is an Israeli ultra-Orthodox rabbi and leader of the Shuvu Bonim sect. He was previously convicted in Israel of sexual offenses in a separate case and served a prison sent...
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1788–1822 — Ali Pasha controls Ioannina and expands his authority across Epirus, southern Albania and surrounding regions. His court becomes a major political center while maintaining ext...
395 CE — After the death of Theodosius I, administration of the Roman Empire is divided between eastern and western courts. The territories of modern Albania remain primarily within the e...
c. 1332–1323 BCE — Tutankhamun becomes king while still a child during the political aftermath of Akhenaten's religious revolution. His government restores traditional temples and moves t...
c. 1479–1425 BCE — Thutmose III initially shares the throne during Hatshepsut's rule and later becomes one of Egypt's most successful military pharaohs. Repeated campaigns extend Egyptian...
c. 1550–1070 BCE — Egypt becomes one of the great imperial powers of the Late Bronze Age. Pharaohs campaign into Nubia and the Levant while wealth flows into enormous temple complexes, ro...
c. 2650 BCE — Djoser's Step Pyramid complex represents a revolutionary leap in monumental stone architecture. Traditionally associated with the official Imhotep, the project begins as a m...
c. 2686–2181 BCE — The Old Kingdom becomes the classic age of pyramid construction and highly centralized kingship. The royal court controls extensive agricultural resources and commands ...
c. 3100 BCE — Political consolidation produces a state extending across most of the Nile Valley and Delta. A royal court, taxation system, organized labor force and increasingly sophistic...