Mamdani Faces Bipartisan Backlash Over Criticism Of Israel On Oct. 7

Saudis Vow Retaliation After Deadly Airport Strike As Houthi Threat Puts Gulf On Edge Iran-backed Houthi rebels have not officially claimed responsibility for Saturday's missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which killed 12 people and wounded more than 300. The mass-casualty missile strike raises new questions about the effectiveness of Saudi Arabia's Western-supplied air and missile defenses, including potential gaps in detection, interception, and/or coverage. It also raises the risk of a wider Gulf conflict.  Al Jazeera correspondent Yousef Mawry, reporting from Sanaa, wrote early Sunday that the...

When Did Obesity Become A Drug Deficiency? Authored by Joseph Varon via The Brownstone Institute, Look at almost any photograph of an American crowd taken 60 years ago. It can be a baseball game, a high school graduation, a beach, an airport terminal, a factory floor, or simply people walking down a city street. Something is immediately noticeable to modern eyes, although almost nobody in the photograph would have considered it remarkable: most people are relatively thin. They did not have continuous glucose monitors, smartphone applications that counted calories and macronutrients, wearable...

US Southern Command said in a statement that its forces bombed an alleged drug-running boat in the Caribbean on Saturday, killing at least three people, as the Trump administration continues to conduct extrajudicial executions at sea. “On September 19, under the direction of US Southern Command, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on […]