Patrick Stewart 1940-2026

Actor Patrick Stewart, known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the show Star Trek:  The Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men movies, died yesterday in Los Angeles at the age of 86.  He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease and Lewy Body Dementia.

Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, a town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, part of the English country of York.  His parents were Alfred Stewart, a sergeant major in the British Army Parachute Regiment during World War II who later became a postman, and the former Gladys Barrowclough, a weaver and textile worker.  During his childhood, an English teacher gave him a copy of something from Shakespeare and told him to perform.  He studied drama in school until he dropped out at age 15 and supported himself as a newspaper reporter.  He eventually received a grant to study at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Stewart first appeared on stage in 1959 in a production of Cyrano de Bergerac.  He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1982.  His first TV appearance was as a fire officer on the show Coronation Street.  He would appear in many TV series and played some minor roles in films.  In 1987, he was chosen for the role of Captain Picard in Star Trek:  The Next Generation and several movies set after that series.  In 1990, Stewart resumed acting on stage, which he continued from time to time over the rest of his life.  During the late 1990s, he accepted the role of Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men movies.  He also provided voices for animated films.

Stewart was married to Sheila Falconer from 1966 to 1990.  They had a son named Daniel, who is also an actor, and a daughter named Sophia.  He was married to ST: TNG producer Wendy Neuss from 2000 to 2003.  In 2013, he married American singer/songwriter Sunny Ozell, by whom he is survived, along with his children Daniel and Sophia.

Read more at AP News, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, TMZ and The Guardian.

Thursday Tidbits

On a mild and sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, diversity of opinion about the "Cornell 7" is not welcome at Columbia University.

From FrontpageMag, in defense of voting based on realism.

From Townhall, The Washington Post omits some important facts about a D.C. middle school baseball coach who was detained by ICE.

From The Washington Free Beacon, records show that senatorial candidate Troy Jackson's (D-ME) "logging" company is really a consulting firm.

From the Washington Examiner, the sneaky Democrat strategy in Alaska.

From The Federalist, the U.S. is headed for either mass immigration or mass deportation.

From American Thinker, former President Bush the Younger was and still is wrong about 9/11.

From NewsBusters, The View had no problem earlier this week with the fake Dan Sullivan in Alaska.

From Canada Free Press, a "diagram of a leftist revolution", of which France is merely a preview.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez announces transformations, labor dialogue, and reforms.

From Snouts in the Trough, hey leftists, what about the genocide in Nigeria?

From EuroNews, the foreign policy and governing challenges facing the Student List movement in Serbia.

From Free West Media, an oil spill near the Strait of Hormuz could cause a water crisis.

From ReMix, according to former Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller, current Prime Minister Donald Tusk could win next year's parliamentary elections but still fail to form a governing majority.  (If you read Polish better than yours truly, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From Balkan Insight, 11 police officers and two prosecutors are suspended after the latest femicide in Kosovo.

From Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, Athens, Greece has its own "Mount Trashmore".  (FfJE appears to be a subsidiary of Balkan Insight.)

From The North Africa Post, almost 35 percent of Moroccan exports are from its automotive industry.

From The New Arab, Yemeni authorities accuse the Houthis of using banned toxic substances in attacks in the Province of Taiz.

From the Colombo Gazette, 14 university students participate in a training program on hydrography and marine geospatial information at the Sri Lanka National Hydrographic Office.

From the Daily Mirror, shortages of cards prevent Sri Lanka from producing drivers licenses, and national identity cards.

From Raajje, former Maldivian parliamentcritter Yaugoob Abdulla warns that waiting until 2028 to replace the current Maldivian government could be back for the education sector.

From the Bangkok Post, a mishap at Thailand's Suvarnabhumi airport is attributed to ground subsidence.

From The Straits Times and maybe the "what could go wrong?" department, visitors to the Singaporean island of Sentosa can book rides on self-driving shuttles starting in early 2027.

From Tempo(dot)Co, student protesters call for Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to dismiss Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni over his alleged failure to address forest fires.

From Free Malaysia Today, the party Perikatan Nasional announces five of the six candidates it will field in the upcoming election in the Malaysian state of Melaka.

From the Borneo Post, according to Finance Minister Amir Hamzah Azizan, the Malaysian government is increasing the allocation for all of the country's states, with Sabah and Sarawak getting the most.

From Counterview, the challenges faced by women who leave Islam are highlighted at a conference in London.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. needs to learn from its own successes.

From The Daily Signal, before President Trump goes to a rally in South Carolina, his administration highlights five illegal aliens recently arrested in that state.

From The American Conservative, some FBI agents finally face justice over former First Son Hunter Biden's laptop.

From The Western Journal, a State Department employee who lost her job after throwing a drink at an NBA game tells her side of the story.

From BizPac Review, a woman wearing a burka tries to turn a Pinellas County, Florida council meeting into an Islamic call to prayer and is escorted out.

From the Daily Wire, the Wisconsin Supreme Court opens a new investigation into a judge who helped an illegal alien evade ICE.

From the Daily Caller, small towns in Texas payed tens of thousands of dollars on performances by Tejano singer and congressional candidate (D-TX) Bobby Pulido.

From the New York Post, former (and very briefly) White House press secretary Katie Zacharia spars with journalist Piers Morgan over her private chats with Trump.

From Breitbart, screenwriter/director Adam Sorkin admits that he's not good as a director after his film The Social Reckoning flops.

From Newsmax, federal investigators found evidence in 2016 that then-private citizen Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage was fraudulent.

And from SFGate, the creepiest street in California has lured weirdos and sci-fi fans for a long time.

A Sasquatch's Wednesday Dozen

Now that I'm back from running around on a cool and sunny Wednesday, here are 12 things going on:

From MalayMail, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim that his country's 2027 budget reinforces Islam.

From The Straits Times, Syria reopens its border with Jordan.

From The Star, Fitch Ratings estimates that Malaysia's Islamic finance industry is worth more than U.S. $800 million.

From The Soufan Center, Malian government forces retake the desert town of Kidal from Tuareg separatists and groups linked to al-Qaeda.

From NDTV, an American woman married to an ISIS fighter is convicted of receiving terrorist training.

From AMU, according to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the Taliban is intensifying its restriction on women and girls.  (That non-sound which you're not hearing is the non-existent reaction from Western feminists.)

From IranWire, Iran wants the outside world to see women who appear free, but not women who choose freedom.

From World, Egyptian authorities release six Christians from jail who had been arrested for posting videos allegedly offensive to Islam.

From the New York Post, an underage ISIS supporter tries to knife a policeman guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, which becomes his last mistake.

From Al Jazeera, Arab parties are on course to win a record 17 seats in the Israeli Knesset.  (All 10 of the above links come via The Religion Of Peace, which also appears to be a record.  Of course, this makes today's intent to post 12 articles very easy to accomplish.)

From Gatestone Institute, will AI be verified when it learns Jew-hate?

And from Snouts in the Trough, how did the U.K.'s police become the enemies of its people?

Tuesday Tidings

On a warm and sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, getting to the bottom of President Trump's antics.

From FrontpageMag, amid the riots in France, the leftist narrative falls apart.

From Townhall, congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) memoir contains evidence that she lied about her age.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a donor who has given millions of dollars to Democrats PACs putting out ads linking Republicans to the late Jeffrey Epstein himself visited Epstein several times.

From the Washington Examiner, to Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the climate, Gaza and French schools are all the same fight.

From The Federalist, either the aforementioned Ilhan Omar lied about her age in her memoir, or she's lying about it now.

From American Thinker, why are women trying to get into college if it's a rape culture?

From NewsBusters, a detransitioner claims that she was not allowed to question senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) at a CNN/Jubilee town hall.

From Canada Free Press, the stench of sanctimony pervades a meeting between Trump and some Catholic bishops.

From TeleSUR, Cuba outlines its biodiversity priorities at the COP17 meeting in Yerevan, Armenia.

From EuroNews, Poland and the U.K. sign a three-year defense cooperation agreement.

From Free West Media, is there a straightforward way to end the war in Ukraine?

From ReMix, Europe has gotten and is expected to get more Muslims.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at La Gaceta.)

From Balkan Insight, the Bulgarian government is criticized for using state funds to promote presidential candidate Iliana Iotova.

From The New Arab, Syria closes its border with Jordan after Jordanian airstrikes kill seven Syrian civilians.

From The Hans India, the speaker of the Delhi Legislative Assembly calls for gender-neutral parliamentary rules.

From the Hindustan Times, most of convicts escaped from a jail in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu can't outrun police drones.

From ANI, Odisha state Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi promises a "zero-tolerance policy against corruption".  (My spellchecker objects to "Charan" but has no problem with "Mohan" or "Majhi".)

From India Today, according to Indian former Supreme Court judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul, governments have always preferred judges who agree with them.  (I've got a feeling that such preference is not by any means confined to India.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladeshi police are ordered to crack down on drug and juvenile gang kingpins.

From New Age, according to a U.N. report, Bangladeshis are among men from 29 countries who were trafficked into the Russian military.

From NDTV, an "Arab" factor holds a critical balance of power in Israel's current election.

From Gatestone Institute, the new European totalitarians.

From The Daily Signal, a report from Trump's trip to Mississippi.

From The American Conservative, leftists want the U.S. to look like France.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned Jordanian airstrikes.

From BizPac Review, could rapper Nicki Minaj become the next White House press secretary?

From the Daily Wire, no, police weren't called to a soccer game because a black three-year-old boy was too good at playing the game.

From the Daily Caller, the FBI raids a mansion in Beverly Hills, California in connection to an investigation of former congresscritter Eric Swalwell (D-Cal).

From the New York Post, crooks have stolen huge amounts of expensive AI equipment.

From Breitbart, leftist rioting in France does not prevent the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints from playing football in the Stade de France near Paris.

From Newsmax, Brazilian Senator and recent presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro is headed to the U.S.

And from the Genesius Times, a federal judge overturns a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and orders both countries to resume hostilities.

Walter Koenig 1936-2026

Actor and screenwriter Walter Koenig, known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek series and six subsequent Star Trek movies, died yesterday of natural causes at age 90, at his home in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles.  His daughter Danielle and a niece were with him.

Walter Marvin Koenig was born in Chicago, Illinois to businessman Isadore Koenig and the former Sarah Strauss.  Both were Russian Jewish immigrants and lived in Lithuania before they left the Soviet Union.  During Walter's childhood, the family moved to Manhattan in New York City.  Koenig attended Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa and later received a BA degree from UCLA.  He also attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.

Koenig portrayed a Marine Corps Sergeant on the NBC show The Lieutenant and appeared in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour before auditioning for the role of Ensign Chekov.  He was chosen for the role due to his resemblance to actor/singer Davy Jones of the Monkees, not to an alleged article in Pravda complaining about the lack of Russian characters in Star Trek.  Producer Gene Roddenberry asked him to "ham up" his Russian accent, which resulted in Chekov substituting a "w" for a "v" in words such as "wodka" and "wessel".

Before the start of the Star Trek movies, Koenig found some work as a writer.  He appeared on the sci-fi show Babylon 5 as the Psi Cop Alfred Bester.  He appeared as a guest star in various TV shows and wrote several films, one-act plays, and TV episodes.  He also taught acting and directing at UCLA.

Koenig married actress Judy Levitt in 1965.  He was predeceased by her in 2022 and by their son Andrew, who committed suicide in 2010.  He is survived by his daughter Danielle.

Read more at The Hollywood Reporter, NBC News, TMZ, Variety and People.

Monday Links

On a mild and sunny Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what did congresscritter Ilhan Omar's (D-Min) father do in Somalia before emigrating to the United States?

From FrontpageMag, the left is indeed coming after your family.

From Townhall, the truth about a deported illegal alien which 60 Minutes called a "Texas father".

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich) gets cozy with a Hamas-supporting editor who thinks that Jews should be sent "back to Poland".

From the Washington Examiner, former President Obama is half right about the war against Iran.

From The Federalist, some things which the left has accused President Trump of doing which they claim that no other presidents have done were in fact done by other presidents.

From American Thinker, why the left won't leave everyone else alone.

From NewsBusters, more on the aforementioned 60 Minutes bashing the deportation of an illegal alien.

From Canada Free Press, deceitful Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is caught up in his own words.

From TeleSUR, over 300 American soldiers will participate in military exercises in Colombia.

From Snouts in the Trough, why do economic "experts" know nothing about economics?

From EuroNews, the E.U. plans to give the border agency Frontex new powers to deport migrants to non-E.U. countries.

From Free West Media, according to a U.K. researcher, Ukraine's military losses far exceed those of Russia.

From ReMix, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is reelected as the leader of the Lega party.  (If you read Italian, read the story at Il Giornale.)

From Balkan Insight, the party Student List wins an outright majority in Serbia's parliamentary elections.

From The North Africa Post, starting next year, smoking and vaping in Morocco is gonna cost ya more, pilgrim.

From The New Arab, the terrorist group Hezbollah prepares for a resumption of hostilities against Israel after it receives more money from Iran.

From Khaama Press, the Taliban in Afghanistan signs a $15.5 million deal with the company Paktia Mawj to supply water to the capital city of Kabul.

From Hasht e Subh, according to WHO and UNICEF officials, Taliban personnel are interfering with vaccination efforts in the Afghani province of Helmand.

From the Afghanistan Times, Afghanistan and Iran start round-the-clock operations at the Milak border crossing.

From Dawn, Pakistan seeks investment from the U.S. for projects to upgrade oil refineries.

From The Express Tribune and the "I like turtles" department, what happened to the Olive Ridley sea turtles, which were once common around Karachi, Pakistan?

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif launches a program to distribute 500,000 Chromebooks to and provide internet facilities for talented students.

From Gatestone Institute, while Israel is merely the pretext, the real target of terrorists the entire West.

From The Daily Signal, the dramatic one-year drop in crime during the first year of Trump's second term.

From The American Conservative, at least one Democratic group understands the failings of their party.

From The Western Journal, in a straw poll, Secretary of State Marco Rubio opens a large lead over Vice President J.D. Vance.

From BizPac Review, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci uses George Orwell's Animal Farm to take a swipe at gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R-OH).

From the Daily Wire, 48 foreigners are charged with allegedly illegally voting in U.S. elections.

From the Daily Caller, Americans are paying hundreds of dollars for health insurance that some don't even use.

From the New York Post, hundreds of ballots are found in an open hallway at a homeless shelter in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles.

From Breitbart, writer-director Aaron Sorkin's movie The Social Reckoning fails dismally at the box office.

From Newsmax, the AI company Anthropic is sued for copyright infringement for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs without authorization.

And from The Babylon Bee, after a late-night ballot drop, former U.S. President Biden wins the Brazilian presidency with 81 million votes.

A Few Sunday Links

On a cool and sunny Sunday, here are a few things going on:

From FrontpageMag, a Syrian refugee meets with the U.K.'s King Charles III and then allegedly rapes a woman.

From Townhall, an admission from Haitian officials shows why President Trump was right to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the history of organized crime in Japan.

From the Washington Examiner, according to congresscritter Jason Crow (D-Col), ousting Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will be their "priority no. 1" if the Democrats retake the House of Representatives.

From The Federalist and the "double standards" department, according to The New York Times, investigating congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min) is "authoritarian" but prosecuting Trump is "accountability".

From American Thinker, former Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returns returns to her country in the state of Lara.

From NewsBusters, senatorial candidate Mike Rogers (R-Mich) slams NBC host Kristen Welker over her softball interview with his rival Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich).

From Gatestone Institute, Russian President Putin's peace talks are an effort to run out the clock.

From The American Conservative, when Republicans ran successfully on an anti-war platform, and then delivered on it.

And from Twitchy, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) dresses up for Halloween early as Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, thus inspiring memes.

Saturday Stuff

On a mild and sunny Saturday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, one out of three in a "sample" of noncitizens in Los Angeles have a "voting history".

From Townhall, Hitler's Alpine retreat home, known as the Eagle's Nest, is mostly destroyed by fire in a suspected act of arson.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to an article written by senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed's (D-Mich) sister, the FBI raided their mother's home in the early 2000s.

From the Washington Examiner, estranged relatives of political candidates are fair game, if revelations about them hurt Republicans.

From American Thinker, a Florida-based pro-abortion group sells custom apparel adorned with some disturbing messages.

From NewsBusters, the Chief Twit invests in Skydance, which owns CNN, causing the left-wing media to panic.  (For more information, go to Wiki.)

From Snouts in the Trough, when parasites kill their host.

From Organiser, France deploys 70,000 police officers in anticipation of more unrest.

From Gatestone Institute, when you vote, consider what sharia demands.

From The American Conservative, Sally Hemmings's descendants allegedly with Thomas Jefferson, NPR hosts dictating vocabulary, and a literal "elephant in the room".

From BizPac Review, ICE alleges that CBS News runs "cover" for illegal aliens.

From the Daily Wire, the rise of Islam in the U.S. is reflected in popular baby names.

From the Daily Caller, some military boards disobey Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's ban on openly identifying transgenders.

From the New York Post, Disneyland gets wet.

From Breitbart, Italy sends soldiers to Milan in anticipation of more unrest.

From Newsmax, the State Department updates its travel advisories for the Middle East.

And from Gateway Pundit, the Department of Justice sends federal monitors to Maine after videos show Somali translators allegedly directing votes.

Friday Phenomena

As the cool and sunny weather continues on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, in what year was congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min) born?

From FrontpageMag, the left-wing media furiously spin the rioting in France.

From Townhall, contrary to left-wing lies, concealed carry permit holders obey laws and even save lives.

From The Washington Free Beacon, left-wing commentator Mehdi Hasan hosts an anti-AIPAC event where conspiracy theorists claim that a Jewish cabal is plotting world domination.

From the Washington Examiner, the Treasury Department traces the Southern Poverty Law Center to the debanking of Christians after it had claimed that such debanking was a conspiracy theory.

From The Federalist, the Democratic Socialists of America allegedly have plans to incite violence ahead of the 2028 election.

From American Thinker, how to defeat the Yemeni Houthis.

From NewsBusters, why President George Washington would deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.

From Canada Free Press, medical systems in Canada are becoming "irreconcilable with informed consent".

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian prosecutors seek preventive detention for left-wing former presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez, who was arrested for alleged irregular handling funds.

From Snouts in the Trough, why is the U.K. allowing "foreigners" to wreck their country?

From EuroNews, France bolsters its security as businesses fear more unrest during protests planned for Saturday.

From Free West Media, the aforementioned protests in France have been misunderstood.

From ReMix, a Somali man is arrested in Amsterdam after a dead woman's body is found in a suitcase in the Amstel River.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at De Telegraaf.)

From Balkan Insight, Serbia prepares for its most uncertain elections in 14 years.

From The North Africa Post, the UCESA and the African Union's ECOSOCC sign a memorandum of understanding in Rabat, Morocco.

From The New Arab, here's a Lebanese woman that you don't want to mess with.

From the Sudan Tribune, Sudanese journalists reject a criminal code amendment due to fears over freedom of the press.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian air defenses intercept and destroy two missiles fired by the aforementioned Houthis toward the cities of Riyadh and Khamis Mushait.  (My spellchecker has no problem with "Riyadh" or "Khamis", but objects to "Mushait".)

From DohaNews, Qatari Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al Khulaifi speaks to the Japanese parliament in Tokyo.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranians deal with economic woes.

From IranWire, why some Iranians think that feminism entails hating men.

From Iran International, increased military presence and slower internet suggests that the Iranian government is bracing for trouble.

From Organiser, warning signs of the violent anti-Israel movement are seen in the Indian state of Keralam.

From Gatestone Institute, France clings to its taboos as disorder spreads and Paris burns.

From The Daily Signal, according to a poll, Texas voters across party lines support election integrity.

From Radio Free Asia, Chinese sanctions on Taiwan's allies project its power, but only so much.

From The American Conservative, why are Latin American countries moving toward the right?

From The Western Journal, according to retired law professor Alan Dershowitz, it's "very likely" that the aforementioned Ilham Omar will be deported.

From BizPac Review, a priest in Milan, Italy gives rioters the bird.

From the Daily Wire, the brutal realities of Russian President Putin's war on humanity show that the "Evil Empire" still exists.

From the Daily Caller, according to an excerpt from a book published in Vanity Fair, First Son-In-Law Jared Kushner's phone was hacked, exposing an alleged foreign money web.

From the New York Post, twice a year, a sunbeam illuminates the inner chamber of the Great Temple of Ramesses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt.

From Breitbart, President Trump invokes a Cold War-era federal law to boost U.S. gasoline and diesel production.

From Newsmax, two former FBI officials are charged with making false statements to Congress about then-First Son Hunter Biden's laptop.

And from Only In Your State, each state's most popular Halloween movie.

Thursday Things

On a cool and sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why is Belgium taking its time repairing Ukrainian fighter jets?

From FrontpageMag, if no one is above the law, that includes congresscritter Ilhan Omar.

From Townhall, the terror ties of senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed's family (D-Mich) keep getting exposed.

From The Washington Free Beacon, at least six men who joined the aforementioned Abdul El-Sayed in calling for a "purge" of the media and police have contributed to his campaign.

From The Federalist, yes, the riots in France are a result of mass migration.

From American Thinker, a "Virginia man" who might be an illegal alien allegedly damages an Iwo Jima memorial at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia.

From NewsBusters, the secret to being a conservative on The View is to abandon one's beliefs.

From TeleSUR, Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele issues a stern warning to criminal gangs in Haiti.

From Snouts in the Trough, how do leftists differ from normal people?

From EuroNews, police find 74 migrants crammed into a house in Ceuta, Spain.

From ReMix, more Germans are emigrating to Poland.

From Balkan Insight, Greek police arrest six people for allegedly fixing basketball games.

From The North Africa Post, Eastern Libya's House of Representatives approves a maritime treaty with Turkey.

From Philenews, Cypriot firefighters rescue dogs from a gorge in the district of Paphos and a pit on the district of Larnaca.  (This site used to be called In-Cyprus.)

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian People's Assembly passes reforms in employment, penal, property and national security matters.

From North Press Agency, Syrian security forces raid an ISIS cell in the town of Rankos.

From Arutz Sheva, the IDF and Shin Bet send the head of the Popular Resistance Committees terrorist organization to his virgins.

From The Times Of Israel, the moves that Israeli parties are planning for after the upcoming election.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara urges Israel's High Court of Justice to cut benefits for 110,000 draft evaders.

From YNetNews, can Prime Minister Netanyahu launch a war against Iran before Israeli's aforementioned upcoming elections?

From The New Arab, two people are reported killed in an apparent Houthi attack on the Dammam airport in Saudi Arabia.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt reveals what happened during secret dam negotiations.

From Egypt Today, Egypt and Greece reject the aforementioned Libyan approval of a maritime treaty with Turkey.

From Gatestone Institute, will the NGO Human Rights Watch regain the respect that it has lost?

From The Daily Signal, President Trump and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) take opposite views of a campaign ad by gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R-OH).

From Radio Free Asia, allowing former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to have a phone call with her son is a "political calculation" by Myanmar's military government.

From The American Conservative, a better way than trying to boss Europe around.

From The Western Journal, a judge slaps down a request from accused murderer Lindsay Clancy's lawyer to have the holdout juror investigated.

From BizPac Review, the café in Minneapolis that nixed prices to become an anti-ICE hub will soon close up shop.

From the Daily Wire, a court filing by the Department of Justice identifies the aforementioned Ilhan Omar by another name.

From the Daily Caller, the $25 billion fine imposed by a New Mexican judge could lead to a "major threat" to free speech.

From the New York Post, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) calls herself a "girl's girl" while faulting her fellow Democrats for allegedly caving in on transgender rights.

From Breitbart, more on the aforementioned Nayib Bukele taking action against Haitian gangs who are holding four Salvadorians hostage.

From Newsmax, according to Vice President Vance, Russia and Ukraine are still far apart on any peace deal.

And from SFGate, noted whistleblower Elizabeth Holmes reacts to the movie about her whistleblowing.