Author: MIKE BREST Washington Examiner

A group of American victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack is suing several Gaza-based terrorist groups who carried it out and the state actors who support them. The Anti-Defamation League and Crowell & Moring filed the federal lawsuit on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of the more than…

A Chinese Coast Guard vessel damaged a Philippine vessel on Tuesday near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. Both sides quickly accused the other of being responsible for the latest incident in their dispute over the shoal. In the Chinese Coast Guard’s telling of events, more than 10 Philippine vessels surrounded the…

Russia has sent tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, whom they have abducted, to more than 200 different facilities, where about a fifth of them have been given military training, according to a new report from a United States watchdog organization. It’s believed that Russian forces have taken more than 35,000 Ukrainian children from their homes, largely in…

The mayor of Colorado Springs, the current but not long-term base for U.S. Space Command, is already looking for more aerospace opportunities just weeks after President Donald Trump announced the military would be moving the command’s headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama. The debate over where Space Command’s permanent headquarters should be located dates back to Trump’s…

President Donald Trump ordered the military to conduct a kinetic strike against a vessel in the Caribbean area on Monday, the second this month. “The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in international waters transporting illegal narcotics (A DEADLY WEAPON POISONING AMERICANS!” headed to the U.S.,” Trump said Monday afternoon on Truth…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned China’s recently announced plan to establish a nature reserve on one of the most hotly contested shoals in the South China Sea, which rival claimant the Philippines has already protested. The Chinese government approved a proposal on Wednesday to create a national nature reserve at Scarborough Shoal, which its National Forestry…

The NATO alliance will bolster its posture on its eastern flank following the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace earlier this week. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte announced the launch of “Eastern Sentry” on Friday, saying that the effort will include Denmark, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other countries providing assets to NATO’s eastern…

The North Korean government is increasingly executing civilians, including people found to be consuming unapproved foreign media, according to a report from the United Nations Human Rights Office. Pyongyang has continued to exercise significant control over the population and severely restrict the rights and freedoms of its population, and that has only gotten more intense…