In what Israel described as an antisemitic murder, a missing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi was discovered dead in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday. The killing of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who has been missing in the Gulf state since Thursday, was described by the Israeli government as a "criminal antisemitic terrorist event." According to a statement made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his nation "will deal with the criminals responsible for his death to the fullest extent of the law." Suspicions that Kogan had been abducted were immediately raised by his disappearance. He represented Chabad Lubavitch, a prominent New York-based Orthodox Jewish Hasidic organization, in Abu Dhabi. We regret to inform you that Rabbi Zvi Kogan, the Chabad-Lubavitch envoy to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ...

LAS VEGAS Under the brilliant lights of Sin City, Max Verstappen secured his fourth Formula 1 world championship on Saturday night, solidifying his place among the sport's luminaries. With two races and a "sprint" left in the 2024 season, the 27-year-old Red Bull driver only needed to finish ahead of his only championship challenger, McLaren's Lando Norris, to remove him from contention and win the trophy. Norris came in sixth, and he came in fifth. Verstappen joins a select group of drivers that includes Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, and Juan Manuel Fangio as the sixth driver in Formula One history to win four world titles. Man, oh God. Verstappen stated over team radio, still in his car, "What a season." Four times! Many thanks... We made it throug...

Jordan's AMMAN According to official media and a security source, a shooting near the Israeli embassy in neighboring Jordan left one shooter dead and three police officers wounded on Sunday. According to state news agency Petra, which cited public security, police shot a shooter who had opened fire on a police patrol in Amman's Rabiah neighborhood. They also said that investigations were still on. Mohamed Momani, the minister of government communications for Jordan, called the shooting a terror assault that targeted the nation's public security services. Investigations into the attack are underway, he added in a statement. Witnesses reported hearing gunshots, prompting Jordanian police to block off a section close to the tightly guarded embassy. According to two witnesses, police and amb...

The friendly, easygoing host of Wheel of Fortune, Love Connection, and Scrabble, Chuck Woolery, who subsequently turned into a right-wing podcaster who attacked liberals and accused the government of lying about COVID-19, has passed away. He was eighty-three. Woolery passed away at home in Texas with his wife, Kristen, by his side, according to an email received early Sunday by Woolery's friend and podcast co-host, Mark Young. According to Young, life would not be the same without Chuck, who was a cherished brother and friend and a strong believer. Woolery received a daytime Emmy nomination in 1978 and was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007 for his matinee idol appearance, coiffed hair, and ease with clever humor. During his 11-year tenure as presenter of TV's Lo...

A Civil Air Patrol aircraft crashed in Colorado on Saturday while conducting a training flight, leaving two people dead and one injured, according to authorities. The Larimer County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Saturday night that the collision on Storm Mountain, which is approximately 80 miles north of Denver, was reported just after 11 a.m. All three passengers were discovered by responding deputies, two of whom were subsequently pronounced deceased, according to the report. According to the sheriff's office, the aircraft, which belonged to the Thompson Valley Composite Squadron, crashed in Larimer County while conducting aerial photography as part of a regular training operation. The deceased were identified by Governor Jared Polis as aerial photographer Jay Rhoten and pilot Sus...

Kansas City, Missouri. With a 1-0 victory over the Washington Spirit on Saturday, the Orlando Pride won their first National Women's Soccer League title thanks to a goal from Barbra Banda in the 37th minute. Banda dribbled into the right side of the box, dribbled by a defender, kicked the ball with her left foot on the ground, and kicked it past the goalie. She scored in every round of the playoffs, becoming her the first player in the NWSL to do so. The VAR ruled that the play was fair even though the Pride's Angelina almost received a push call before giving it to Banda. The Spirit (20-7-2) had two more shots on goal, outshot the Pride 25-9, maintained possession 58% of the time, and dominated the game. In the 47th minute, Rosemonde Kouassi headed a ball from a distance of roughly ten ...

Pam Bondi, the attorney general of Florida, had to decide in 2013 whether to join other state attorneys general's investigations into Trump University, where students paid up to $35,000 for business programs that detractors said were fraudulent. Bondi and Kamala Harris, the attorney general of California at the time, refused to participate in the inquiry despite student accusations of exploitation. Both claimed that the money affected their office's choice, despite having accepted campaign donations from Donald Trump. The two former state attorneys general have since taken diametrically opposed political trajectories. In the 2020 and 2024 elections, Harris criticized Trump, portraying him as a threat to democracy and a commercial scam.It was earlier this month that Trump was reelected. Ove...

As winter-pattern storms continue to move across the continental landscape from west to east, forecasters are increasingly predicting a cold and rainy Thanksgiving week. According to the Transportation Security Administration, the potentially rainy, snowy, and chilly weather might coincide with what is expected to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel week to date. According to NBC News meteorologists on Saturday, a lot of the country will continue to experience active weather over the holiday week. According to them, Wednesday and Thursday might see a storm system that produces both rain and snow, but there was little confidence in the specifics. According to the government Weather Prediction Center, a diagonal low-pressure front with rain, snow, and plunging temperatures was likely to affec...

Governor Jared Polis stated in a statement that a Civil Air Patrol jet crashed in Colorado on Saturday, killing two people and injuring one. The deceased were identified by Polis as aerial photographer Jay Rhoten and pilot Susan Wolber. The co-pilot was identified as the injured party. According to Polis, the aircraft, which belonged to the Thompson Valley Composite Squadron, crashed in Larimer County. In an XSaturday afternoon post, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office stated that it was responding to a plane crash at Storm Mountain, approximately 48 miles north of Boulder, in conjunction with Larimer County Emergency Services and local partners. The aircraft was identified as a Cessna 182 by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The Civil Air Patrol said that it was participati...

Authorities in Pennsylvania said this week that they had definitively identified the remains of a child whose corpse was discovered in 1973, concealed in undergrowth underneath a plastic sheet. At a press conference on Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Police Sgt. Josh Lacey informed reporters that the remains belonged to 14-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Brenneman. On October 10, 1973, some 47 miles from Brenneman's York County home, two game wardens discovered the decomposing body of a little girl in a forested area in Lebanon County, according to Lacey. The cause of her death was unknown. According to Lacey, authorities have been trying to identify the girl for the past 50 years. In May 2016, authorities exhumed the girl's body from Mount Lebanon Cemetery in an additional attempt to identify her, ...