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A Confederate memorial's days at Arlington National Cemetery are numbered

The Pentagon announced the establishment of a multinational naval task force to protect commercial ships from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden

The two Georgia election workers who won a nearly $150 million verdict against Rudy Giuliani for defamation on Friday have sued him again, asking a federal judge to permanently prohibit him from lying about them.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law Monday a bill that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime, an extraordinary step in the hard-fought legal battle between the state and the federal government over efforts to curtail illegal immigration.

Donald Trump’s rhetoric dropped to a spine-tingling new low this weekend with less than a month before the Iowa caucuses.

Jonathan Majors is known for playing Kang in the Marvel universe and for films like Creed III.

Three masked gunmen attempted to rob a Colorado business. Their escape plans were quickly spoiled.

UK MP Layla Moran says her relatives are among hundreds of civilians trapped in a Catholic Church in Gaza City as Israeli forces operate nearby.

The Liberal Democrat says her family are "days away from dying" without access to water or food.

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem say a mother and daughter were killed inside the Holy Family Church complex on Saturday by sniper fire.

The IDF said it found no evidence to show the incident took place.

"India has become the first country to demonstrate the capability of engaging four targets simultaneously at around 30 km ranges by command guidance using a single firing unit."

Before he was killed alongside his wife and two children in Gaza last month, Hani Jnena, 33, sent a final message to his colleagues in the West Bank.

"My daughters are terrified, and I am trying to keep them calm, but this bombing is terrifying," he wrote, referring to Israel's campaign of airstrikes and artillery bombardment of the Palestinian enclave.

Jnena, a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, died along with his family after an Israeli airstrike hit the Al Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City on Nov. 4, according to a statement his employer provided to The Washington Post.

He is among hundreds of humanitarian and development workers killed during the two-month conflict, a statistic that has infuriated USAID officials who want the Biden administration to intensify pressure on Israel to limit the civilian bloodshed.

USAID officials, some of whom endorsed an open letter last month urging a cease-fire in Gaza, told The Post that the Biden administration should use its leverage to force a change in Israel's behavior. That would include placing restrictions on the billions of dollars in military assistance the United States provides to Israel every year. "We've seen far too much inaction from the White House and USAID leadership on this issue," said one USAID official, who like some others interviewed for this report spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss disagreements with U.S. policy.

"The U.S. concern about these casualties remains almost purely rhetorical. There is no policy leverage being put behind it whatsoever," said Konyndyk, president of Refugees International. "Beyond expressing concern and expressing regret, that's where it stops."

Besides frustration directed at the White House, several USAID employees expressed disappointment that the killing of Jnena was not acknowledged by the agency publicly or in internal staff-wide communication. USAID Administrator Samantha Power has been aware of his death since at least late November, when she sent a letter to the CEO of the USAID contractor he worked for, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.

Samer Abu Daqqa died of wounds after a drone strike while working for Al Jazeera at a school.

Trump-proofing NATO? The U.S. Congress is on it. American lawmakers have passed legislation aimed at protecting the alliance from Donald Trump. With Trump ahead in the polls, their bill could prevent him from leaving NATO if he's re-elected.

A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.

The leaders of Venezuela and Guyana said Thursday that they would not use force against each other amid a dispute over an oil-rich piece of Guyanese land and agreed to create a joint commission to address the territorial spat.

We speak with the acclaimed Russian American writer Masha Gessen, whose latest article for The New Yorker looks at the politics of Holocaust commemoration in Europe. Gessen was scheduled to receive the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize in Germany on December 15, but the ceremony was postponed after some award sponsors withdrew support over Gessen’s comparison in the article of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto. A smaller award ceremony is set for Saturday. Gessen says Germany’s culture of learning about and atoning for the sins of the Nazi regime has morphed into steadfast support for the state of Israel despite its actions, while banning most forms of pro-Palestinian solidarity as part of a flawed effort to fight antisemitism. The cornerstone of this form of “memory politics” is that “you can’t compare the Holocaust to anything,” says Gessen. “My argument is that in order to learn from history, we have to compare.”

CNN's Clarissa Ward witnessed the horror and humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza during a visit to a field hospital in Rafah operated by the United Arab Emirates. Watch the full report.

I am glad that western media is finally showing the reality on the ground.

A web developer from Peru says he became depressed and his business was devastated after US authorities wrongly accused him of bomb threats and child sex offences.

X recently claimed to support the press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders — which in response called X "a haven for disinformation."

Major aid groups say the Biden administration’s special envoy for humanitarian issues has not responded to requests for meetings, as experts warn desperation in Gaza will reach unimaginable levels.

Netanyahu sparked anger from the left and right on Monday when he said the Hamas attack had led to the same number of Israeli deaths as the Oslo accords, the peace agreement signed between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993. The comments, made in a leaked statement to the Knesset’s foreign affairs and defence committee, were widely seen as being politically oriented.

A senior official in Netanyahu’s own Likud party told the rightwing Israel Hayom newspaper, formerly regarded as a mouthpiece for the PM but increasingly critical of him in recent weeks: “Netanyahu is in full campaign mode. While the external political threats are gradually increasing, Netanyahu knows that over time the attacks and the calls to remove him will also increase.”

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Andre Braugher has died. The two-time Emmy-winning star of series including Homicide: Life on the Street, Men of a Certain Age and Brooklyn Nine-Nine was 61. Braugher, whose first film role came al…

The United Nations General Assembly approved the resolution 153 to 10 with 23 abstentions. This latest resolution is non-binding.