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http://youtu.be/97phkGWGYqA Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Friday that he has no plans to resign his seat and will run for a 10th term next year. McCarthy (R-Calif.), who lost his speakership Tuesday after an unprecedented vote to depose him, was rumored to be considering an early exit from Congress, according to Politico. The 58-year-old denied that report, telling KGET 17 News in his hometown of Bakersfield that he will finish out his current term representing California’s 20th Congressional District and seek re-election in 2024. McCarthy was first elected to Congress in 2006 and worked his way up the House Republican hierarchy until grabbing the gavel in January. When asked about his future after Tuesday’s vote, McCarthy did not rule out resigning, telling reporters: “...

http://youtu.be/An5NINH2pVE An explosion rocked the Gaza strip on Saturday (October 7), sending smoke and dust across the city, after the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise assault that combined gunmen crossing into Israel with a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza. The Israeli military said it had responded with air strikes into Gaza, after Hamas launched a raid into Israel on Saturday. Reuters video captured the moment a building was struck in Gaza city, spewing plumes of thick black smoke into the air. The building which collapsed after air strike, called "Palestine Tower", is the headquarters of several offices of media institutions in the city. Israel said the Iran-backed group had declared war as its army confirmed fighting with militants in several Israeli town...

http://youtu.be/YmqiZK6Rarw Hamas militants fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of fighters into Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented surprise early morning attack during a major Jewish holiday Saturday, killing dozens and stunning the country. Israel said it is now at war with Hamas and launched airstrikes in Gaza, vowing to inflict an “unprecedented price.” Hours after the incursion began, Israeli troops were still fighting Hamas gunmen in 22 locations near the Gaza Strip, including towns and other communities, army spokesman Daniel Hagari said — a startling sign of the breadth of the assault. Israel’s national rescue service said at least 100 people were killed and hundreds wounded, making it the deadliest attack in Israel in years. An unknown number of Isra...

http://youtu.be/ScNqFyPbha0 Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan on Saturday, the country's national disaster authority said. The United Nations gave a preliminary figure of 320 dead, but later said the figure was still being verified. Local authorities gave an estimate of 100 people killed and 500 injured, according to the same update from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The United States Geological Survey reported the 6.3 magnitude tremblors. It said the epicenter was 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) northwest of Herat city. There was an aftershock with a 5.5 magnitude. #afghanistan #earthquake The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estat...

http://youtu.be/fNAcrtWVAxY A young American-Israeli attending a rave that was disrupted by Hamas terrorists on Saturday texted his parents “I love you” and “I’m sorry,” before becoming unreachable — as horrifying videos of attackers paragliding into the party and kidnapping attendees emerge. Hersh Golberg-Polin, who just turned 23 this week, was celebrating in the desert in northern Negev when Hamas militants invaded the party and began attacking attendees, his father told The Jerusalem Post. After texting his parents, “I love you” and “I’m sorry,” Golberg-Polin became unreachable. “We just want him home and safe,” his father, Jonathon Polin told the outlet, adding that if he could tell his son anything, he would say: “We love you. Come home to us.” The 23-year-old had also been cele...

http://youtu.be/hoehyhxmYZo A young tattoo artist has been identified as the woman whose body was paraded through the streets in the back of a pickup truck by Hamas terrorists after they attacked an outdoor music rager during their sneak assault on Israel Saturday morning. Shani Louk was among the hundreds of victims in Israel when Hamas targeted the dance party near Kibbutz Urim and other Israeli communities. The cruel attack in the Jewish state has led to the deaths of over 600 Israelis with more than 1,500 injured and dozens more kidnapped. As disturbing footage of the violence quickly spread online, family members recognized Shani, in her early 20s, in a video, her first cousin told the Washington Post. Armed terrorists chanted “Allahu Akbar” — Arabic for “God is Great” as they pa...

http://youtu.be/VAG4X4I96WQ Israel battered Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday after suffering its bloodiest day in decades when Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli towns, with hundreds killed on both sides. The spiraling violence threatens a major new Middle East war. People search through the remains of a mosque in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Israeli jets battered Gaza on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed "mighty vengeance" for the bloodiest attack in decades by Hamas. In a sign the conflict could spread beyond Gaza, Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah exchanged artillery and rocket fire. In Alexandria, two Israeli tourists were shot dead along with their Egyptian guide. Israeli air strikes also pounded housing blocks, tunnels and homes of Hamas officia...

http://youtu.be/uUfM7O5nE3M Former Vice President Mike Pence hit out at his former boss and his other Republican opponents for “signaling retreat” from Israel, allowing Hamas to launch the worst attack on the Jewish nation in 50 years over the weekend. Pence made clear in an interview with CNN Sunday that he blames the weakness of President Biden for having “emboldened the enemies of freedom around the world.” “But I also believe this is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis signaling retreat from America’s role as leader of the free world,” the long-shot GOP presidential contender said of his rivals in the race. “Look, what happened in Ukraine was an unprovoked invasion by Russia. What happened this weekend was an unprovoked invas...

http://youtu.be/bKPXVJ0Hi1k Firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz on Sunday insisted his efforts to sack former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were worth it — even if his fellow Republicans expel him from Congress as retaliation. Gaetz (R-Fla.) led a faction of eight Republicans in backing a motion to vacate the chair — or oust McCarthy (R-Calif.) — in a 216 to 210 vote, with a unified bloc of Democrats, last week, sparking condemnation from others in the GOP. “Absolutely,” Gaetz replied when asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if the move was worth it even if it leads to repercussions for himself. “Look, I’m here to fight for my constituents,” he added. “And I’m here to ensure that America is not on a path to financial ruin.” Gaetz — who is rumored to be eyeing a run for Florida governor — was livid a...

http://youtu.be/r5IlEZM8Nxs Drone footage of Gaza City on Monday showed the scale of the destruction as Israel intensified its bombardment in retaliation for a major surprise attack by Hamas. Entire mosques were leveled, appearing from the air as piles of rubble. Israel hit more than 1,000 targets in Gaza, its military said, including airstrikes that leveled much of the town of Beit Hanoun in the enclave’s northeast corner. More than two days after Hamas launched its unprecedented incursion from Gaza, the military said the fighting had largely died down for now. The attack caught Israel’s vaunted military and intelligence apparatus completely off guard, bringing heavy battles to its streets for the first time in decades. Israel formally declared war on Sunday, portending greater figh...

http://youtu.be/X4YepB5P0Bc An Israeli mother who evaded capture with her two young children recalled being led by Hamas to Gaza to the sound of blaring gunshots and seeing everything was “destroyed and covered in blood” before she could escape. Terrorists broke into Avital Aldjem’s home and dragged her out from the closet where she was hidden before forcing her and her two children — Negev, 4, and baby Eshel, just four months — to begin walking with them toward Gaza. “They took us from house to house, the whole time there were gunshots along the way,” Aldjem told i24news reporter Natasha Raquel Kirtchuk Gutman said in Hebrew. “Puddles of blood everywhere.” “They were burning the homes. Cars were on fire. Then they took me and my kids outside and took us to the fence that surrounds th...

http://youtu.be/wBQ0rgz1QD4 More than 30 Harvard University student organizations are holding Israel “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ mass slaughter — sparking outraged condemnation and calls by a congresswoman for the Ivy League school to denounce the “abhorrent and heinous” support of “evil and terrorism.” In a letter titled “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine,” 31 student organizations — including the Ivy League’s affiliate of Amnesty International — condemned Israel, even as its residents are kidnapped and more than 700 have been killed by the terrorist organization. The groups claim Hamas’ attack “did not happen in a vacuum,” and the Israeli government has forced Palestinians to live in an “open-air prison for over two decades,” ac...

http://youtu.be/5WwTXQ97ZGg A Long Island school bus driver caught drinking while bringing students home last week will not face charges — because police believe her story that she grabbed a hard seltzer without realizing it was alcoholic. The 60-year-old driver, Amal Hanna, told News 12 Long Island that she is teetotal because she’s undergoing chemotherapy for cancer — which also leaves her unable to taste if drinks are alcoholic. She said she grabbed a White Claw from the fridge she shares with a roommate in Hauppauge, thinking she was drinking a regular fruit-flavored seltzer while driving kids home from Smithtown High School West on Wednesday. “It was just a mistake, it was a mistake,” the newly fired driver said through tears, fearing she could end up homeless from going through c...

http://youtu.be/0Uibt7N8ivQ An Israeli actor who is dating one of the country’s most prominent television news journalists is being hailed as a hero after he was seriously wounded while fighting Hamas gunmen during an attempt to rescue trapped families near the Gaza Strip frontier over the weekend. Yadin Gellman, 30, a theater and film actor who serves as a reservist in the Israeli military, underwent emergency surgery after sustaining gunshot wounds to his chest and hand during a gunfight with Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Be’eri, a kibbutz located two miles from the border with the Gaza Strip. Gellman is dating Adva Dadon, a correspondent for N12 News, Israel’s most popular television news station, according to the Israeli news site Ynet. “Thank you to everyone for your concern,” ...

http://youtu.be/Fk9I9-H5l1Y An Israeli couple held hostage for 20 hours by Hamas militants bought themselves time while waiting to be rescued by offering their captors beverages, making jokes, and asking for lessons in Arabic. After a rocket siren forced Rahel Edri and her husband to enter the bomb shelter in their Ofakim home, five men claiming to be police officers broke in and began giving orders, Edri told Walla, according to Haaretz. The men, who were speaking Arabic, forced the couple upstairs, broke both of their phones and began rummaging through their closets. “They pointed a gun at me and held a grenade over my head,” Edri recalled. “I told him I had to inject insulin, trying to distract them from the fact I have children who are police officers … I offered them drinks: Coke ...

http://youtu.be/qdVDma_Mlvc The director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) blasted MSNBC — while he was appearing on the left-leaning broadcaster — for referring to Hamas terrorists as “fighters” and trying to rationalize the surprise attack against Israel that killed more than 800 people over the weekend. Speaking with the network Monday morning, Jonathan Greenblatt said he took issue with the coverage of Saturday’s massacre in Israel and the violent fallout, claiming MSNBC and other media organizations were not fairly portraying the plight of his nation. “I am angry with the world that allowed the dehumanization of Israelis and sanitized the view of Hamas,” Greenblatt said. “I love this show and network, but who’s writing the scripts? “The people who did this are not fighters, they...

http://youtu.be/7iBgZGdKBPc Kevin McCarthy isn’t ruling out a surprise return to the House speakership if his fellow Republicans can’t agree on who should replace him. Although not actively running to reclaim the gavel he lost last week, McCarthy (R-Calif.) expressed willingness Monday to serve again if called upon by his colleagues. “Look, whatever the conference wants, I will do. I think we need to be strong. I think we need to be united,” McCarthy told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt when asked if he would step in if the House GOP conference proves to be deadlocked. McCarthy became the first speaker ever voted out of office Oct. 3, when eight Republicans banded together with a united bloc of Democrats to remove him by a vote of 216-210. “The eight, in my view … it was a persona...

http://youtu.be/5mgRFAOKedE A former New York City television news reporter has been stranded in Israel since Hamas terrorists ruthlessly attacked the country early Saturday in a devastating ambush that has pushed the country into war. Rebecca Solomon, who left PIX11 at the end of last month, recounted what her family experienced when armed militants launched thousands of rockets from the Gaza Strip and crossed into Israeli communities by ground, air and sea. The married mother is among many Americans who have not yet left the country as war rages on. “When the sun goes down and it gets dark again, I get scared,” she told her former employer in an interview Sunday over the phone. “I’m scared for what’s to come at night.” The veteran reporter, who also used to work at News 12 Westchest...

http://youtu.be/QungL183X78 The Israeli military said on Monday (October 9) it had called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists and was imposing a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, signs it could be planning a ground assault there to defeat Hamas after it launched a humiliating attack. Footage showed the skyline over Gaza lit up with fire and smoke as Israel launched attacks. Hamas gunmen burst across the fence from Gaza on Saturday (October 7), killing Israeli soldiers and civilians and taking dozens of hostages back to the coastal enclave. Israel responded with its heaviest bombardment of Gaza and could be contemplating a ground assault on the territory it withdrew from nearly two decades ago after 38 years of occupation. With Israel cutting off electricity supplies into Gaza, a loo...

http://youtu.be/mzI7EPIFoGQ In the piney woods and wetlands 35 miles north of Houston, one of the biggest housing developments in the country has become one of the most controversial. NY Post Investigative reporter Dana Kennedy shares this story. Colony Ridge, a sprawl of homes, trailers and even tents, is home to as many as 75,000 people in an area at least 50 percent bigger than Manhattan. But next week, it will be the subject of a special session of the Texas legislature, ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott, because of claims it is a “no-go area,” a home to criminals and drug cartels, and a magnet for “illegal immigration.” Texas’s 25 House Republicans, who’ve also called for an investigation, said it is “an optimal haven for illegal aliens amid a historic border crisis.” The 40-square-mi...

http://youtu.be/oKqqdye5kpQ A 27-year-old Israeli woman was killed “execution style” while playing dead in hopes of being spared by Hamas gunmen who invaded a trance music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip and massacred scores of partygoers on Saturday. Ma’ayan Adam, 36, a television host who appeared on Israel’s version of “Dancing With The Stars” and anchors a news program on one of the country’s popular TV stations, posted a heartbreaking message to her 300,000 Instagram followers announcing the death of her 27-year-old sister, Mapal Adam. According to her sister, Mapal Adam was killed while being held by her boyfriend, who suffered gunshot wounds to the back. He is reportedly expected to survive. “On Saturday afternoon, in this idyllic setting, Mapal, our baby, hid unde...

http://youtu.be/kZuwxBDmMdc The mother of a young tattoo artist whose body was paraded through the streets of Gaza says her daughter was “panicked” and was trying to leave an outdoor music festival when Hamas terrorists abducted her during their surprise attack on Israel Saturday morning. Shani Louk, 23, rushed to leave after Hamas struck the festival near Kibbutz Re’im, close to the Gaza Strip, telling her mother that she was headed to her car after rockets began sounding off at about 6 a.m. “She was panicked a little bit, and she said she was going to take the car now and go to a safe location. And then we stopped talking and since then I didn’t hear anything from her anymore,” her mother Ricarda Louk told CNN. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/mom-of-shani-louk-whose-body-w...