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Family of baby shot dead by Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank speaks out

Baby Sam’s parents buried him seven months after welcoming their healthy and cheerful son into the world. An Israeli soldier, firing into the family’s car, had shot him dead.“I held him in the morning; he was laughing and warm. Then evening came and I held him, but his body was cold,” Fahd Abu Haikal told NBC News on Friday, after burying his son. “This innocent child, who had done nothing in this world, who posed no danger at all, was killed in cold blood,” the 41-year-old multimedia professor...
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Inside the world’s scam capital, where enslaved workers are forced to defraud Americans online

Five young men thought they were going to Cambodia to intern at a casino. Instead, they say, they became enslaved in one of the world’s most sophisticated fraud networks, an industry that has swindled billions of dollars from Americans and turned Southeast Asia into the online scam capital of the world.

Five young men thought they were going to Cambodia to intern at a casino. Instead, they say, they became enslaved in one of the world’s most sophisticated fraud networks, an industry that has sw...
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How bizarre fish ‘experiment’ videos from China hijacked the internet’s worst impulses

Most of the hundreds of “LabGerm” videos posted and reposted to social media in recent weeks start out the same way: A pair of gloved hands appears against a white backdrop as an AI-generated voice narrates and upbeat music plays in the background.In the foreground, a fish undergoes a torturous “experiment.” Some of the videos appear to have been made entirely or at least in part with AI, while others seem to show real animals in distress. None offer any sort of finding or conclusion. The shocki...
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Over a year later, pro-Palestinian protester is released from ICE custody

A Palestinian woman has been released from an immigration detention center more than a year after she was arrested for overstaying her student visa following her participation in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.Leqaa Kordia, 33, is the last person arrested during those demonstrations to be released from custody. Her lawyers argued that the Trump administration targeted her for protesting military actions in Gaza. Her visa was terminated in January 2022 for lack of attendance, acc...
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Images taken near Iranian school hit in deadly strikes show fragments of U.S.-made missile

More than 170 people, including many children, were killed in the Feb. 28 strikes on the school in Minab, according to Iranian officials.President Donald Trump issued his latest suggestion of Iranian involvement in the attack hours after the emergence of a video, geolocated by NBC News, that appears to show a U.S. Tomahawk striking an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps site near the school. Asked by a reporter Monday why he was the only U.S. official suggesting that Iran was responsible, Trump sa...
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Woman Identified in Shooting at Rihanna's Los Angeles House

Los Angeles police on Monday identified a 35-year-old Florida woman as the alleged shooter who opened fire on Rihanna’s Southern California home with an AR-15-style rifle.Ivanna Lisette Ortiz was booked into custody on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with the Sunday afternoon incident at the property just outside Beverly Hills, police said.The nine-time Grammy winner was at home when the suspect opened fire, but she was not hurt by any of the four rounds fired from an AR-15-style rif...
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Video appears to show U.S. Tomahawk missile hitting the area of the deadly school strike in Iran

Published Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency, the video was first geolocated by the online research group Bellingcat, which said a Tomahawk — an American-made, long-range cruise missile — was used in the attack near a compound that was once home to a Revolutionary Guard military facility. Several munitions experts agreed with that analysis, including N.R. Jenzen-Jones, the director of arms intelligence firm Armament Research Services. The video “appears to show a Tomahawk missile,” h...
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What we know about the strike on a school in Iran as the death toll rises

The elementary school called with an urgent message about her son. “The war had started,” she was told. Come pick him up.The mother, who asked not to be identified, said she had only just dropped the boy off and couldn’t leave immediately since she had patients to see in her job as a midwife. Then the earth shook. And she ran.It was too late. Three airstrikes had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab in southern Iran, killing 168 people, according to the town’s mayor. Many of them wer...
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X awards $1 million prize to creator with history of racist posts

When Elon Musk’s social media platform X launched a contest to promote its “Articles” feature, the guidelines were explicit: Submissions “must not contain political, or religious statements.”But when the company announced the winners on Tuesday, the results appeared to contradict those rules. While the stated criteria emphasized high-quality writing and nonpolitical content, more than $2 million in prize money largely flowed to users ranging from popular right-wing influencers to anonymous accou...
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Ecuador says ICE agent was blocked from entering its Minneapolis consulate

The Ecuadorian Foreign Affairs Ministry said an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to enter the country’s consulate in Minneapolis on Tuesday but was blocked by its staff.“Consulate staff immediately prevented the ICE official from entering the consular building, thereby guaranteeing the protection of the Ecuadorians who found themselves in the consular building in that moment, and activating emergency protocols issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Movement,” the mini...
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19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos disappears in Texas on Christmas Eve; officials continue search

Texas law enforcement officials on Monday continued scouring for a 19-year-old who was reported missing after she did not return from her typical morning walk on Christmas Eve.Camila Mendoza Olmos was last seen leaving her house in northwest Bexar County just before 7 a.m. Wednesday, according to the sheriff's office.Security camera video shows a person believed to be Olmos looking inside her car for an unidentified item, the sheriff's office said on social media. The video ends moments later.Ol...
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At Gaza's only animal shelter, workers share what food they have with hungry dogs and cats

A humble shelter operating out of a tent remains the last beacon of hope for the injured and hungry animal population in war-ravaged Gaza, even as its workers and volunteers face their own impossible conditions.“You cannot look at a creature that trusts you and eat in front of it without sharing,” Saeed Al-Aar, who founded the Sulala Animal Rescue shelter in 2006, told NBC News last month.Despite bombs raining down and a lack of tools, feed and medicine, the shelter has remained operational thro...
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With protected status set to expire, many South Sudanese in the U.S. face returning to a country in crisis

Alex Lomong is a man of many labels: He’s a Virginia resident, was a decorated Division I athlete on the Ohio State University track team, and is a middle-distance runner whose times put him in sight of qualifying for the Olympic trials. He is also an immigrant from South Sudan who was granted Temporary Protected Status. Now, with the Trump administration’s plan to end TPS designation for South Sudanese nationals on Jan. 5, Lomong is one of many facing an uncertain future in the United States.“E...
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As war with Russia drags on, ultrarealistic AI videos attempt to portray Ukrainian soldiers in peril

The videos spread on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and X. All sought to portray Ukrainian soldiers as reluctant to fight and ready to give up.They appear to be the latest disinformation salvo meant to warp public perceptions of Russia’s war with Ukraine. And while it’s not clear who created or posted the videos, they add to a growing body of false information that has only become more sophisticated and harder to spot.“False claims created using Sora are much harder to detect and debunk. Even the bes...
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Satellite images show mass displacement of Palestinians fleeing Israeli assault on Gaza City

Satellite imagery shows the mass displacement of Palestinians as the Israeli military launched its intense effort to take total control of Gaza City.Vast tent encampments across the Sheik Radwan neighborhood, northwest of the city center, almost completely emptied out in the first few weeks of September as residents fled the operation and headed south to what the Israeli military is calling a designated humanitarian zone. Israeli tanks and troops have pushed into the city in recent days, backed...
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xAI's Grok offers political explanations for why it was pulled offline

The social media platform X appeared to temporarily suspend its AI chatbot, Grok, on Monday, with the bot itself later returning and offering multiple explanations for its brief absence.The bot, which has become widely embraced on X as a way for users to fact-check or respond to other users’ arguments, posted that it had been taken offline over various statements it made regarding U.S and global politics, ranging from claims of genocide in Gaza to discussions about homicide rates by race. It als...
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Chaos amid starvation: Videos from Gaza show Palestinians struggling to get food at distribution sites

Between May 27 and July 31, “at least 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food,” according to a report from the United Nations Human Rights Office.Of the total, 859 people were killed  "in the vicinity" of GHF sites and 514 others along the routes of food convoys, it said, adding that most of these killings were committed by the Israeli military.

Israel continues to control almost every part of the aid distribution process, with its military inspecting all aid arriving at border c...
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Georgia teen charged with killing her mother and stepfather earlier this year

A Georgia teenager, who grieved for her mother and stepfather on social media, was arrested and accused of fatally shooting the couple back in February, authorities said Thursday.Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault in connection to the slayings of Kristin Brock, 41, and James Brock, 45, Carroll County Sheriff's officials said in a statement.The couple was found dead inside their home on Feb. 20 at 1531 Tyus Road near Carrollton, abo...
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How user-generated videos on social media brought Trump’s immigration crackdown to America’s screens

The videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids emerged just after President Donald Trump was sworn in to his second term. Chaotic and shaky, they spread across social media from all parts of the United States, depicting the new era of immigration enforcement.The following video collected and verified by NBC News represents a small fraction of the videos that have populated timelines across TikTok, Instagram, X and beyond.Warning: This report includes explicit and disturbing language.

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Wounded Gaza children find respite from war at Ohio summer camp

BUTLER, Ohio — Their bodies are maimed or burned. Their childhoods have been shattered. And their futures are filled with uncertainty as war rages in Gaza.But for one week, three dozen wounded Palestinian children and members of their families have found a respite from the fighting at a summer camp in Mohican State Park, just an hour north of Columbus. Thanks to HEAL Palestine, a nonprofit group that aids the youngest victims of the Gaza war, children like 7-year-old Qamar Alkordi, who uses two-...
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Crushed by Israeli missile strikes, Gaza's hospitals are barely functioning

Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip’s hospitals have ramped up in recent weeks to the highest level so far this year, bringing a health system already weakened by 19 months of war to a breaking point. NBC News has analyzed 27 videos and images from the last two months taken by civilians and our own journalists on the ground to piece together a picture of the full extent of the destruction of a health system engulfed in war. In footage from a surveillance camera, men, women and children c...
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Just how much damage did Ukraine do in its 'Spiderweb' drone attack on Russia?

As the jet-fuel smoke and aircraft debris clear following Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian airfields, Kyiv and Moscow have launched into a propaganda war about the extent of the damage.While Russian claims that none of its planes were destroyed are demonstrably false, there are also questions around Ukraine’s own triumphant account of the success of its “Spiderweb” operation.That tracks with a wider propaganda war being fought in parallel to the actual battlefield, with Russia making...
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Canadian stores pull U.S. liquor from shelves as Trump's tariffs take effect

As the Trump administration’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, Canadians discovered empty shelves where U.S. liquor products were once stocked. Canadian social media users posted photos and videos of stores across the country seemingly pulling U.S.-made liquor from their inventories.Joshua Gariepy, a college student in Quebec, posted a photo Wednesday showing empty shelves in a store in Quebec, where U.S. liquor products were once displayed.“To me, this photo perfectly capt...
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