How the Push to Avert a Broader War in Lebanon Fell Apart

The Anti-Defamation League recorded around 10,000 antisemitic incidents since Oct. 7, marking the largest year-to-year increase since the group started recording such incidents in 1979.

A classic Italian American dish turns vegan with the help of cashews, artichoke hearts and more.

For chef Yotam Ottolenghi's latest cookbook, he presents recipes for the dishes he reaches for again and again.

Police, prosecutors and community advocates rallied together to underscore the alarming numbers and launch new strategies.

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The Mets have an opportunity on Sunday to return home with a two-game stranglehold on the NLDS. 

Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates sits down with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz to talk about her new TV show "Matlock," which explores the "invisibility" of women of a certain age. She also discusses some of her most memorable stage and screen roles, including her performance as a violent psychopath in the Stephen King thriller "Misery," and the message she shared with her late mother the night she won the Oscar.

Scott Olson/Getty ImagesAn increasingly incoherent and profane former president Donald Trump, 78, is blathering on at his rallies at previously unheard-of lengths and showing signs of confusion that could indicate mental decline, according to a New York Times analysis.An average rally speech by the elderly Republican nominee for president—who has promised to release his medical records and cognitive tests and then refused to do so—lasts 82 minutes this election cycle, nearly double the 45 minutes he averaged in 2016, a computer analysis by the newspaper found.In addition to Trump’s well documented rambling, repetitive and winding addresses—punctuated with strange asides about things like his “beautiful” body—among the potential signs of cognitive change are that he curses 69 percent more in speeches than he did in 2016. That could be a sign of disinhibition, a kind of impulsivity that is sometimes attributed to mental decline in old age, the Times said.Read more at The Daily Beast.

"Saturday Night Live" mocked Vice President Kamala Harris during their VP debate skit on Saturday, showing Maya Rudolph drinking wine while watching her running mate's performance.

Pharrell Williams has built a fascinating career as a musician, performer, and now creative director for Louis Vuitton's Men's collection. He talks about the joy he finds in creativity, and about his new Lego movie, "Piece by Piece."

The pilot for this Glitch Productions series has garnered 349 million views since its YouTube debut in October, 2023.

"Sunday Morning" remembers two notable figures who left us this week: singer, songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson, and baseball legend Pete Rose.

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump ripped into the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) handling of Hurricane Helene and sparred with CNN host Dana Bash over whether her father-in-law was spewing misinformation. Lara Trump contended Sunday that the Harris-Biden administration hasn’t been spending money wisely on recovery efforts and lamented the devastation that had been...

On October 7, 2023, hundreds of Israelis were killed or taken hostage by Hamas terrorists in the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. Israel retaliated by launching strikes on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run health authority. Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports on how, twelve months later, a cease-fire, or a pathway to peace, looks vanishingly remote.

Simone Biles may have irked Chicago Bears fans again after shouting out Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love during a podcast appearance.

The writer famous for fairy-tale rom-coms is making her Broadway debut with "Left on Tenth," a play adapted from her bestselling memoir about a widow pursuing another chance at love, just when she is diagnosed with leukemia.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass announced the hiring of Jim McDonnell as the new chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The $700 million Taystee Lab Building sits in the Manhattanville Factory District, but the laboratory goes beyond West Harlem’s manufacturing history. Surrounded by brick buildings on West 126th Street, Taystee spans 11 floors, with glass windows that overlook Columbia University and the City College of New York. Inside any of the currently vacant labs, a...

Carl Court/Getty ImagesKing Charles’ cancer means he now eats lunchKing Charles has long averred the absurd middle class custom of stopping in the middle of the day to consume food, a habit known to the rest of us as “lunch,” preferring to nibble on nuts and seeds he carries in his pockets and reportedly even shares with red squirrels on occasions.Now, however, in yet another sign of the changes the king is being forced to make in wake of his cancer diagnosis, he has started to eat lunch for the first time, and The Mail on Sunday says his meal of choice is one of Meghan Markle’s favorite foods, an avocado.Read more at The Daily Beast.

After unranked Vanderbilt upset No. 1 Alabama on Saturday night, Commodores fans took a goalpost throughout Nashville and tossed it into the Cumberland River.

The Duchess of Sussex posed on the green carpet at the charity event in the gown, which she repurposed into a red U-neck bustier column dress.

Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas' cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

Miami is living right this season. A week after an overturned Virginia Tech Hail Mary would have ended No. 8 Miami’s undefeated season, the Hurricanes got another favorable call from the refs to help finish off a rally against Cal. With the Golden Bears up 38-32 and trying to run out the clock, quarterback Fernando...

Twenty-year-old Jacob Rock is a non-verbal young man with autism who quietly composed an entire six-movement symphony in his head. After struggling to communicate for much of his life, he learned how to share his ideas via an iPad app with musician Rob Laufer. The two created the symphony "Unforgettable Sunrise," which was premiered last year by a 55-piece orchestra from the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. Correspondent Lee Cowan talked with Rock and Laufer, and with Jacob's father, Paul, about a remarkable musical odyssey.

MIKE NELSON/Getty ImagesA juror on the Menendez brothers’ trial said she believes that today’s world would have been more understanding about the complexity of the trauma suffered by sexual abuse victims — and would have acquitted the brothers of the 1989 murder of their parents.“If they were tried again, I do think that the outcome would be very different because people know more these days, people understand more these days,” Hazel Thornton, a juror from Lyle and Erik Menendez’s first trial, told NewsNation’s “Banfield” Friday.The brothers claimed they acted in self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, José Menendez, when they gunned down him and their mother, Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home.Read more at The Daily Beast.

"Saturday Night Live" took Sean Combs and Prince Andrew to task for their respective scandals.

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The wide receiver is widely expected to rejoin the Green Bay Packers next week after he serves a one-game suspension due to what was deemed as conduct detrimental to the team.

"I held the hand of that man who sends out the mean tweets and I thanked him for loving our country and for fighting for our freedoms," Sally Sheri said.

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that it would attack Hamas in northern Gaza, principally around the area of Jabaliya, and has warned residents to leave, while expanding the humanitarian zone further south. The post IDF Renews Attack on Hamas in Northern Gaza; Orders Evacuations appeared first on Breitbart.

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Former Shin Bet agent Michael Koubi said he came to know the Hamas leader's one, true goal: to kill all Jews.

Ukrainian recruiters are reportedly roaming the streets of the country in a desperate effort to bolster the ranks of the military as the war with Russia continues to sap the native population. The post Ukraine ‘Conscription Squads’ Grabbing Men off Streets to Fight in War: Report appeared first on Breitbart.

Two teens have been arrested and charged with gang assault for the attack on former New York Gov. David Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson, authorities say.

Ms. Gray, chief of staff to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said she was stepping down after sustained news media attention over her pay and status.

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a new framework for thinking through your ethical dilemmas and philosophical questions. This unconventional column is based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. Here is a Vox reader’s question, condensed and edited for clarity. My grandmother had a teenage pregnancy she hid from her family before giving birth in secret and immediately giving the child up for adoption after birth. I accidentally discovered this after I received a message on an ancestry DNA website from someone closely related genetically to me. She told me she knew barely anything about her birth parents and was desperate to just have an answer. I accidentally exposed this secret to my mother and grandmother by asking if anyone knew who this person who messaged me was. My grandmother was horrified, and wants nothing to do with her. How do I respect the choice my grandmother felt she had to make at that time in her life and protect her peace, while also acknowledging that this person should be able to at least know who the people who created her are and prominent family medical history? I feel guilty for exposing this secret accidentally but now I feel like I have an obligation to protect my grandmother and offer this person some peace of mind. Dear Caught-in-the-Middle, Your question reminded me of an idea from Bernard Williams, one of my favorite modern philosophers. He said that someone facing a moral trade-off can make what is, all things considered, the best decision, and — even though it was the right call — find that it still results in some cost that deserves acknowledgment or feels regrettable. Williams called that cost “the moral remainder.” Regret is a trickster of an emotion. We’re used to viewing it as an indication that we’ve done something wrong. But as Williams explains, sometimes all it means is that reality has forced upon us an incredibly hard choice between two options, with no cost-free option available.  Your grandmother is not in the wrong for giving up her child all those years ago — or for wanting to keep her distance now. As you said, it’s the choice she “felt she had to make at that time in her life.” Pregnancy outside of marriage, especially in her generation, often came with a massive serving of shame, and the fact that she felt the need to hide it from her family and give birth in secret suggests this was a pretty traumatic experience.  It’s understandable if she’s scared to reopen that trauma now. She has a right to decide if and how to process it — a right to self-determination. Have a question you want me to answer in the next Your Mileage May Vary column? Feel free to email me at sigal.samuel@vox.com or fill out this anonymous form! Newsletter subscribers will get my column before anyone else does and their questions will be prioritized for future editions. Sign up here! At the same time, her grown child is not wrong for wanting answers today. The desperation felt by this newfound relative of yours is the “moral remainder” of your grandmother’s decision.  As technology shifts over the generations, moral norms shift along with it. When your grandmother gave up the baby for adoption, she had no idea DNA testing would become commonplace — but it has. And as cheap testing kits like 23andMe have exposed all kinds of family secrets, more and more kids who’d been kept in the dark are making their experiences known.  Some were never bothered by their obscured origins, but discover an extra measure of joy and connection once they meet long-lost relatives. Others say they always suffered from an uneasy sense that they’re different from their siblings. Still others say it’s important to know your biological family’s medical history, especially with the advent of precision medicine.     All this has led to an increasing belief that children have a right to know where they came from — a right to self-knowledge.   Take it from Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance, who found out as an adult that her beloved father was not her biological father. She writes:  The secret that was kept from me for 54 years had practical effects that were both staggering and dangerous: I gave incorrect medical history to doctors all my life. It’s one matter to have an awareness of a lack of knowledge — as many adoptees do — but another altogether not to know that you don’t know. When my son was an infant, he was stricken with a rare and often fatal seizure disorder. There was a possibility it was genetic. I confidently told his pediatric neurologist that there was no family history of seizures.  Some bioethicists, like Duke University’s Nita Farahany, are also building this case. Following the famous proclamation from Ancient Greece — “Know thyself!” — Farahany argues that people have a right to self-knowledge, including when it comes to medical information. She writes that “access to that essential information about ourselves is central to the self-reflection and self-knowledge we need to develop our own personalities.” It helps us shape our own lives and empowers us to make choices about our future. That means that self-knowledge is actually a subset of self-determination — the exact same value that your grandmother is asserting. And it seems only fair for us to acknowledge that if your grandmother is entitled to that, then so is her child.  If both people have a right to self-determination, and their rights are in conflict with each other, then … well … what do you do? Even John Stuart Mill, the 19th-century English philosopher who literally wrote the book on liberty, didn’t think that anyone’s right to liberty or self-determination is an absolute right. Instead, it’s a qualified right — the kind that we generally honor but that can be restricted to protect the interests of others.  So it feels appropriate here to strike a balance between your grandmother’s wishes and her child’s. There are a few different ways to do that, but here’s one: You could assure your grandmother that you won’t pressure her to talk to the child or hear any more about her, but you will give the child family medical information and a general understanding of her birth story, including the aspect that might feel most important to her: why she was given up for adoption.  Without mentioning your grandmother’s name or any details that would make it easy for the grown child to track her down, you could say something like, “Your birth mom is one of my relatives. She got pregnant as a teenager and didn’t have the means or support to take care of you. She made the hard choice to give you up for adoption in hopes that you’d have a better life than she could provide. She doesn’t feel comfortable being in contact now, and I feel that I need to respect her wishes and her privacy, but I hope this message brings you at least a little bit of peace.”  Ultimately, you won’t have total control over what your relative does with this information, because internet sleuthing is a force to be reckoned with. And you won’t be able to control whether she feels fully satisfied with what you tell her. That’s a feature of this kind of moral dilemma: You can’t please everyone 100 percent, but you’re doing what you can to honor the values at stake. If you want, you might choose to meet with the grown child without involving your grandmother. Or you might decide that your notion of kinship isn’t rooted in biology and you don’t feel any particular need to bond with someone new to you.  Either way, what I love about Williams’s idea of the “moral remainder” is that it encourages you to view everyone in this tricky situation (including yourself!) compassionately. Regardless of which specific step you take next, you can move forward from that place of compassion. Bonus: What I’m reading 23andMe is floundering, to the point that the company’s CEO is now considering selling it. As Kristen V. Brown notes in the Atlantic, that would mean “the DNA of 23andMe’s 15 million customers would be up for sale, too.” It’s one of the many reasons why I’ll never spit into one of those test tubes. I recently re-read the philosopher Susan Wolf’s 1982 essay “Moral Saints,” and it feels more on-point than ever. Wolf argues that you shouldn’t actually strive to be “a person whose every action is as morally good as possible” — and not just because those people are incredibly boring!  David Brooks is not my usual cup of tea, but I appreciated him writing in the New York Times about how, contrary to popular opinion, “emotion is central to being an effective rational person in the world.” 

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