Iowa city council meeting erupts after former member opens meeting with satanic prayer and ‘Hail Satan’
A city council in Iowa erupted after a resident opened a meeting with a satanic prayer Tuesday.
Before the meeting of the Ottumwa City Council began, former council member Matt Dalbey opened with an invocation to the “dark father” to “embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat from the tree of knowledge” before ending with a “Hail Satan” declaration.
Report: Pentagon orders preparations for renewed war with Iran
The Pentagon instructed US Central Command (CENTCOM) several days ago to complete preparations for the possibility of resuming large-scale military operations against Iran, Channel 12 News reported, citing senior American officials
According to the report, officials in the United States and Israel believe the attack could take place before the US midterm elections, and possibly even before Israel’s elections, which are scheduled to be held a week earlier.
If hostilities resume, they are expected to include extensive strikes against energy facilities, infrastructure, and nuclear sites in Iran.
Israel prepares for potential surge in French aliyah amid unrest
Israel is preparing for a possible surge in Jewish immigration (aliyah) from France as nationwide protests and violent clashes have intensified across the country.
During Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer urged the government to prepare for what he described as potentially “massive” immigration from France, with a focus on ensuring that French Jews can make aliyah regardless of their financial means.
“We need to remove the barriers in order to allow them to come here,” Sofer said, according to sources who attended the meeting.
The call for preparations comes as aliyah from France is already rising sharply. Nearly 4,000 French Jews have immigrated to Israel so far this year, according to Israeli officials, roughly 40% more than during the same period last year. In 2025, 3,357 French Jews made aliyah, compared with 2,234 in 2024 and 1,097 in 2023.
The number of French Jews expressing interest in aliyah has also risen, with about 2,500 opening aliyah files through the Jewish Agency’s Global Aliyah Center during the first part of 2026, an increase of approximately 30% over the same period last year.
France is home to approximately 500,000 Jews, making it the largest Jewish community in Europe.
Denmark Says Russia Has Conducted Sabotage Attacks Against Its Defense Firms
Russia has begun sabotage operations against Danish companies supplying Ukraine after concluding that broader disruption efforts failed to curb Western military support for the country, a Danish intelligence official said on Wednesday.
The shift reflects a significant escalation in Moscow’s hybrid warfare campaign, Josefine Christensen, lead analyst at the Danish national security and intelligence service (PET), told a homeland security conference in Copenhagen.
Attacks on Saudi airports kill three people, as fighting escalates in Yemen
Three people have been killed in attacks on Saudi airports, the country’s civil aviation authorities said on Wednesday, as fighting intensified in Yemen between the Iran-aligned Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces.
One person was killed and eight wounded in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, and two were killed and 28 wounded in an attack on facilities at Abha airport, it said in a statement.
Lawsuit accuses Dearborn, Michigan, of being ‘hostile to Christians and Jews’ with Islamic displays
Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent at The Federalist, is suing the city of Dearborn, Michigan, and the city’s mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, for violating the First Amendment by displaying exclusively Muslim symbols in public displays, accusing the city of being “a hostile place for Christians and Jews.”
Cleveland alleges the city put up banners celebrating the Islamic holiday of Ramadan and a display of crescent moons while refusing to showcase equivalent Christian or Jewish iconography.
Report: Hackers Use Chinese AI Agents to Breach South Korean Banks
South Korean investigators say hackers used a Chinese-made AI agent called Artex to breach at least seven financial firms, stealing personal data belonging to 68,000 people.
Investigators traced the intrusions to more than two dozen internet addresses spread across roughly a dozen countries, including the United States, Japan and Germany. No culprits have been identified so far, and officials said they are seeking international cooperation to track down those responsible.
At a cabinet meeting Tuesday, President Lee Jae Myung pressed banks to shore up their defenses. “Speed is of the essence,” he said, adding, “Implement the necessary measures immediately.”
The tool at the center of the investigation, Artex, is an open-source AI agent built by Li Puhua, a Chinese cybersecurity engineer who goes by the alias Autumn. Artex isn’t an AI model itself. It draws on existing models, including Anthropic’s Claude Opus, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and China’s DeepSeek, to provide cybersecurity services. Li designed it to help organizations find network vulnerabilities, not to enable attacks. South Korean officials have not said which underlying AI models were used in the bank breaches.
Zohran Mamdani Administration Signs Multimillion Dollar Contracts With Vendors for ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care for Minors
The administration of Zohran Mamdani in New York City has just signed contracts worth upwards of $9 million with vendors who will provide ‘gender-affirming care’ to minors, including puberty-blocking drugs.
The Mamdani administration is entering into two contracts totaling $8.9 million to provide “gender-affirming” sex reassignment care to transgender patients under the age of 18.
The move backs a policy the federal Department of Justice has challenged as medically dangerous and illegal.
The city Department of Health identified two vendors — Callen-Lorde and Nonprofit Organization for Philanthropic Initiatives — to provide the services in contracts that run from 2027-29.
“This includes the prescription and administration of puberty-blockers and hormone replacement therapy to all minor patients for whom such services are medically necessary based on the prevailing standards of care,” the DOH said in a public notice.
Sean Hannity Reveals He Was ‘Pressured’ to Push C-19 Jab on His Audience
Fox News host Sean Hannity has revealed that he faced intense pressure to tell millions of his viewers to take the dodgy COVID during the pandemic.
Hannity discussed the pressure during Tuesday’s episode of his podcast with physician and television personality Dr. Drew Pinsky.
“I was being pressured to tell my audience to take the jab,” Hannity said.
“And I’m like, ‘I’m not a doctor. I’m just not. I don’t know anything about your health.
”I don’t know anything about your preexisting conditions, your current condition, comorbidities you may have, and I don’t know anything about this shot.’”
This raises the obvious question of who was pressuring him?