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Gaza Terror Tunnel

On Tuesday, the IDF announced that it had uncovered a “terror tunnel” dug from the Gaza Strip that ran dozens of meters into Israeli territory.

Military engineers located the concrete-lined tunnel near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

“The route [of the tunnel] was located as part of the ongoing efforts to find and neutralize tunnels and thanks to the technological and [intelligence] collection capabilities of the barrier,” the IDF said in a statement.

The tunnel did not cross the underground barrier and did not pose a threat to communities in the area.

“The IDF is determined to defend Israel’s sovereignty and the security of its citizens and will continue to be required,” the military said.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz said, “Even on days when the south appears to be quiet, beneath the surface, terrorist organizations continue their efforts to harm Israeli citizens and our sovereignty.”

The IDF has placed responsibility on the terror tunnels on the Hamas terror group that rules the Gaza Strip.

“The discovery of the tunnel is evidence of the IDF’s intelligence and technological abilities, which will continue to act against threats and undermine terrorist organizations at the time and place that we decide, Gantz added.”

Last week, Channel 12 reported that Israel and Hamas had reached a truce agreement mediated by Qatar that will see quiet on the southern border for a period of six months. As part of the agreement, Qatar will transfer $100 million to Hamas in a deal coordinated with Doha by Mossad head Yossi Cohen, alongside the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), according to the report.

Mohammad al-Emadi, Qatar’s envoy to Gaza, has regularly visited Gaza in recent years with Israeli approval, bringing funds to the Strip for purchasing fuel, paying civil servants, and helping Gaza’s poor. The most recent round of funds was set to

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Alaska’s Tsunami

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck near Sand Point, Alaska, generated a tsunami this week, which sent two waves more than 1.5 feet high.

A tsunami warning had been issued after the earthquake struck but was downgraded to an advisory Monday afternoon.

The advisory was for the Alaska Peninsula and South Alaska, according to the tsunami warning center in Palmer, Alaska.

The earthquake’s epicenter was recorded less than 60 miles from Sand Point, near the Aleutian Peninsula in the southwestern part of the state.

“We did feel it,” Sand Point Clinic employee Lorna Osterback said of the quake. “This is a big one.”

Residents drove to higher ground after being given evacuation orders.

Several aftershocks, including one with a magnitude of 5.9 and one that was 5.8, struck in the hour after the big quake.

PA Mail-In Ballots

Pennsylvania can accept mail ballots received up to three days after Election Day, according to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.

The high court split 4-4 on a motion from the top Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate to halt a ruling from the state’s top court. Amid mail delivery delays, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had ruled in September that the late ballots would be accepted so long as they don’t have a postmark clearly showing they were mailed after Election Day.

Pennsylvania Democrats had repeatedly asked local courts for a ballot extension; Republicans have consistently resisted any extension. Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat, initially opposed litigation seeking an extension, but changed her mind after she received a letter from USPS in June that warned the state’s deadlines were out of sync with the Postal Service’s delivery times.

All four conservative Supreme Court justices approved of the state GOP request, but Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the three liberal justices in opposition, resulting in a tied vote. This meant the lower court’s ruling stood.

In Pennsylvania’s June primary, Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, issued an executive order allowing a half dozen counties to count ballots received up to a week after Election Day if they were postmarked by that day. A local court granted a similar extension to a seventh county.

In all, Pennsylvania received 100,000 mail-in ballots after the state’s primary election, about 90% of which were counted due to the governor’s order. That’s over twice the 44,000-vote margin President Donald Trump won the state in 2016.

Those late votes are likely to skew Democratic, considering that 64% of the state’s mail ballot requests have come from Democrats and only 25% have come from Republicans.

In a similar case in Wisconsin, a federal appeals court has blocked a six-day extension granted by a lower federal judge. With this case, too, Democrats have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mexico’s Ex-Defense Minister Arrested

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General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, who served as Mexico’s highest-ranking defense official from 2012 to 2018, was taken into custody at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday. He had arrived on a flight from Mexico City accompanied by several family members.

Zepeda faces charges of drug trafficking and money laundering for accepting bribes from Mexico’s H-2 Cartel in exchange for tip-offs regarding U.S. drug raids. He also acted on behalf of the cartel while serving under President Enrique Pena Nieto by ensuring that raids on traffickers by Mexico’s military spared H-2 and targeted its chief rivals.

According to court documents unsealed on Friday, Zepeda played a key part in letting the cartel smuggle “thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana” into the United States. Messages intercepted from his personal smartphone portrayed a deeply corrupt military man who serviced the country’s most violent drug gangs while outwardly vowing uncompromising enforcement.

“The defendant abused that public position to help the H-2 Cartel, an extremely violent Mexican drug trafficking organization, traffic thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States, including New York City,” federal prosecutors wrote.

“In exchange for bribe payments, he permitted the H-2 Cartel – a cartel that routinely engaged in wholesale violence, including torture and murder – to operate with impunity in Mexico.”

Nicknamed by cartel leaders “El Padrino” or “The Godfather,” the former defense chief provided sensitive information on informants working with U.S. authorities, leading to the death of at least one of them.

Zepeda is responsible for “countless acts of horrific violence, including torture and murder, in order to

protect against challenges from rival drug trafficking organizations, fight for territory, and silence those who would cooperate with law enforcement,” said court documents.

If convicted, Zepeda faces 30 years in prison.

Looted Nazi Painting

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Decades after it was seized by the Nazi Party in 1933, a rare painting has been returned to its original Jewish owners.

“Winter,” a painting of two ice skaters by Impressionist Gari Melchers, was presented to the Mosse family in a ceremony at the FBI’s New York headquarters.

“The Mosse family lost nearly everything because they were Jews, but they did not lose hope,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon. “While this certainly does not take away the pain that the Mosses endured, I hope it provides the family with some measure of justice.”

The painting, which is estimated to be worth millions, had originally been owned by Felicia Lachmann-Mosse and her husband Hans Lachmann-Mosse. However, the wealthy couple’s extensive art collection was seized by Nazi stormtroopers after the Party was criticized in a newspaper owned by the family.

“Winter” then changed hands numerous times before being sold to the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, New York. After realizing that it was stolen Nazi art, the museum handed the painting over to the FBI, which tracked down the Mosse family for repatriation.

“The Arkell Museum was, of course, very upset to learn the history of the painting’s seizure from the Mosse family by the Nazis in 1933

and its subsequent sale at the Lepke auction in 1934,” said Arkell Museum head Suzan D. Friedlander. She added that the museum “willingly turned the painting over to the FBI, waiving all right, title, and interest in the painting.”

Record Tax Evasion Case

Texas billionaire Bob Brockman has been charged in what authorities say is the largest case of tax evasion in U.S. history.

Brockman, a software mogul worth an estimated $1 billion, was arrested last Thursday at his Houston home. He was released on a $1 million bail later in the day despite objections by prosecutors who contended that his private jet made him a flight risk.

The 79-year-old billionaire faces dozens of assorted charges, including tax evasion, wire fraud, and money laundering. Brockman pleaded not guilty and denied all of the accusations.

“We look forward to defending him against these charges,” said his attorney, Kathryn Keneally.

According to authorities, Brockman oversaw a vast tax evasion scheme that saved him upwards of $2 billion, the largest in U.S. history. In order to protect his wealth from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Brockman allegedly funneled his wealth through an intricate web of foreign shell companies and offshore bank accounts.

His asset minimization techniques included using unreported income to buy a luxury yacht he named “Turmoil” and building an encrypted email system to discreetly communicate with employees using code names such as “Bonefish” and “Snapper.”

Brockman also created a hedge fund named Visa Equity Partners to easily send large sums of money to his secret bank accounts in Bermuda

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“Dollar amounts aside, I have not seen this pattern of greed or concealment and cover-up in my 25+ years as a special agent,” said IRS Criminal Investigation Unit head Jim Lee.

Florida Gets Out the Vote

At least 350,000 ballots were cast in Florida during the first day of early voting there on Monday, shattering the state’s in-person opening day record, according to Politico.

Vote-by-mail in the state has already seen massive turnout, with more than 2.5 million ballots collected heading into the first day of early voting – that’s more than 20 percent of the total voter turnout the Sunshine State saw in 2016.

Florida is not the only state seeing high turnout this year. More than 22 million ballots have already been cast, according to CNN. Many Americans are choosing to vote by mail due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Alabama, Georgia, and Colorado all said that they broke records when it came to early voting.

Colorado Wildfires

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“Anyone under an Evacuation WARNING for #CalWoodFire should be ready to leave immediately,” announced the Boulder Office of Emergency Management “Have a bag packed & be ready to leave with very little notice. Winds on Sunday could create fast-moving fire activity.”

The blazes started with the Cameron Peak fire and wildfires that broke out in Fort Collins. It has since torched 200,000 acres and is now the largest fire in Colorado State history. By Monday morning, firefighters managed to bring the blaze to 62% containment but it dropped to 51% following strong winds on Monday evening.

The cause of the Cameron Peak fire remains unknown, with residents reporting seeing smoke before the forest went up in flames.

“It just exploded,” said Boulder Country Sheriff Mike Wagner. “We do believe multiple homes were probably lost. It’s still too dynamic to get in and begin to assess.”

Another blaze, the Calwood Fire, forced an additional 3,000 people to flee their homes after igniting on Saturday morning. The fire has since burned 9,100 acres and was only 17% contained by Tuesday morning.

Hampering the rescue efforts are poor visibility and dry conditions, which make it difficult to deploy aerial firefighting crews. The dual wildfires also add challenges, as state officials must decide which blaze gets priority.

The latest wildfires add to what is turning into a record year for blazes across western United States. Since the beginning of 2020, neighboring California has been hit by six out of the seven of the largest wildfires in state history, while August’s Complex Fire torched an area larger than Rhode Island.

Trump Removes Sudan Sanctions

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move Sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list, in a historic move that marks a new chapter in relations between the two nations.

It’s been over a year since protests removed Sudan strongman Omar al Bashir. Trump’s announcement heralds a possibility of a broader deal that could bring debt relief, international financial assistance, and humanitarian aid to the African country.

The deal may also include Sudan normalizing relations with Israel, something that Trump has lobbied hard for as he brings the normalization of ties between Israel and other Muslim states.

Sudan is expected to transfer the $335 million to the U.S. soon as part of a negotiated settlement with the victims of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Bashir’s regime provided safe haven to the al-Qaeda operatives responsible for the attacks that killed 224, including 12 Americans and injured over 4,000.

Trump has not yet formally notified Congress that he is lifting the designation, and lawmakers would have the ability to block it.

Sudan was first designated a state sponsor of terrorism in 1993 for Bashir’s support of Hezbollah and other Islamist extremist groups. The dictator, now in detention in the capital Khartoum, also faces charges at the International Criminal Court for the Darfur genocide.

Lifting the designation will allow international financial assistance to finally flow to Sudan – not just from the U.S., but also from global institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Sudan has been overwhelmed by high inflation and food and fuel shortages, challenges that have been exacerbated by COVID-19 and recent flooding.

“Thank you so much, President Trump! We very much look forward to your official notification to Congress rescinding the designation of Sudan as a state-sponsor of terrorism, which has cost Sudan too much,” tweeted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Monday. “As we’re about to get rid of the heaviest legacy of Sudan’s previous, defunct regime, I should reiterate that we are peace-loving people and have never supported terrorism.”

Attack on San Diego Rabbi

A San Diego rabbi was attacked by a gang of teenagers outside his synagogue last week.

Rabbi Yonatan Halevi, who heads the city’s Shiviti congregation, had been accompanying his elderly father to Shabbat prayers on October 10 when he was set upon by an expletive-chanting teen. He forced him off the sidewalk by riding his bike directly at him and then slammed his fist “as hard as he could” on Rabbi Halevi’s hand.

The bicycle-riding teen then punched Rabbi Halevi in the face before riding off while chanting about “white power.” Rabbi Halevi called the police and was forced to wait 45 minutes for them to arrive while loitering teens continued to shout expletives.

“An officer told me that I shouldn’t bother calling unless they hurt us again or do something worse, because they have other priorities to deal with in San Diego,” Rabbi Halevi said. “Many people were scared to come to services the next day, and the synagogue was pretty much an empty house.”

The rabbi was left shocked at the attack, telling police that it was not the first time something of the sort had occurred. “He…yelled something about ‘white power,’ and ran

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back to his friends laughing,” Halevy said. “I’m just grateful he didn’t hit my father.”

The rabbi had spoken with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), imploring them to intervene with authorities before the Jew hatred got out-of-hand.

“We don’t want to be dismissive and say it was just kids,” the ADL’s Tammy Gillies said. “We have to take hate and any hate incident very seriously.”

“It doesn’t just impact the target, but it’s a message to the whole community that says, ‘We don’t want you here,’” Gillies noted. “That is the double impact of the hate crime.”

Police arrested a 14-year-old teen the following Friday for his role in the attack. However, he was released on bail a few hours later and will likely not face charges.

This week, the widow of assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against med bin Salman (MBS) and others who conspired to commit the “brutal,” “brazen,” and “ruthless torture and murder.”

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“The ruthless torture and murder of Mr. Khashoggi shocked the conscience of people throughout the world. The objective of the murder was clear – to halt Mr. Khashoggi’s advocacy in the United States, principally as the Executive Director of Plaintiff DAWN [Democracy for the Arab World Now], for democratic reform in the Arab world,” the lawsuit reads. “The murder was carried out pursuant to a directive of Defendant Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Defendants saw Mr. Khashoggi’s actions in the United States as an existential threat to their pecuniary and other interests and, accordingly, conspired to commit the heinous acts that are the subject of this suit.”

The civil lawsuit alleges seven counts against at least 29 individuals, including MBS.

Cengiz has mostly been identified in news reports as Khashoggi’s fiancée, but in the lawsuit a distinction was made when identifying her as a plaintiff: Cengiz is the “widow of Jamal Khashoggi. Plaintiff Cengiz and Mr. Khashoggi were married in an Islamic ceremony on September 16, 2018. At the time of his murder, they were seeking to civilly confirm their marriage.” In other words, they were not legally married at the time of the murder.

MBS has neither admitted to ordering the Khashoggi murder nor to having advance knowledge of it. He did say, however, that “it happened under my watch and that “I get all the responsibility because it happened under my watch.”

In December 2019, Saudi Arabia sentenced five men to death for the murder, but the prosecution claimed the “the killing was not premeditated […] the decision was taken at the spur of the moment.” In September 2020, the death sentences were commuted.

Khashoggi’s remains have never been found.

The plaintiffs seek a jury trial and damages in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.