NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! On Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar marking the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the long history of catastrophes that followed, an assailant armed with a knife walked up to two men on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and stabbed them. One wore a yarmulke.Witnesses said the assailant shouted, “Allahu Akbar.” The victims, ages 50 and 57, survived. A suspect is in custody, and police are examining the motive. But New York City did not need to wait for a formal designation to understand the gravity of the crime that had been perpetrated.Only a day earlier, Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish community in the Diaspora, released a video accusing Israel of war crimes and genocide — and declared that Benjamin Netanyahu, the elected leader of the region’s only democracy, should be arrested.SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY YELLING ‘ALLAHU AKBAR,’ STABBING 2 MEN IN NYC ATTACK The mayor of an American city has no such power. Municipal leaders are forbidden by law from carrying out their own foreign policy. Nevertheless, Mamdani’s public relations stunt, amplified not only on social media but by the media…

The United States has chosen to hold off on a major strike on Iran due to a short supply of air defense missiles. The missile shortage can be blamed on a number of things; however, the main idea is that the US chose to “donate” a large chunk of its war supplies to Ukraine. US Halting Some Weapons Shipments To Ukraine As Own Military Stockpiles Plummet Iran and the US have exchanged strikes for nearly two weeks since a fragile ceasefire reached in spring collapsed. Both sides are also accusing each other of violating a 14-point memorandum of understanding (MoU), the interim peace deal signed on June 17th. Donald Trump allegedly made the call, according to US officials cited in a New York Times report. At the same time, Trump also warned that full-scale war could resume at any time. On Thursday, Trump threatened Iran and the Houthis with “major military punishment” after the Yemen-based group struck two Saudi oil tankers, telling Axios he was considering a “massive attack” against Iran that would be “bigger than ever before.” According to the article published on Saturday, the decision followed a meeting with senior advisers and cabinet officials a day earlier that reportedly focused on the Pentagon’s…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: “Shark Week.”That annual stretch when Americans collectively gather around their TV sets to learn everything there is to know about the ocean’s apex predators and to ask ourselves why we are dumb enough to swim in the ocean in the first place.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE FROM OUTKICKBut lucky for those of us who don’t want to end up the subject of a future “Shark Week” documentary, wildlife biologist, conservationist and TV host Forrest Galante has some simple advice. Galante recently joined OutKick Outdoors to talk about shark attacks, shark behavior and his upcoming Discovery special, “Alien Sharks: Untamed America.” And while he stressed that the chances of having a negative shark encounter are already extremely slim, he said beachgoers can make those odds even better by using some common sense.”You know, the best thing you can do is educate yourself,” Galante said. “Think about where you’re going. Learn what the species are.”If you are looking for some blanket rules before your next beach trip, Galante offered a few.Do not swim during feeding time”Don’t go in the water at dawn or dusk,” Galante said.Sharks are crepuscular, meaning they are most active at…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Newly released diary entries reveal that as COVID-19 deaths mounted around the world, former White House COVID adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci became increasingly fixated on his newfound celebrity.Released by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, the journals chronicle Fauci’s day-to-day role during the COVID-19 crisis through conversations with President Donald Trump, governors and world leaders, media appearances and his personal observations as the pandemic unfolded.Paul, a longtime Fauci critic who frequently clashed with Fauci over the federal response and the origins of the virus, made the diaries public as part of the committee’s ongoing oversight investigation. The release comes days before Fauci is scheduled to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee after being subpoenaed by Paul.GABBARD SAYS DECLASSIFIED BIOLAB RECORDS VALIDATE CONCERNS PREVIOUSLY DISMISSED AS MISINFORMATION A surprising recurring theme throughout the diaries is Fauci’s growing awareness of his own public profile during the most intense months of the pandemic, which ultimately claimed more than 7 million officially reported lives worldwide, including roughly 1.2 million in the United States.On April 7, 2020, after recording the latest pandemic developments, Fauci wrote: “Press still hot and heavy about me.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An 83-year-old hiker who vanished in a remote stretch of Grand Canyon National Park after separating from his companion was found alive after an intense all-night search across rugged burn-scarred terrain, officials said Thursday.Gerald Guinn, an experienced outdoorsman from Kanab, Utah, was found around 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday during a National Park Service helicopter search, about 2.5 miles from where he was last seen on the park’s North Rim, according to the National Park Service and the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.Guinn disappeared Monday after he and his hiking companion intentionally split up while taking a short hike around 12:30 p.m. in search of a nearby historic object in a remote area near the park’s northeastern boundary, the sheriff’s office said. While his hiking partner found the object, Guinn never showed up. After several hours of searching, the other hiker called for help.SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR AUSTRALIAN WOMAN WHO VANISHED AFTER SENDING MESSAGE ABOUT GOING FOR A HIKE NEAR LAS VEGAS Search crews from Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County Search and Rescue , and Kane County Search and Rescue spent the night looking for Guinn. Teams searched on foot through burned forest, the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A rundown bus shelter has been radically transformed — complete with hanging baskets, art, books and chandelier — after a local pub owner couldn’t stand the “ugly and shabby” situation any longer.Molly Thompson, 27, has owned the 600-year-old Woolpack pub in Chilham, Kent, for several years.For some time, a rundown and disused bus shelter blighted the street right outside her pub — until she couldn’t take it any longer.STOMACH BUGS SURGING AS DOCTORS SAY CERTAIN TRAVEL ESSENTIALS COULD SAVE YOUR TRIP Thompson secured council permission before raising the funds to turn the shelter from shabby to chic.”I live here, I’ve got my dog Wallace, and every day I’d walk past that bus stop,” Thompson of the United Kingdom told news agency SWNS. “It took me a year since moving here, and I thought it was a derelict building, an ugly and shabby sort of thing. We had some crazy ideas at first, but we also want[ed] to keep an aesthetic for the village.”We thought of a few ideas,” she went on. “We started fundraising at the Woolpack and asking people for donations, which we did a raffle for. We had to put in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! More than a quarter-million people have been driven from their homes in southwest France as a massive wildfire barrels toward the famed wine capital of Bordeaux, with officials warning the fast-moving inferno has become so fierce it’s creating its own winds and behaving erratically.French authorities ordered another 55,000 people to evacuate overnight Sunday from communities south of Bordeaux, bringing the total number of evacuees in the region to about 250,000. Gusty winds, dry conditions and repeated heat waves have fueled a fire that has burned out of control since midweek.Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said firefighters faced a “difficult” night and warned Sunday that “the situation remains very unfavorable.”EUROPE’S FIRES REVEAL DEADLY MIX OF RECORD HEAT, HUMAN ERROR, ARSON AND LAND MISMANAGEMENT “The fire again became extremely virulent again and unpredictable, generating its own winds and advancing erratically toward the Bordeaux metropolitan area,” Nunez posted on X, adding that the blaze “became calmer by the end of the night.”The fire has now burned an estimated 42,000 hectares, or about 162 square miles — roughly four times the size of Paris — in the Gironde region. Bordeaux Mayor Thomas Cazenave said the flames came…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!  JOHANNESBURG: Over 160,000 illegal immigrants have fled South Africa after thousands of citizens took to the streets demanding foreigners leave, as hundreds of thousands of South Africans have followed many in the West in turning against the government for poor border controls, and perceived inaction.One South African organization claims there are up to 30 million illegal immigrants in a country whose documented citizens number around 63 million. These immigrants, mostly undocumented, are blamed for rampant crime, taking jobs and overrunning hospital wards and places in government schools.In some cases, groups have gone house-to-house in areas such as Soweto, near Johannesburg, giving deadlines for immigrants to go home. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that 900 people were arrested during a day of nationwide protests. While the protests were largely peaceful, police were called to disperse violent protesters in some areas of the country. One death was reported in the Johannesburg area.NEW GERMANY SEX-CRIME FIGURES REIGNITE MIGRATION FIGHT AS EXPLOITATION PROBE EXPANDS Some illegal immigrants have taken buses and left, or been repatriated on flights provided by their home countries across Africa. On one such flight to Ghana in June, the South African border…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The Mississippi teen accused of killing an elderly couple in their home was no stranger to local deputies, who named him a suspect in “many” nearby burglaries and car thefts, according to an incident report obtained by Fox News Digital.Billy Blair, 74, and his 71-year-old wife Virginia Carol Blair were allegedly killed by Cordarius Hobbs, 17, after he broke into their Mendenhall, Mississippi, home on June 3. Family members of the teen said during a preliminary hearing in July that Hobbs did work for the Blairs for things like cleaning around the house before the alleged shooting.Fox News Digital obtained an incident report from the Simpson County Sheriff’s Department, which alleged Hobbs is a “troubled juvenile” who is a suspect in various other crimes in the area.MISSISSIPPI TEEN ACCUSED OF KILLING ELDERLY COUPLE HAD WORKED FOR THEM BEFORE SHOOTING: FAMILY “…When we first arrived I and other Deputies and Investigators believe the suspect could be a troubled juvenile known to us as Cordarius Hobbs who is also suspected of many other home burglaries as well as auto theft in this immediate area,” the incident report states.Billy Newsome, Hobbs’ grandfather,…