Erin Cunningham

Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination, two senior army officers told Reuters www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israel and the U.S. say they want UNRWA out of Gaza. But the Board of Peace overseeing the ceasefire has quietly met with the agency and its workers about maintaining services - and it continues to rely on UNRWA to distribute aid apnews.com/article/lazz...

This should help you sleep at night: “There’s no one set of standards for how the US verifies the information generated by these tools.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

Three munitions weapons experts believe were Lockheed Martin's new PrSM missiles killed civilians more than 160 feet from where they detonated in the Iranian city of Lamerd on Feb. 28, according to research conducted by @airwars.bsky.social and verified by @apnews.com. apnews.com/article/iran...

Headlines from hell.

We’ve added a new dumpster to the fire: Joint U.S.-Saudi strikes on Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq apnews.com/article/iran...

An Israeli strike in Gaza just before the kickoff of the Egypt-Argentina World Cup match killed a top Palestinian aid official who helped organize public screenings of the game across the enclave. apnews.com/article/gaza...

Continued Israeli strikes on Gaza have pushed the death toll there to more than 73,000 people, with nearly 1,000 killed since an October 2025 ceasefire deal. apnews.com/article/mide...

A Munich court ruling “holds that when an AI generates new statements that do not appear directly in its original sources, the company that designs, trains, operates, and manages the system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by those statements.” www.wired.com/story/a-cour...