18+ min ago (547+ words) WASHINGTON " Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on NBC News" "Meet the Press" Sunday that authorities believe the suspect in the National Guard shooting was radicalized in the U.S. and that the asylum process for migrants would resume once the administration has dealt with a backlog of applications under new standards following the attack. Her comments come after Trump said he would "permanently pause" migration from "third world countries" after the suspect in the National Guard shooting was identified as an Afghan national. NBC News previously reported that the suspect was granted asylum this year. Noem said during Sunday"s interview that the administration believes that the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was "radicalized since he"s been here in this country." "We do believe it was through connections in his home community and state, and we"re going to continue to talk…...

18+ min ago (470+ words) WASHINGTON " Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on NBC News" "Meet the Press" Sunday that authorities believe the suspect in the National Guard shooting was radicalized in the U.S. and that the asylum process for migrants would resume once the administration has dealt with a backlog of applications under new standards following the attack. Her comments come after Trump said he would "permanently pause" migration from "third world countries" after the suspect in the National Guard shooting was identified as an Afghan national. NBC News previously reported that the suspect was granted asylum this year. Noem said during Sunday"s interview that the administration believes that the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was "radicalized since he"s been here in this country." "We do believe it was through connections in his home community and state, and we"re going to continue to talk…...

18+ min ago (552+ words) WASHINGTON " Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on NBC News" "Meet the Press" Sunday that authorities believe the suspect in the National Guard shooting was radicalized in the U.S. and that the asylum process for migrants would resume once the administration has dealt with a backlog of applications under new standards following the attack. Her comments come after Trump said he would "permanently pause" migration from "third world countries" after the suspect in the National Guard shooting was identified as an Afghan national. NBC News previously reported that the suspect was granted asylum this year. Noem said during Sunday"s interview that the administration believes that the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was "radicalized since he"s been here in this country." "We do believe it was through connections in his home community and state, and we"re going to continue to talk…...

45+ min ago (1241+ words) Before Rahmanullah Lakanwal settled in a quiet part of Washington state, he was part of a secret unit of Afghans who operated under CIA direction and hunted down Taliban commanders in highly dangerous missions. They "took malignant actors off the battlefield and saved American lives, period," said Andrew Sullivan, who served as an officer with the Army's 1st Division in Afghanistan and is now executive director of No One Left Behind, a nonprofit that helps resettle Afghans who worked for the U.S. military during the war. These members of "Zero Units," also known as National Strike Units, were among the most extensively vetted of any Afghans who worked with American forces. CIA officers hailed their bravery, skill and loyalty, and the agency prioritized their evacuation from Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul in 2021 because they were prime targets for the Taliban. Lakanwal,…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago (485+ words) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has submitted a request for a formal pardon amid a yearslong corruption trial, just weeks after President Donald Trump said he should be pardoned. "The continuation of the trial is tearing us apart from within, provoking fierce divisions, intensifying divisions," he said. "My personal interest was and remains to continue the process until the end, until I am fully acquitted of all charges, but the security and political realities, the national interest, require otherwise." Netanyahu is facing charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases. Prosecutors have alleged that he exchanged regulatory favors with media owners in Israel seeking positive press coverage. He has also been accused of accepting gifts " including cigars and champagne " in exchange for advancing the personal interests of Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago (570+ words) The inferno that tore through a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong has killed at least 146 people, authorities said Sunday, with around 40 still missing. Officers had found a further 18 bodies in the Wang Fuk Court tower complex, officials said, as the fallout continues following the deadliest blaze in the Chinese territory in seven decades. "We expect more to come," Chief Superintendent Karen Tsang Shuk-yin, the officer in charge of the casualty inquiry unit, told reporters Sunday. Concluding the search could still take some time, regional police commander Amy Lam Man-han said, with the most difficult areas still yet to be searched. Some bodies had been found in stairwells and on rooftops where residents had tried to flee, officials said. Tsang added that 54 bodies could not yet be identified, with around 40 people reported missing and 100 others remaining unaccounted for. Fay Siu…...

3+ hour, 20+ min ago (1233+ words) In early 2023, Liana Shatova began taking low doses of an antidepressant to ease symptoms of a premenstrual disorder marked by mood swings, anxiety and depression. At first, the difference was remarkable for her. "I felt full of energy and could juggle multiple things at once," said Shatova, 40, a business development manager from the Greater Boston area. Then, after around 18 months on the medication, she started to fear she was becoming emotionally numb. "My best friend's mom died unexpectedly, everyone was in shock and sobbing, and I couldn't cry at all," said Shatova. "I just felt nothing." When Shatova asked her doctor if she could stop taking the medication sertraline, an antidepressant better known by its brand name Zoloft, she said she was reassured that she was on the lowest prescribed dose and that coming off it wouldn't be difficult. Initially…...

3+ hour, 31+ min ago (531+ words) Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed more than 70,000 people in over two years of war, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, as the death toll continues to climb despite the ongoing ceasefire. Israel's offensive in Gaza has killed at least 70,100 people since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 2023, which equates to more than 3% of the 2.3 million people living in the enclave. A further 170,983 people have been wounded. The World Health Organization has said that the numbers given by health officials in Gaza are reputable. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza remains in effect but has been tested by repeated outbreaks of violence, as Gaza's residents face hunger, flooding and the onset of a bitter winter. Israeli fire killed two Palestinian children in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. The two brothers, aged 11 and 8, died when an Israeli drone struck…...

3+ hour, 31+ min ago (531+ words) Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed more than 70,000 people in over two years of war, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, as the death toll continues to climb despite the ongoing ceasefire. Israel's offensive in Gaza has killed at least 70,100 people since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 2023, which equates to more than 3% of the 2.3 million people living in the enclave. A further 170,983 people have been wounded. The World Health Organization has said that the numbers given by health officials in Gaza are reputable. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza remains in effect but has been tested by repeated outbreaks of violence, as Gaza's residents face hunger, flooding and the onset of a bitter winter. Israeli fire killed two Palestinian children in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. The two brothers, aged 11 and 8, died when an Israeli drone struck…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago (927+ words) The shriek of whistles and a cacophony of cars honking have taken on new meaning on the streets of major U.S. cities in recent months " a warning to all those in earshot that immigration enforcement is nearby. Heather Morrow, a protester in Charlotte, North Carolina, faces misdemeanor charges after prosecutors allege she blocked the entrance to a Department of Homeland Security facility's parking lot; she was initially charged with felony assault of a federal officer, but it was dropped a week later at the request of the federal government. Joshua Long, another Charlotte resident who told NBC News he'd been verifying and documenting community reports of U.S. Border Patrol's presence across the city as part of a local watch group, was also arrested on suspicion of assaulting a federal officer, an allegation he denies. Amid the arrests, as well as flaring tensions…...