On Jan. 7, 2025, people across the Los Angeles area watched in horror as powerful winds began spreading wildfires through neighborhood after neighborhood. Over three weeks, the fires destroyed more than 16,000 homes and businesses. At least 31 people died, and studies suggest the smoke and stress likely contributed to hundreds more deaths.

The ‘Institute for Middle East Understanding’ is a pro-Palestinian education group that focuses on human rights, which surveyed over 1,200 Republicans in the United States who were under the age of 45. Three out of every four of those polled preferred that the billions of dollars given as weapons to Israel every year be instead used on healthcare in the United States. The same polling data from the pro-Palestinian research group also says that those same Republicans still favor supporting Israel over Palestine.

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshippers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding chairs, their faces barely masking the fear gripping their town.

A pall hung over the room just as it hung over the holiday season in Lexington, Nebraska.