At least 137 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli strikes since October 7 .

Reporters in the region are being caught in the deadly crossfire or, even worse, are being targeted for reporting on the frequent atrocities they are uncovering.

The war’s impact on investigative journalism has been exacerbated by legal and security challenges, along with limited access to information.

The Gaza Project continued the work of one of the reporters who was killed in the Gaza war, and of a pair investigating famine who were forced to displace.

Al Aan TV revealed that Houthi militia group allows Iranian ships to dredge the seabed in Yemen in exchange for military and political support.

BBC Eye’s Arabic investigative team revealed troubling evidence of military operations in Yemen carried out by US mercenaries and allegedly financed by the United Arab Emirates .

Lighthouse Reports investigated how Dubai has created “one of the largest migrant detention systems in the world” with the help of European Union funding.

Detainees told of poor conditions, systemic violence, and being forced to sign “voluntary” return forms, a series of claims corroborated by a comprehensive review of visual evidence.

Sandy is a former college athlete who knows how to exercise.

Danielle Friedman explains how to embrace movement that you love, make it fit into your life.

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One recent poll put Reform UK ahead of Labour and it is only marginally behind the Conservatives .

Nigel Farage’s friendship with president-elect Trump gives the Reform leader the ability to speak with authority on US policy.

His friendship with Elon Musk might also mean that Reform could have access to financial resources well beyond anything available to other parties.

There is an opportunity for an insurgent populist party to emerge as a proper parliamentary force at the next election, further fracturing our political system. This in itself is a significant development. But are we on the cusp of a Farage-led government? No, that still appears to be a distant prospect..

From Thursday , general product safety regulations ( GPSR ) will apply to a huge new range of products.

The Federation of Small Business (FSB ) warns: “The GPSR will be a real barrier to trade” Every poll taken in the past two years has a majority for rejoining the EU .

Keir Starmer proclaims there is no need to choose between the US and EU in trade: let ’s hope he is right and Trump doesn’t arm-twist that choice with killer tariffs.

The European Movement , newly led by Caroline Lucas and Dominic Grieve , gathers voices for trade, cultural and youth prospects.

Tim Graham : Vetting the records of Cabinet nominees is a legitimate journalistic function.

Graham : It's not a journalistic function to kill a nomination based on hit pieces stuffed with anonymous sources.

Networks who eagerly spread anonymously sourced hit pieces are also illegitimate, he says.

He says fairness and balance are equated with “normalizing” Trump .

Nearly 120 million people have seen a Facebook post about my PhD thesis.

The post is captioned “Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone ” The post gained traction among kind strangers celebrating my achievement.

But soon, it reached a much more hostile audience, with comments about the content of my thesis and my 'life choices'.

Julian Zelizer : The fall of Bashar Assad ’s tyranny in Syria is a strategic victory for the U.S. and a defeat for Iran and Russia .

He says the fall of Assad 's tyranny was not a victory authored by President Joe Biden's foreign policy but the direct result of Israel 's response to Iran 's proxy war against the Middle East .

Zelizer says Obama 's weak and clumsy policy in the region undermined Israel rather than supporting it as it should have.

Cenk Uygur: "My mortal enemy is the establishment. And they have been defeated!” Matt Gaetz , the MAGA devotee and former Republican congressman for Florida , retweeted Uygurs' post.

Bernie Sanders , Elon Musk retweeted each other's posts on X, saying, “ Elon Musk is right?” David Frum : The concept of populist conservatives aligning or cooperating with progressives on points where they agree is not new.

Donald Trump has a team and potential cabinet of former Democrats like Elon Musk , Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , and Tulsi Gabbard , whose agendas line up with many traditional liberal concerns.

Paul Paul was not only stringently anti-war; he also attacked NAFTA and would openly discuss the racist origins of the drug war.

Paul : A principled left-right coalition’s mortal enemy really is the current establishment.

Donald Trump lost the Hispanic vote by a much smaller margin than he and other Republican candidates lost it in the past.

Ruben Navarrette : Fears that immigration will shift the political center leftward must be unfounded.

He says party coalitions change, but group ideological preferences are more persistent.

A better explanation for Republicans ’ shrinking deficit with Hispanic voters is the same shifting party coalitions that produced West Virginia’s Dukakis-Trump voters.

Republicans under Trump have de-emphasized free market economics in favor of more populist appeals on issues such as trade, entitlement spending, and union support.

Democrats have increased their focus on social activism and lifestyle issues affecting educated professionals.

The case of Snope v. Brown has been distributed for the Supreme Court's conference for December 13 .

John Sutter : The Fourth Circuit " second -guesses people who say they keep or bear an AR-15-style rifle for self-defense" He says the majority's decision was a sadly-mistaken view of the quite ordinary ammunition that the banned rifle typically fires.

Sutter says the 5.56 can be lethal but in no way does it even come close to "splintering" a human.

John Sutter : Court says AR-15 bullets "hit fast and penetrate deep into the body," create severe damage.

But that doesn't justify banning the rifles that fire them, he says.

Sutter says the court didn't do any real homework and compares wounds from rifles to those from handguns.

He says more powerful rifle rounds would have much more devastating effect, but that's not the case.

As a side note, he knows about firearms, writing: "Speaking from experience, many hog hunters deploy the exact weapons that Maryland bans, including the AR-15 ." David Kopel's post on this blog from last year "How powerful are AR rifles?" provides a detailed review of the issues herein. At a more general level, my book America 's Rifle: The Case for the AR-15 discusses the broader, historical context of the issue..