LOCHIEL, Ariz. — For more than two months, activists sat high up in the branches of a giant cottonwood tree here on the border with Mexico in an effort to block federal contractors from knocking it down to make way for President Donald Trump’s $46.5 billion border wall expansion.
But that standoff came to an end Monday when demonstrators say more than 50 Customs and Border Protection agents raided the activist camp and an excavator knocked down what they called a “grandmother” tree, estimated to be 150 to 250 years old.
Footage taken by protesters shows the massive tree crashing down as border agents look on, and the activists who worked to protect it wail.
“We have been raided, **** aulted, battered, bruised, bleeding by the Border Patrol agents,” said Kate Scott, an activist who kicked off the group’s tree sit, in a call following Monday’s raid. As CBP cleared the area, about 10 people were arrested, the group of activists estimates, and another 10 received citations, including for “violation of a closure order” for being in the border-wall zone.
At least one activist showed images of scrapes and bandages on a Monday video call.

#border #tree

An Ohio congresswoman is facing major blowback online after suggesting that lynchings are on the rise in the United States, despite that claim being widely debunked last week.
"In the last year, there's been an alarming increase in Black Americans found dead hanging from trees. We know what that has meant throughout our history," said Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, on X. "That's why I've joined [Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.] to demand a federal investigation into possible lynchings."
Fox News Digital reviewed some high-profile cases after Pressley's letter to the DOJ demanding "thorough, transparent, and comprehensive federal investigation into every hanging death of a Black individual across the United States." Last week, Pressley and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., posted about the letter on their X accounts, drawing blowback and widespread debunking of the suggestion that there has been an uptick in lynchings.
Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, takes her seat for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing with "Sanctuary State Governors" in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
Governor Blames Activists In Nolan Wells Case For 'Stoking Division,' Official Says Fbi Probing Threats

#ohio #states

Democratic state parties announced Monday that they are launching an operation for the midterm elections they're calling the "New Battlefield Project," intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to guard polling places in case armed federal officers show up.
Activists are planning mass protests if the Trump administration tries to interfere with voting or ballot counting. And legal scholars are distributing white papers advising judges what they should do if the government tries to seize ballots.
The unprecedented efforts are in response to President Donald Trump's equally unprecedented moves to interfere in this year's midterm elections, which include attempts to impose proof-of-citizenship requirements to register to vote and directing the Postal Service to play a central role in deciding which voters should get a mail ballot.
The anxious contingency planning as voting gets underway has become a marker for how fraught democracy has become in the country that once stood as an example to the world.
"We have never prepared for an election sabotage event like we have now," said Ezra Levin of the left-leaning group Indivisible.

#interfere

Steven Kolb apologized for physically restraining PETA activists during the COS runway show at New York Fashion Week
The protesters disrupted the show to highlight animal cruelty in the wool industry, calling for brands to stop using wool
PETA criticized Kolb's actions, while an activist announced that the organization plans to file a police report
A fashion executive is apologizing for his reaction to protesters crashing a New York Fashion Week show.
While models were walking the runway for the COS fall-winter 2026 collection in the WSA building on Sunday, Sept. 13, a group of animal activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) emerged holding signs and shouting against supporting the brand owned by Swedish retailer H&M, CNN, The New York Times and The Business of Fashion reported.

#fashion #peta #activists #animal

Pink faced backlash after reposting a statement from an advocacy group calling for an apology from Macklemore for advocating for Palestinians during his opening act for Ed Sheeran in New Jersey.
Pink reposted the message from the group StopAntisemitism on her Instagram stories. The message started with the word "Awful," suggesting that Jewish fans had purchased their tickets to see Sheeran but instead experienced what it referred to as anti-Israel propaganda. According to the group, the Seattle rapper had accused Israel of falsely committing a genocide, and concertgoers were owed an apology and a refund. Pink did not comment and has not yet given a reason for posting the message.
Macklemore, whose real name is Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, performed for Ed Sheeran in MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sept. 4 and Sept. 5 as part of his Loop Tour. Dressed in a keffiyeh, the rapper told the crowd of more than 80,000 people that he wanted to stand in the stadium and say, "Free Palestine." He mentioned that he hoped people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank knew they had not been forgotten and that every human being deserved freedom.
Macklemore then sang "Hind's Hall," a protest song he released in 2024, as images of Gaza played on the stadium screens. Moreover, the rapper spoke directly to the Jewish audience, saying that criticizing Israel was not criticizing them.
His performance led the Israeli American Council to file a petition asking Sheeran and his management to remove the rapper from other tour dates. The petition referred to his show as a concert and not a rally for activists and politics. It also claimed that Macklemore used his global platform to promote a one-sided political agenda. The petition asked whether the speech and visuals were approved before the event.

#macklemore #sheeran #petition

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Alongside the familiar sounds of roosters crowing and thrill seekers screaming on rides at the Iowa State Fair, there was a chorus of boos from Turning Point Action activists who were heckling Democratic politicians making their way through the crowds.
Videos of the confrontations got hundreds of thousands of views on social media, a burst of attention for a conservative youth organization that is charting its next chapter after last year's **** assination of its leader Charlie Kirk. But the true test of Turning Point Action's clout was unfolding inside the exhibition center, where staff members were registering voters, handing out **** ons and signing people up for social events.
"Building the foundation for 2028," said one of the flyers.
While Democrats have punted Iowa from the top of its presidential primary calendar, the state's caucuses will still kick off Republicans' next nominating process. Turning Point Action is positioning itself to shape that contest, a reminder that preparations for the next White House campaign are already in motion even though no candidates have announced and the midterm elections aren't over yet.
Turning Point Action wants at least one staffer in each of Iowa's 99 counties to mobilize the conservative grassroots.

#point #next #conservative

Sept 3 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that an investigation would determine what caused a dispute between ‌two of Ukraine's security agencies to escalate into a ‌shootout in Kyiv this week that left three members of the Defence Ministry's HUR Military Intelligence Directorate injured.
The dispute centres on the disappearance for nine days of a Russian nationalist activist fighting alongside Ukrainian troops in the 4-1/2-year-old war pitting Moscow against Kyiv.
The nationalist said he ‌was detained by the ⁠SBU Security Service and obliged to sign a confession that he collaborated with Russian intelligence. He later ⁠retracted the statement.
The street clash occurred in central Kyiv on Tuesday after the activist's Kyiv home was searched. SBU officers fired on members of the HUR unit. The SBU has said it was ‌acting to prevent a Moscow-inspired plot to ****** assinate Russian anti-Kremlin activists in Kyiv.
"It is important that the truth come out. And that situations like this do not recur," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

#russian #zelenskiy #dispute #members

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French gases group Air Liquide is getting the activist-investor treatment.
Elliott reportedly built a stake and wants the firm to sharpen margins. Investors liked the idea, sending the shares higher as the market started pricing in a little less patience and a little more pressure.
Elliott's been engaging with the company for months, though the the size of the stake is not known. The message, however, is clear: improve margins and compete harder with the sector's best operators.
Air Liquide is not exactly a wounded minnow. The Paris-based group is worth about €108 billion (about $125 billion) and supplies gases including oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen to factories, hospitals, semiconductor plants and energy customers. It is one of Europe's major industrial champions. But activists don't usually arrive because everything looks perfect.

#liquide #gases #stake

Fox News Digital spoke with attendees and activists at Friday's March on Washington who voiced support for systemic political change, from sweeping reforms to bringing socialist policies to their hometowns as DSA-backed candidates notch primary victories ahead of the midterms.
"I would definitely advocate for that from (the) ground up, like abolishing [the Constitution], rewriting it, including people's voices that haven't been included on there as well," Sravya, of Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital. "I would probably also rewrite all the oppressive amendments that are in there targeting marginalized individuals."
March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote was held Friday at the Lincoln Memorial on the 63rd anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. It was organized by Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.
Fox News Digital spoke with a handful of attendees, asking whether they would support abolishing and rewriting the Constitution and whether DSA policies are good for the direction of America, questions that drew support from some of those interviewed.
Socialists Launch Radical Platform To Abolish The Us Senate In Bid To Fundamentally Transform America

#support #spoke #policies

The Treasury Department announced sanctions against three far-left international networks as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on politically motivated violence.
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign **** ets Control took action against Autistici Inventati, an Italy-based nonprofit; Palestine Action, a U.K.-based organization which it designated a terrorist group; and Masar Badil, a Spain-based group that allegedly operates as a front for the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, already sanctioned by the U.S.
"Far-left extremists, their fronts and their enablers should be on notice: We will bring the full weight of our economic tools to bear," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. "Political terrorism has no place in our society, and we will continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated."
Pro-Palestinian activists gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the occasion of a hearing granted to Huda Ammori, the co-founder of Palestine Action, to consider whether there should be a temporary block of the decision to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 on July 4, 2025, in London.
Rubio Puts Entire World On Notice Against Rise Of 'Poisonous' Far-left Terror 'Masked As Equality'

#group

From acting and music to memorable red carpet appearances, Sofia Carson has created a career that crosses several corners of entertainment. Born Sofia Daccarett Char in Florida to a Colombian American family, she adopted the professional surname Carson in honor of her maternal grandmother, Lauraine Carson. Her interest in performing appeared early, with dance lessons beginning when she was three. Music remained an important ambition as she grew up, but acting eventually provided the breakthrough that introduced her to audiences around the world.
Carson's screen career gained momentum through Disney Channel, including an appearance on Austin & Ally. Her major breakthrough arrived in 2015 when she played Evie, the daughter of the Evil Queen, in Descendants. The successful Disney musical fantasy gave Carson an opportunity to combine acting, singing and dancing, and she returned for its sequels. She later brought several of those skills together again in Purple Hearts, the 2022 Netflix romantic drama in which she starred and contributed to the music.
Her ambitions extend beyond entertainment. Carson has worked with UNICEF and has used her public platform to advocate for young people and humanitarian causes. She has described working with the organization as a longtime dream and emphasized the importance of young people using their voices to support meaningful change. For Carson, bringing artists, activists and advocates together can turn public attention into something more purposeful.
Fashion has become another defining part of Carson's public image. Her style can move from sophisticated tailoring and dramatic ballgowns to futuristic designs and relaxed off-duty outfits. That versatility has made her a familiar presence at major fashion events, where she has attended shows and developed relationships with prominent designers and luxury houses. Her red carpet choices often favor bold silhouettes while maintaining the polished aesthetic ****** ociated with her public persona.
Carson's career demonstrates how a modern entertainer can build an identity across multiple creative fields without being limited to one. Music, acting, advocacy and fashion have each become important parts of her story, while projects such as Descendants and Purple Hearts have allowed those talents to overlap. Whether appearing on screen, performing music, supporting humanitarian work or stepping onto a red carpet, Sofia Carson continues to shape a career built around creativity, versatility and a carefully defined sense of purpose.

#carpet

Mark Ruffalo has refuted charges that he is antisemitic. According to the actor, the accusation is baseless and criticizing the Israeli prime minister is not equivalent to being antisemitic.
"The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life," Ruffalo tweeted.
Ruffalo is known as a controversial figure in Hollywood who is ready to speak out, regardless of possible criticism. For example, he faced backlash from people who criticized him for opposing the proposed media merger and criticizing its executives.
"This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country," Ruffalo wrote. "Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle's business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public."
These statements coincide with concerns voiced by media watchdogs and freedom-of-the-press activists, as well as problems ****** ociated with one family acquiring numerous media properties and a lack of transparency in financing such deals.

#family

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 200 activists in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" movement are criticizing President Donald Trump's promotion of coal to fuel the rise of artificial intelligence data centers, according to a letter sent Friday.
The letter, signed by at least two former staffers from Kennedy's 2024 presidential campaign, marks the first major MAHA movement mobilization over fossil fuels and the latest in a series of rifts between the diverse group of activists and the Trump administration over environmental policy.
The letter to Trump, Kennedy and various other Cabinet officials, first obtained by The ******* ociated Press, laments a 2025 executive order that aimed to boost coal to power data centers over pollution concerns and asks the administration to consider renewable options, including solar and geothermal energy.
"We understand the importance of American leadership in artificial intelligence, national security, innovation, and economic growth," the letter reads. "But American AI leadership should not come at the cost of a more toxic burden for American children."
In response, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers noted that greenhouse gas emissions dropped to a 30-year low during Trump's first term and said Trump "was given a mandate to roll back the radical climate policies that are burning a hole through taxpayers' wallets."

#kennedy #coal #intelligence

Ahead of the game between the Minnesota Lynx and Golden State Valkyries, anti-trans athlete activists attempted to stage a protest outside the Chase Center.
But, much to their surprise, the group now referring to themselves as 'Save Women's Sports' activists found themselves outnumbered by trans rights activists at their own protest.
Just hours before tip-off, several activists responding to the backlash surrounding trans athletes came in droves to show support to the community.
Photo by Matthew Huang/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
Several trans rights activists came to push back against the 'Save Women's Sports' movement supporters at the Chase Center.

#chase #save #themselves

File under "stupid publicity stunt that I shouldn't even be writing about, but here I am, writing about it."
Last week, former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White demanded they be officially declared eligible for the 2027 WNBA draft. White, who recently lost the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, has claimed to be transgender and argued that he should be allowed to play in the women's league. "I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for purposes of … professional basketball," he told Fox News.
White also posted pictures of himself wearing a wig, stating that he was embracing his "feminine era."
Designed to mock the trans community and troll the organization and its inclusion and self-identification policies, the former NBA players suggested they would take legal action if blocked from the WNBA draft.
They're among the legions of attention seekers, influencers, news media and activists taking sides in a culture war over something that's not even close to happening: the WNBA's inclusion of transgender athletes. To be clear, no transgender players are slated to become part of the league's roster. A right-wing uproar over an imagined threat. Where have we seen this before?

#players #writing #former

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N'DJAMENA, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Chad's presidency said in ‌a statement that President Mahamat Idriss Deby has pardoned his main rival and opposition leader Succes Masra, who has been in jail for more than a year for inciting violence and complicity to murder.
• Masra, a former ‌prime minister, was ⁠sentenced to 20 years and fined 1 billion CFA francs ($1.77 million) last year ⁠in a trial that was criticized by human rights activists as politically motivated.
• Masra will be released in the coming days, the statement said, after the presidency ‌agreed to a request for a pardon submitted by his attorneys.
• Masra was internationally recognized as the most vocal figure in the opposition. He will be freed along with eight other political figures, the ‌statement said.

#presidency #success #reuters

By Ross Kerber
Aug 14 (Reuters) - The top U.S. financial regulator on Friday made permanent its decision to cease judging whether companies may exclude shareholder resolutions from votes at ‌annual meetings, leaving investor activists concerned about diminishing influence.
In practice, the change announced by ‌the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission extends a freeze put in place last November on deciding whether to approve corporate requests to skip votes on shareholder proposals.
The responses were known as "no-action" letters because they answered corporate requests for **** urance the agency would take no action if executives skipped votes on proposals that often deal with hot-button issues like carbon emissions or workforce diversity.
Executives claimed such measures may micromanage operations or deal with ‌ordinary business undeserving of investors' attention.

#executives #proposals #ross

DUBROVNIK, CROATIA - JUNE 12: Rianna O'Meara-Hunt (NZL) / Timmy Hansen (SWE), Team Miami, in action during Qualifying for the E1 Series Dubrovnik GP on June 12, 2026 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. (Photo by Joe Portlock/Getty Images)
When Formula E launched in Beijing in 2014, it arrived with a clear mission. Electric racing was intended to demonstrate that battery-powered vehicles could be exciting, fast and commercially viable while promoting a cleaner future for transport. More than a decade later, the landscape has changed dramatically. Electric vehicles are now a mainstream product in many markets, China has become the global center of EV innovation, and conversations around climate change have entered a more fractious mode. The newest electric racing championship, E1, finds itself entering the market at a very different moment. The series, featuring all-electric hydrofoiling RaceBird boats competing in waterfront cities around the world, still promotes clean technology, but its leadership increasingly believes that sustainability is no longer enough to capture public attention. Instead, E1's future may depend on demonstrating that electric propulsion simply delivers a better experience. I talked to E1 (and Formula E) founder Alejandro Agag, Sports.com Predict Team Miami pilots Timmy Hansen and Rianna O'Meara-Hunt, and Sports.com Predict Team Miami team principal Steve Curtis. They described a championship that is rapidly evolving from an environmental showcase into one of the world's most technically fascinating forms of motorsport.
Agag has spent much of his career launching new forms of electric motorsport. Having founded Formula E before turning his attention to Extreme E and now E1, he has witnessed first-hand how attitudes towards electrification have changed. "When we launched Formula E electric was the future," says Agag. "Manufacturers were going full electric. Mercedes came in, BMW, and Audi."
Today, Agag believes the public conversation has moved on. "Sustainability has really lost a lot of its attraction, which is a pity, because the climate problem has not changed, it's worse than before," says Aga. "Activists have been incredibly bad for the cause. To destroy a piece of art or to block a highway has exactly the opposite effect. It really repels people. It produces a divorce between the public and sustainability, because those activists wrongly embody environmentalism."
DUBROVNIK, CROATIA - JUNE 13: RaceBirds sit in the Launch Zone ahead of the E1 Series Dubrovnik GP on June 13, 2026 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. (Photo by Joe Portlock/Getty Images)

#Miami

ATLANTA (AP) — Nearly a decade ago, Jon Ossoff was a 30-year-old Democratic congressional candidate promising Georgia suburban voters he would "cut wasteful spending" and make "both parties in Washington" be "accountable to you." His Republican opponent even complained that Ossoff "talks like a Republican."
Nobody would make that mistake today. After losing that race in 2017 and narrowly winning a U.S. Senate seat during a runoff in 2021, Ossoff is running for reelection with a full-throated broadside on President Donald Trump as a "national disgrace" leading a "Mar-a-Lago mafia" and "the most corrupt administration of all time."
The 39-year-old senator has always been a vessel for Trump opposition, no matter his message on the campaign trail. But not until now has Ossoff openly embraced the role. His approach is being noticed across the Democratic spectrum, from activists hungry for the right message in the 2026 midterms to those pining for viable presidential candidates in 2028.
This week, as Trump renewed his fixation on false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election that brought Ossoff to Washington, the senator never missed an opportunity to denounce the "world's most famous sore loser."
"The senator is definitely having a moment, and these breakout moments can certainly become a launching pad for something bigger," said Lis Smith, a Democratic strategist who helped Pete **** igieg go from being an unknown Indiana mayor to a presidential contender in 2020. She said Ossoff's approach — tying Trump's personal financial gain to his performance on the economy — is "one that more Democrats should adopt."

When 18-year-old Nolan Wells of Mississippi turned up missing, then dead, several black activists jumped into action, including Colin Kaepernick.
Wells was reported missing when he went on a boat last Saturday with his friends, never returned, and was later found dead. Wells' parents didn't trust Mississippi authorities to do the teenager's autopsy, so Kaepernick stepped in with his organization to do an independent autopsy.
That's just one of the things that Kaepernick has done since his NFL career ended. When Kaepernick took a knee in protest against racism, it ended his career. He tried for many years to reenter the league, but several teams were afraid to take a chance on him because they didn't want the controversy that followed him.
Turns out, that may have been the best thing to happen to the former NFL star. He has been more powerful off the field than on it. His activism has prompted others to take a stand on issues after he was effectively banned from the league.
His activism hasn't come with much bravado; it's been done quietly, as in this situation with Wells. He has a foundation called Know Your Rights Camp. Part of his foundation has an initiative called the Autopsy Initiative, whose goal is to provide grieving families with accurate, transparent, and forensically correct information regarding the cause of death of a loved one.

MILAN (AP) — Venice's new mayor is proposing a dynamic pricing system for the city's three-year-old day-tripper access fee, seeking government approval to raise the charge to as much as 50 euros ($59) on the busiest days to ease overcrowding in the UNESCO world heritage city.
Mayor Simone Venturini told The ***** ociated Press in an interview Friday that the current 10-euro fee for last-minute reservations has not done enough to discourage visitors on peak days. Instead of imposing a fixed higher fee, the city wants to enact a form of surge-pricing, allowing the charge to rise with demand on the busiest days.
Venturini said the system would both discourage overcrowding and help cover the costs of maintaining the city.
"We spend 100 million euros a year just to maintain Venice physically, and ***** ody gives us that money. Not Europe. Not the Italian state. International critics don't pay it either. It's paid by the people of Venice, and in part through tourism taxes," said Venturini, who was elected mayor last month after serving as the city's top tourism official when the day-tripper tax was launched in 2024.
The access fee itself has been widely criticized by activists, housing advocates and opposition politicians for not doing enough to ease crowding in the city, while reducing Venice to a tourist attraction by charging admission. They also say the focus is too much on managing tourist flows, and not enough on bringing more residents back to the historic part of the city.

Overnight, Victoria Bonya went from being a Russian influencer known for exercise routines and cosmetic endorsements into a catalyst for widespread public discontent about the state of her home country's society and economy.
Bonya, a former television presenter in Russia who now makes a living as an influencer in Monaco, enjoyed the sort of virality most activists and politicians can only dream of in April, when she uploaded a screed critiquing Vladimir Putin's handling of the Russian economy. The 18-minute video, posted to Instagram, has received around 32 million views and 1.7 million likes.
Bonya's laundry list of grievances attacked everything from the government's failed response to extreme flooding in southern Russia earlier this year, to rising inflation and taxes hurting households. The widely viewed and reshared video included a direct message to Putin: "You know what the risk is?" Bonya asked in the video. "That people will stop being afraid, and they're being squeezed into a coiled spring, and that one day that coiled spring will shoot out."
While Russians have yet to air their disapproval of the status quo in a Bolshevik-style rebellion (which some Kremlin leaders cautioned to be a real possibility in the turbulent weeks after Bonya's video went viral), the country's economy is starting to show strain at the most basic level: its people.
Russians might be famous for their pessimism. Long a middling country in world happiness rankings, cross-cultural studies have shown the archetype of the brooding and gloomy Russian as described by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy might actually be a learned concept. But years into a war that has left Russians excluded from the world and saddled with broken promises from the government, official readings of economic pessimism have recently hit record highs, threatening the Kremlin's tenuous hold on its society.

DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland’s home game against Israel in the Nations League will be played behind closed doors in Serbia, the Irish soccer federation confirmed Monday.
The Football ******* ociation of Ireland announced earlier this month that the Oct. 4 match would be played at a neutral site and it has now revealed that will be the TSC Arena in Bačka Topola, in northern Serbia.
The venue change has been approved by European soccer’s governing body, UEFA.
The teams will also meet on Sept. 27 in Debrecen, Hungary, for Israel’s “home” game.
There had been calls for Ireland to boycott the matches against Israel. At a recent home friendly against Qatar, Irish activists hurled tennis ******* onto the pitch in protest. The ******* had “Stop the Game” messages on them, referring to the Nations League matches against Israel.

BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnam is increasingly using broadly written laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others that authorities consider a threat to the Communist Party's rule, according to a new ***** ysis released Monday by a human rights group.
The 88 Project, which focuses on rights issues in Vietnam, documented 56 such arrests in 2025, the third consecutive year of increases and double the number in 2022. The report includes only arrests where the defendant could be identified by name and the case tracked, and the actual numbers are believed to be much higher, said Ben Swanton, co-director of the group.
The report says the country under leader To Lam "routinely weaponizes criminal law" to quash dissent. To Lam, the country's former top security official who has served as general secretary of the Communist Party since 2024, was also elected president earlier this year.
The arrests are largely driven by fears of an uprising against the leadership in a so-called "color revolution," like the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, or the 1986 Yellow Revolution in the Philippines, according to the report.
It is a fear shared by the Communist Party in neighboring China, which has been accused of using similar tactics to stifle critics. Though competing maritime claims have led to confrontations between the two countries and a tense diplomatic relationship at times, China and Vietnam were able to agree earlier this year to together "prioritize political security and enhance efforts to prevent and resist color revolutions," the Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

Prince William has always maintained that once he becomes the king, things will be different in his reign. And after watching how open the future monarch has been with the public from the past few months about some of his personal life and work, an expert believes King Charles's elder son is quietly building a public vision for the monarchy.
Prince William is opening up to the public like never before. By giving a sneak peek into his family life to sharing about his passion for Aston Villa football club to talking about periods with young activists, among others, he is showing what kind of king he wants to be, per an expert.
Sharing her take on how William is quietly building a public vision for the monarchy, Royal Editor, Emily Nash, mentioned in **** o! Magazine that "these moments of openness" from the future monarch "are becoming increasingly common." She added, "They show us who he is and the values that will shape his future reign."
Pointing to his recent appearance on the Heart Breakfast radio show, the friend told the expert that William is "so relaxed and down to earth. You saw it there. What you see is what you get." Moreover, he is now also comfortable talking about the things that are common to every parent.
Be it about the chaos of the school run, dancing along to Taylor Swift with his daughter, or never-ending arguments over the family playlist, he has opened up about them, sharing glimpses of his personal life with the public.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy by police who were responding to a shoplifting call this week has ignited simmering tensions between police and Black residents in the small town of Senatobia, Mississippi.
The death of Kohen Wiley is the latest in a series of troubling encounters with police that have outraged community members in recent years. It has led to protests and calls for greater police accountability in the town of 8,000, with some civil rights activists pointing to Kohen's death as another example of a Black life lost over something of nominal value — in this case, allegedly stolen diapers.
"We are treating items on a shelf as more valuable than a child," Bernice King, the daughter of civil right icon Martin Luther King, Jr., said in a statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday. "That is not just bad policing; it is a moral collapse."
There are still many unanswered questions about the shooting and what led up to it.
Senatobia police responded to the shoplifting call at a local Walmart on Sunday, where they found two women and a child leaving the store, getting into a car and driving away. According to a statement released by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation: "Officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one. An officer then discharged their weapon and the vehicle fled the scene."

Greenpeace and its activists allies have blocked for more than two decades the adoption of Golden Rice, which is genetically enhanced to produce the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene. The result, according to new calculations by DC Abundance founder and research director at the Golden Gate Institute for AI Abi Olvera, is that "delay has killed about 106,000 children and left another 210,000 to 425,000 blind."
Her conservative calculations of the deaths and disabilities caused by Greenpeace's scientifically ridiculous opposition to Golden Rice are focused on 11 countries in which the consumption of rice makes up a significant proportion of their people's diets.
As Olvera reports, the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that "250 000–500 000 children who are vitamin A-deficient become blind every year, and half of them die within 12 months of losing their sight." Vitamin A deficiency contributes to increased morbidity and mortality from common childhood infections. As the WHO notes, "Even mild, subclinical deficiency can be a problem, because it may increase children's risk for respiratory and diarrhoeal infections, decrease growth rates, slow bone development and decrease the likelihood of survival from serious illness." And it is the world's leading preventable cause of childhood blindness.
I have been debunking Greenpeace's unscientific opposition to Golden Rice since 2000 when the activist group claimed: "Greenpeace opposes golden rice because it has all the risks of any [genetically modified] crop." In my 2013 article, "Scientists Call Out Greenpeace for Killing and Blinding Kids," I hailed the blistering editorial in Science that ***** erted, "If ever there was a clear-cut cause for outrage, it is the concerted campaign by Greenpeace and other nongovernmental organizations, as well as by individuals, against Golden Rice."
In 2016, I reported the open letter by 100 ***** el Prize laureates calling on "Greenpeace to cease and desist in its campaign against Golden Rice specifically, and crops and foods improved through biotechnology in general." The laureates suggested that Greenpeace was committing a "crime against humanity." And as recently as 2024, I warned that Greenpeace's crusade against Golden Rice will continue to blind and kill children when reporting that the anti-technology activist group had persuaded a Philippine court to block local farmers from planting the grain.

Technology leaders who have taken the podium as graduation speakers of late may have figured out AI evangelizing isn't polling well with young professionals, and tweaked their messaging accordingly. But it turns out, AI isn't the only point of tension between high-powered speakers and graduates this commencement season.
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is the latest tech executive to get the cold shoulder from graduates this year. Members of Stanford's 2026 graduating class walked out of their ceremony on Sunday as Pichai, who holds a master's degree from the university, took the stage.
The walkouts were organized by the Stanford chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a nationwide network of student-led activist groups advocating for Palestine's liberation. In a statement published on Instagram, the chapter accused Google of allegedly collaborating with the Israeli government and companies like Palantir, the AI and ***** ytics firm that has inked contracts supporting the Israeli military and the Trump administration's immigration enforcement plan.
Activists have long criticized Google for Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract Israel signed with Google and Amazon in 2021, which grants the Israeli military access to sophisticated cloud computing and AI software. Google's leadership has even been the target of protests from the company's own employees, as multiple pro-Palestinian groups have organized in recent years.
When asked for comment, a Google spokesperson referred to Pichai's comments during his speech. Stanford University did not immediately reply to Fortune's request for comment.

Jane Fonda has urged entertainment industry leaders to do more to protect artists' "right to free expression".
The Oscar-winning actress took to the stage at the Rise Up, Sing Out concert held at The Town Hall in New York City on Sunday night.
The concert was organised by members of the Committee for the First Amendment - a collective of artists and cultural leaders who seek to "celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by our First Amendment - of speech, religion, press, ***** embly, and protest".
Addressing the crowd, Fonda claimed U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are "routinely violating" the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution "to silence artists".
"Shuttering institutions like the Kennedy Center, defunding museums and the National Endowment of the Arts, and banning books, cancelling TV hosts who speak out," she said. "It's really bad. And it's being allowed by cowardly corporations. I'm not gonna name names right now. But I am honoured now to pass the mic to artists and activists who continue to speak up and sing out so that we might be inspired to rise up. Showing up is an act of hope, and you all give me hope."
Fonda went on to argue that it doesn't matter whether someone sides with the Democratic or Republican party.

House Democrats are raising concerns about how race and jury selection may have impacted the guilty verdict in the Karmelo Anthony case, with several arguing the verdict highlights the racism they believe exists in the criminal justice system.
"A travesty, two lives ruined, and what struck me most is that you had an all-White jury," Rep. Christian Menefee, D-Texas, said when asked his thoughts on the guilty verdict. "You had preemptive strikes that were used in order to achieve an all-White jury."
After Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Tuesday for the stabbing and killing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track event, many activists and Democratic lawmakers have claimed the trial to be unfair and racist.
Karmelo Anthony Verdict Draws Anti-white Rage And Lies From Radical Dem Congresswoman, Angry Activists
Many are claiming the jurors were all White, and that this contributed to the rejection of Anthony's self-defense claim.