The United States has experienced more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, according to preliminary data from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The big picture: It's the highest number of antisemitic hate crimes, insults, bullying and vandalism ever recorded in any single-year period since ADL started tracking in 1979.
A year after presiding over the worst national security failure in Israel's history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn't close to losing power — he's racking up political and strategic wins that are emboldening him more than ever.
Why it matters: Netanyahu has defied all odds by clinging to power through the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks. He now has the political capital for negotiations that could set the country's next budget and allow him to continue to call the shots for at least another yearin the multi-front regional war Israel is fighting.
Former President Trump has referred to Venezuelan and Congolese migrants as criminals dozens of times since September 2023, an Axios analysis has found.
The big picture: In a 13-month span, Trump's speeches about migrants have become darker and apocalyptic with baseless claims the migrants have criminal records, are eating pets and could start "World War III."
Israeli airstrikes and ground operations ravaged Gaza the past year, destroying essential infrastructure and everyday life for Palestinians.
The big picture: As the war stretches on and expands to southern Lebanon, the humanitarian crisis is worsening in Gaza, where more than 41,600 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, according to local health officials.
The year of war that followed the terrorist attacks of Oct. 7 has shaped the views of a generation of young people, who now see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and America's role in it in starkly different ways than their elders.
Why it matters: "This new generation is going to go from campuses to the halls of government eventually," says Carmiel Arbit, senior fellow for Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council. "The events that followed Oct. 7 are going to have a real impact on their view of the world."
The whole world is falling in love with Moo Deng, a precocious 2-month-old pygmy hippo calf at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand.
State of play: If you can't stop consuming Moo Deng viral videos and memes, you don't have to travel halfway around the world to get your hippo fix in real life. Even though pygmy hippos are endangered, with fewer than 2,500 left in the wild, there are a few calves living in the U.S.
