A bombshell report from The Intercept revealed that United Airlines is resuming shipments of military equipment to Israel aboard civilian passenger flights, sparking several blistering condemnations from prominent figures.

United previously used passenger flights to transfer military cargo to Israel between July 2025 and Feb. 27 of this year, just one day before President Donald Trump launched his deeply unpopular war against Iran, according to a new report jointly produced by Movement Research Unit, Palestinian Youth Movement, People’s Embargo for Palestine and the Democratic Socialists of America.

The new development, uncovered by The Intercept after reviewing “shipping data” and other documents, appears to be, the outlet noted, a “return to status quo for United.”

“We all get on our flights and have to worry about taking too much water in our water bottles, and meanwhile, there are ammunition handling systems and F-35 parts and tank sites that are being transported on these flights, without us actually knowing,” said Movement Research investigator Abdullah, speaking with The Intercept on the condition that only his first name be used “due to the sensitive nature of his work.”

Craig Mokhiber, a former senior United Nations official and human rights lawyer, was taken aback by the report’s findings.

“United Airlines has not only been shipping weapons components to the Israeli regime during the ongoing genocide in Palestine (itself the crime of complicity under the Genocide Convention), but it has been doing so by hiding them in the cargo of passenger planes filled with unknowing civilians,” Mokhiber wrote in a statement Saturday published on social media.

“United Airlines is therefore using its passengers as human shields to unlawfully arm the Israeli regime. These arms onboard constitute an ‘effective contribution to military action’ under [international humanitarian law], violating the Geneva conventions, and potentially making these planes ‘military objectives’ under the law, eroding or stripping their protected status, and putting every passenger at risk.”

Others, like journalist and activist Ali Abunimah, took a jab at United by mocking its slogan, “Fly the Friendly Skies,” with his own revised version: “Come Fly the Deadly Skies,” he wrote in a social media post on X.

And Natali Morris, journalist and former CBS News reporter, questioned United’s recently increased bag fees given its presumably lucrative contracts to ship military equipment overseas.

“If they're taking military contracts to ship weapons to the [Israel Defense Force], why do we have to pay $50 per bag?” she wrote in a social media post on X.

When contacted for comment, a United spokesperson told Raw Story that the company had “nothing to share” regarding The Intercept’s report and the underlying allegations.

Donald Trump is finally opening up his war chest for Republicans in tight midterm races — but one embattled senator is conspicuously being left empty-handed.

According to The Washington Sun, Trump reported his "biggest spend of the cycle" over the weekend, funneling $21 million to candidates in competitive races as the midterms close in. Financial disclosures filed Sept. 10-12 show a new group, No Going Back PAC Inc. — formed Sept. 1 under Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc. — dropped $6.7 million in Ohio, $3.7 million in Michigan, $1.7 million in New Hampshire and $779,000 in Georgia, mostly on TV ads and mailers hammering Democrats. That's on top of the $10 million MAGA Inc. already sent to Texas to boost Senate nominee Ken Paxton.

Missing from the list entirely: Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who's fighting for her political life in a toss-up race and has yet to see a dime from Trump's operation.

According to the report, "As the dust settles from a flurry of disclosures in the first two weeks of September, [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune’s political committee has now entered every major battleground Senate race, while Trump has yet to report dropping significant money in Maine."

Trump and Collins have had a "famously rocky relationship," but he did throw his weight behind her reelection back in June, telling a reporter in the Oval Office: "She does, because she's a sane woman. She's not my best friend at all. These guys are. I get along, but she is a sane person, and she is a person that never missed a vote in many years."

Since then, Collins has kept her distance from some of Trump's most unpopular moves in her state, "criticizing his trade war" with Canada and a fatal shooting involving a federal immigration agent in Maine this July.

According to a poll released by CNN last week, Collin's Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, is leading 48 percent to 45 percent, despite his late entry in the race after troubled Democrat nominee Graham Platner bowed out.

President Donald Trump announced on social media Monday that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to stop striking each other's energy infrastructure.

"Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise!" Trump wrote in the post, signed "President DJT."

He did not detail how or when the arrangement was reached, who brokered it or what mechanism would enforce it, and he also claimed that conflict – and not his war in Iran – was to blame for rising global fuel costs.

"The World's Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran," he posted.

Energy infrastructure has been a central target in the Russia-Ukraine war for years, with both sides accused of striking oil refineries, power plants, and fuel depots as a means of degrading the other's economy and military logistics.

Ukraine has increasingly targeted Russian refineries with long-range drone strikes, a campaign Kyiv has credited with disrupting Russian fuel supplies, while Russia has repeatedly bombarded Ukraine's power grid, particularly ahead of winter.

Neither the Kremlin nor Ukrainian officials had publicly confirmed Trump's characterization of a mutual energy-target truce.

Trump's claim comes as crude oil prices have climbed above $100 a barrel amid intensifying conflict in the region, which has added to inflationary pressure in the U.S. and complicated the White House's economic messaging ahead of the midterms.