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by AFP teams in Gaza with Cyril Julien in Jerusalem

An Israeli air strike killed a journalist working with Al Jazeera on Monday and the military issued fresh calls to evacuate parts of Gaza's north, as Israel pressed its renewed bombardment and ground operations in the Palestinian territory.

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that the number of wounded in a Russian strike on the city of Sumy Monday rose to almost 90 people, including 17 children.

The strike hit the day Russia is holding talks with the US in Saudi Arabia on a potential ceasefire.

by David SALAZAR

Kidnapped from his family as an infant, then raised by a drug lord before ending up in a Colombian zoo, Yoko the chimpanzee has lived the last two years of his life alone.

A law firm hired by Caracas filed a petition in El Salvador's Supreme Court Monday for the liberation of dozens of the 238 Venezuelans deported from the United States to a notoriously harsh prison in the Central American country.

US President Donald Trump invoked rarely-used wartime legislation to fly the men to El Salvador on March 16, alleging they were members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, which their families and lawyers deny.

President Donald Trump is defending his decision to send a delegation to Greenland once again — but the Greenlandic government put out a statement smacking down his reasoning.

With an administration party including Second Lady Usha Vance set to visit the island territory, Trump told reporters that “People from Greenland are asking us to go there,” and that "officials" from Greenland requested the visit, according to Politico.

The fallout from The Atlantic’s stunning report that revealed top secret war plans were shared with a reporter in a Signal group chat is just beginning but the calls for Pete Hegseth to resign are already starting to flow in.

That includes conservative New York Times columnist David French, who told readers in an opinion piece on Monday that as a result of the ordeal, the Pentagon chief has “blown his credibility as a military leader.”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has no one to blame but himself for the serious leak of highly classified military information, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said on CNN's "OutFront" — and he has to acknowledge the buck stops with him.

The Trump White House was plunged into turmoil and finger-pointing on Monday after it was revealed that Hegseth disclosed specific plans detailing where and how the U.S. could initiate and attack in a group chat on Signal that included not only a number of national security officials who should know better, but a reporter as well.

Far-right legal activist Mike Davis told Steve Bannon on his "War Room" show that Republican lawmakers need to start threatening judges who block President Donald Trump from carrying out his policies.

"It's really important that the House and Senate step up and rein in these activist judges who are sabotaging the president's Article II executive powers," said Davis, a former law clerk for now-Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. "They think they're the last line of resistance because they lost the election."

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth found himself under fire on social media as he lashed out at a journalist who appeared to be inadvertently included in a private group chat on the app Signal — and was privy to top-secret war plans.

On March 15, just hours before the U.S. launched a series of strikes, Hegseth shared operational details in a Signal group chat that mistakenly included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Goldberg wrote Monday. The leaked information contained operational details of upcoming strikes on Yemen, specifics on targets, weapons to be deployed and the sequence of attacks.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth broke his silence hours after a bombshell report in The Atlantic revealed that he and other top-level Trump administration officials shared classified information via a Signal group chat that included a reporter.

“Nobody was texting war plans,” Hegseth told reporters outside Joint Base Pearl Habor-Hickam, where he used his first public comments since the colossal error broke to slam the story’s author, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) is aghast at the Trump administration's latest national security scandal — and demanded answers Monday on CNN.

An explosive report on Monday revealed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared highly classified war strategies in an unsecured Signal group chat that includedJeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, along with several other high-ranking members of the Trump administration and the national security apparatus, none of whom apparently saw any issue with the breach of that information.

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) sparked a round of criticism in his home district after he skipped a town hall and instead sent a staffer to deliver donuts – a stunt which further generated backlash when the MAGA lawmaker posted a video seeming to mock the snubbed attendees.

And Banks doubled down on social media.

Another Tesla dealership found itself caught in the crossfire amid mounting backlash to tech billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the federal government with his Department of Government Efficiency.

Several "incendiary" devices were discovered at a Tesla dealership in northern Austin, Texas, police said, according to the New York Post. The find prompted a bomb squad unit to race to the building. Investigators determined the devices were functional and whisked them away.