Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially recognized the Armenian Genocide during an interview Tuesday on the Patrick Bet-David Podcast—marking a dramatic reversal of decades-long Israeli policy. The acknowledgment aligns Israel with the United States and numerous Western nations that have already recognized the mass killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide.
Several employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were placed on administrative leave Tuesday after signing an open letter criticizing the agency's leadership under President Donald Trump. The letter, posted on the website of non-profit group Stand Up for Science, accused Trump-appointed officials of inexperience and warned Congress of a potential disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.