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President Donald Trump gestures from the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)2025-05-05T14:51:05Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally whove returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda.The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release Monday that its also paying for travel assistance and that those people who use an app called CBP Home to tell the government that they plan to return home will be deprioritized for detention and removal by immigration enforcement. If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest. DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App, Secretary Kristi Noem said. President Donald Trump has made immigration enforcement and the mass deportation of immigrants in the U.S. illegally a centerpiece of his campaign, but that is a costly, resource-intensive endeavor. While the Republican administration is pushing Congress for a massive increase in resources for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department responsible for removing people from the country, its also pushing people in the country illegally to self-deport. REBECCA SANTANA Santana covers the Department of Homeland Security for The Associated Press. She has extensive experience reporting in such places as Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. twitter mailto

Federal Reserve board chairman Jerome Powell, left, speaks with IMF Economic Counsellor and Research Department Director Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas as they arrive for the plenary of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting, during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)2025-05-05T04:01:37Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Reserve will likely keep its key short-term interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, despite weeks of harsh criticism and demands from President Donald Trump that the Fed reduce borrowing costs. After causing a sharp drop in financial markets two weeks ago by saying he could fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump subsequently backed off and said he had no intention of doing so. Still, he and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have said the Fed should cut rates. They argue that inflation has steadily cooled and high borrowing costs are no longer needed to restrain price increases. The Fed sharply ramped up its short-term rate in 2022 and 2023 as pandemic-era inflation spiked. Separately, Elon Musk, the head of Trumps Department of Government Efficiency, last Wednesday suggested that DOGE should look more closely at the Feds spending on its facilities. The heightened scrutiny shows that even as the Trump administration backs off its threats to fire Powell, the Fed is still subject to unusually sharp political pressures, despite its status as an independent agency. Even so, the Fed will almost certainly leave its key rate unchanged at about 4.3% when it meets Tuesday and Wednesday. Powell and many of the other 18 officials that sit on the Feds rate-setting committee have said they want to see how Trumps tariffs affect the economy before making any moves. Trump, however, on Friday said on the social media platform Truth Social that there is NO INFLATION and claimed that grocery and egg prices have fallen, and that gas has dropped to $1.98 a gallon. Thats not entirely true: Grocery prices have jumped 0.5% in two of the past three months and are up 2.4% from a year ago. Gas and oil prices have declined gas costs are down 10% from a year ago continuing a longer-running trend that has continued in part because of fears the economy will weaken. Still, AAA says gas prices nationwide average $3.18 a gallon. Inflation did drop noticeably in March, an encouraging sign, though in the first three months of the year it was 3.6%, according to the Feds preferred gauge, well above its 2% target. Without tariffs, economists say its possible the Fed would soon reduce its benchmark rate, because it is currently at a level intended to slow borrowing and spending and cool inflation. Yet the Fed cant now cut rates with Trumps broad tariffs likely to raise prices in the coming months. Vincent Reinhart, chief economist at BNY, said that the Fed is scarred by what happened in 2021, when prices rose amid supply snarls and Powell and other Fed officials said the increase would likely be transitory. Instead, inflation soared to a peak of 9.1% in June 2022. This time they will be more cautious, he said. Thats a Fed that is going to have to wait for evidence and be slow to adjust on that evidence, Reinhart said. Plus, Trumps badgering of Powell makes it harder for the Fed chair to cut rates because doing so anytime soon would be seen as knuckling under to the White House, said Preston Mui, an economist at Employ America. You could imagine a world where there isnt pressure from the Trump administration and they cut rates ... sooner, because they feel comfortable making the argument that theyre doing so because of the data, he said.For his part, Powell said last month that tariffs would likely push up inflation and slow the economy, a tricky combination for the Fed. The central bank would typically raise rates or at least keep them elevated to fight inflation, while it would cut them to spur the economy if unemployment rose. Powell has said that the impact of the tariffs on inflation could be temporary a one-time price increase but most recently said it could also be more persistent. That suggests that Powell will want to wait, potentially for months, to ensure tariffs dont sustainably raise inflation before considering a rate cut. Some economists forecast the Fed wont cut rates until its September meeting, or even later. Yet Fed officials could move sooner if the tariffs hit the economy hard enough to cause layoffs and push up unemployment. Wall Street investors appear to expect such an outcome they project that the first cut will occur in July, according to futures pricing. Separately, Musk criticized the Fed Wednesday for spending $2.5 billion on an extensive renovation of two of its buildings in Washington, D.C. Since at the end of the day, this is all taxpayer money, we should certainly look to see if indeed the Federal Reserve is spending $2.5 billion on their interior designer, Musk said. Thats an eyebrow raiser.Fed officials acknowledge that the cost of the renovations have risen as prices for building materials and labor have spiked amid the post-pandemic inflation. And former Fed officials, speaking on background, say that local regulations forced the Fed to do more of the expansion underground, rather than making the buildings taller, which added to the cost. Meanwhile, Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor and a potential candidate to replace Powell as chair when Powells term expires next year, said recently that the Fed has attracted greater scrutiny because of its failure to keep prices in check. The Feds current wounds are largely self-inflicted, he said in a speech during an International Monetary Fund conference in late April, in which he also slammed the Fed for participating in a global forum on climate change. A strategic reset is necessary to mitigate losses of credibility, changes in standing, and most important, worse economic outcomes for our fellow citizens.Powell, for his part, said last month that Fed independence is very widely understood and supported in Washington, in Congress, where it really matters. CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Rugaber has covered the Federal Reserve and the U.S. economy for the AP for 16 years. He is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb award for business reporting. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01359-7Survey of thousands of young people shows that those with mental health conditions spend more time on social-networking sites but are less happy with their online experience than their peers.

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Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of its flights, including those for deportation, 404 Media has learned.The data, which the hackers contacted 404 Media and other journalists about unprompted, could provide granular insight into who exactly has been deported on GlobalX flights, when, and to where, with GlobalX being the charter company that facilitated the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador.Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge's order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans, a defacement message posted to GlobalXs website reads. Anonymous, well-known for its use of the Guy Fawkes mask, is an umbrella some hackers operate under when performing what they see as hacktivism.The hacker says the data includes flight records and passenger lists. The hacker sent 404 Media a copy of the data, which is sorted into folders dated everyday from January 19 through May 1.Do you know anything else about this incident? We would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message Joseph securely on Signal at signalaccount.05 or send an email to joseph@404media.co. You can Signal Jason at jason.404 or email jason@404media.co.404 Media cross-checked known information about ICE deportation flights that come from official and confirmable sources with information contained on the flight manifests and flight details obtained by the hacker. Information about Kilmar Abrego Garcias flight is in the hacked data.For example, the hackers obtained what appears to be detailed flight information about GlobalX flights 6143, 6145, and 6122 that left from Harlingen, Texass Valley International Airport on March 15. These flights are at the center of a class-action lawsuit filed by five pseudonymous Venezuelan men against the Trump administration (which eventually went to the Supreme Court) and which took off during and immediately following a court proceeding in which their lawyers were trying to get a restraining order to prevent the flights from taking off.During a District Court proceeding in Washington D.C., the federal government argued that it had no flight information to share with the court: the Government surprisingly represented that it still had no flight details to share, during the hearing, the judges opinion in that case reads. When pressed, Government counsel stated that the operational details he had learned during the recess raised potential national security issues, so they could not be shared while the public and press listened.Image: A screenshot of the defacement.Although the Government has refused to provide the particular details, all evidence suggests that during the short window that the Court was adjourned, two removal flights took off from Harlingenone around 5:25 pm and the other at about 5:45 pm, court records say, noting that these were GlobalX flights 6143 and 6145; a third referenced flight left immediately following the hearing. These details closely match the timing of the flights and other details in the hacked data.Also included in the data is a record mentioning the name Heymar Padilla Moyetones, a 24-year-old woman who was flown from Texas to Honduras, then from Honduras to El Salvador by mistake, and then was returned to Texas. The data obtained by the hackers says that GlobalX flew her from Valley International Airport in Texas to Honduras on March 15 on Flight 6143, then was flown from Comayagua International Airport in Honduras to El Salvador International on flight 6144 later that day. She then was flown directly from El Salvador International back to Valley International Airport in Texas on March 15. The information in the hacked data lines up with what Moyetones told NBC.404 Media was also able to cross-check the names on larger published lists of people who have previously been reported to be deported, finding their names in the hacked data with the specific flights that they were purportedly on.404 Media is not publishing the full list of passengers at this time as we work to verify which passengers were specifically on deportation flights and to protect peoples privacy because the manifests contain personally sensitive information like passport details. We will continue to analyze the data for information in the public interest and explore what were able to publish.Neither GlobalX nor ICE responded to requests for comment.The Trump administration contracts with a company called CSI Aviation as part of its deportation flights. On February 28, ICE posted a notice saying it would award $128 million to the company for its work. In turn, CSI Aviation subcontracts some of its work to GlobalX, which said it expects to make $65 million per year from the deal. In 2024, 74 percent of ICEs more than 1,500 removal flights were on GlobalX plans, the Project on Government Oversight reported in March.ProPublica previously reported on what it is like for flight attendants working on GlobalX, also known as Global Crossing Airlines. Sources in that piece said they were worried what would happen in an emergency, in part because the passengers were shackled.They never taught us anything regarding the immigration flights, ProPublica quoted one flight attendant as saying. They didnt tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.The hacker told 404 Media they managed to find a token belonging to a GlobalX developer. They then used that to find access and secret keys for GlobalXs AWS instances which contained the data. They said they also sent a copy of the defacement message to GlobalXs employees, and then deleted company data. 404 Media does not know the identity of the hacker, and the hacker said they sent the data to other journalistsThe hacker said they also sent the message to GlobalX pilots and crew members through the companys NAVBLUE account. NAVBLUE is a flight operations platform made by Airbus which pilots use for flight planning, among other things.404 Media was unable to verify whether pilots or crew members received this message. But the hacker provided screenshots which appear to show them logged into the platform. They also provided a screenshot purporting to show access to GlobalXs GitHub.The website defacement quotes a May 1 ruling from US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez which said that the president unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act and blocked the administration from deporting more alleged Venezuelan gang members without due process.The defacement adds: You lose again Donnie.

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by ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published. ProPublica on Monday won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for public service for the series Life of the Mother, which the judges described as urgent reporting about pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgently needed care for fear of violating vague life of the mother exceptions in states with strict abortion laws. The prize is given to the staff of a news organization that performed meritorious public service. This is the second consecutive year the organization was awarded the distinction. It is the eighth Pulitzer for ProPublica.Americas Mental Barrier, an examination of how insurance companies interfere with access to necessary mental health care across the United States, was named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category. In addition to the Pulitzer winners, the designation is ProPublicas 12th Pulitzer finalist in 17 years.The Life of the Mother series, which ProPublica continues to pursue, is a landmark investigation into the unexamined, irreversible consequences of state abortion bans. Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Cassandra Jaramillo mined hospital and death records in states whose strict abortion bans threatened physicians with prosecution. From the tragic death of Amber Thurman in Georgia to gutting accounts of women denied lifesaving miscarriage care in Texas, the investigations illuminated the profound human cost of these policies. They exposed the chilling impact on medical professionals forced to choose between their oath and the law, the anguish faced by families and the broader erosion of womens health and autonomy. Stacy Kranitzs immersive photo essay, The Year After a Denied Abortion, documented the unraveling of a Tennessee family after a denied abortion for a life-threatening pregnancy, especially in a state with meager support for poor mothers. The piece, reported with Surana, helped audiences see, feel and understand how decisions made by those in power impact families.These stories ignited outrage around the country, became talking points during the presidential election and inspired action. Lawmakers have filed more than a dozen bills to expand abortion access in at least seven states.Last week, the Texas Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 31, called The Life of the Mother Act, which aims to prevent maternal deaths under the states strict abortion ban by making clear that a life-threatening medical emergency doesnt need to be imminent for doctors to follow their medical standards and intervene to terminate pregnancies. The bill represents a significant reversal for Republican leaders who had for years insisted no changes were needed. It was written by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, the author of the original ban who initially said that exceptions for medical emergencies were plenty clear. The bill stops short of removing what doctors say are the bans biggest impediments to care, including its threat of major criminal penalties for medical professionals, and it doesnt expand abortion access to cases of fetal anomalies, rape or incest. Sen. Carol Alvarado, the Democratic lawmaker who co-authored the bill, said that its limits were a real hard pill to swallow but that it could still make a difference. I believe this bill will save lives, she said.A U.S. Senate Finance Committee investigation, launched in response to our reporting, released a 29-page report in December 2024 that found that hospitals are providing minimal guidance to doctors navigating abortion restrictions, often leaving them without clear protocols in life-or-death situations.A host of ProPublicans helped elevate this project, including Alexandra Zayas, Ziva Branstetter, Andrea Wise, Tracy Weber, Boyzell Hosey, Mariam Elba, Robin Fields, Anna Donlan, Allen Tan, Kirsten Berg, Jeff Ernsthausen, Doris Burke, Lexi Churchill, Andrea Suozzo, Audrey Dutton, Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Amy Yurkanin, Emily Goldstein, Diego Sorbara, Samantha Cooney, Grace Palmieri, Colleen Barry, Kassie Navarro, Sarah Childress and Sophia Kovach.We knew early that abortion bans were likely to have deadly consequences for women, and not just those seeking abortions, said Weber, ProPublicas managing editor for the national staff. Our reporters and their editor, Alex Zayas, were endlessly creative, dogged, humane and careful in surfacing the deaths of these women when the states themselves were not looking. We are so honored that the Pulitzer Board has recognized their efforts.In the series honored as a Pulitzer finalist in explanatory reporting, reporters Annie Waldman, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau and Maya Miller revealed how health insurers are engaging in aggressive tactics that push therapists out of networks; deploying an algorithmic system to limit coverage; creating ghost networks; cutting access to treatment for children with autism; relying on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts; and using patients progress to justify denials.The reporters crowdsourced thousands of tips; obtained explosive internal company documents; reviewed thousands of pages of lawsuit filings to identify the doctors doling out denials; and included shattering and intimate stories of patients for whom care was prematurely cut off, leading to devastating consequences. In September 2024, the Biden administration announced that it had finalized new regulations to strengthen protections for mental health care coverage and hold insurance companies accountable for unlawfully denying it. In December 2024, following several of ProPublicas stories, U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy, Tina Smith and Ben Ray Lujn reintroduced the Parity Enforcement Act to better hold insurance companies accountable by providing the U.S. Department of Labor the authority to impose civil monetary penalties for violations of the mental health parity law. The following month, the Labor Department found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, findings that mirrored ProPublicas investigation. The department also began investigating the oversight and management of doctors hired by insurers who repeatedly denied mental health coverage for patients. Steve Mills, Mara Shalhoup, Charles Ornstein, Ariana Tobin, Zisiga Mukulu, Tony Luong, Alex Bandoni, Agnel Philip, Vanessa Saba, Chris Morran, Cengiz Yar, Isabelle Yan, Lena Groeger, Zayas, Weber, Berg, Ernsthausen, Tan, Goldstein, Palmieri, Sorbara, Wise, Barry, Cooney and Paige Pfleger of WPLN/Nashville Public Radio contributed to the series. Some of the pieces were published in collaboration with NPR.People who need mental health care often cannot get it. It doesnt matter if you are rich or poor, insured or uninsured, the lack of access is widely felt, said Ornstein, ProPublicas managing editor for local. So many people on our staff wanted to be a part of this project. Through immersive storytelling and investigative digging, they adeptly documented the causes of the crisis, those responsible and the regulators who have stood by and done little to fix it.ProPublica received Pulitzers for public service in 2024, national reporting in 2020, feature writing in 2019, public service in 2017, explanatory reporting in 2016, national reporting in 2011 and investigative reporting in 2010. Local Reporting Network partner Anchorage Daily News won the Pulitzer for public service in 2020.

The New Yorker won three Pulitzers, and ProPublica was given the public service award for its coverage of the deadly consequences of state abortion bans across the country.

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A person walks into the One Franklin Square Building, home of The Washington Post newspaper, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)2025-05-05T19:30:12Z NEW YORK (AP) The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and the New Yorker three on Monday for journalism in 2024 that touched on topics like the fentanyl crisis, the U.S. military and last summers assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.The Pulitzers prestigious public service medal went to ProPublica for the second straight year. Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz were honored for reporting on pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgent care in states with strict abortion laws.The Washington Post won for urgent and illuminating breaking news coverage of the Trump assassination attempt. The Pultizers honored Ann Telnaes, who quit the Post in January after the news outlet refused to run her editorial cartoon lampooning tech chiefs including Post owner Jeff Bezos cozying up to Trump. The Pulitzers honored the best in journalism from 2024 in 15 categories, along with eight arts categories including books, music and theater. The public service winner receives a gold medal. All other winners receive $15,000.The Times Azam Ahmed and Christina Goldbaum and contributing writer Matthieu Aikins won an explanatory reporting prize for examining U.S. policy failures in Afghanistan. The newspapers Doug Mills won in breaking news photography for his images of the assassination attempt. Declan Walsh and the Times staff won for an investigation into the Sudan conflict. Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher won in local reporting, an award shared by the Times and The Baltimore Banner, for reporting on that citys fentanyl crisis. The New Yorkers Mosab Abu Toha won for his commentaries on Gaza. The magazine also won for its In the Dark podcast about the killing of Iraqi civilians by the U.S. military and in feature photography for Moises Samans pictures of the Sednaya prison in Syria.___David Bauder covers the intersection of media and entertainment for The Associated Press. DAVID BAUDER Bauder is the APs national media writer, covering the intersection of news, politics and entertainment. He is based in New York. twitter mailto

A 25-year old hacker has agreed to plead guilty to hacking the Disney Corporation by compromising a tool for AI-generating art. According to a Department of Justice press release, the hacker, Ryan Mitchell Krameraka NullBulge will admit to two felony charges related to the offense.As we reported last year, NullBulge specifically targeted AI users by compromising ComfyUI, a very popular graphical user interface for the open-weights AI image generator Stable Diffusion thats distributed on Github. The extension contained a trojan horse that allowed Kramer to access the computer of whoever used it, including one Disney employee.By leveraging access to that employees computer, Kramer was able to access the companys Slack and download 1.1 terabytes of data. Kramer pinged the employee in July of 2024 and, using the alias NullBulge, threatened to leak all the personal information in the data he obtained from Disney. The employee didnt respond and Kramer followed through with the threat and published the information.At the time, NullBulge said he targeted ComfyUI as an ideological protest against AI-generated art. AI-generated artwork is detrimental to the creative industry and should be discouraged, the hacker said on the Github for the ComfyUI extension. Maybe check us out, and maybe think twice about releasing ai tools on such a weakly secured account.According to security researchers at vpnMentor, NullBulges version of the ComfyUI extension compromised crypto wallets, flooded users systems with malware, and stole their personal data. Researchers at SentinelOne dug a little more into the persona and uncovered a long history of NullBulge making money from hacking.Kramers current plea deal is related only to the Disney hack. Hes been charged with two felony counts, according to the Department of Justice: one count of accessing a computer and obtaining information and one count of threatening to damage a protected computer. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.Kramers legal troubles might not be over. Kramer admitted in his plea agreement that, in addition to the victim, at least two other victims downloaded Kramers malicious file, and that Kramer was able to gain unauthorized access to their computers and accounts, the Department of Justice said in its press release. The FBI is investigating this matter.

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WASHINGTONVowing to restore and revitalize the facilities as a symbol of law, order, and justice, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. government Monday to reopen Joann Fabrics and Crafts stores as federal prisons.I am directing the Bureau of Prisons to use all 850 Joann locations to house Americas most ruthless and violent Offenders, Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, stating that officials had already begun investigating how to relocate and imprison violent and repeat criminals within the shuttered hobby stores long, towering aisles filled with endless yarn, ribbon, and candles. Joanns will be a maximum security prison, with Rapists and Murderers chained to sewing machines and oversized looms, or locked inside Joanns custom craft corner. Many years ago, Americans used to fear Joanns handmade happiness. And soon, these violent criminals and thugs will know why! Trump added that inmates housed at Joann Fabrics would be forced, just like notorious criminals such as Al Capone once were, to teach macram classes to shoppers on Saturday mornings.The post Trump Vows To Reopen Joann Fabrics As Prison appeared first on The Onion.

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Israeli security forces inspect the site where the Israeli military said a projectile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels landed in the area of Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)2025-05-05T18:08:51Z JERUSALEM (AP) Israels military targeted Houthi rebels in Yemens Red Sea city of Hodeida with a punishing round of airstrikes, a day after the Iranian-backed rebels launched a missile that hit Israels main airport.The rebels media office said at least six strikes hit the crucial Hodeida port Monday afternoon. Other strikes hit a cement factory in the Bajil district in Hodeida province, the rebels said. The Israeli military said more than 20 Israeli fighter jets took part in the operation, dropping more than 50 munitions on dozens of targets. On Sunday, the Houthis launched a missile from Yemen that struck an access road near Israels main airport, briefly halting flights and commuter traffic. Four people were lightly injured. It was the first time a missile struck the grounds of Israels airport since the start of the war. The Houthis claimed that the strikes were a joint Israeli-American operation. However, a U.S. defense official said U.S. forces did not participate in the Israeli strikes on Yemen on Monday. The strikes were not part of Operation Rough Rider, which is the ongoing U.S. military operation against the Houthis in Yemen to prevent them from targeting ships in the Red Sea that started March 15. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. Separately, the U.S. military launched multiple strikes Monday on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, another U.S. official said. That official also spoke on condition of anonymity, to discuss military operations. The Houthi-run health ministry said at least 21 people were wounded in the Israeli strikes on the Bajil cement factory. Nasruddin Amer, head of the Houthi media office, said the Israeli strikes wont deter the rebels, vowing that they will respond to the attack.The aggressive Zionist-American raids on civilian facilities will not affect our military operations against the Zionist enemy entity, he said in a social media post. He said the Houthis will escalate their attacks and wont stop targeting shipping routes and Israel until it stops the war in Gaza.The Houthis have targeted Israel throughout the war in solidarity with Palestinians, raising their profile at home and internationally as the last member of Irans self-described Axis of Resistance capable of launching regular attacks on Israel. The U.S. military under President Donald Trump has launched an intensified campaign of daily airstrikes targeting the Houthis since March 15.Houthi rebels have fired at Israel since the war with Gaza began on Oct. 7, 2023. The missiles have mostly been intercepted, although some have penetrated Israels missile defense systems, causing damage. Israel has struck back against the rebels in Yemen. The Israeli military said it targeted the Hodeida port on Monday because Houthi rebels were using it to receive weapons and military equipment from Iran. Rebel-held Hodeida, about 145 kilometers (90 miles) southwest of the capital of Sanaa, has been key for food shipments into Yemen as its decade-long war has gone on. Israel has struck Yemen, and specifically the port city of Hodeida, multiple times before. Israel previously struck Hodeida and its oil infrastructure in July after a Houthi drone attack killed one person and wounded 10 in Tel Aviv. In September, Israel struck Hodeida again, killing at least four people after a rebel missile targeted Israels Ben Gurion airport as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was arriving back to the country. In December, Israeli strikes killed at least nine people in Hodeida. The Houthis have launched multiple missiles towards Israel in the past week. The attack on Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday came hours before Israeli Cabinet ministers voted to expand the war in Gaza, including to seize the Gaza Strip and to stay in the Palestinian territory for an unspecified amount of time. While air traffic resumed after an hour, the attack could lead to cancellations of many airlines, which had recently resumed flights to Israel. -Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Tara Copp and Lolita Baldor contributed from Washington, DC. MELANIE LIDMAN Lidman is an Associated Press reporter based in Tel Aviv, Israel. SAMY MAGDY Magdy is a Middle East reporter for The Associated Press, based in Cairo. He focuses on conflict, migration and human rights abuses. twitter facebook mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site