This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss. The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes. Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment. To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

The FBI arrested a suspected Chinese agent at Los Angeles International Airport after she allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's U.S.-based son, law enforcement sources told CBS News. CBS News was the first to report on the arrest of Wanying "Heather" Zhang, an Irvine, California, realtor, who was cuffed by federal agents on Sunday before she boarded a flight to Shanghai, China, from LAX, on a charge of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. It was not immediately clear if Zhang has an attorney. @adamyamaguchi

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Iran's Intelligence Ministry said on Saturday that 31 people had been arrested in Kerman province over alleged involvement in four organized networks it said were preparing to take part in nationwide protest calls and street unrest. The ministry said the groups, based in Sirjan, had been organized under names intended to appeal to teenagers and young people and had drawn up plans for participation in future nationwide calls for protests. It also accused members of making Molotov cocktails and tools for damaging surveillance cameras, and of involvement in protests during the nationwide protests in January. iranintl.com/en/202610037870