The NYPD is investigating two recent Israeli flag thefts in Manhattan as hate crimes amid pro-Palestinian protests over the Gaza conflict continue to grip the city, officials said Friday.

A Senate hearing highlights the dangers of bogus, artificial intelligence materials in elections. A bill was introduced in 2023, but the urgency is now.

Several British men were charged under a new national security law for supporting Russia by carrying out an arson attack on a Ukraine-linked business. The men were charged with offenses “in order to benefit Russia” by conducting “hostile activity in the UK,” according to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will resume his public duties next week following treatment for cancer. One of his first major engagements will be hosting a state visit by the emperor and empress of Japan, who will visit the U.K. in June.

Donald Trump’s defense team attacked the credibility of prosecutors’ first witness in his hush money case on Friday, seeking to discredit testimony detailing a scheme to bury negative stories to protect the Republican’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel for talks Friday seeking to push through a cease-fire agreement with Hamas and avert an Israeli offensive on Gaza’s town of Rafah — on the border with Egypt — which it warned could ruin regional stability, officials said.

The UK will spend at least $6.5M to improve road safety near two bases hosting the U.S. Air Force. The effort comes after an American driver hit and killed a British motorcyclist outside RAF Croughton in 2019, prompting the country’s transport secretary to launch a review of road safety in the area.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group left Middle East waters and arrived in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Friday, on the heels of a Pentagon announcement that construction of a humanitarian sea corridor into Gaza is underway.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators want universities to cut their investments in everything tied to Israel and weapons that fuel the war in Gaza. But university administrators and lawmakers have for decades rejected the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel, viewing it as antisemitic.

Ukraine’s agriculture minister became the first cabinet member under Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency to be detained in a crackdown on corruption demanded by allies as a condition for aid in Kyiv’s war against Russia.