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The Nixon Tapes, Unlocked (opens the original)
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Late on the afternoon of April 19, 1971, Richard Nixon picked up the White House telephone and told his deputy attorney general, Richard Kleindienst, to kill a federal antitrust case against the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT). “The IT&T thing,” he said, “stay the hell out of it. Is that clear? That’s an order.” When Kleindienst tried to explain the legal complexities, Nixon cut him off: “I know all the legal things, Dick. You don’t have to spell out the legal things.” Th
My Husband Did Nothing Wrong. The Internet Punished Him Anyway. (opens the original)
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Have you ever scrolled through Instagram, stopped on a post for a second and thought “What an AWFUL person,” then gone about your day?Most of us have. Two people caught on a kiss cam at a concert get accused of being cheaters. A father runs a marathon a few months after the deaths of his children and the internet later decides it’s proof he killed them. We conclude that a couple is miserable or a mother is negligent or a w
Douglas Murray: Israel Is Winning (opens the original)
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Israel averted tragedy Wednesday morning when passengers aboard a plane bound for Tel Aviv thwarted an attempted hijacking by the co-pilot, a suspected terrorist. In an exclusive interview with The Free Press, one of those passengers, Yaniv Hayoun, describes how he stormed the cockpit.The attempted hijacking is a reminder that Israel’s enemies don’t rest and never fail to surprise. But as the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks approaches, Douglas Murray writes to remind us how often, and
‘I Ran Toward the Cockpit’: An Exclusive Interview with the Israeli Dad Who Stopped a Hijacking (opens the original)
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Around 8:20 a.m. local time on Wednesday morning, a flight bound from Dubai to Tel Aviv sent out an emergency signal, alerting Israeli air traffic controllers to an attempted hijacking. One of the co-pilots had repeatedly stabbed the other with a knife, before seizing control of the cockpit. Within two minutes, the plane had plummeted more than 17,000 feet, careening off course toward Saudi Arabia. About 180 people were on board.Moments later, several passengers and crewmembers stormed the cockp
How Ordinary Israelis Foiled a Hijacking (opens the original)
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It’s Wednesday, September 30, and for the first time in over 20 years, someone has tried to hijack a plane bound for Israel. Miraculously, the attacker, an Omani pilot, was overpowered before he could seemingly crash the aircraft.The entire region held its breath as the morning Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv sent an emergency signal, transmitted the hijack code and appeared to veer off course over Saudi Arabia. The region then exhaled, almost with a chuckle, when early reports blamed a s
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