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Israeli ultranationalists chant racist slogans during Jerusalem Day march | Israel-Palestine conflict News

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Published On 14 May 2026
Israeli ultranationalists marching through Jerusalem’s Old City chanted “Death to Arabs” and “May your villages burn” during the annual Jerusalem Day parade, as many Palestinian residents stayed indoors and shuttered their shops.
Tens of thousands of Israelis – many of them teenagers and young adults – take part each year in the march, which Israeli authorities say celebrates the “reunification” of Jerusalem after Israel captured East Jerusalem during the 1967 war.
The annexation of East Jerusalem, home to a predominantly Palestinian population, was illegal under international law, according to the United Nations.
Over the years, the march has frequently descended into violence, with groups of mainly young ultranationalists targeting Palestinians with racist chants, intimidation and physical assaults. This year’s event took place against the backdrop of Israel’s war with Iran and a so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza, marked by near-daily violations by Israeli forces.
By late morning, most Palestinian shopkeepers in the Old City had pulled down their metal shutters and deserted the narrow stone alleyways. Some Israeli marchers banged on the closed shutters as they passed, while others clapped rhythmically and chanted.
Authorities at times order Palestinian businesses to close during the march, which culminates at the Western Wall, a Jewish holy site.
A small number of Palestinian-owned shops remained open under the protection of activists from Standing Together, an Israeli-Palestinian grassroots movement that deployed volunteers across the Old City to try to shield residents and businesses from harassment.
“Our presence is to just protect people from being attacked, places from being vandalised. And we try to de-escalate this day,” said Rula Daoud, the group’s co-director, who noted that the march was becoming more violent every year. She accused Israeli police of failing to intervene to curb the abuses.
“This day, thousands of basically settlers and right-wing fascist young and older people will be roaming the streets chanting very racist things, trying to destroy places owned by Palestinians and just terrorising the whole place,” she said.
Journalists covering the march also faced hostility, with some reporters shoved and blocked from filming by participants, according to local media.

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Fugitive allegedly killed punk rock singer roommate, caught after 30 years

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May 14, 2026
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A Michigan man on the run for over three decades after allegedly killing his punk-rock singer roommate has been captured, officials said.
Richard Werstine, who also went by the name Joseph Alan Stavros, 56, was arrested in Panama City, Panama, in April, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a news release.
Werstine was sought by authorities for the alleged murder of his roommate, 23-year-old Rodney Barger, in Detroit on Sept. 15, 1993.
At the time of his death, Barger was a vocalist for the punk band Cold as Life, according to the Detroit Metro Times.
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Richard Werstine is accused of killing his roommate, Rodney Barger, in Detroit, Mich., on Sept. 15, 1993. (U.S. Marshals Service)
Federal authorities said Werstine was arrested just days after the alleged murder but failed to appear for his trial — prompting an arrest warrant to be issued in 1994.
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“He was a ghost since ‘94,” a federal source told Local 4. “He was very cunning, very crafty while on the run.”
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Richard Werstine was arrested in Panama City, Panama, and extradited to the United States on April 29, 2026, according to officials. (U.S. Marshals Service)
He allegedly remained on the lam for several years, and in 2022 the USMS adopted the arrest warrant after investigators learned he had been arrested several times under different aliases while he continued to evade authorities.
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“Over the course of the investigation, the USMS utilized state-of-the-art investigative resources and techniques and devoted numerous hours in efforts to find the fugitive,” federal officials said.
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Richard Werstine admitted to entering Panama illegally in 2005, according to federal authorities. (iStock)
The investigation led authorities to arrest Werstine at a dog park in Panama City on April 29, 2026.
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Upon being taken into custody, officials said Werstine confessed to his true identity after he was allegedly found with fraudulent documentation and admitted to entering Panama illegally in 2005.
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He was subsequently extradited from Panama to the United States and handed over to Wayne County officials.
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“The tenacity and commitment of the United States Marshals Service working to bring Werstine and those like him into police custody where they belong is at the forefront of our daily mission here in Detroit,” Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Jimmy Allen said.
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“His arrest not only works toward bringing closure to the friends and family who have lost a loved one but also demonstrates our promise to pursue those who think they can prey on the members of our communities without being held accountable.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the U.S. Marshals Service for comment.

Julia Bonavita is a U.S. Writer for Fox News Digital and a Fox Flight Team drone pilot. You can follow her at @juliabonavita13 on all platforms and send story tips to julia.bonavita@fox.com.

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Grad-to-be turns graduation cap into Rust-powered light show

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May 14, 2026
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Eric Park tells us he doesn’t plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code’s available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony

College graduation season has begun in the United States, and one soon-to-graduate computer science student has decided to decorate his graduation cap in the way any good maker would: by writing some Rust code and wiring it up with LEDs that light up when the tassel moves from right to left.
Eric Park, due to walk in his commencement ceremony on Friday at Purdue University, published a blog post this week explaining the project, which he said he undertook as an alternative to building a contraption that would set his mortarboard aflame when the tassel was moved.
Unfortunately for Park, many American universities (and some in other countries like the UK) require college students who want to walk in commencement ceremonies to rent their gowns and mortarboards. It’s not uncommon for students to be charged a ludicrous amount to rent the set, and in many cases, rental companies require students to return their mortarboards and gowns alike, as is the case for Park.

“The rental agreements clause 98.c.2 probably forbids [burning a rented mortarboard], and I don’t think Purdue would like it very much if I set the stage on fire,” Park said in the post. An easier-to-remove version consisting of LED strips, a reed switch, and a magnet, controlled by a super-tiny Digispark ATtiny85, presented itself as the alternative.

The result, as demonstrated in a YouTube video, is a mortarboard that is all aglow, and flameless, as soon as the reed switch is activated by the magnet placed on the left-hand side of the hat.

“The entire thing was stuck on with double-sided tape and Kapton tape, and I tried a small patch just to make sure it wouldn’t rip up the fabric,” Park told The Register in an email.
The lightweight and easy-to-remove design also necessitates a compact power source. Unfortunately, Park had to settle for an external battery pack carried in the pocket to power the unit. “It was going to be all self-contained with a 21700 cell, but I didn’t have a boost converter on hand so I decided to make do with the power bank solution,” the soon-to-be graduate told us.
According to Park, the build was relatively quick: Hardware took a bit more than three hours, and that was largely because he no longer had access to a full lab and was stuck working with his home toolset. Writing the code took a couple of hours, which Park attributed to his insistence on using Rust.
“It probably would’ve been easier if I didn’t use Rust and just used the Arduino libraries, or if I used a different board,” Park explained in his blog post. “But I was really married to this blog post title … and I was pretty sure an ESP32 board would’ve been overkill and wouldn’t have stayed on the cap properly.”

Eric Park’s finished mortarboard. Credit: Eric Park

For those who haven’t clicked through to read his blog post, its headline is simply “my graduation cap runs Rust.” That’s a pretty solid title – at the very least, it’s going to get people to read it, and read they have.
“I’ve read through the comments on Hacker News and I’m happy and thankful about all of the positive comments,” Park told us. “It’s great to see a silly but fun project like this reach a wide audience.”
“I particularly liked the guy that was reminded why he got into this field through my project,” Park added.

So, will Purdue students graduating alongside Park get treated to a surprise light show? Sadly, no – he said in the blog post, and reiterated to us, that he’s probably not going to wear it during the ceremony.

“I thought about it but decided it looks pretty tacky,” Park wrote in his blog post. “It looks like what kids would think of as a gaming PC and what boomers would think of as a seizure.”
He might toss it on for photo ops after the ceremony, but that’s about it, Park told us.
That said, Park did publish the code on Github, so if some other all-but-commenced college student were to take it upon themselves to build their own copy and wear it during their ceremony, that’s on them.
If I were graduating, I’d consider adding some speakers to the setup and piping in some music, too. Don’t come running to El Reg if such a move gets you in trouble, though: We claim no responsibility for commencement shenanigans. ®

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FIFA warned ‘gruelling heat’ could impact a quarter of World Cup games | World Cup 2026

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Scientists warn football’s governing body that global warming has increased risk of extreme hit since 1994 US World Cup.
Published On 14 May 2026
Climate experts have challenged FIFA after a warning that one in four World Cup games could be played in very hot conditions because global warming has increased the extreme heat risk since the US last hosted the tournament in 1994.
Overheating concerns had already prompted FIFA to mandate a cooling break during each half of World Cup matches. They will be played in 16 stadiums across the United States, Mexico and Canada from that will take place between June 11 to July 19.
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“Players and fans face a much higher risk of gruelling heat and humidity at the 2026 World Cup compared to the 1994 tournament on the same continent,” said World Weather Attribution (WWA), a network of climate scientists.
WWA’s scientific analysis estimates that 26 of the 104 matches could be played where temperatures reach at least 26C in the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index. It measures how effectively the body can cool itself in heat, humidity, sun exposure and wind.
At 26C WBGT, the international footballers’ union FIFPRO recommends cooling breaks as heat strain becomes a real risk for players.
Of those 26 matches, 17 will be played in stadiums with cooling systems, reducing risks for players and fans.
During the 1994 World Cup hosted by the United States, 21 games would have been expected to reach a similar heat threshold, according to WWA.
Five games are expected to be played in conditions of 28C WBGT or higher, a level that FIFPRO says should lead to the delay or postponement of matches until conditions are safer for players and fans.
That risk has nearly doubled compared to the 1994 World Cup.
“It’s dangerous for players, but of course there are also the fans who might gather outdoors, and they are at even more risk because they will not be taken care of by a lot of medical doctors,” said Friederike Otto, WWA co-founder and climate science professor at Imperial College London.
Three of the 16 stadiums – in Dallas, Houston and Atlanta – have air conditioning.
But more than a third of the games with a one in 10 chance of exceeding 26C will be in venues without air conditioning.
The final, on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, has a one in eight chance of seeing 26C WBGT conditions, and a 2.7 percent risk of 28C, according to WWA.
“That the World Cup Final itself – one of the biggest sporting occasions on the planet – faces a non-insignificant risk of being played in ‘cancellation-level’ heat should be a wake-up call for FIFA and fans,” Otto said.
The executive secretary of UN Climate Change, Simon Stiell, lent his voice to the warning.
“The risk of dangerous heat has doubled” since 1994, which will put “players and fans at risk”, he said on social media.
“We must move faster to protect the game we love and everyone who watches it. That means doubling down on the decisive shift to clean energy.”
FIFA has outlined the preventive measures planned for the World Cup.
“FIFA will continue to monitor conditions in real time, integrating Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Heat Index surveillance, and stands ready to apply established contingency protocols should extreme weather events occur,” said FIFA, among other safeguards.

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