More registered voters view Israel negatively than positively in the latest NBC News poll, driven by change among independents and especially Democrats.

American voters’ feelings on Israel and the Palestinian territories have shifted dramatically in recent years, in a sea change that is transforming the Democratic Party and shaping its primaries.

A new NBC News poll underscores the depths of the shift. More registered voters view Israel negatively than positively, a change from a few years ago. The change has been especially pronounced among independents and Democrats, fueling divided congressional primaries in 2026 and potentially shaping the party’s 2028 presidential contest.

When asked whether their sympathies lie more with Israelis or Palestinians, 40% of registered voters say they side more with the Palestinians, while 39% choose the Israelis. The split stood at 45% for Israelis and 13% for Palestinians when NBC News asked the question more than a decade ago, in November 2013.

But while two-thirds of Republicans side with the Israelis, similar to 2013, two-thirds of Democrats now side with the Palestinians.

About 3,800 workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants were set to strike Monday morning in Colorado in what union representatives said would be the first walkout at a U.S. beef slaughterhouse since the 1980s.

The strike at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley was set to begin at 5:30 a.m. MDT, said Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, which represents the workers.

It follows accusations from union officials that owner JBS USA retaliated against workers and committed other unfair labor practices amid contract negotiations. A previous contract was due to expire at midnight Sunday.

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Kyiv's tools, honed over years of daily Russian drone attacks, could give a critical boost to Middle Eastern countries looking to repel attacks from Iran.

As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, Ukraine could prove to be an invaluable trove of battle-tested expertise from its own bitter and costly fight against Russia.

After months of pressure and hardened rhetoric from Washington aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Kyiv is now also fielding requests for help as Iran’s Gulf neighbors grapple with the modern reality of drone warfare.

Hotels, airports and residential buildings have been hit in cities across the Gulf, wreaking havoc as Iran targets the U.S. military bases hosted by its neighbors. It’s a picture all too familiar in Ukraine, whose skies are swarmed by hundreds of Russian drones on a nightly basis, many of them of the Shahed type designed in Iran.

In next month’s election, liberals could further expand their edge on the battleground-state court and put the majority out of reach for conservatives for years.

Three years ago, liberals won a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time in 15 years, a major breakthrough in one of the nation’s most closely divided battleground states.

Next month, they’re aiming to further expand that edge.

The April 7 election between the Democratic-backed Chris Taylor and the Republican-backed Maria Lazar to fill a seat held by retiring conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley has flown under the radar nationally compared to last year’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race, in which Susan Crawford maintained the liberals’ majority. That contest ended up as the most expensive state judicial race in history after Elon Musk poured in millions of dollars.

But a victory by Taylor, who holds massive fundraising and ad spending advantages, would extend liberals’ winning streak in Wisconsin Supreme Court elections to four — and put conservatives out of reach of the majority for years to come.

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A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building is asking for leniency when she is sentenced Monday, saying she was a “scared and desperate mother” who was manipulated to keep the family business operating.

Carie Hallford, 48, faces up to 20 years in prison for taking over $130,000 from families for funeral services, including cremations, and often giving them urns full of concrete mix instead. In two cases, investigators found the wrong body was buried. In August, she pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and admitted that she and her ex-husband Jon Hallford cheated customers and also defrauded the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in pandemic small business aid.

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Es handelt sich hier um einen Zahlenschieber, der vollständig mechanisch Zahlen Addieren, Subtrahieren und Multiplizieren kann. Faszinierend!

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Görlitz stellt fest, dass es sich in Bayern um besonders schwerwiegende Datenanalysen handele, da außerordentlich viele Daten aus verschiedenen Töpfen einfließen, und zwar von Menschen, die unbeteiligt sind und "keinen Anlass dafür geboten haben, dass sie ins Visier der Polizeibehörden geraten". Auch die Methode sei kaum eingeschränkt: Die Rede wäre demnach nicht von einem bloßen Datenabgleich, sondern von komplexen, nicht nachvollziehbaren Analysealgorithmen.

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Diese Analysen bewegten sich der Juristin zufolge in Richtung "predictive policing", also Verbrechensvorhersage. Sie stellten einen besonders schweren Grundrechtseingriff dar, weshalb sie nur zum "Schutz besonders gewichtiger Rechtsgüter" eingesetzt werden dürften. Fragt man die GFF, ist das derzeit nicht der Fall, die Software würde "zu schnell und zu weit im Vorfeld" eingesetzt.

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Auch über die oben beschriebene Testnutzung ohne gesetzliche Grundlage zeigt sich Görlitz irritiert, besonders, da es zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits das besagte Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts gab. Dieses hätte hier "sehr, sehr deutlich entschieden, dass es für solche Maßnahmen eine gesetzliche Grundlage braucht". Von einer Aufarbeitung des Falles wisse sie jedoch nichts.

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Bei aller Aufmerksamkeit und Kritik, die Palantir und Peter Thiel in jüngerer Vergangenheit zuteilwird, weist Görlitz zum Abschluss des Gesprächs noch einmal darauf hin, dass "Datenanalysen auch dann eine Gefahr wären, wenn wir die Software einer anderen Firma benutzen würden". Sie wünsche sich weniger Debatte darüber, welches Tool benutzt wird, und mehr darüber, ob man Datenanalysen nicht generell einschränken müsse. "Denn gerade sieht man ja in den USA und bei (der Einwanderungsbehörde, Anm.) ICE in Perfektion, wie mächtig solche Analyse-Tools sind", erklärt die Juristin. (hlk, 16.3.2026)

A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned. Today its economy has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest with over $1 trillion in annual output.

It’s a historic leap from the post-Communist ruins of 1989-90 to today’s European growth champion that economists say has lessons on how to bring prosperity to ordinary people — and that the Trump administration says should be recognized by Poland’s presence at a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies later this year.

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In a polluted future Venice researchers are working on a way to improve living conditions. One day, unknown forces start killing them off. A team of soldiers and civilians is sent to investigate. Soon, they encounter strange murderous creatures.

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