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 Hannah McKayHamas released a video of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on Wednesday, as Israel's brutal military campaign in Gaza passes its two hundredth day, with dozens of hostages still missing.
Goldberg-Polin was among those in attendance at the Nova Music Festival, only a few miles away from Israel's border with Gaza. In the video, Goldberg-Polin is missing his left hand and arm below the elbow, which is consistent with a report that his arm was blown off while trying to throw grenades out of a bunker while he and other attendees hid from insurgents.
While the video is undated, Goldberg-Polin said that he'd been abandoned by the Israeli government for "almost 200 days." As of Wednesday, the hostages were kidnapped 201 days ago.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyDonald Trump's legal payroll is easily the largest and most diverse of any political figure in modern U.S. history. But while most of the attorneys that Trump's various fundraising committees have paid over the years are a matter of public record, one of the top recipients still poses a mystery—with more than $8 million in legal costs going to an unknown firm, or firms, through what appears to be a corporate intermediary.
Legal experts told The Daily Beast that the arrangement masks the true recipients of a significant amount of Trump's legal bills, depriving the public of that information while possibly running afoul of federal law. And the unprecedented structure of those payments, the experts said, potentially violates the ban on corporate contributions.
For the last 15 months, five of Trump's political committees, including his 2024 campaign, have paid about $8 million in combined legal costs to a curious recipient: Red Curve Solutions, the firm that handles their political accounting.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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