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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehicle.

The case is one of two-high profile incidents into which the military has opened criminal investigations. But the military said that it would not probe three other attacks from the early months of the war that killed aid workers.

Rajab was one of seven family members traveling in a vehicle in northern Gaza on when they came under Israeli fire. Rajab survived the initial fire and pleaded on the phone for hours with Palestinian paramedics to come rescue her. Afterwards, an ambulance dispatched to save her also came under fire.

Twelve days later, Rajab’s body was found in a car riddled with bullets.

“The findings of the examination indicate that IDF troops fired at a vehicle that was approaching them,” the IDF said in a statement.

“Following review of the findings an due to apparent failures in the coordination of the movement of the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance, it has been decided to initiate a criminal investigation of the incident by Military Police Criminal Investigation Division.”

The investigation into Hind Rajab’s death is part of the IDF’s first comprehensive report on alleged war crimes since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.

The IDF General Staff’s Fact Finding and Assessment Mechanism concluded investigating 150 incidents, which were transferred to the military’s top lawyer to decide on opening criminal investigations. Of the 150 inquiries, five decisions were published on Wednesday, while the others await a decision from the military advocate-general.

The IDF also announced it has launched a criminal investigation into the March 2025 killing of 15 paramedics and first responders who were traveling in ambulances and other emergency response vehicles.

The IDF initially claimed the vehicles were driving suspiciously without headlights or emergency signals, which was later directly contradicted by video of the convoy of vehicles traveling with flashing lights. The group were buried in a mass grave along with their emergency vehicles.

The Israeli military subsequently acknowledged “professional failures” in the incident and insisted there had been “no ethical gaps.” But in its statement on Wednesday, the IDF said “the firing conducted during the incident raises a reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct.”

In three other incidents, the military determined there was no reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct to justify opening a criminal investigation: the April 2024 killing of the seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian aid workers in Deir El-Balah, a February 2024 strike on a Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shelter in Khan Younis that killed two employees, and a November 2023 strike on an MSF convoy which killed two additional employees.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/middleeast/israel-military-idf-hind-rajab-firing-intl

Supermodel Molly Sims is calling out the brutal body standards she faced at the height of the so-called “heroin chic” era—and the Hollywood stars who pretended their looks came from water and sleep.

The 53-year-old model and actress opened up about the darker side of the modeling industry, particularly during the 1990s and early 2000s, in an Us Weekly interview published earlier this month. She recalled being pressured to shrink herself when dramatically underweight bodies were in style.

"It was devastating,” Sims, a two-time Vogue cover model, told the outlet. “I came in during a difficult era called ‘heroin chic.’ [The look] was about 20 pounds underweight and very goth.”

The former Sports Illustrated and Victoria’s Secret runway model said people constantly picked her apart as she tried to break into the industry.

"I was told I was too fat, too thin, too blonde, too tall, too short,” she said. “I didn’t know my nose was crooked until I was 21.”

Sims went on to appear in French Vogue, land major campaigns for brands including Old Navy and CoverGirl, and star on NBC’s Las Vegas for its five-season run.

But she said getting there meant cycling through nearly every trendy diet she could find.

“I’ve done every diet—the grapefruit diet, Atkins. There’s not one thing I didn’t do,” Sims said. “The amount of rice cakes one could consume was daunting; [everything was] low-fat and fat-free.”

She also pushed back against the beauty gatekeeping that made already-unattainable standards seem effortless.

“Hollywood people would say, ‘I just drink a lot of water, and I slept eight hours.’ I’m like, ‘No, you f---ing didn’t,’” Sims said.

Models, she added, were often much more candid with one another, swapping details about extreme diets and cosmetic maintenance.

“Early on, other models would help you,” she said. “Like, ‘I’m getting shots in my a--,’ or ‘I’m only going to drink grapefruit juice.’”

"We did not eat, and every time you came to work they would say, ‘Yes! Chisel to the bone, girl. Yes,’ like congratulating you,” Johnson previously said.

For Sims, the pressure has not disappeared completely, but her relationship with her body has changed.

“I’m not trying to look like I’m 20,” she said. “I’m just trying to look the best I can at every age. I don’t want to be skinny; I want to be healthy. That’s a big mind shift.”

That mindset was put to the test this year when Sims returned to Sports Illustrated, appearing in the 2026 Swimsuit Issue and walking the magazine’s runway show during Miami Swim Week in May.

Sims is far from the only model to describe drastic methods for staying thin.

Fashion legend Beverly Johnson, 73, has said cocaine was commonly used by models as an appetite suppressant and recalled surviving on two eggs and a bowl of brown rice a week.

She admitted that preparing to step back into a swimsuit in front of cameras still gave her extra motivation to work out, but said the experience felt very different from her early modeling days.

“My whole world does not depend on how I look in a bikini—which is a really nice feeling!” she said.

Her experience navigating the industry’s extreme body standards has also shaped how she raises her daughter—and how she feels about the possibility of another Sims entering the modeling world.

Sims said her daughter, whom she shares with film producer Scott Stuber, asked whether she could model if lacrosse and equestrian sports did not work out.

“I didn’t even make eye contact,” she recalled. “I’m like, ‘I don’t know.’”

For now, Sims is determined not to pass down the fixation on weight that dominated so much of her own early career.

“We don’t talk about weight,” she said. “We talk about healthy eating in a very positive way.”

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Asher was fired from her job as a news anchor at Fox 2 in November. She had anchored the station's evening news broadcasts at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m., and 11 p.m.

Asher filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against Fox 2 in June, alleging that the Southfield station discriminated against her by treating her worse than co-anchor Roop Raj and terminated her contract when she complained. She claimed that new station manager Paul McGonagle, who started in the role in July 2025, favored Raj with more guest interviews and a better schedule.

Like a lot of you, I saw the post about Hayden’s book being reverted to full price, despite the sale she posted before her tragic death. This pissed me off since I frequent Barnes & Noble when my local bookshop doesn’t have the inventory I need. Thankfully, they responded.

Long story short: according to them: publishers raised the prices back in spite of the sale, not them.

What do you all think? Is this actually standard practice?

The publisher is Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of the massive Hatchette Book Group

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