Pro-Palestinian protests and encampments are emerging on college campuses across the country following the example of Columbia University where students have expressed open support for the terror group Hamas. NTD interviewed Xi Van Fleet, the author of “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning.” She parallels her experiences during China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s […]
HONOLULU—Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102. Mr. Conter passed away on Monday at his home in Grass Valley, California, following congestive heart failure, his daughter, Louann Daley said, adding she was beside him along […]
HONOLULU—Richard C. “Dick” Higgins, one of the few remaining survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died, a family member said Wednesday. He was 102. Mr. Higgins died at home in Bend, Oregon, on Tuesday of natural causes, granddaughter Angela Norton said. Mr. Higgins was a radioman assigned to a patrol squadron of […]
NTD spoke to Itai Bachar, one of the survivors of the Supernova Music Festival, which was attacked by Hamas terrorists in Israel on Oct. 7. Mr. Bachar described how he managed to escape as the killings unfolded, and how life is for him now after the traumatic events he experienced.
NTD is bringing you the testimony of a Hamas terrorist attack survivor. The Oct. 7 terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, with 260 of those killed at a music festival in southern Israel. Nick Zhiharev was at the festival on the morning of the attack. He tells NTD about keeping calm in the […]
A 9/11 survivor recounts his experience 22 years ago during an annual 9/11 memorial in Fresno County. He vividly describes his harrowing experience of being buried alive for 13 hours and the three words that motivated him to live to tell the tale.
MOULAY BRAHIM, Morocco—Survivors of Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in more than six decades struggled to find food, water and shelter on Sunday as the search for the missing continued in remote villages and the death toll of more than 2,100 seemed likely to rise further. Many people were spending a third night in the open after […]
The Department of Homeland Security states that human trafficking threatens our physical and virtual borders, our immigration and customs systems, our prosperity, our national security, and our personal and public safety. For this reason, the Department of Homeland Security has declared it a national priority to end human trafficking. In this episode, America’s Hope is […]
A woman pulled alive from the rubble of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory after an explosion that killed seven co-workers says flames had engulfed the building, and her arm, when the floor gave way beneath her. That might have been the end, if she hadn’t fallen into a vat of liquid chocolate. The dark liquid extinguished […]
ADIYAMAN, Turkey—A 17-year-old high school student has captured Turkish hearts after he filmed a farewell message to his loved ones as he was trapped under the rubble of his home during last week’s earthquake. Taha Erdem and his family were fast asleep when a 7.8 magnitude quake hit their hometown of Adiyaman in the early […]
MERSIN, Turkey—Huseyin Berber’s voice was hoarse from calling for help from under the rubble of his home but he was finally freed more than a week after Turkey’s massive earthquake, defying the odds for survival and one of several remarkable stories to emerge. Doctors say people can last, even without water, for days. But there […]
JERUSALEM—Shlomo Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, died on Thursday in central Israel. He was 98. Perel was born in 1925 to a Jewish family in Brunswick, Germany, just several years before the Nazis came to power. He and […]
A survivor of the Monterey Park mass shooting described the harrowing scene after 10 people were killed on Saturday, and recounted how her dance partner shielded her with his body and died from gunshot wounds. A gunman identified as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran opened fire at the Star Dance Studio on West Garvey Avenue in Monterey […]
NEW ORLEANS—Flag-waving admirers lined the sidewalk outside the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Wednesday to greet the oldest living survivor of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor as he marked his upcoming 105th birthday. “It feels great,” Joseph Eskenazi of Redondo Beach, California, told reporters after posing for pictures with his […]
BANGKOK—Rescuers found a survivor and recovered five bodies from a Thai warship that sank over the weekend in the Gulf of Thailand, navy officials said Tuesday, as hopes faded for two dozen people still missing. Officials acknowledged there were not enough life jackets for all those aboard. The HTMS Sukhothai, a corvette in service for […]
Amber Escudero-Kontostathis is the only survivor of a deadly lightning strike outside the White House earlier this month, and despite going through something so life-changing and suffering nerve damage, she said she’s recovering quickly. Escudero-Kontostathis, 28, and three other victims were riding out a thunderstorm underneath a tree in Lafayette Park on Aug. 4, a […]
MOSCOW—Rescuers have found a survivor in a Siberian coal mine where dozens of miners are presumed dead after a devastating methane explosion, a top local official announced Friday. Sergei Tsivilyov, governor of the Kemerovo region where the mine is located, said on the messaging app Telegram that the survivor was found in the Listvyazhnaya mine […]
BEAVER ISLAND, Mich.—An 11-year-old is the only survivor of a plane crash on Michigan’s Beaver Island, authorities said Sunday. The four adults on the plane died. They were the pilot, a real estate agent, and a couple who were planning to open a winery and vineyard there, authorities confirmed. The plane crashed Saturday west of Mackinaw […]
