Formula 1 returns to the track at the United States Grand Prix with Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli on the brink of a championship. There is also a looming decision that could help him win it. F1 officials must eventually decide whether to to finish the season with the two scheduled races in Qatar and Abu Dhabi amid the Iran war. Canceling a race could leave Antonelli's rivals little to no chance to catch him. Officials with F1 and the FIA have said they still plan to finish the season in the Middle East. Some drivers in the paddock Thursday were not so confident.
A Brooklyn jury is deliberating the fate of a New York woman who says she was tricked by her father into traveling to Syria and never underwent the weapons training with the Islamic State group that she has been criminally charged with. Deliberations began Thursday. Prosecutors said Halima Salman underwent the training while she was in Syria from 2017 to 2019. A U.S. citizen who was born in Brooklyn, the now-27-year-old ��was freed on bail after she was arrested at Kennedy International Airport when she returned to the United States in May 2024. Her father died in Syria after he was injured in a bombing in 2018.
A worker picks up a photo of Staff Sgt. Matan Vinogradov who was killed in combat in 2024 after it fell into a fountain decorated with photos of victims of the Hamas attacks and soldiers who died in the war at Dizengoff Square in central Tel Aviv, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Israeli forces have killed a developmentally disabled man during a raid in Syria's Daraa province, according to state media and residents. The man was buried Thursday in the village of Jamla. The state news agency reported he was killed during an Israeli incursion. Residents said he had Down syndrome and was unarmed. The Israeli military said that soldiers fired at a suspect who approached them during an operation. Syria's Foreign Ministry condemned the killing and urged the international community to stop Israeli attacks. Residents are calling for action against Israeli incursions. Israel seized control of a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone in southern Syria in 2024 and has occupied it since.
Mourners gather beside the grave of Muath Salama al-Baeer, a young man with a disability who state media said was killed during an early morning Israeli military incursion, during his funeral in Jamla, in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa province, Syria, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Mourners on motorcycles accompany a pickup truck carrying the coffin of Muath Salama al-Baeer, a young man with a disability who state media said was killed during an early morning Israeli military incursion, during his funeral procession in Jamla, in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa province, Syria, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Mourners carry the coffin of Muath Salama al-Baeer, a young man with a disability who state media said was killed during an early morning Israeli military incursion, during his funeral in Jamla, in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa province, Syria, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Mourners lower the coffin of Muath Salama al-Baeer, a young man with a disability who state media said was killed during an early morning Israeli military incursion, into a grave in Jamla, in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa province, Syria, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Mourners attend the funeral of Muath Salama al-Baeer, a young man with a disability who, according to state media, was killed during an early morning Israeli military incursion into Jamla, in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa province, Syria, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026.(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A mourner crouches beside the grave during the funeral of Muath Salama al-Baeer, a young man with a disability who state media said was killed during an early morning Israeli military incursion, in Jamla, in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa province, Syria, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
