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FBI probes possible Saudi espionage plot involving former OpenAI engineer - report

The FBI is considering economic espionage charges against a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a listening device, amid concerns he intended to offer company secrets to Saudi Arabia.

|ByRICHARD OFFENBACHER
A man described as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer, looks behind a television where a recording device had been placed at a conference room in OpenAI offices, in a still image from surveillance video included in a charging document. October 5, 2026.
A man casts his vote in the Israeli general elections, at a polling station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022.

First Israeli ballots cast as diplomats vote abroad from New Zealand to New York

Once cast and collected, the physical ballots will be transferred to Israel to be counted as a standard part of the upcoming elections.

|ByAARON GLICK
A device, which the US Justice Department says is a hidden audio recording device installed in an OpenAI executive conference room by Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an engineer at the AI company, at a location given as San Francisco, California, US. Photo released Oct. 13, 2026.

FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI engineer over covert recording device, DOJ says

The thumb-sized device, which had a microphone and could connect to a camera, was concealed in toilet paper, according to an FBI complaint.

|ByREUTERS
Pro-Israel activists hold signs highlighting the October 7 Hamas attacks during an Israeli American Council (IAC) protest against screenings of the documentary NAZA in the US.

Israeli American Council leads nationwide protests against controversial Gaza documentary 'NAZA'

Pro-Israel groups are protesting screenings of 'NAZA' across the US, accusing the documentary of presenting a distorted account of the Gaza war and demanding additional context.

|ByALEX CARSON

'It's just so tragic how it happened,' Pelosi says in first comments since attack on her husband

Nancy Pelosi made her first public comments since the attack on her husband in their San Fransisco home.

NOVEMBER 5, 2022ByNOA FEIGENBAUM
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacts to the overturning of Roe v Wade during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, June 24, 2022.

Suspect in attack on Pelosi's husband expected to be formally charged

The suspect broke into the Pelosis' home and attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer on Friday.

OCTOBER 31, 2022ByREUTERS
FBI agents work outside the home of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi where her husband Paul Pelosi was violently assaulted after a break-in at their house, according to a statement from her office, in San Francisco, California, US, October 28, 2022.

Man who attacked Pelosi’s husband spread conspiracy theories about Jews

San Francisco police arrested David DePape after Paul Pelosi struggled with a home invader who was attacking him.

OCTOBER 29, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
In an aerial view, San Francisco police officers and FBI agents gather in front of the home of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, Oct. 28, 2022.

SFSU event with terrorist speakers was unauthorized by university

A Beirut event with Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi was "neither sponsored nor authorized by SF State, and we have contacted organizers to notify them of unauthorized use of the SF State name."

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022ByMICHAEL STARR
PFPL plane hijacker Leila Khaled in South Africa

SFSU hosted Palestinian terrorist speakers at Beirut conference

PFLP founding member Salah Salah and Airplane hijacker Leila Khaled were among the many controversial figures invited by San Francisco State University's AMED program.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022ByMICHAEL STARR
Graffiti depicting the PFPL plane hijacker Leila Khaled on the security barrier near Bethlehem

Jewish journalist called 'Nazi' by San Francisco politician

District 4 supervisors board candidate Leanna Louie called journalist Joe Eskenazi "EskeNAZI" after he had written an expose about her.

AUGUST 24, 2022ByMICHAEL STARR
San Francisco, USA city hall illuminated in blue and white for Israel's 73rd Independence Day April 15, 2021.

Israeli Consulate in San Francisco hosts Eurovision Song Contest Gala

JUNE 23, 2022ByALAN ROSENBAUM
San Francisco Calling poster

The tale of the stolen tefillin

The writer and Rabbi Dan Rosenstein's tefillin were stolen while they were in San Francisco together.

APRIL 10, 2022ByYISHAI FLEISHER
ONE PERSON helping another put on tefillin, in Kiryat Shmona.

A dozen passengers on cruise ship test positive for coronavirus

It was unclear whether all of the cruise's other passengers were tested or whether they were allowed to freely disperse after the positive results emerged.

JANUARY 9, 2022ByNATHAN SOLIS/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS
Royal Caribbean cruise

Can Middle East activists get US Democrats to join the Abraham Accords?

That Middle Easterners were waiting for this moment isn’t captured in the narrative the delegation’s audiences had previously been exposed to.

DECEMBER 9, 2021ByMICHAEL STARR
The delegates after a speaking event at a synagogue