内容摘要：In a statement, Williams said the recusal motion had not been granted because there were “no legal grounds to support it.”

In a statement, Williams said the recusal motion had not been granted because there were “no legal grounds to support it.”

Here’s a look at the facts.CLAIM: President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are causing military recruitment numbers to skyrocket.

THE FACTS: This is an overstatement and is missing context. Recruitment numbers for all military branches have been on the rise for the last few years, according to Defense Department data. Experts cite factors such as improving recruitment strategies, increased bonuses and new prep courses that predated the 2024 presidential election as factors in the change, although they acknowledge Trump’s election could have also played a role.“There may be some American teenagers or their parents, more likely, who were more comfortable joining the military in a Republican administration than a Democratic administration,” said Katherine Kuzminski, director of studies at the independent Washington think tank Center for a New American Security and an expert on military recruitment. “But I don’t think that alone explains why we’ve seen an increase lately.”Military enlistment was 12.5% higher in

, which ran from Oct. 1, 2023 to Sept. 30, 2024, than in. There were 225,000 new recruits in the former and 200,000 in the latter, said Katie Helland, who oversees recruitment policies and programs as the Defense Department’s director of Military Accession Policy,

in October. Those totals include both active and reserve troops in all five military branches, as well as about 4,800 Navy recruits from fiscal year 2024 who signed contracts, but could not be shipped out due to basic training limitations.

And the recruiting numbers for the current fiscal year 2025, which started the month before Trump’s election, haveon what the military said was a Hamas command center beneath the European Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, the Sinwars’ hometown. The military declined to comment on whether Sinwar had been targeted or killed.

The United Arab Emirates has summoned the Israeli ambassador on Wednesday to condemn the violence and incitement against Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Old Citymarking Israel’s annexation of the eastern part of the city.

“These provocative, arbitrary practices represent dangerous incitement against Muslims, and are a flagrant violation of the sanctity of the holy city,” the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.Throngs of ultranationalist Israeli Jews made their way Monday through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City dancing, banging on homes, and chanting “Death to Arabs” and singing “May your village burn.” The march often becomes a rowdy and sometimes violent procession of hardline Jews. Four years ago, it helped set off an 11-day war in Gaza.