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Getty Images – STOCK/KeithBinns (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, efforts to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization are ongoing, and Israeli forces have launched an assault in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Here’s how the news is developing: CPJ ‘dismayed’ by deaths of Al Jazeera journalists in ‘direct […]
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Three of the five 9/11 defendants at Guantanamo — including mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad — have reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. The trial of the five 9/11 conspirators had been stuck in legal delays for a very long time. No […]
WFTS (PLANT CITY, Fla.) — Four people and three dogs are dead after a Florida mobile home was intentionally set on fire in what authorities called an “evil” act, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office responded to a call of a fire at a residence in Plant City shortly after midnight […]
Muhammad Aqib/Getty Images (LONDON) — Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Sudan’s army chief, was the target of a drone attack that killed five people, officials said Wednesday. Al-Burhan had been attending a ceremony for military graduates in Jebeit, a small town in eastern Sudan, when the strike took place. In April 2023, a civil conflict broke out […]
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris is moving full steam ahead in her bid for the White House, with her campaign saying Sunday it has raised more than $200 million in less than a week. Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, have several campaign events set up […]
Google Street View (OKLAHOMA CITY) — Several Oklahoma schools are speaking out against State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ directive to teach the Bible in public school grades 5 through 12. Walters recently released guidelines on his controversial Bible mandate in public schools after ordering educators to incorporate the religious text into their lessons, arguing that the […]
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve maintained its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday, keeping borrowing costs at their highest level in more than two decades despite a prolonged cooldown of inflation. An interest rate cut is widely expected in the coming months. The Fed issued its latest interest rate decision after a months-long […]
jayk7/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Education will send an email to Americans with student debt on Wednesday, laying out options for how roughly 25 million could have some, or all, of their debt canceled this fall. The email is the first step of the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed rule announced in April — and […]
A queue of Palestinian vehicles waits at the Beit Furik checkpoint, east of the city of Nablus in the West Bank, July 7, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A Palestinian human rights activist has accused Israeli soldiers of being involved in a series of alleged offenses against him and his […]
pablohart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Missouri woman is suing a Kansas hospital where she says she was denied an emergency abortion after she went into premature labor at 18 weeks of pregnancy, alleging she was denied emergency health-stabilizing care. The lawsuit comes a year after a government investigation by the Centers for Medicare and […]
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