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Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza. Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of funds from Israeli military operations, while some Jewish students on the campuses have called the protests antisemitic and said they […]
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve is set to announce a decision on Wednesday about whether to adjust its benchmark interest rate, just days after new government data showed that the economy is cooling off. The slowdown has coincided with a months-long stretch of stubborn inflation, putting pressure on the Fed to keep […]
The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Florida’s law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy took effect on Wednesday, becoming one of the most restrictive states in the country on abortion access. Florida’s six-week ban replaced the state’s previous 15-week abortion ban, prohibiting the procedure before most women know they are pregnant. In the […]
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve is set to announce a decision on Wednesday about whether to adjust its benchmark interest rate, just days after new government data showed that the economy is cooling off. The slowdown has coincided with a months-long stretch of stubborn inflation, putting pressure on the Fed to keep […]
People walk in a camp for displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip by the border with Egypt on April 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war approaches the seven-month mark, renewed negotiations are underway […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson and other House Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the college protests happening nationwide in connection to the Israel-Hamas war. Johnson, speaking on Tuesday alongside other GOP leaders at their weekly press conference, denounced the latest developments at Columbia University and called on President Joe Biden […]
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute (NEW YORK) — In the race to understand the potential habitability of Saturn’s icy and active moon, Enceladus, scientists could have a newfound understanding of the moon’s defining stripes and eruptions. Enceladus harbors a global, subsurface ocean more than 30 miles deep, that periodically erupts jets of ice crystals and plumes of […]
MoMo Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations have hit their lowest level ever reported since the pandemic began, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 5,615 COVID hospitalizations in the most recent week data that is available. In comparison, there were over 150,000 weekly admissions at the […]
ABC News (JERUSALEM) — “Every single day, I’ve watched small children die.” Those are the words of Nurse Brenda Maldonado from Washington State, describing to ABC News what she witnessed over the past two weeks. During that time, Maldonado said, she had been working in two of Gaza’s main hospitals. Her deployment to work as […]
Geraint Rowland Photography/Getty Images (JERUSALEM) — As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Tuesday that Israel would proceed with a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah “with or without a deal,” the Biden administration — which has repeatedly warned against a Rafah offensive — appears to be holding out hope for a cease-fire […]
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