Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press review shows that Israel is falling far short of U.S. demands to surge the level of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza or risk possible restrictions on U.S. military funding. The Biden administration on Oct. 13 gave Israel 30 days to take specific steps to improve the deteriorating
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania. The justices on Friday left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NOVI SAD, Serbia (AP) — Officials say a roof collapse at a railway station in northern Serbia has killed at least 13 people. The concrete roof at the entrance to the station in the city of Novi Sad came down on Friday morning. That’s according to Interior Minister Ivica Dacic who says three
Continue ReadingJOHANNESBURG (AP) — The government of Mauritius on Friday banned access to social media websites ahead of parliamentary elections later this month. The directive was announced by the national communications regulator, which said social media sites will be banned until Nov. 11, the day after the election, in which Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth is seeking
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno and Stephanie Halasz, CNN (CNN) — At least 14 people have died after the roof of a railway station collapsed in northern Serbia on Friday, according to CNN affiliate N1. Serbia’s interior minister, Ivica Dačić, announced the updated death toll, N1 said, adding that rescue operations are still underway in the city
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands of minority Hindus have rallied to demand that the interim government in Muslim-majority Bangladesh protect them from a wave of attacks and harassment and to drop sedition cases against Hindu community leaders. About 30,000 Hindus demonstrated at a major intersection in the southeastern city of Chattogram,
Continue ReadingIn the waning days of the presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are zeroing in on the battleground state of Wisconsin. Their dueling rallies will focus on the Milwaukee area. It is home to the most Democratic votes in Wisconsin, but its conservative suburbs are where most Republicans live and
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Willie Nelson, who is 91, will release “Last Leaf on the Tree” on Friday, his second studio album this year. It’s also his 76th solo studio album and 153rd album overall. Asked how many more he has in him, and he laughs and says he doesn’t know, but
Continue ReadingCINCINNATI (AP) — A massive fire underneath a bridge spanning the Ohio River has closed a heavily traveled route between Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. The fire damaged part of the steel structure but no injuries have been reported. A Cincinnati Fire Department spokesperson says the fire broke out overnight near a playground under the bridge,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BERLIN (AP) — A noted Belarusian film director and dissident who was held in Serbia for a year while Belarus sought his extradition has been released and gone to Germany. Andrei Hniot told The Associated Press that Serbian authorities released him from house arrest on Thursday, exactly a year after he was detained.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The mother thought her baby looked healthy when he was born 1.5 months early, but staff swiftly whisked him to the neonatal intensive care unit. It was the last time Burcu Gokdeniz would see her baby alive. The doctor in charge told her that Umut Ali’s heart stopped after
Continue ReadingBy Atika Shubert, CNN Valencia, Spain (CNN) — Adan Ortell Mor had a 7:30 p.m. appointment to cut a client’s hair at his salon in La Torre, Valencia, on Tuesday night. But when the client called to cancel because traffic was bad, it may have saved Mor’s life. Instead, he went home and saw reports
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CNN By Paradise Afshar, Andy Rose and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Two people were killed and six others wounded after a teenage shooter opened fire in two locations in downtown Orlando where large crowds had gathered to celebrate Halloween, the city’s police chief said early Friday. A 17-year-old suspect has been charged with
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The cast of ABC’s hit show “Scandal” will reunite Nov. 17 for a live, virtual script reading to raise money for the western North Carolina area that was ravaged by Hurricane Helene. Bellamy Young, who played the first lady and then Republican presidential nominee on the series, was raised in Asheville, North Carolina.
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel expects its “Iron Beam” laser defense system to be operational within one year, saying it will bring “a new era of warfare” as it engages in a war of drones and missiles with Iran and its regional partners. The Jewish state spent more than $500 million on deals
Continue ReadingAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult’s “Nineteen Minutes” has topped a list compiled by PEN America of the books most often pulled from school shelves. Other works include John Green’s “Looking for Alaska,” Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and several novels by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Thieves blew open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stole two works from a famous series of screen prints by American pop artist Andy Warhol and left two more badly damaged in the street as they fled the scene of the botched heist,
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A eclectic group of stars — including reality TV’s Ariana Madix, Broadway belter Idina Menzel, hip-hop’s T-Pain, members of the WNBA champions New York Liberty and country duo Dan + Shay — will feature in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Music performers The War and Treaty, Lea
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tried to explain this week that he doesn’t really think Donald Trump’s supporters are “garbage,” but that doesn’t mean that other people don’t believe the label occasionally fits. “I would say that some of them are garbage,” said Samantha Leister, 32, who went to see Kamala Harris
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores more, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. In central Gaza, Palestinians recovered the bodies of 25 people killed in a barrage of Israeli aerial attacks that began Thursday, hospital officials
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