CNN By Helen Regan, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Khadder Zaanoun, Celine Alkhaldi and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — Demands for answers are mounting over the fate of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, who became trapped in a car with her dead relatives after it came under Israeli fire in Gaza more than a week ago. Mystery
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — After watching a seven-point lead disappear in the final minutes of regulation, Cameron Brink and No. 6 Stanford responded with a dominant effort in overtime. It was the kind of test Brink felt the Cardinal needed with March on the horizon. Brink scored seven of her
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 44 Palestinians — including more than a dozen children — in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Saturday, hours after Israel’s prime minister said he had asked the military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — If you’re the last player picked in the NFL draft, at least you get a nickname — Mr. Irrelevant — and a certain amount of fanfare. When you’re taken a little bit earlier, you’re just a normal seventh-round selection. “I had no idea where I
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone struck a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, security officials said. The strike came as tensions across the Middle East grow with the Israel-Hamas war, a drone attack
Continue ReadingBy CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A strong performance in financial markets, particularly an outsize gain for the stock market in 2021, helped entrench existing trends of wealth inequality during the pandemic, new data released this week show. According to a report from the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the real net
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A Houston woman who left a series of threatening voicemail messages for a federal judge overseeing one of former President Donald Trump’s legal fights in Florida has been sentenced to serve 37 months in federal prison for “using interstate communications to threat, kidnap or injure,” the US
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Sébastien Haller could lead Ivory Coast to the Africa Cup of Nations title one year after returning from cancer treatment. Haller fired the host nation into Sunday’s final against three-time champion Nigeria with the only goal in a 1-0 win over Congo in the
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were seeing double when they met in Washington, D.C., and went on social media to share their mirror image with the world. The Delaware Democrat and the leader of Germany’s coalition government share a striking resemblance, right down to
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — More people in the U.S. than ever before are expected to bet on this year’s Super Bowl, including novice bettors attracted to the game due to the possible attendance of pop star Taylor Swift, whose boyfriend Travis Kelce will be among the players. With sports
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — More people in the U.S. than ever before are expected to bet on this year’s Super Bowl, including novice bettors attracted to the game due to the possible attendance of pop star Taylor Swift, whose boyfriend Travis Kelce will be among the players. With sports
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 31 Palestinians — a third of them children — in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Saturday, hours after Israel’s prime minister said he asked the military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump used a rally in South Carolina on Saturday to attack rival Nikki Haley in her home state — and to mock the absence of her husband, who is deployed overseas. “Where’s her husband? Oh, he’s away. … What happened to her husband?
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Nightmares have tormented Soo Wong for the past year, fueled by the horror she witnessed when a gunman opened fire inside a California dance hall, killing her close friend and 10 other people as a Lunar New Year’s eve party was in full swing. Wong found herself overwhelmed by grief
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, killed seven people overnight, including three children, Kharkiv region governor Oleh Syniehubov reported Saturday. Three others sustained injuries, according to the officials. He said at least 10 drones were launched at Kharkiv, eight of which were
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Any parent who’s ever called one of their children by the other’s name — or even the family pet’s name — likely could empathize when President Joe Biden mixed up the names of French leaders Macron and Mitterrand. The human brain has trouble pulling names out
Continue ReadingBy FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Will she make it in time? Intrepid flight trackers online seem to think so. On social media, fans of Taylor Swift and aviation journalists believe they’ve located Swift’s private jet, labeled “The Football Era,” currently on its way to Los Angeles’ LAX airport and expected to arrive
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An apparent Israeli drone strike hit a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, security officials said. The strike came as tensions across the Middle East grow with the Israel-Hamas war, a
Continue ReadingNAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Federal authorities have launched an investigation to determine why a private jet tried to make an emergency landing on a Florida interstate, colliding with a vehicle and sparking a fiery crash that left two people dead. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Bombardier Challenger 600 jet had five people were aboard
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The enduring image of the 2022 World Cup was Lionel Messi holding aloft soccer’s biggest prize in Qatar’s spectacular Lusail Stadium. Messi had realized his ultimate ambition by leading Argentina to glory in perhaps the most thrilling final in the tournament’s history. The drama was
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