By JOSEF FEDERMAN and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Twenty-one soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip in the deadliest attack on Israel’s forces since the Oct. 7 Hamas raid that triggered the war, the military said Tuesday, a major setback that could add to mounting calls for a cease-fire. Prime Minister Benjamin
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s Oscar nominations morning, which means it’s time for the year’s best movies and performers to find out if they’re headed to the Academy Awards or if they’re just Kenough. Nominations to the 96th Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. EST from
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s Oscar nominations morning, which means it’s time for the year’s best movies and performers to find out if they’re headed to the Academy Awards or if they’re just Kenough. Nominations to the 96th Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. EST from
Continue ReadingWDJT, LARRY DICKENS, CNN By Brammhi Balarajan and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has increased police patrols on campus after a group projected an image of a swastika on a student dorm. The incident, which happened at 5:40 p.m. on Sunday, a day before the beginning of the spring semester, comes
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army said Tuesday that 10 soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip in one of the deadliest attacks for Israeli soldiers of the 3-month-old war against the militant Hamas group. Israeli media say the soldiers were preparing explosives to demolish two buildings
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time since Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin established the international group to support Ukraine in April 2022, the United States will host the monthly gathering of about 50 countries out of money, unable to send the ammunition and missiles that Ukraine
Continue ReadingBy BEN ROSS Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Harrison Barnes scored 32 points and the Sacramento Kings beat the short-handed Atlanta Hawks 122-107 on Monday night to snap a four-game losing streak. The Hawks were without All-Star guard Trae Young, who suffered a concussion in Saturday’s loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. It was Barnes’
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — All six registered voters of Dixville Notch cast their ballots for Nikki Haley. The midnight voters were outnumbered more than 10 to one on Tuesday by reporters, not to mention by a pile of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. The New Hampshire resort community has
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive, on Thursday in the nation’s first execution attempt with the method.
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than a dozen federal appellate judges are scheduled to hear arguments on whether Mississippi can continue to permanently strip voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies. The outcome of the case at the center of Tuesday’s hearing in New Orleans will likely determine whether
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries, a new report revealed Tuesday. Nearly half of them, or 49%, are living in Israel; 18% are in Western Europe, 16% in the United States, and 12% in countries
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Immediately after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, the owners of the bowling alley and the bar in Lewiston where the gunman killed a total of 18 people were certain their doors were closed for good. Yet as time passed, they came to the same conclusion: They had
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Accusations that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had an affair with a special prosecutor she hired to seek convictions of Donald Trump and others for interfering in Georgia’s 2020 election have led to renewed calls to remove Willis from the case. Willis, an
Continue ReadingBy Eva McKend and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Voters in Dixville Notch have cast the first votes in the New Hampshire primary, with all six voters choosing former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. “A great start to a great day in New Hampshire,” Haley said in a statement reacting to the vote minutes after it
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The mother of a Michigan school shooter is headed to trial on involuntary manslaughter charges. Jury selection started Tuesday. Prosecutors are trying to pin criminal responsibility on Ethan Crumbley’s parents in the deaths of four students at Oxford High School in 2021. Jennifer and James Crumbley
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — All six registered voters of Dixville Notch cast their ballots for Nikki Haley. The midnight voters were outnumbered more than 10 to one on Tuesday by reporters and at least four to one by freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. The New Hampshire resort community has
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Testy encounters between lawyers for former President Donald Trump and judges have come to be expected as the attorneys carry into the courtroom the bombastic, and often antagonistic, style that defines his campaign trail demeanor. In arguments that seem to
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will share the stage on Tuesday in Virginia as they campaign for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in an election expected to feature a rematch with Donald Trump, the former Republican president. Biden and
Continue ReadingBy Vedika Sud, Sania Farooqui and Rhea Mogul, CNN Ayodhya, India (CNN) — Half a million people entered the new Ram Mandir on Tuesday, a controversial Hindu temple in the holy town of Ayodhya that is built on the ruins of a destroyed 16th century mosque. Huge crowds of devotees queued outside the temple in
Continue ReadingBy Joseph Ataman, Frederik Pleitgen and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Near Avdiivka, Ukraine (CNN) — Straddling the frontlines, the small town of Avdiivka has become the epicenter of the war in Ukraine. Still in Ukrainian hands – just – it’s enclosed on three sides by Russian troops and cannons. Pounded by the Russians, the town itself
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