By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators across the globe took to the streets on Saturday to call for a ceasefire after Israel expanded its ground operation in Gaza. Major world cities, including London, Istanbul, New York, Baghdad and Rome, saw their centers filled with protestors, as Gaza experienced an intense bombardment and an
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP, ROBERT F. BUKATY and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Church bells rang Sunday as Maine residents gathered to pray, reflect and support one another following a traumatic week in which a fellow Mainer gunned down 18 people in the worst mass killing in state history. The Rev. Daniel Greenleaf
Continue ReadingBy Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — At first, Jordan Young thought the voicemail he received was too good to be true. “I actually was busy working when I got the call. And when I listened to the voicemail, I thought it was surreal,” Young told CNN. But when the reality of what he was hearing
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron has promised to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution by next year. The president on Sunday said on X, formerly Twitter, that a bill making this possible would be presented to his Cabinet by the end of this year so that “in 2024, the
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The stage is set for the New Hampshire presidential primary, even though the date hasn’t been picked yet. For the past two weeks, candidates have been arriving at the secretary of state’s office in Concord to fill out their paperwork and pay the $1,000 filing fee
Continue ReadingBy Tori Morales Pinales, CNN (CNN) — US-based advocacy groups are reporting a spike in hate incidents against Jewish and Muslim individuals amid the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas. The Anti-Defamation League said this week that since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, antisemitic incidents in the US increased 388%, according to preliminary
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — It begins on that early Saturday morning, October 7, as Hamas militants pile into the back of white pickup trucks while the sun is still rising, AK-47s slung around their chests. In one scene, they are grinning and taking video of themselves as their truck speeds down the road,
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Looking for a little last-minute costume inspiration for Halloween? For nearly two decades, one photographer has been documenting the denizens that haunt the New York City Subway system on their way to parties or the famous Village Halloween Parade. Scroll through his spooky portraits — if you dare …
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP, ROBERT F. BUKATY and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Church bells rang Sunday as Maine residents gathered to pray and support one another following a traumatic week in which a fellow Mainer gunned down 18 people in the worst mass killing in state history. The Rev. Daniel Greenleaf began
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, Lauren Mascarenhas and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A 22-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with second degree murder in a shooting on a crowded street in Tampa, Florida, early Sunday morning, leaving two people dead and 16 others injured, authorities said. The shooting started after a dispute between two groups
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press Hudson, CO. (AP) — Alan Mazzotti can see the Rocky Mountains about 30 miles west of his pumpkin patch in northeast Colorado on a clear day. He could tell the snow was abundant last winter, and verified it up close when he floated through fresh powder alongside
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh detained a key opposition figure of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party which called for a nationwide strike. This comes a day after clashes — which left at least one policeman dead and scores injured — erupted during a massive rally demanding the resignation of
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG and DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Residents in Maine have gathered for worship services just days after the body of man suspected of killing 18 people was found dead. The Rev. Daniel Greenleaf of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston began services by saying how great
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit a family farm in Minnesota on Wednesday as part of two weeks of stops in rural America by top administration officials. The visits are intended to highlight how increases in government spending can help improve peoples’ lives. Biden’s focus on the state
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Twenty-five years after they first met at Princeton, Chris Young and Mike Hazen are facing off in the World Series as architects of pennant-winning teams. Hazen is in his seventh season as general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Young in his third as GM
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Kazakhstan’s emergency ministry says the death toll from a fire at a coal mine has risen to 42. Four miners are still missing. Mine owner ArcelorMittal said the blaze was believed to have been caused by a blast of methane gas, and that some 252 people were working at the mine at
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI, CHRIS MEGERIAN, WILL WEISSERT and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the 3-week-old Israel-Hamas war enters what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says could be a “long and difficult” new stage, President Joe Biden is calling on Israeli and Arab leaders to think hard about their eventual postwar reality.
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products, a U.N. agency said Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation three weeks into the war between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers. In response
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Bereaved relatives of victims of last year’s devastating Halloween crush in Seoul and their supporters have demanded an independent investigation of the disaster as they marked the anniversary with a massive memorial service. The crush, one of the biggest peacetime disasters in South Korea, killed
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT Asssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump will headline his eighth campaign event in Iowa in a little more than a month on Sunday as part of the former president’s accelerated fall schedule leading up to the first-in-the-nation caucuses in January. Trump’s planned speech at the historic Orpheum Theater in
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