By OMAR ALBAM Associated Press DANA, Syria (AP) — United Nations humanitarian officials have sounded an alarm over a humanitarian crisis in rebel-held northwestern Syria. They warned on Thursday that intense shelling by government forces displaced almost 70,000 people in recent weeks. The Syrian government, backed by Russia, pounded the country’s northwest after a drone
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is expected to announce soon that the U.S. government will begin operating evacuation flights to help Americans leave Israel as Israel prepares to escalate retaliatory action on Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. That’s according to two people familiar
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say two former employees of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor are the focus of an investigation into a secret recording of several City Council members and a labor leader that entangled City Hall in a racism scandal. The aftermath shook public trust in government and led to the
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say two former employees of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor are the focus of an investigation into a secret recording of several City Council members and a labor leader that entangled City Hall in a racism scandal. The aftermath shook public trust in government and led to the
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nominated to be House speaker, Rep. Steve Scalise is heading straight into a familiar Republican problem: Skeptical GOP colleagues are reluctant to give their support, denying him the majority vote needed to win the gavel. The House opened its Thursday session at
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nominated to be House speaker, Rep. Steve Scalise is heading straight into a familiar Republican problem: Skeptical GOP colleagues are reluctant to give their support, denying him the majority vote needed to win the gavel. The House opened its Thursday session at
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — Raoul Peck’s “Silver Dollar Road” chronicles the story of the Reels family in North Carolina. For generations, the Reels have owned and lived on 65 waterfront acres, land that’s been in the family since the days of Reconstruction. What follows is a story of repossession that
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — “Mom and Dad, they sacrificed their lives to save me,” 16-year-old Rotem Matias told CNN on Thursday. Rotem is an Israeli-American teenager whose parents, Deborah and Shlomi Matias, were killed by Hamas gunmen in Israel. Rotem’s mother died trying to shield him. He was shot but survived the attack.
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — “Mom and Dad, they sacrificed their lives to save me,” 16-year-old Rotem Matias told CNN on Thursday. Rotem is an Israeli-American teenager whose parents, Deborah and Shlomi Matias, were killed by Hamas gunmen in Israel. Rotem’s mother died trying to shield him. He was shot but survived the
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE, SAMYA KULLAB and MOHAMMED JAHJOUH Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital, Shifa in Gaza City, is overflowing on the sixth day of heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of 2.3 million people. Scores of Palestinians are being crushed each day in the rubble from
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced an additional charge against New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife, alleging they conspired to have the senator act as a foreign agent of Egypt. The superseding indictment filed against Menendez, who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden had been to Dachau, the infamous concentration camp in Germany, several times before, but he sensed changes when he visited as vice president with a teenaged granddaughter. “It seemed as though things had been rearranged to make visitors less uncomfortable,” he recalled in a memoir
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military pulverized the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, prepared for a possible ground invasion and said Thursday its complete siege of the territory — which has left Palestinians desperate for food, fuel and medicine — would remain in place until Hamas militants free
Continue ReadingBy Scott Glover, Curt Devine, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Scott Bronstein, CNN (CNN) — Iran has loomed large as one of Hamas’ most generous financial backers, providing the militant group crucial resources it needs to carry out acts of terrorism. But investigators in the US and across the globe have identified another revenue source
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Police are on the scene after a plane from Nairobi bound for London’s Heathrow Airport was escorted by air force fighter jets and diverted to land at Stansted airport. The Ministry of Defense said Royal Air Force Typhoon fighters were launched “as a precaution this afternoon to investigate a civilian aircraft which
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York City have rewritten their indictment against U.S. Sen Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife to charge them with conspiring to have him act as an agent of Egypt and Egyptian officials. The superseding indictment was filed in Manhattan federal court on Thursday. It says
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s anti-graft commission has arrested a former agriculture minister accused of abuse of power, bribery and fraudulent projects involving private vendors. The Corruption Eradication Commission, known as the KPK, confirmed late Wednesday that former Minister of Agriculture Syahrul Yasin Limpo has been named a corruption suspect
Continue ReadingORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A ruling prohibiting the enforcement of a new Florida law targeting drag shows will stay in place for the time being. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s granting of a preliminary injunction stopping the law from being enforced until a trial
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has unleashed a broad spate of conspiracy theories, arguing that the 1994 assassination of a Mexico presidential candidate was a government-sponsored killing. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not provide any specific evidence for the accusation of state involvement in the killing of ruling party candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio.
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The head of Elon Musk’s social media platform X says the company formerly known has Twitter has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts and taken down or labeled tens of thousands of pieces of content since the militant group’s attack on Israel. One expert called it “a
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