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Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 413 Palestinians and shatter ceasefire with Hamas

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing at least 413 Palestinians, including women and children, according to hospital officials. The s...

Mar 18, 2025

NASA's stuck astronauts are finally on their way back to Earth after 9 months in space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled Boeing test flight more than nine...

Mar 17, 2025

Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 200 people in Gaza, health officials say

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Gaza's Health Ministry says a wave of Israeli strikes across the territory has killed at least 200 people. Khalil Degran, a spokesman for the ministry based at the Al-...

Mar 17, 2025

Israel launches new strikes against Hamas and promises ‘increasing military force’ after talks stall

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel launched new strikes against Hamas and promised 'increasing military force' after talks on on further hostage releases stalled. Early Friday morning, Israel's P...

Mar 17, 2025

US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

WASHINGTON (AP) - Employees of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch ...

Mar 17, 2025

M23 rebels withdraw from planned talks with Congo government, citing international sanctions

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured key areas of Congo's mineral-rich east said Monday they were withdrawing peace talks this week with the Congolese government, saying that in...

Mar 17, 2025

A judge ordered a Brown University professor not be deported. She was sent back to Lebanon anyway.

BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge wants to know why a doctor from Lebanon with a U.S. visa was deported, after he ordered that she not be removed until he could hear her case. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, had b...

Mar 17, 2025

Trump says he will talk to Putin on Tuesday as he pushes for end to Ukraine war

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as he pushes to end the war in Ukraine. The U.S. leader disclosed the upcoming conversation ...

Mar 16, 2025

US and Iran-backed Houthis both vow escalation after airstrikes target rebels in Yemen

CAIRO (AP) - The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes to deter the rebels from attacking military and commercial vessels o...

Mar 16, 2025

Vatican releases first photograph of the pope in more than a month

ROME (AP) - The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Francis co-celebrating Mass in the hospital chapel. The photograph is taken from behind, and shows...

Mar 16, 2025