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2 Mins AgoBlinken calls on UN members to commit additional humanitarian assistance to GazaUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a high level Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine on the sidelines of the 78th UN General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York City on September 20, 2023.Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty…

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s nowhere near the $4 trillion proposal President Joe Biden first launched to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems but the compromise package of inflation-fighting health care, climate change and deficit reduction strategies appears on track toward Senate votes this weekend.The estimated $740…

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati officials are expressing outrage and horror at a drive-by shooting that sent more than a score of bullets into a crowd of children, killing an 11-year-old boy and striking four other children and an adult.The victims were near an intersection Friday night when an occupant of a dark sedan fired 22 rounds in quick…

Eliza ‘Liza’ Fletcher, a Tennessee-based teacher whose grandfather, Joseph Orgill III, co-ran the Memphis-based hardware distributor Orgill Inc., was abducted in the early hours of Friday morning while jogging near the University of Memphis campus, The Sun reports. The Daily Beast reached out to the University of Memphis for comment. While…

While U.S. policy has been staunchly pro-Israel so far, there has been growing pushback in congressional offices and the Biden administration, as well as among Democratic voters generally, over how the war has been unfolding and its toll on noncombatants, especially children.Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from the Bronx and one of the…

the rubble of a kindergarten destroyed by a Russian drone in Kyiv. (Photo by Oleksii Chumachenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesDispatches from Ukraine. Day 642. Local news. Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as well as other cities across the country, saw the largest drone attack to-date in the early…

The Holocaust means something different when you stand in the gas chamber at Auschwitz or the tunnels underneath Langenstein. How you view the resistance changes when you see bullet holes in the sides of buildings in Warsaw or stand in the doorways through which survivors passed.Once you’ve walked those paths, the way you understand the…

FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus — Eleni Ellinas can still hear the sound of the air raid sirens that woke her after 5 a.m. on Aug. 14, 1974. The Turkish military had invaded Famagusta, on the eastern coast of Cyprus. Within the city lay Varosha, a 2.3-square-mile, wealthy seaside community that was home to 39,000 people, mostly Greek Cypriots. Ellinas’ family…

3:47 p.m. ET, November 3, 2023 Analysis: Hezbollah isn’t going to war with Israel, for now…

MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - At least 16 people died and another three were hospitalised after a lorry collided with a stationary minibus in Russia's Ulyanovsk region on Sunday, local law enforcement said."According to preliminary data, the driver of a heavy goods vehicle did not slow down in good time and hit a stationary minibus," the Ulyanovsk…