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Israel's strikes are shifting the power balance in the Middle East, with US support

Oct. 08, 2024 00:06 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli military strikes are targeting Iran's armed allies across a nearly 2,000-mile stretch of the Middle East and threatening Iran itself. The efforts raise the possibility of an end to two decades of Iranian ascendancy in the region, to which the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq...

80 years after D-Day the family of a Black World War II combat medic receives his medal for heroism

Sep. 24, 2024 18:54 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II, spent more than a day treating wounded troops under heavy German fire — all while injured himself. Decades later, and nearly 20 years after his...