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Israel moves into Gaza's second-largest city and intensifies strikes in bloody new phase of the war
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Tuesday that its troops had entered Gaza’s second-largest city as intensified bombardment sent streams of ambulances and cars racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians, including children, in a bloody new phase of the war. ...
'We are officially hostages.' How the Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz embodied Hamas hostage strategy
NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — The engineer and his family cowered in the safe room, dark except for a red remote-control light because they feared the gunmen outside the door would notice anything brighter. Eyal Barad had just reconfigured the settings on a homemade traffic camera from his...
Handcuffed and sent to the ER – for misbehavior: Schools are sending more kids to the hospital
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation. Over the past...
To phase out or phase down fossil fuels? That is the question at COP28 climate talks
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After days of shaving off the edges of key warming issues, climate negotiators Tuesday zeroed in on the tough job of dealing with the main cause of what's overheating the planet: fossil fuels. As scientists, activists and United Nations officials...
In a rare action against Israel, US says extremist West Bank settlers will be barred from America
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare punitive move against Israel, the State Department said Tuesday it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of recent attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the step...
Vice President Harris breaks nearly 200-year-old record for Senate tiebreaker votes, casts her 32nd
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for casting the most tiebreaking votes in the Senate when she voted Tuesday to advance the confirmation of a new federal judge in Washington, D.C. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York...
Supreme Court signals it will uphold a tax on foreign income and leave a wealth tax for another day
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to uphold a tax on foreign income while leaving questions about a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth for another day. On the first issue, conservative and liberal justices voiced concerns that ruling for a Washington...
Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims
HAILEY, Idaho (AP) — Paul Rytting listened as a woman, voice quavering, told him her story. When she was a child, her father, a former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had routinely slipped into bed with her while he was aroused, she said. ...
More bodies found after sudden eruption of Indonesia's Mount Marapi, raising confirmed toll to 22
BATU PALANO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia's Mount Marapi volcano found 11 more bodies of climbers who were caught by a surprise weekend eruption, raising the number of confirmed dead to 22, officials said Tuesday. One person remained missing. ...
AP PHOTOS: Photographers in Asia capture the extraordinary, tragic and wonderful in 2023
TOKYO (AP) — Individually, the photographs are the product of a moment, capturing glimpses of joy, grief, rage, hope, and resilience. As a whole, the work this year of Associated Press photojournalists in Asia forms a visual patchwork quilt, an extraordinary reflection of the...
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Pregnant Texas woman asks a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her have an abortion, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. Texas is one of 13 states that...
Biden warns Trump will put democracy at risk as he travels the country to raise campaign cash
BOSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden struck back at Donald Trump on Tuesday, warning that democracy is “more at risk in 2024" and telling donors that the former president and his allies are determined to “destroy” democratic institutions. Biden's forceful rhetoric against Trump...
Live updates | Netanyahu says Israel must retain control of security in Gaza after the war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the military would have to retain open-ended security control over the Gaza Strip long after the war against Hamas ends. The remarks came as Israel's military said its troops had entered Gaza's second-largest city in its its...
US officials want ships to anchor farther from California undersea pipelines, citing 2021 oil spill
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials on Tuesday recommended increasing the distance from undersea pipelines that vessels are allowed to anchor in Southern California, citing a 2021 oil spill they said was caused by ships whose anchors were dragged across a pipeline after a storm. ...
Stock market today: Wall Street hangs near its best level in 20 months following mixed economic data
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is hanging near its 20-month high Tuesday after a mixed set of reports kept questions alive about whether the U.S. economy can pull off a perfect landing that kills high inflation and avoids a recession. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in afternoon...
Trump's defense at civil fraud trial zooms in on Mar-a-Lago, with broker calling it 'breathtaking'
Former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial turned Tuesday to one of the topics that has vexed him most — the value of his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Testifying for Trump's defense, a Florida real estate attorney said the club could be sold as a home,...
Dutch government pledges nearly $2.7 billion for Ukraine in 2024 as war drags into another winter
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Netherlands announced Tuesday it would support Ukraine in 2024 with a 2.5 billion euros (nearly $2.7 billion) allocation, as the 21-month war drags into another winter and concerns grow that Kyiv’s war effort may falter without continued Western support. ...
Wisconsin governor signs off on $500 million plan to fund repairs and upgrades at Brewers stadium
MILWAUKEE (AP) — After months of backroom wrangling, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill Tuesday that spends half-a-billion dollars in taxpayer money over the next three decades to help the Milwaukee Brewers repair their baseball stadium. The governor signed the bipartisan...
St. Louis prosecutor who replaced progressive says he's 'enforcing the laws' in first 6 months
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Prosecution of violent crime in St. Louis is rising sharply in the six months since an embattled progressive prosecutor was replaced by an appointed circuit attorney, according to the prosecutor's office. Gabe Gore said Tuesday that his office has prosecuted 45%...
Federal Trade Commission is investigating ExxonMobil's $60B deal to acquire a Texas oil company
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are investigating ExxonMobil's $60 billion deal to acquire a Texas oil company in what would be one the largest mergers in the energy industry in two decades, according to securities filings. The Federal Trade Commission, which enforces federal...
