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Israel strikes in and around Gaza's second-largest city in a bloody new phase of the war
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel intensified its bombardment in and around Gaza's second-largest city early Tuesday, sending ambulances and private cars racing into a local hospital carrying people wounded in a bloody new phase of the war. Under U.S. pressure to prevent...
'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...
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...
Biden is spending most of the week raising money at events with James Taylor and Steven Spielberg
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is making a big push to raise money for his reelection effort before the end of the year, appearing at seven events through next Monday — with more to come. Biden was traveling to Massachusetts on Tuesday to schmooze with donors at a trio of...
The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could rule out a tax on wealth favored by some Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up a case Tuesday over a Washington couple's $15,000 tax bill that is widely seen as a test of a never-enacted tax on wealth. A decision in favor of Charles and Kathleen Moore of Redmond, Washington, could strike down a provision of the...
Cause sought of explosion that leveled an Arlington, Virginia, home as police tried to serve warrant
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Hours before a massive explosion destroyed a duplex and shook a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., a suspect inside his home fired a flare gun 30 to 40 times into the neighborhood, drawing a large police response, officials said Tuesday. All officers escaped...
UN warns that 2 boats adrift in the Andaman Sea with 400 Rohingya aboard desperately need rescue
BANGKOK (AP) — An estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea without adequate supplies could die if more is not done to rescue them, according to the U.N. refugee agency and aid workers. The number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing by boats...
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...
Brutal killings of women in Western Balkan countries trigger alarm and expose faults in the system
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A man in Bosnia killed his wife and streamed the murder live on Instagram. In neighboring Serbia, 27 women were killed in gender-based attacks this year, despite efforts to raise awareness and reverse the trend. Activists in Kosovo say violence against women there is a...
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...
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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. ...
In ‘Wonka,’ Timothée Chalamet finds a world of pure imagination
Hugh Grant learned some years ago that if a filmmaker doesn’t make something from the heart, it shows. The films that work best, and are most loved, he's found, are the ones that the directors really meant. It applied to his romantic comedies with Richard Curtis as well as...
British Museum loan to Greece coincides with dispute over demand to return Parthenon Marbles
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Acropolis Museum launched an exhibition Tuesday that includes a renowned ancient Greek water jug from 420 B.C. on loan from the British Museum. The exhibit comes during a dispute between the countries over Greek demands for the return of sculptures...
AI's future could be 'open-source' or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators
Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor. That's not to say they all want the same thing. Facebook parent Meta and IBM on Tuesday launched a...
Biden is spending most of the week raising money at events with James Taylor and Steven Spielberg
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is making a big push to raise money for his reelection effort before the end of the year, appearing at seven events through next Monday — with more to come. Biden was traveling to Massachusetts on Tuesday to schmooze with donors at a trio of...
Stock market today: Wall Street sags and heads toward a rare back-to-back loss
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is sagging again Tuesday as a big rally that had sent it to a 20-month high loses steam. The S&P 500 was 0.4% lower in early trading and on track for its first back-to-back drop since October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 131 points, or...
UK, Rwanda strike new treaty in an attempt to unblock their controversial asylum plan
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The interior ministers of Britain and Rwanda signed a treaty on Tuesday that aims to revive a plan to send asylum-seekers to the East African country that had been blocked by U.K. courts. British Home Secretary James Cleverly said the legally binding agreement...
'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...
Trial to determine whether JetBlue can buy Spirit, further consolidating industry, comes to a head
BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for the Justice Department and JetBlue Airways are scheduled to make closing arguments Tuesday in a trial that will determine whether JetBlue can buy Spirit Airlines, the nation’s biggest low-fare carrier. The Justice Department argues that the proposed $3.8...
Live updates | Israel pushes deeper south after calling for evacuations in southern Gaza
Israel's military pushed deeper south Tuesday in Gaza after it called for more evacuations in the southern portion of the enclave in its pursuit to wipe out the territory's Hamas rulers. The war has already killed more than 15,000 Palestinians and displaced over three-fourths of Gaza's 2.3 million...
