Middle East latest: Over a dozen killed in Israeli strikes near one of main Beirut hospitals

Israeli airstrikes in and around Beirut caused significant damage to the country's largest public hospital and killed more than a dozen people, Lebanese health officials said, as Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into central Israel hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived...

New campus protest rules spur an outcry from college faculty

Dissent is thriving this fall at American colleges, and not just among student activists. With student protests limited by new restrictions, faculty have taken up the cause. To faculty, new protest rules threaten freedom of speech — and the freedom to think, both central to...

Blinken arrives in Israel as US looks to renew cease-fire efforts after the killing of Hamas leader

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday on his 11th visit to the region since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The U.S. hopes to revive cease-fire efforts after the killing of top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but so far all the warring parties...

Blinken arrives in Israel as U.S. looks to revive Mideast cease-fire efforts

Israel says more strikes are coming against a Hezbollah-run financial institution

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel said late Monday it planned to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before and which it says uses customers' deposits to finance attacks against Israel. At least 15 branches of Al-Qard...

Middle East latest: Israel apologizes for strike that killed 3 Lebanese soldiers

The Israeli military apologized Monday for a strike that killed three Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon, saying it is not battling the country's military and its troops believed they were targeting a vehicle belonging to the Hezbollah militant group. Israeli strikes, meanwhile,...

Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after occupying building at University of Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police arrested an unknown number of pro-Palestinian protesters Monday at the University of Minnesota after a group of students briefly occupied an administrative building, protest organizers said. The Monday afternoon protest prompted an alert from school...

Biden is 'deeply concerned' about the release of secret documents on Israel's possible attack plans

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is “deeply concerned” about the unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel's preparation for a potential retaliatory attack on Iran, a White House spokesman said Monday. The Biden administration is still not certain if the...

Some Jewish voters in presidential swing states reconsider their longtime devotion to Democrats

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — For Rona Kaufman, the signs are everywhere that more Jews feel abandoned by the Democratic Party and may vote for Republican Donald Trump. It's in her Facebook feed. It's in the discomfort she observed during a question-and-answer at a recent Democratic Party...

Blinken heads to the Middle East for the 11th time since the Gaza war, but truce prospects uncertain

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading again to the Middle East, making his 11th trip to the region since the war in Gaza erupted last year and as Israel steps up attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The State Department said Blinken would depart Monday...