US President Joe Biden’s family used a gathering at Camp David to urge him to stay in the race and keep fighting, despite his dreadful debate performance, and some members criticised how his staff prepared him for it, according to people familiar with the discussions. Mr Biden spent Sunday sequestered with first lady Jill Biden, […]
WASHINGTON — As top Democrats offered a public show of support for President Joe Biden throughout the weekend, his advisers worked privately Sunday to push back against suggestions that he step aside, with his campaign manager describing the mechanics of replacing him on the ticket as messy and impractical. During a tense call with a […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Kamel Hamdan CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli forces advanced further on Sunday into the Shejaia neighbourhood of northern Gaza and also pushed deeper into western and central Rafah in the south, killing at least six Palestinians and destroying several homes, residents said. Israeli tanks, which moved back into Shejaia four days ago, fired […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Abortion-rights groups in Florida are locked in a battle with the state over the cost for a ballot measure that would overturn the state’s six-week ban. The fight is over a seemingly obscure fiscal impact statement estimating the cost to the state for passing the proposed constitutional amendment. It highlights how both […]
Hydrogen is causing a buzz on Capitol Hill and rightly so. This emerging energy technology has the potential to unlock an abundance of clean energy solutions and reduce energy-related emissions — think American heavy industry — by 10% to 25%. Hydrogen provides the United States an opportunity to strengthen America’s long-term manufacturing competitiveness and become […]
A GoFundMe has been set up for a 21-year-old North Texas woman who was struck and injured by traffic after falling out of her mother’s truck early Sunday. Sherryta Smith said in the fundraiser that her daughter Sasha is battling for her life in the hospital and will need several surgeries. Officers responded to Farm […]
Leaders of a major Milwaukee charter school network will ask a city board this week to allow them to build a $55 million school on the south side — though they say they’re not sure yet who will attend it. The proposal, which leaders say started as a dream project for the Carmen Schools of […]
In the throes of the Great Depression, Works Progress Administration crews worked tirelessly to build recreational amenities, education facilities and other infrastructure improvements throughout the United States. A sandstone clubhouse west of City Park tennis courts is among the WPA structures that remain standing almost 90 years later in Pueblo. While demolition of this clubhouse […]
KEREM SHALOM, Israel—Just miles from the point where Israel meets Gaza and Egypt, the Arab descendants of nomadic tribes are defending their country. At the Kerem Shalom military base—the headquarters of the Israeli army’s desert trackers unit, also known as the “Bedouin Battalion”—these soldiers, most of them Muslims, feel a strong sense of national pride […]
STORY: :: ISRAELI CHANNEL 14 :: Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘intense fighting’ with Hamas is ending, but war will go on Channel 14 Host: “I mean it’s within a month?” Netanyahu: “The end of the phase of intense fighting?” Channel 14 Host: “Yes, is it up to a month?” Netanyahu: “Very soon.” :: June 23, 2024 […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the phase of intense fighting against Hamas was coming to an end but that the war would not end until the Islamist group no longer controls the Gaza Strip. Once the intense fighting is over in Gaza, Netanyahu said, it will allow Israel […]
A 25-year-old man was stabbed and two brothers were arrested following a bloody fight at a Randall’s Island migrant shelter that sparked a bigger brawl among its residents, police said Saturday. Dozens of cops were dispatched to the shelter on E. 125th St. following the 7:50 p.m. attack on Friday, cops said. The two brothers […]