Israeli military claims victory in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost, and currently uninhabitable, city. NBC News reports:
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Rafah a ghost town as Israeli military claims victory in Gaza’s southernmost city
Rafah is currently uninhabitable, its buildings crumbled and blackened. Mounds of concrete and bent metal lie where they once stood. The destructio...
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Hurricane Francine has made landfall in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, just after strengthening into a Category 2 storm, fueled by the unusually warm water in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm’s maximum sustained winds are estimated to be near 100 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Southern Louisiana, including New Orleans, face significant flooding risk. Read more from the Associated Press.
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Thousands in the dark as Hurricane Francine strikes Louisiana, raising flood fears
Hurricane Francine has made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm, bringing powerful winds, deadly storm surge and potential flooding.
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What we know about the 14-year-old boy who has been charged with killing two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school. From AP: "More than a year ago, tips about online posts threatening a school shooting led Georgia police to interview a 13-year-old boy, but investigators didn’t have enough evidence for an arrest. On Wednesday, that boy opened fire at his high school outside Atlanta."
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Father of Georgia school shooting suspect arrested on charges including second-degree murder
The father of the suspect in the Apalachee High School shooting has been arrested on charges including second-degree murder and involuntary manslau...
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"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July effectively spiked a draft hostage and ceasefire deal by introducing a raft of new, 11th-hour demands, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth citing a document it obtained." CNN reports: "The report lends credence to charges often leveled at the prime minister – most notably by hostage families – of purposefully prolonging the war and torpedoing deals for his political benefit." https://flip.it/CvYUce #Israel #Netanyahu #Ceasefire #Gaza #Hamas #IsraelHamasWar #News
Former aide to 2 New York governors is charged with being an agent of the Chinese government. AP reports: "Linda Sun, who held numerous posts in New York state government before rising to the rank of deputy chief of staff for [Gov. Kathy] Hochul, was arrested Tuesday morning along with her husband, Chris Hu, at their $3.5 million home on Long Island. Prosecutors said Sun, at the request of Chinese officials, blocked representatives of the Taiwanese government from having access to the governor’s office, shaped New York governmental messaging to align with the priorities of the Chinese government and attempted to facilitate a trip to China for a high-level politician in New York."
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Former aide to 2 New York governors is charged with being an agent of the Chinese government
Federal prosecutors say a former aide to two New York governors has been charged with acting as an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government.
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Extremist Israeli settlers are rapidly seizing West Bank land, the BBC finds. "The outposts — which can be farms, clusters of houses, or even groups of caravans — often lack defined boundaries and are illegal under both Israeli and international law."
Israeli outpost settlers rapidly seizing West Bank land
There has been a sharp rise in extremist Israeli settlers taking land from Palestinians, analysis shows.
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Israel agrees to pause fighting in Gaza for polio vaccination, says UN official. CNN reports: "Since the war, Gaza’s near-universal polio vaccine coverage has dropped to just over 80%. The resurgence of the virus – eliminated in most of the developed world – highlights the struggles facing Gaza’s two million residents, who have lived under Israeli bombardment since October last year." https://flip.it/pC6OKW #Israel #Gaza #Polio #Hamas #Disease #PublicHealth #Vaccines #News
In a new interview, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she was "concerned" about Donald Trump immunity ruling. "I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances, when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same," she told CBS News.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she was
Jackson suggested the ruling gives Trump special treatment compared to others in the criminal justice system.
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More than 200 former Republican presidential staffers sign open letter endorsing Kamala Harris over Donald Trump. AP reports: "Several Republicans, including Mesa, Arizona, Mayor John Giles, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham, spoke in favor of Harris at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago."
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More than 200 former Republican presidential staffers sign open letter endorsing Harris over Trump
More than 200 staffers for four previous Republican presidential nominees have endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris' White House bid.
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"The Democratic Party of Georgia, with the support of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, is asking a judge to weigh in on Georgia’s new rules for certifying election results." WABE, the NPR and PBS affiliate in Atlanta, explains the fight: https://flip.it/hCuLFI #USPolitics #Election #Georgia #ElectionDeniers #Politics #Democrats #News