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Israelis erupt in protest to demand cease-fire after 6 more hostages found dead in Gaza

September 1, 2024, 11:56am Nation & World

Grieving and angry Israelis surged into the streets Sunday night after six more hostages were found dead in Gaza, chanting “Now! Now!” as they demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reach a cease-fire with Hamas to bring the remaining captives home. Read story

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.

Large-scale polio vaccinations begin in war-ravaged Gaza after first case in 25 years

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.

September 1, 2024, 10:14am Latest News

Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas war. Read story

Harris: Trump’s ‘political stunt’ at Arlington ‘disrespected sacred ground’

September 1, 2024, 10:08am Nation & World

Vice President Kamala Harris said former President Donald Trump “disrespected sacred ground” in his recent appearance at Arlington National Cemetery, where the Republican nominee took and distributed images despite a federal prohibition on campaign activity on the grounds. Read story

Pro-Israel protesters wave an American flag during a pro-Palestinian protest at UCLA in May.

‘It feels like a fortress.’ California students return to college amid tighter security over protests

Pro-Israel protesters wave an American flag during a pro-Palestinian protest at UCLA in May.

September 1, 2024, 6:14am Nation & World

When Lawrence Sung returned to USC this week, he encountered a campus starkly different from that one he’s come to know over the last three years. Read story

A vendor holds a handful of Trinidad and Tobago dollars, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. Prime Minister Keith Rowley announced Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, the country is redrawing the island&rsquo;s coat of arms to remove references to European colonization and that Christopher Columbus&rsquo; three ships will be replaced with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument.

Trinidad and Tobago reckons with colonialism in a debate on statues, signs and monuments of its past

A vendor holds a handful of Trinidad and Tobago dollars, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. Prime Minister Keith Rowley announced Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, the country is redrawing the island&rsquo;s coat of arms to remove references to European colonization and that Christopher Columbus&rsquo; three ships will be replaced with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument.

September 1, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — In a small auditorium in the seaside capital of Trinidad and Tobago, Christopher Columbus and other colonial-era figures came under scrutiny late Wednesday in a lengthy debate punctuated by snickers, applause and outbursts. Read story

Lincoln Township Clerk Irvin Kanaski, left, and Hume Township Clerk Theresa Mazure leave an early voting site on Aug. 1, 2024, in Port Austin, Michigan.

In small towns, even GOP clerks are targets of election conspiracies

Lincoln Township Clerk Irvin Kanaski, left, and Hume Township Clerk Theresa Mazure leave an early voting site on Aug. 1, 2024, in Port Austin, Michigan.

September 1, 2024, 6:02am Latest News

Deep in the thumb of Michigan’s mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula, Republican election officials are outcasts in their rural communities. Read story

At the Trail of Truth event in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23, 2023, people who lost loved ones to the addiction crisis display hundreds of memorial markers to memorialize them and demand more action from the federal government.

Public voices often ignored in states’ opioid settlement money decisions

At the Trail of Truth event in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23, 2023, people who lost loved ones to the addiction crisis display hundreds of memorial markers to memorialize them and demand more action from the federal government.

September 1, 2024, 6:00am Health

The conversation wasn’t sounding good for Kensington residents on June 20. Read story

This photo provided by Moderna in August 2024 shows packaging and a syringe for the company&rsquo;s updated COVID vaccine for ages 12 and older approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024.

The new COVID vaccine is out. Why you might not want to rush to get it

This photo provided by Moderna in August 2024 shows packaging and a syringe for the company&rsquo;s updated COVID vaccine for ages 12 and older approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024.

September 1, 2024, 6:00am Health

The FDA has approved an updated COVID shot for everyone 6 months old and up, which renews a now-annual quandary for Americans: Get the shot now, with the latest COVID outbreak sweeping the country, or hold it in reserve for the winter wave? Read story

28-year-old Milla Nemoudji, a woman who was divorced by her husband following years of physical abuse, is photographed in a village of Binmar, Chad, Friday, July 19, 2024.

Women in Chad defy discrimination and violence to assert their rights to own and control land

28-year-old Milla Nemoudji, a woman who was divorced by her husband following years of physical abuse, is photographed in a village of Binmar, Chad, Friday, July 19, 2024.

September 1, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

When Milla Nemoudji, a 28-year-old from a village in southern Chad, divorced her husband following years of physical abuse, she found herself without means for survival. Though raised in a farming family, she struggled to get by in a community where access to land is customarily controlled by men. Read story

As shipping forecasts have grown at one of the world&rsquo;s busiest seaports, officials have allocated hundreds of millions of dollars for storage and rail yard expansion, restoration and electrification projects, among others. One $18.2-million demolition project that&rsquo;s in the design phase at Terminal Island would clear the land near the old StarKist cannery and make it available for lease. The area is about a mile from the Tuna Street buildings.

The fight to save the last pieces of the historic Japanese fishing village on Terminal Island

As shipping forecasts have grown at one of the world&rsquo;s busiest seaports, officials have allocated hundreds of millions of dollars for storage and rail yard expansion, restoration and electrification projects, among others. One $18.2-million demolition project that&rsquo;s in the design phase at Terminal Island would clear the land near the old StarKist cannery and make it available for lease. The area is about a mile from the Tuna Street buildings.

September 1, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

LOS ANGELES -- Months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese American fishing community on San Pedro’s Terminal Island was given 48 hours to pack its belongings before it was forced into incarceration camps throughout the West. After the evacuation, most of its village was razed. Read story