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FILE - Passengers whose flights were cancelled sit at the departure terminal ground of Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 5, 2024.

Its economy and infrastructure battered, can Lebanon afford a war with Israel?

August 26, 2024, 8:20am Business

The ferocious exchange of fire by Hezbollah and the Israeli military is raising fears of a regional war beyond the tense border. Read story

Guests swim and sunbathe at the pool at the American Colony Hotel in east Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. As Israel’s economy is suffering from the nearly 11-month war with Hamas, Jerusalem’s iconic American Colony hotel has had to lay off workers and are mulling pay cuts, said Jeremy Berkovitz, the official representative of the owners.

Israel’s economy is struggling. Economists say ending the war would help

August 26, 2024, 8:02am Business

In Jerusalem’s Old City, nearly all souvenir shops are closed. In Haifa’s flea market, forlorn merchants polish their wares on empty streets. Airlines are canceling flights, businesses are failing and luxury hotels are half empty. Read story

Mexican-Triqui artist Carlos CGH, wearing a black and red “gabán,” a garment native to the Triqui people in western Oaxaca, performs during a celebration of Indigenous peoples at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024.

In Mexico, an Indigenous Triqui artist embraces his roots through contemporary rap

August 26, 2024, 6:05am Nation & World

Backstage at a celebration of Indigenous peoples in Mexico City’s sprawling central square, Carlos CGH traced his fingers across a black and red “gabán,” which is similar to a poncho. Read story

This combination photo shows Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at an event, Aug. 15, 2024, in Bedminster, N.J., left, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Raleigh, N.C., Aug. 16, 2024.

Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here?

August 26, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World

Child and family policies have catapulted to a prime spot in the presidential race as Kamala Harris promotes a new care economy for working families and former President Trump touts his past record. Read story

California State, Los Angeles, professor Eric Wood, left, and former CSLA student Christian Benitez take a break from searching for birds in Los Angeles, as a public works crew collects tree branches and leaves. Trees losing their limbs is typically associated with severe weather such as tornadoes, hurricanes and thunderstorms. But a little known risk outside of arborist circles is that mature and seemingly healthy trees can suddenly lose branches in summer weather.

Trees suddenly losing limbs in summer heat remains mystery

August 26, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World

In 2003, as Paris sweltered through a heat wave that would go on to kill an estimated 15,000 people across France, one oasis of cooler air remained off limits: the city’s roughly 400 public parks. They were temporarily closed because of the danger of falling tree limbs. Read story

In this Aug. 14, 2024 photo, ten-month-old Palestinian infant Mostafa Qadoura, who has already lost his eye and his immediate family to the horrors of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, plays with his grandmother Amna Abd Rabou, at the New Administrative Capital Hospital, just outside Cairo, Egypt. Mostafa was among the 28 babies, most of whom were born premature, who were evacuated from the then-besieged Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and transported to Egypt late last year.

A baby evacuated from Gaza lost an eye and most of his family in the war

August 26, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

When Mostafa Qadoura was a week old, an Israeli strike on his home in the Gaza Strip last October launched him and his crib into the air, sent shrapnel into his right eye that damaged it beyond repair and killed one of his brothers. Read story

Flowers and candles are placed in Solingen, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024, near the scene of Friday's deadly attack.

Suspect in the Germany attack was motivated by Islamic State group ideology, prosecutors say

August 25, 2024, 1:09pm Latest News

A Syrian man on Sunday was ordered held on suspicion of murder and membership in a terrorist organization in connection with the Solingen knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded at a festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary. Read story

Rohingya refugees mark the anniversary of their exodus and demand a safe return to Myanmar

August 25, 2024, 1:09pm Nation & World

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh on Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus, demanding safe return to Myanmar's Rakhine state. Read story

‘We were expendable’: Downwinders from world’s 1st atomic test are on a mission to tell their story

August 25, 2024, 1:09pm Nation & World

It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites. It was a decisive move that helped bring about the end of World War II, but survivors and the generations that followed were… Read story

In boosting clean energy in Minnesota, Walz lays foundation for climate influence if Harris wins

August 25, 2024, 12:51pm Nation & World

When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz strolled onstage to welcome a conference of clean power advocates to Minneapolis in May, he was quick to note that his state is now getting a little over half of its power from renewables. In the next breath, Walz said Minnesota would never get to… Read story