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FILE - Spectators watch the lava flow down the mountain from the Mauna Loa eruption, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii.

World’s largest active volcano Mauna Loa showed telltale warning signs before erupting in 2022

FILE - Spectators watch the lava flow down the mountain from the Mauna Loa eruption, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii.

November 12, 2024, 1:23pm Nation & World

Scientists can't know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale signs. Read story

Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison by a federal judge

November 12, 2024, 1:15pm Nation & World

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine. Read story

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Hospital where displaced people live in tents, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.

Israeli strikes kill 46 people in the Gaza Strip and 18 in Lebanon, medics say

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Hospital where displaced people live in tents, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.

November 12, 2024, 12:25pm Latest News

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 31 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including 11 at a makeshift cafeteria in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, medics said. In Lebanon, warplanes struck Beirut’s southern suburbs and killed six people east of the city… Read story

Ajay Banga, World Bank president, speaks during a roundtable session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Earth’s biggest polluters aren’t sending leaders to U.N. climate talks in a year of weather extremes

Ajay Banga, World Bank president, speaks during a roundtable session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

November 12, 2024, 11:19am Nation & World

World leaders converged Tuesday at the United Nations annual climate conference with plenty of big names and powerful countries noticeably absent. Read story

Jury awards Abu Ghraib detainees $42 million, holds contractor responsible

November 12, 2024, 11:18am Nation & World

A U.S. jury on Tuesday awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based military contractor responsible for contributing to their torture and mistreatment two decades ago. Read story

Police officers patrol a street during an exchange of gunfire between gangs and police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024.

Haiti’s main airport and capital frozen a day after a plane was shot by gangs

Police officers patrol a street during an exchange of gunfire between gangs and police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024.

November 12, 2024, 11:17am Nation & World

Haiti's main airport remained closed Tuesday, a day after gangs shot a landing airplane and injured a flight attendant when violence erupted as the country swore in its new prime minister in a politically tumultuous transition. Read story

This image provided by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection shows the wildfire in Jennings Creek, N.J., Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.

New wildfires burn in U.S. Northeast while bigger blazes rage out West

This image provided by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection shows the wildfire in Jennings Creek, N.J., Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.

November 12, 2024, 11:14am Nation & World

New wildfires burned Tuesday across the Northeast, adding to a series of blazes that have come amid very dry weather and killed at least one person, while much larger fires raged in California and other western states. Read story

FILE - Palestinians line up for food distribution in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 17, 2024.

U.S. says it will not limit Israel arms transfers after some improvements in flow of aid to Gaza

FILE - Palestinians line up for food distribution in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 17, 2024.

November 12, 2024, 10:27am Latest News

The Biden administration said Tuesday that Israel has made some good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza and therefore it will not limit arms transfers to Israel as it had threatened to a month ago if the situation had not improved. Relief groups say conditions are… Read story

Church of England head Justin Welby resigns over handling of sex abuse scandal

November 12, 2024, 10:26am Nation & World

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, resigned Tuesday after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware… Read story

A man lights a candle near flowers placed outside the &ldquo;Zhuhai People&rsquo;s Fitness Plaza&rdquo; where a man deliberately rammed his car into people exercising at the sports center, killing some and injuring others in Zhuhai in southern China&rsquo;s Guangdong province on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.

Driver rams his car into crowd in China, killing 35. Police say he was upset about his divorce

A man lights a candle near flowers placed outside the &ldquo;Zhuhai People&rsquo;s Fitness Plaza&rdquo; where a man deliberately rammed his car into people exercising at the sports center, killing some and injuring others in Zhuhai in southern China&rsquo;s Guangdong province on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.

November 12, 2024, 10:24am Nation & World

A man who authorities said was upset over his divorce settlement rammed his car into a crowd of people exercising at a sports complex in southern China, killing 35 and severely injuring dozens of others, police said Tuesday. Read story