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Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 slaying of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, right, talks to his attorney, Carl Arnold, in court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (K.M.

Man charged in Tupac Shakur’s killing asks again for house arrest instead of jail before trial

July 23, 2024, 9:48am Nation & World

An ailing and aging former Los Angeles-area gang leader is due to ask a Nevada judge on Tuesday to change her mind and release him from jail to house arrest ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden, center, makes opening remarks during the NATO summit in Washington, July 10, 2024. It’s been two weeks since Biden’s debate with Donald Trump and there’s rampant gloom in the party about Biden’s chances in the fall if he stays in the race. On Thursday, July 11, the 11th lawmaker joined the list of Democrats calling on Biden to end his candidacy. After days of reckoning, many more are known to be harboring that wish.

Biden aims for more achievements despite the bane of lame-duck presidents: diminished relevance

July 23, 2024, 9:48am Nation & World

President Joe Biden says he’s “determined to get as much done” as he possibly can in his final six months in the White House as he tries to beat back a defining force that his lame-duck predecessors struggled to vanquish: diminished relevance. Read story

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile flips onto its side after crash along suburban Chicago highway

July 23, 2024, 9:46am Entertainment

One of Oscar Mayer’s hot dog-shaped Wienermobiles ended up flipped onto its side after crashing on a suburban Chicago highway, police said. Read story

ADDS NAME OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER - In this handout photo released by Gofa Zone Government Communication Affairs Department, hundreds of people gather at the site of a mudslide in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, Gofa Zone, southern Ethiopia, Monday, July 22, 2024. At least 146 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, according to local authorities.

Mudslides in Ethiopia have killed at least 229. It’s not clear how many people are still missing

July 23, 2024, 9:46am Nation & World

Mudslides triggered by heavy rain in a remote part of Ethiopia have killed at least 157 people, many of them as they tried to rescue survivors of an earlier mudslide, local authorities said Tuesday. Read story

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Dec. 24, 2023. Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week is looming as a particularly fraught one between two allies. The Israeli leader is coming to address Congress Wednesday, July 24, 2024, at a moment of extreme political flux in the United States.

Netanyahu is in Washington at a fraught time for Israel and the US. What to know about his visit

July 23, 2024, 9:45am Nation & World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week is looming as a fraught one between the two allies, coming at a moment of extreme political flux in the United States and wariness among American leaders about Netanyahu’s history of interjecting himself into U.S. domestic politics. Read story

FILE - Women and their children gather in the playground at the end of the day in the settlement outpost of Asa’el in the south Hebron hills on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. The Israeli government has budgeted millions of dollars in security support for small, unofficial Jewish outposts in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which is enabling the expansion of Jewish settlements while circumventing the official planning process, according to a human rights group.

Israeli government quietly sends millions to unauthorized West Bank settler outposts

July 23, 2024, 9:40am Latest News

The Israeli government has budgeted millions of dollars to protect small, unauthorized Jewish farms in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, underwriting tiny outposts meant to grow into full-fledged settlements, according to an anti-settlement monitoring group. Read story

After key Baptist leader applauds Biden’s withdrawal, agency retracts announcement of his firing

July 23, 2024, 9:32am Churches & Religion

In under 48 hours, the head of the staunchly conservative public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention rankled fellow Baptists by applauding President Joe Biden’s “selfless act” of withdrawing his candidacy for re-election. Then, his agency reported he was fired — and now they have reaffirmed his leadership. Read story

Eminem brings Taylor Swift’s historic reign at No. 1 to an end, Stevie Wonder’s record stays intact

July 23, 2024, 9:32am Entertainment

Eminem’s latest album, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce),” has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, unseating Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” after 12 weeks. Read story

FILE - This electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health shows a human T cell, in blue, under attack by HIV, in yellow, the virus that causes AIDS.

UN says nearly 40 million people had HIV in 2023, lack of treatment means someone died every minute

July 23, 2024, 9:31am Health

Nearly 40 million people were living with the HIV virus that causes AIDS last year, over 9 million weren’t getting any treatment, and the result was that every minute someone died of AIDS-related causes, the U.N. said in a new report launched Monday. Read story

Young migrants arrive in the port of La Restinga at El Hierro in the Canary Islands on Saturday, June 6 2024, after being rescued by the Spanish Sea Rescue. Spain’s Canary Islands are struggling to deal with thousands of teenagers and children traveling alone to the archipelago from Senegal, Mali, and other African nations.

Thousands of migrant kids have reached the Canary Islands alone. Local officials want Spain’s help

July 23, 2024, 9:29am Nation & World

The children sometimes won’t stop crying. Health workers dealing with migrants arriving on Spain’s Canary Islands try to understand if the tears are from illness, injury or, as is often the case, from pure shock. Read story