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Biden, Cyprus president discuss administration push to win cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon

October 30, 2024, 12:25pm Latest News

President Joe Biden and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday discussed a new effort by the U.S. administration and mediators in the Middle East to forge cease-fires to end fighting in Lebanon and Gaza. Read story

FILE - In this photo from surveillance video provided by the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District via the Austin American-Statesman, authorities stage in a hallway as they respond to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. The former Uvalde schools police chief and another former officer have been indicted over their role in the slow police response to the 2022 massacre in a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, according to multiple reports Thursday, June 27, 2024.

News organizations ask Texas court to order release of Texas state police records of Uvalde shooting

FILE - In this photo from surveillance video provided by the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District via the Austin American-Statesman, authorities stage in a hallway as they respond to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. The former Uvalde schools police chief and another former officer have been indicted over their role in the slow police response to the 2022 massacre in a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, according to multiple reports Thursday, June 27, 2024.

October 30, 2024, 12:13pm Nation & World

A group of news organizations asked a Texas appeals court on Wednesday to order the release of state Department of Public Safety records of the law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, the latest dispute over what should be made public from one of the deadliest… Read story

North Korean troops in Russian uniforms are heading toward Ukraine, US says

October 30, 2024, 12:11pm Nation & World

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that North Korean troops wearing Russian uniforms and carrying Russian equipment are moving to the Kursk region near Ukraine, in what he called a dangerous and destabilizing development. Read story

United Way and Paramount to air benefit for hurricane relief

October 30, 2024, 9:20am Entertainment

United Way Worldwide and Paramount Global on Wednesday announced they will host a benefit to raise funds for those impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Read story

People walk through flooded streets in Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.

At least 95 people die in devastating flash floods in Spain

People walk through flooded streets in Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.

October 30, 2024, 8:26am Nation & World

Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 people in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory. Read story

A Long March rocket with a Shenzhou-19 spacecraft atop takes off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwestern China in the early hours of Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.

China’s new crew has arrived at space station in sign of growing influence in space field

A Long March rocket with a Shenzhou-19 spacecraft atop takes off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwestern China in the early hours of Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.

October 30, 2024, 8:25am Nation & World

A Chinese space ship carrying a three-person crew docked with its orbiting space station Tuesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space in competition with the United States, even as it looks for cooperation from other nations. Read story

FILE - Palestinian Hamas supporters hold posters shows the Israeli bombardment on Gaza during a protest demanding that staff who were fired in the Gaza Strip over allegations that they took part in the Oct. 7, attack on southern Israel be returned to their jobs and that countries resume funding of the agency, in front of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Beirut, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024.

Banning UNRWA will lead to a vacuum and more suffering for Palestinians, the agency’s chief says

FILE - Palestinian Hamas supporters hold posters shows the Israeli bombardment on Gaza during a protest demanding that staff who were fired in the Gaza Strip over allegations that they took part in the Oct. 7, attack on southern Israel be returned to their jobs and that countries resume funding of the agency, in front of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Beirut, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024.

October 30, 2024, 8:24am Nation & World

The head of the U.N. agency caring for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday that newly passed Israeli laws effectively banning its activities in Israel will leave a vacuum that will cost more lives and create further instability in Gaza and the West Bank. Read story

A court artist drawing by Elizabeth Cook of Axel Rudakubana, 18, appearing by video-link from Belmarsh prison at London&rsquo;s Westminster Magistrates&rsquo; Court, Wednesday Oct. 30, 2024.

Teen charged in English dance class stabbings stays silent in court on new poison and terror charges

A court artist drawing by Elizabeth Cook of Axel Rudakubana, 18, appearing by video-link from Belmarsh prison at London&rsquo;s Westminster Magistrates&rsquo; Court, Wednesday Oct. 30, 2024.

October 30, 2024, 8:23am Nation & World

The teen charged with killing three girls and wounding 10 other people in a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class refused to speak as he appeared in court Wednesday to face new charges of possessing a deadly poison and a terror charge linked to possessing an al-Qaida manual. Read story

FILE - A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India, March 24, 2018.

Tuberculosis infected 8 million people last year, the most WHO has ever tracked

FILE - A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India, March 24, 2018.

October 30, 2024, 8:22am Health

More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. Read story

Would Americans support Puerto Rico becoming a state — or leaving US? What poll says

October 30, 2024, 8:19am Nation & World

The question of whether or not Puerto Rico should become a U.S. state has long been a topic of debate among residents of the U.S. territory and among Americans within the states. Read story