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Rescue workers carry a man who was injured after an Israeli airstrike hit two adjacent buildings, in Ain el-Delb neighbourhood east of the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024.

Israel to vote on severely restricting UN agency that is a lifeline for Gaza

Rescue workers carry a man who was injured after an Israeli airstrike hit two adjacent buildings, in Ain el-Delb neighbourhood east of the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024.

October 28, 2024, 9:39am Nation & World

Israel’s parliament is scheduled to vote Monday on a pair of bills that would effectively sever ties with the U.N. agency responsible for distributing aid in Gaza, strip it of legal immunities and restrict its ability to support Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. Read story

California’s commercial Dungeness crab season delayed again to protect whales

October 28, 2024, 9:24am Nation & World

The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh year in a row to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines. Read story

FILE - Eva Stebel, water researcher, pours a water sample into a smaller glass container for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response on Feb. 16, 2023, in Cincinnati. The Biden administration on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, finalized strict limits on certain so-called &ldquo;forever chemicals&rdquo; in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they can be reliably measured. (AP Photo/Joshua A.

More states ban PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals,’ in more products

FILE - Eva Stebel, water researcher, pours a water sample into a smaller glass container for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response on Feb. 16, 2023, in Cincinnati. The Biden administration on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, finalized strict limits on certain so-called &ldquo;forever chemicals&rdquo; in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they can be reliably measured. (AP Photo/Joshua A.

October 28, 2024, 6:17am Nation & World

Legislative momentum against PFAS has surged this year, as at least 11 states enacted laws to restrict the use of “forever chemicals” in everyday consumer products or professional firefighting foam. Read story

Buttons, who the Associated Press is referring to only by her childhood nickname because of her legal status, sits for a portrait behind her baby photo taken before she was adopted from Iran to a family in America, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. Buttons is one of thousands of children adopted from abroad by American parents, many of them military service members, who were left without citizenship by loopholes in American law that Congress has been aware of for decades, yet remains unwilling to fix.

Thousands of children adopted by Americans are without citizenship. Congress is unwilling to act

Buttons, who the Associated Press is referring to only by her childhood nickname because of her legal status, sits for a portrait behind her baby photo taken before she was adopted from Iran to a family in America, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. Buttons is one of thousands of children adopted from abroad by American parents, many of them military service members, who were left without citizenship by loopholes in American law that Congress has been aware of for decades, yet remains unwilling to fix.

October 28, 2024, 6:06am Latest News

The 50-year-old newspaper was turning yellow and its edges fraying, so she had it laminated, not as a memento but as proof — America made a promise to her, and did not keep it. Read story

The mosquito-borne virus ‘triple E’ continues its spread, worrying state health officials

October 28, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

Mosquito-borne illnesses are a growing concern in Northeastern states, with health officials monitoring cases and advising residents to avoid outdoor activities near standing water and other environments prone to mosquito spread. Read story

More mobile clinics are bringing long-acting birth control to rural areas

October 28, 2024, 6:00am Health

Twice a month, a 40-foot-long truck transformed into a mobile clinic travels the Rio Grande Valley to provide rural Texans with women’s health care, including birth control. Read story

SpaceX sets Space Coast record with 73rd launch of 2024

October 27, 2024, 3:12pm Nation & World

A SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral on Saturday evening marked the 73rd launch from the Space Coast in 2024, the most ever in one year. Read story

A Native American woman walks by the stage during a campaign event in support of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Red Springs, N.C.

A century after Native Americans got the right to vote, they could put Trump or Harris over the top

A Native American woman walks by the stage during a campaign event in support of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Red Springs, N.C.

October 27, 2024, 3:02pm Nation & World

RED SPRINGS, N.C. (AP) — Native American communities were decisive voting blocs in key states in 2020, and with the 2024 race remaining stubbornly close both campaigns have tried to mobilize Native voters in the final weeks of the presidential election. Read story

Ukrainian servicemen prepare 122mm artillery cannon before firing towards Russian positions in Kherson region, Ukraine, Sunday Oct. 27, 2024.

Russians thwart attempted cross-border attack

Ukrainian servicemen prepare 122mm artillery cannon before firing towards Russian positions in Kherson region, Ukraine, Sunday Oct. 27, 2024.

October 27, 2024, 2:30pm Nation & World

Russian forces thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion by Ukraine into southwestern Russia, a local official reported Sunday, months after Kyiv staged a bold assault on its nuclear-armed enemy that Moscow is still struggling to halt. Read story

UN says 120 killed in Sudan rampage

October 27, 2024, 2:18pm Nation & World

Fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town, a doctors group and the United Nations said. Read story