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Aviva Siegel, who was held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip for 51 days after she was kidnapped with her husband on Oct. 7, poses for a portrait in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. Keith Siegel is still in captivity.

A former hostage fought for her own life in Gaza. A year on, she fights for her husband’s freedom

Aviva Siegel, who was held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip for 51 days after she was kidnapped with her husband on Oct. 7, poses for a portrait in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. Keith Siegel is still in captivity.

October 5, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

As a hostage in Gaza, Aviva Siegel found herself begging for food and water. Since her release, she has found herself begging for her husband to be set free from his own ongoing captivity. Read story

FILE - Abortion rights protesters rally near the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta, on May 14, (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Part 4: Will abortion swing the first post-Roe presidential election?

FILE - Abortion rights protesters rally near the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta, on May 14, (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

October 5, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

Dr. Kristin Lyerly’s placenta detached from her uterus when she was 17 weeks pregnant with her fourth son in 2007. Her doctor in Madison, Wisconsin, gave the devastated recent medical school graduate one option: to deliver and bury her dead child. But she requested a dilation and evacuation abortion procedure,… Read story

More women are seeking sterilizations post-Dobbs, experts say

October 5, 2024, 6:00am Health

In the months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion, there was a spike in the number of women seeking sterilizations to prevent pregnancy, a recent study shows. Read story

Denise Wieck and her son Guy Boyd, who was shot in the eye with a ghost gun, are seen Sept. 14 in Ypsilanti, Mich.

Flood of ‘ghost guns’ slows; regulation challenged at Supreme Court

Denise Wieck and her son Guy Boyd, who was shot in the eye with a ghost gun, are seen Sept. 14 in Ypsilanti, Mich.

October 5, 2024, 5:57am Nation & World

A Biden administration rule passed in 2022 blocks teenagers and people who can’t pass a background check from buying "ghost gun" kits. But manufacturers and gun-rights groups have pushed back in court, and on Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the regulation will stand. Read story

A person shows a sign while abortion rights activists protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2024. The demonstration marked the second anniversary of the court&rsquo;s Dobbs v. Jackson Women&rsquo;s Health Organization ruling, which reversed federal protections for access to abortions.

Will Supreme Court continue ‘waging war on the administrative state’? New term starts Monday.

A person shows a sign while abortion rights activists protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2024. The demonstration marked the second anniversary of the court&rsquo;s Dobbs v. Jackson Women&rsquo;s Health Organization ruling, which reversed federal protections for access to abortions.

October 5, 2024, 5:56am Nation & World

The Supreme Court starts a new term Monday that includes cases on guns, e-cigarettes and environmental standards that will give the conservative majority a chance to further tame the power of administrative agencies. Read story

FILE - The dating app Tinder is shown on a smartphone on June 26, 2024, in New York.

Australia eyes safer online dating with new code of conduct

FILE - The dating app Tinder is shown on a smartphone on June 26, 2024, in New York.

October 5, 2024, 5:55am Life

A code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users after research found that 3 in 4 people suffer some form of sexual violence through the platforms, Australia’s government said Tuesday. Read story

Jack Smith Special counsel

Filing says Trump ‘resorted to crimes’ after losing 2020 election

Jack Smith Special counsel

October 5, 2024, 5:55am Nation & World

Donald Trump “laid the groundwork for his crimes” well before Election Day in 2020. He said “the details don’t matter” when told his election fraud claims would fail in court. And his response to learning that then-Vice President Mike Pence had been taken to a secure location as rioters stormed… Read story

Los Angeles prosecutors to review 1996 murder case of the Menendez brothers who killed their parents

October 5, 2024, 5:32am Nation & World

Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of the Menendez brothers, who were convicted of killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago, the city’s district attorney said Thursday. Read story

Debris is strewn on the lake in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Lake Lure, N.C.

Soul-searching and regret over unheeded warnings follow Helene’s destruction

Debris is strewn on the lake in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Lake Lure, N.C.

October 4, 2024, 5:24pm Nation & World

Before Hurricane Helene’s landfall last week, the National Weather Service began an all-out blitz to alert emergency planners, first responders and residents across the Southeast that the storm’s heavy rains and high winds could bring disaster hundreds of miles from the coast. Read story

FILE - Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez sit with defense attorney Leslie Abramson, right, in Beverly Hills Municipal Court during a hearing, Nov. 26, 1990.

Los Angeles prosecutors to review new evidence in Menendez brothers’ 1996 murder conviction

FILE - Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez sit with defense attorney Leslie Abramson, right, in Beverly Hills Municipal Court during a hearing, Nov. 26, 1990.

October 4, 2024, 3:30pm Nation & World

Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez to determine whether they should be serving life sentences for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago, the city's district attorney said Thursday. Read story