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Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza's thousands of war-wounded face hard decisions

By WAFAA SHURAFA and JACK JEFFERY
Dec 27, 2023 7:11 am - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. The 22-year-old had been hospitalized in Gaza for ar...
On foot and by donkey cart, thousands flee widening Israeli assault in central Gaza

By NAJIB JOBAIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Dec 27, 2023 3:24 pm - RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Thousands of Palestinian families fled Wednesday from the brunt of Israel’s expanding ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges,...
Americans sour on the primary election process and major political parties, an AP-NORC poll says

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and LINLEY SANDERS
Dec 27, 2023 3:44 pm - WASHINGTON — With the GOP presidential primaries just about to start, many Republicans aren't certain that votes will be counted correctly in their contest, as pessimism ...
In battleground Arizona, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. draws Biden and Trump voters united by distrust

By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Dec 25, 2023 7:31 am - PHOENIX (AP) — Some voted for Donald Trump, others for Joe Biden. A few had never wanted anything to do with politics before they heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a podcast...
A weekend of combat in Gaza kills 14 Israeli soldiers in a sign of Hamas' entrenchment

By TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Dec 24, 2023 8:09 am - TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Fourteen Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israeli military said Sunday, in some of the bloodiest day...
U.S. tensions with China are fraying long-cultivated academic ties. Will the chill hurt US interests?

By DIDI TANG
Dec 24, 2023 7:39 am - WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, Fu Xiangdong was a young Chinese virology student who came to the United States to study biochemistry. More than three decades later, he had a ...
With the Supreme Court on sideline for now, Trump's lawyers press immunity claims before lower court

By ERIC TUCKER
Dec 24, 2023 7:38 am - WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was acting within his role as president when he pressed claims about “alleged fraud and irregularity” in the 2020 election, his lawyers told a f...
As conflicts rage abroad, a fractured Congress tries to rally support for historic global challenges

By STEPHEN GROVES and SEUNG MIN KIM
Dec 24, 2023 7:35 am - WASHINGTON — As the Senate wrapped up its work for the year, Sen. Michael Bennet took to the floor of the nearly empty chamber and made a late-night plea for Congress to ...
The Supreme Court says no, for now, to plea to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted

By MARK SHERMAN
Dec 22, 2023 6:52 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Friday it will not immediately take up a plea by special counsel Jack Smith to rule on whether former President Donald Trump can be pr...
UN approves watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Dec 22, 2023 4:19 pm - UNITED NATIONS — After many delays, the U.N. Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civ...

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