Nation and World
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars’ association says
Sep 01, 2025 4:37 pm - Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left swaths of the enclave in rubble, meets “the legal definition of genocide,” the oldest and largest association of genocide scholars said in a resolution passed by the group’s members Sunday.
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Russia is suspected of jamming navigation on EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria, official says
Sep 01, 2025 3:37 pm - A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday. The plane landed safely at Plovdiv airport in central Bulgaria and von der Leyen will continue her planned tour of the European Union’s eastern front line nations, said commission spokesperson Arianna Podestà.
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1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows
Sep 01, 2025 3:33 pm - As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are held Monday for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation's labor force. More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents.
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Army football player and his dad save a man from flames after a car crash near West Point
Sep 01, 2025 11:42 am - FORT MONTGOMERY, N.Y. (AP) — An Army football player and his father pulled a man from a crashed car just before it burst into flames near the U.S. Military Academy at Wes...
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Earthquake in eastern Afghanistan destroys villages and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured
Sep 01, 2025 11:42 am - KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2...
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Pope demands end to the 'pandemic of arms' as he prays for victims of Minnesota school shootingAug 31, 2025 7:32 pm - VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an end to the “pandemic of arms, large and small,” as he prayed publicly for the victims of a shooting during a Cath...
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Rudy Giuliani injured in New Hampshire car crash, his spokesperson saysAug 31, 2025 5:14 pm - Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire in which he was a passenger, a spokesperson for the fo...
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Iran-backed Houthis raid UN offices in Yemen and detain at least 11 employeesAug 31, 2025 4:53 pm - CAIRO (AP) — Iran-backed Houthis on Sunday raided offices of the United Nations’ food, health and children's agencies in Yemen’s capital, detaining 11 U.N. employees, off...
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As Guatemalan kids sit in planes on tarmac, judge orders they stay in the US, for nowAug 31, 2025 4:49 pm - HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — After the U.S. government loaded children onto planes overnight to be sent back to their native Guatemala, a federal judge temporarily blocked the...
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Trump is cutting 500-plus jobs at Voice of America and its parent agency despite legal challenges
Aug 30, 2025 9:26 pm - WASHINGTON — The agency that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded international broadcasters is eliminating jobs for more than 500 employees, a Trump adm...