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Israel plans to take over Gaza City to pressure Hamas. Worries rise for civilians and hostages

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAM METZ and SAMY MAGDY
Aug 08, 2025 9:27 am - Israel said Friday it will intensify its 22-month war with Hamas by taking over Gaza City, drawing a dismissal from the militant group and renewed international calls to end the conflict, while stirring fears for Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.
Ukrainian troops have little hope for peace as Trump’s deadline for Russia arrives

By VASILISA STEPANENKO
Aug 08, 2025 6:52 am - Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield expressed little hope for a diplomatic solution to the war with Russia, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s Friday deadline for the Kremlin to stop the killing arrived and he eyed a possible summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the conflict.
Trump seeks to force universities to turn over admissions data on race

By Anumita Kaur and Susan Svrluga
Aug 07, 2025 7:38 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the Education Department to begin collecting extensive admissions data from colleges and universities, including the grades and test scores of applicants and admitted students, broken down by race.
Trump calls for major changes to census amid GOP redistricting effort

By Dan Merica and David Nakamura
Aug 07, 2025 7:32 pm - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to conduct a census that would not count people present in the country illegally, an order that clashes with the Constitution and would face legal challenges.
Trump says he would meet with Putin even if the Russian leader won’t meet with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

By DASHA LITVINOVA, BARRY HATTON and MICHELLE PRICE
Aug 07, 2025 7:01 pm - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin even if the Russian leader won’t meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in comments that suggested the U.S. and Russia could soon hold a summit.
Netanyahu says Israel plans to take over all of Gaza in bid to destroy Hamas

By MELANIE LIDMAN and WAFAA SHURAFA
Aug 07, 2025 6:50 pm - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that to destroy Hamas Israel intends to take full control of the Gaza Strip and eventually transfer its administration to friendly Arab forces, as the Security Cabinet discussed a widening of its 22-month offensive.
Pritzker: FBI can’t arrest Texas lawmakers sheltering in Illinois

By Peter Hancock
Aug 07, 2025 5:23 pm - Gov. JB Pritzker brushed aside suggestions Thursday that FBI agents could be deployed to arrest a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers who have fled to Illinois to delay voting on a mid-decade Republican redistricting plan.
Hurricane season is picking up. These conditions have forecasters most concerned.

By Ben Noll
Aug 07, 2025 4:37 pm - After a slow but deadly start to hurricane season, the Atlantic Ocean is turning more active as the typical peak of activity approaches in September.
July was Earth’s third-warmest on record, EU scientists say

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and SUMAN NAISHADHAM
Aug 07, 2025 4:10 pm - The world experienced its third-warmest July on record this year, the European Union agency that tracks global warming said Thursday, with temperatures easing slightly for the month as compared with the record high two years ago.
Soldiers hailed as heroes for tackling armed assailant at Georgia Army base

By RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN
Aug 07, 2025 3:51 pm - Sgt. Aaron Turner was helping lock down a supply warehouse on Fort Stewart after gunshots were reported in a neighboring office building. Then he saw a fellow soldier walking past, wearing a hooded sweatshirt over his uniform and holding a handgun.Instead of ducking for cover, Turner said, he approached the gunman and started talking — asking what he was doing there and where he was heading.

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