Nation and World
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A top Chinese diplomat will visit Washington ahead of a possible meeting between Biden and Xi
Oct 24, 2023 1:00 am - Washington - China's top diplomat will come to the United States on Thursday for a three-day visit, the latest move by Washington and Beijing to keep high-level talks op...
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Israel launches 400 strikes across Gaza, where health officials say hundreds of Palestinians killed
Oct 24, 2023 1:00 am - RAFAH, Gaza Strip - A barrage of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday crushed multiple residential buildings and buried families under rubble, as health o...
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Stranded at a closed border as bombs fall, foreign nationals in besieged Gaza await evacuation
Oct 24, 2023 1:00 am - KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - For more than a week, Talaat Ghabayen, a citizen of Norway who spent his whole life in Oslo, has waited days and nights at the Gaza Strip's lan...
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Inquiry into New Zealand's worst mass shooting will examine response times of police and medics
Oct 24, 2023 1:00 am - CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - An inquiry that began Tuesday into New Zealand's worst mass shooting will examine - among other issues - the response times of police and med...
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In courtroom faceoff, Michael Cohen says he was told to boost Trump's asset values 'arbitrarily'
Oct 24, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - In a courtroom showdown five years in the making, Donald Trump's fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen testified Tuesday that he worked to boost the supposed value o...
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'We want to do our part': Local health care workers prepare to deploy to GazaOct 23, 2023 5:00 am - When humanitarian aid workers return to Gaza, suburban physician Dr. Thaer Ahmad will be with them, even though it means stepping into the middle of a war. "If there's ...
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Dwindling fuel supplies for Gaza's hospital generators put premature babies in incubators at risk
Oct 23, 2023 1:00 am - DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip - A premature baby squirms inside a glass incubator in the neonatal ward of Al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. He cries out as intrave...
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Sen. Menendez returns to New York court to enter plea to new conspiracy charge
Oct 23, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez returns to court Monday to enter an expected not guilty plea to a conspiracy charge alleging he acted as an agent of the Egyptian gover...
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At least 15 killed and many injured when 2 trains collide in central Bangladesh
Oct 23, 2023 1:00 am - DHAKA, Bangladesh - A cargo train hit a passenger train outside the Bangladeshi capital on Monday, leaving at least 15 people dead and scores more injured, fire official...
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Israel ramps up strikes on Gaza as US advises delaying ground war to allow talks on captives
Oct 23, 2023 1:00 am - RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Israel ramped up its airstrikes Monday in Gaza, where the death toll was rising rapidly, and the United States advised Israel to delay an expected gr...