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Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel tensions ease as Netanyahu pauses judicial overhaul

Israel's political factions opposed to embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began setting up negotiating teams Tuesday after he paused a controversial judicial overhaul plan that had triggered unprecedented street protests and a spiraling domestic crisis.
Image taken from a video showing ambulances and rescue teams staffers outside an immigration center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. At least three dozen migrants have died in a fire at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico near the U.S. border, according to a newspaper report. Images from the scene showed rows of bodies lying under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. Ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue could also be seen.

40 dead in fire at Mexico migrant center near US border; video shows guards walking away

After migrants in northern Mexico placed mattresses against the bars of their detention cell and set them on fire, guards quickly walked away and made no apparent attempt to release the men before smoke filled the room and killed at least 40, surveillance video showed Tuesday.
This May 21, 2020, photo provided by Victor Gensini shows a tornado in Moscow, Kan. A new study says warming will fuel more supercells or tornadoes in the United States and that those storms will move eastward from their current range.

Study says warming-fueled supercells to hit South more often

America will probably get more killer tornado- and hail-spawning supercells as the world warms, according to a new study that also warns the lethal storms will edge eastward to strike more frequently in the more populous Southern states, like Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.
FILE - Mark Hamill salutes as he arrives at the world premiere of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” in Los Angeles on Dec. 16, 2019. When air raid alarms sound in Ukraine, they also trigger a downloadable app that has been voiced by “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill. With his gravely but also calming baritone, he urges people to take cover. He also tells them when the danger has passed, signing off with “May the Force be with you.” In an interview with The Associated Press, the actor said he’s admiring Ukraine’s resilience from afar in California.

Feel the Force: Hamill carries 'Star Wars' voice to Ukraine

"Attention. Air raid alert," the voice says with a Jedi knight's gravitas. "Proceed to the nearest shelter." It's a surreal moment in an already surreal war: the grave but calming baritone of actor Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker of "Star Wars," urging people to take cover whenever Russia unleashes another aerial bombardment on Ukraine.
Mary Cockrell looks at the home of her neighbors, Lonnie and Melissa Pierce, who were killed when a semi truck landed on their house during a tornado that hit three days earlier, Monday, March 27, 2023, in Rolling Fork, Miss. Cockrell’s home was also damaged during the storm.
High tornado death toll in Mississippi like losing family
"I had to identify family, that's what it felt like," said Sharkey County Coroner Angelia Eason. "We're a close-knit community; we're small. And when something like this happens, we tend to come together even closer. We didn't just lose 13 people, we lost 13 family members."
A currency trader passes by the screens showing the foreign exchange rates at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday as investors got some relief from worries over troubled U.S. banks with a planned takeover of failed Silicon Valley Bank.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Wall Street quiet as stability appears to return for banks
U.S. futures are flat in light trading Tuesday as anxiety over the strength of the global banking sector, triggered by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, eased.
Britain’s Prince Harry arrives at the Royal Courts Of Justice in London, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Prince Harry is in a London court on Tuesday as the lawyer for a group of British tabloids prepared to ask a judge to toss out lawsuits by the prince, Elton John and several other celebrities who allege phone tapping and other invasions of privacy.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Prince Harry returns to court in tabloid phone hacking case
Prince Harry returned to a London court Tuesday for a second day of hearings to see if the phone hacking lawsuit he brought with Elton John and other celebrities can withstand a challenge from the publisher of The Daily Mail.
Portugal: Refugee held as suspect in Muslim center stabbings
A man wielding a large knife killed two women and injured several other people at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon, and Portuguese police said they were investigating Tuesday's stabbing attack as a possible terror act.
Emergency responders and heavy equipment are seen at the site of a deadly explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, Saturday, March 25.
All 7 Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion victims found
All seven bodies have been recovered from the site of a powerful explosion at a chocolate factory in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania, officials said.
Cristobal Cavazos
It's not laziness that's at root of our worker shortages
Guest columnist Cristobal Cavazos: Don Roberto (real man, altered name) mid-60s, in his apron, stood in the drive-through window of his Naperville taqueria -- one of only two workers there, "It's just that, you know, people these days are lazy, they don't want to work anymore," he said.
Emil Garippo, who is turning 100 years old, in a 1980s photo with his wife, Dean. The couple celebrated 74 years of marriage before her death in 2020.
World War II vet turning 100 reflects on century at the frontlines of America
"They all thought I was nuts." In the 1960s, jogging was not something people did. But in his own quiet way, Emil Garippo of Bloomingdale has been at the frontlines of change, challenge and progress in America for almost 100 years.
A firefighter injured a finger while battling a blaze Tuesday at this home under construction on the 500 block of Harrison Street in Algonquin.
Firefighter suffers minor injury while battling Algonquin blaze
A firefighter was taken to the hospital for a minor injury after Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District crews responded Tuesday morning to a fire at a home under construction in Algonquin.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Seven-year breast cancer survivor Patricia Robinson, left, currently homeless, high-fives Patricia Thies of Vernon Hills, who is battling stage four breast cancer during the annual St. Baldrick’s head shaving event ROCK THE BALD! on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at Hawthorn Mall in Vernon Hills. Participants raised money for childhood cancer research. Stylist is Marissa Sneider of Mario Tricoci.
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Anderson Humane in South Elgin has a new program called Doggie Day Out that enables people to sign up as temporary fosters and take a shelter dog out for a day. Erin Linton, who works at the shelter, picked up Willie for the day just to get him out of the chaos of the shelter for the day and was rewarded with a sloppy kiss.
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Halle Berry arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Under the direction of Mark Duker, the Waubonsie Valley High School band practices for a performance of Hindustani music Wednesday, February 22, 2023 in Aurora.
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Geneva’s Jimmy Rasmussen and Glenbard West’s Jack Oberhofer react after Rasmussen knocked down a three as time ran off the clock to win the IHSA Class 4A Geneva regional championship game Friday, February 24, 2023 in Geneva.
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Hinsdale Central celebrates after winning the IHSA Boys state swim finals Saturday February 25, 2023 in Westmont.
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