Articles filed under Politics
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Waiting for news, families of Israeli hostages share their loved ones' lives and dreamsOct 17, 2023 1:00 am - They range from babies to the elderly. Most are civilians. Israel says at least 199 people taken during the Hamas attack are being held captive in Gaza. Some of their fa...
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Ukraine uses U.S.-provided long-range ATACMS missiles against Russian forces for the first timeOct 17, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The United States has quietly delivered a small number of long-range ballistic missiles that Ukraine said it urgently needed and that President Joe Biden pr...
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Ukraine claims a major strike on Russian airfields and thanks U.S. for providing long-range missilesOct 17, 2023 1:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine on Tuesday claimed to have carried out one of the most destructive attacks on Russian air assets since the beginning of the war, with Ukrainian P...
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Republicans reject Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on the first ballot, but more votes are aheadOct 17, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — Republicans rejected Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on Tuesday on the first ballot, as holdouts denied the hard-charging ally of Donald Trump the majorit...
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Can New York's mayor speak Mandarin? No, but with AI he's making robocalls in different languagesOct 17, 2023 1:00 am - ALBANY, N.Y. - New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been using artificial intelligence to make robocalls that contort his own voice into several languages he doesn't actua...
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Blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital; Hamas and Israel trade blame, as Biden heads to MideastOct 17, 2023 1:00 am - KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) - A massive blast rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people...
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Polish election winner Donald Tusk appeals to president to move quickly to form a new governmentOct 17, 2023 1:00 am - WARSAW, Poland - The opposition leader who won Poland's parliamentary election, Donald Tusk, appealed to the nation's president Tuesday for "energetic and fast decisions...
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Trump sues ex-British spy over dossier containing 'shocking and scandalous claims'Oct 16, 2023 4:00 am - LONDON — A lawyer for Donald Trump told a London judge Monday that the ex-president plans to prove that a discredited report by a former British spy that contained “shoc...
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Humanitarian aid is stuck at Gaza-Egypt border as Israeli siege strains hospitals, water supplyOct 15, 2023 11:00 pm - RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Hospitals in Gaza faced collapse Monday as water, power and medicine neared depletion, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians searched for dwindli...
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Putin's visit to Beijing underscores China's economic and diplomatic support for RussiaOct 15, 2023 11:00 pm - TAIPEI, Taiwan — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet this week with Chinese leaders in Beijing on a visit that underscores China's support for Moscow du...