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In Israel's call for mass evacuation, Palestinians hear echoes of their original catastrophic exodus 10/14/2023 12:35am • JERUSALEM (AP) — In Israel's call for the evacuation of half of Gaza's population, many Palestinians fear a repeat of the most traumatic event in their tortured history, their mass exodus from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation. Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, o Colleges and universities work to balance safety with community connection 10/13/2023 11:33pm • After a mass shooting at Baltimore's Morgan State University that injured five people on Oct. 3, university president David Wilson said the school's proposing security upgrades, including a $6.4 million "security barrier" to protect the campus. This week, American University sent out a letter to Palestinians flee northern Gaza after Israel orders 1 million to evacuate as ground attack looms 10/13/2023 09:43pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians fled in a mass exodus Friday from northern Gaza after Israel’s military told some 1 million people to evacuate to the southern part of the besieged territory ahead of an expected ground invasion in retaliation for the surprise attack by the ruling Hamas militant gro Live updates | Day 7 of the latest Israel-Hamas war 10/13/2023 09:30pm • Israel’s military ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City to evacuate Friday ahead of a feared Israel ground offensive. The directive came on the heels of what the United Nations said was a warning it received from Israel to evacuate 1.1 million people living in northern Gaz Judge authorizes attempted murder trial in shooting over Spanish conquistador statue 10/13/2023 09:20pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered an attempted murder trial for a New Mexico man accused in the shooting of a Native American activist amid confrontations about aborted plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador outside a government office. State District Court Judge Jason AP Exclusive: 911 calls from deadly Lahaina wildfire reveal terror and panic in the rush to escape 10/13/2023 08:59pm • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Trapped in their cars, in homes or on the beach as flames, black smoke and embers swirled around them, people in the historic Maui town of Lahaina called 911, the one number that might send help or tell them what to do, where to go. A man sprayed water on his house as homes Israeli couple killed protecting their twin babies 'were heroes,' family says 10/13/2023 08:13pm • ▶ Watch Video: Israeli couple who were killed protecting their twin babies "were heroes," family says Tel Aviv — The uncle of twin babies who miraculously survived alone for 14 hours after their parents were slain by Hamas militants in southern Israeli de Police officer killed in shooting after break-in at Philadelphia airport garage, authorities say 10/13/2023 07:33pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed and a second officer was wounded when they confronted people breaking into a car at Philadelphia International Airport, police said. Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford said veteran officers Richard Mendez and Raul Ortiz h Palestinians in Gaza face impossible choice: Stay home under airstrikes, or flee under airstrikes? 10/13/2023 06:55pm • GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Watching the pulverized alleys of Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza empty of people, Naji Jamal was frozen with indecision. Should he heed the Israeli army's demand that all Palestinians evacuate and make the risky trip to Gaza's south, where his only certainty wa Israeli shelling along Lebanon border kills 1 journalist, wounds 6 10/13/2023 06:04pm • ALMA Al-SHAAB, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon on Friday, killing a Reuters videographer and injuring six other journalists. An Associated Press photographer at the scene saw the body of Reuters vid Police: Teens suspected of Tysons mall carjacking threw liquid candy on driver, told him it was 'acid' 10/13/2023 06:03pm • A 14-year-old Maryland boy has been arrested after police say he and another young person carjacked a man's BMW from Tysons Corner Center by threatening to throw "acid" on him that later turned out to be liquid sour candy. It happened shortly before 6:30 p.m. Thursday in a parking garage near the Paralyzed driver Robert Wickens wins IMSA class title at Road Atlanta 10/13/2023 05:54pm • BRASELTON, Georgia (AP) — Robert Wickens, paralyzed from the waist down in an IndyCar crash five years ago, has won a racing championship in the IMSA Touring Car Class finale of the Michelin Pilot Challenge. All Wickens needed was an eighth-place finish to earn the title, and he and co-driver Har A father worries for his missing child: 'My daughter didn't go to war. She just went to dance' 10/13/2023 04:26pm • PARIS (AP) — Because of the fracture in her right leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music festival and sold her ticket. But a week before Hamas militants turned the party into a killing ground, she bought another. The 24-year-old French-Israeli airport worker w Vasser Sullivan set to claim 1st major motorsports title. Team still eyeing return to IndyCar 10/13/2023 03:33pm • Vasser Sullivan started the IMSA sports car season strong enough that it was quickly apparent a championship was finally in reach for the Lexus factory program. So when the No. 14 rolled into Canada in early July fresh off a win at Watkins Glen and podium finishes in four of the first five races, c AP Exclusive: 911 calls from deadly Lahaina wildfire reveal terror and panic in the rush to escape 10/13/2023 02:36pm • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Audio of 911 calls from a deadly August wildfire released late Thursday by Maui County authorities reveals a terrifying and chaotic scene as the inferno swept through the historic town of Lahaina and people desperately tried to escape burning homes and flames licking at cars