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96-year-old Korean War veteran still attempting to get Purple Heart medal after 7 decades 11/10/2023 03:15pm • ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) — Earl Meyer remembers in vivid detail when his platoon came under heavy fire during the Korean War -- he still has shrapnel embedded in his thigh. But over 70 years later, the 96-year-old is still waiting for the U.S. Army to recognize his injury and to award him a Purple He Fights in bread lines, despair in shelters: War threatens to unravel Gaza's close-knit society 11/10/2023 03:10pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats. “My kids are crying because they are hungry an Acapulco recovery moves ahead in fits and starts after Hurricane Otis devastation 11/10/2023 02:51pm • ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — The 58-year-old woman, a cook by profession, toiled on a recent afternoon inside a luxury apartment with expansive views of the Pacific, putting Gucci and Dior shoes into a bag to take to her employer. Around her only the apartment’s skeleton and piles of debris, walls an UK judge decries legal tactics used by sick child's parents as he refuses to let her die at home 11/10/2023 01:57pm • LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Friday expressed profound concerns about the tactics of the parents of a terminally ill infant as he refused to allow them to take her home from the hospital to die. The decision by Court of Appeal Justice Peter Jackson came after the parents of 8-month-old Indi Gr The Great Grift: COVID-19 aid thieves bought fancy cars, a Pokemon card - even a private island 11/10/2023 10:44am • YANKEETOWN, Fla. (AP) — A freshwater spring bubbles amid the mangroves, cabbage palms and red cedars on Sweetheart Island, a two-acre uninhabited patch of paradise about a mile off the coast of this little Gulf Coast town. Pelicans divebomb nearby into the cool waters of Florida's Withlacoochee Ba Palestinian evacuees say thousands of people sheltering at Shifa hospital fled after strikes, doctors there unreachable 11/10/2023 08:31am • GAZA CITY (AP) — Palestinian evacuees say thousands of people sheltering at Shifa hospital fled after strikes, doctors there unreachable. Data Doctors: 4 ways to get calendar spam 11/10/2023 04:56am • Q: How are spammers putting things in my calendar without my knowledge? A: Spammers and scammers are constantly on the prowl to find new ways to get to us and the open architecture of most calendar programs is a growing target. A standard known as iCal or iCalendar (not to be confused with App Civilians flee north Gaza or shelter at a hospital as Israel and Hamas battle in the city 11/10/2023 12:03am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Crowds of Palestinian families stretching as far as the eye could see walked out of Gaza City and surrounding areas toward the south Thursday to escape Israeli airstrikes and ground troops battling Hamas militants in dense urban neighborhoods. Others joined tens of Live updates | Israel will allow a daily pause in Gaza combat, as US seeks a multiday break 11/09/2023 11:13pm • U.S. President Joe Biden's administration says Israel will allow a four-hour humanitarian pause each day in combat operations in northern Gaza to allow civilians to flee to the south, starting on Thursday. Biden also told reporters he had asked the Israelis for a “pause longer than three days” d Toxic heavy smog in eastern Pakistan makes tens of thousands sick 11/09/2023 08:09pm • LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Toxic gray smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore, forcing authorities to shut schools, markets and parks for four days, officials said Thursday. The decision came after the country's second-largest city, with a population o US childhood vaccination exemptions reach their highest level ever 11/09/2023 05:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said Thursday. More parents are questioning routine childhood vaccinations that they used to automatically accept, an effect of the politica Former New Mexico State players charged with sex crimes in locker-room hazing case 11/09/2023 04:44pm • Three former New Mexico State basketball players were charged with multiple sex crimes Thursday related to a series of alleged assaults of teammates that led to the disbandment of the team in the middle of last season. A New Mexico grand jury indicted former Aggies Deshawndre Washington, Kim Aiken J Amazon takes another shot at health care, this one a virtual care service that costs $9 per month 11/09/2023 03:53pm • Amazon is taking another shot at becoming a regular health care source for customers with the launch of a service centered on virtual care. The e-commerce giant says its Prime customers can now get quick access to a health care provider through a program that costs $9 a month or $99 annually. The an NY is developing education program on harms of medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children 11/09/2023 02:59pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is requiring state health officials to develop an outreach program to educate parents and doctors about the harmful impacts of medically unnecessary treatments performed on young children born intersex. The measure, which was signed into law on Wednesday by Governor Ka French President Macron hosts Gaza aid conference and appeals to Israel to protect civilians 11/09/2023 02:09pm • PARIS (AP) — Western and Arab nations, international agencies and nongovernmental groups stressed the urgent need for aid for Gaza civilians at a Paris conference Thursday, held as the humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory worsens amid Israel's massive air and ground campaign against Hamas