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Thousands march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to protest Israeli government's judicial overhaul plan 07/21/2023 01:10pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Israelis joined a march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Friday in the latest protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to push through a controversial overhaul of the judiciary system. Hundreds of protesters became thousands as Israelis joined the 70-kilom Zoe Saldaña put self-doubt aside to star in new Taylor Sheridan series 'Special Ops: Lioness' 07/21/2023 11:43am • Zoe Saldaña has starred in three successful film franchises — “ Avatar ”, “ Guardians of the Galaxy ” and “ Star Trek " — yet when Taylor Sheridan approached her to lead his new TV series, “Special Ops: Lioness,” she said no. “I have ADD and I'm dyslexic, so learning a lot of di Doctors Without Borders says armed men beat up its team working at a hospital in Sudan's capital 07/21/2023 11:22am • CAIRO (AP) — Armed men attacked an 18-member team of Doctors Without Borders working at a key hospital in Sudan's war-torn capital of Khartoum, the aid group said Friday. The MSF medical team was stopped on the road on Thursday while transporting supplies to the Turkish Hospital, located in the d Sunak's Conservatives suffer 2 big defeats but avoid a wipeout in trio of UK special elections 07/21/2023 09:01am • LONDON (AP) — Voters weary of economic pain and political turmoil handed Britain's governing Conservatives two thumping defeats Friday in a trio of special elections that point toward likely defeat for the party in the next national election. The Conservatives avoided a wipeout by holding onto for Cambodian leader's son, a West Point grad, set to take reins of power — but will he bring change? 07/21/2023 03:45am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Hun Sen has been Cambodia’s autocratic prime minister for nearly four decades, during which the opposition has been stifled and the country has grown increasingly close to China. With his Cambodian People’s Party virtually guaranteed another landslide victory in thi Watch Oppenheimer discuss use of the atomic bomb in 1965 interview 07/20/2023 07:20pm • ▶ Watch Video: "Oppenheimer," the father of the atomic bomb Twenty years after the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, often credited as the father of the atomic bomb, said he didn't have a good answer to the question of whether dropping Israel's Netanyahu doubles down on judicial plan, rejects criticism and moves ahead toward key vote 07/20/2023 06:09pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday vowed to press ahead with his contentious judicial overhaul, despite unprecedented mass protests at home, growing defections by military reservists and appeals from the U.S. president to put the plan on hold. Netanyahu’s mess Two prominent Egyptian rights figures are released from prison following presidential pardons 07/20/2023 04:41pm • CAIRO (AP) — Egypt on Thursday released two human rights defenders, including one who has ties with Italy, their lawyers said, concluding two cases that drew significant international criticism and attention. The releases of Patrick George Zaki, an activist and postgraduate student in Italy, and M Biden administration asks employers to give more help to workers who lose Medicaid 07/20/2023 02:45pm • The Biden administration on Thursday asked employers to give workers who lose Medicaid coverage more time to sign up for health insurance through their jobs. Medicaid is the state- and federally funded program that covers health care costs for people with low incomes. States have resumed checks for Thousands of UK hospital doctors walk out in the latest pay dispute, crippling health services 07/20/2023 12:12pm • LONDON (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors in England began a 48-hour walkout Thursday to demand better pay and conditions, paralyzing hospitals and leaving only emergency care covered. The severe disruptions are the latest in a wave of industrial action by public sector workers amid U.K.'s ongoin Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved 07/20/2023 10:55am • ▶ Watch Video: Probe reveals Customs and Border Protection failed to protect migrant child who died in May The life of a migrant girl who died in Border Patrol custody in May could have been saved if she had been treated differently while in U.S. custody, a government official conceded The UK's governing Conservatives are braced for a drubbing from voters in 3 special elections 07/20/2023 09:11am • LONDON (AP) — Voters went to the polls Thursday in three electoral districts of England, with the governing Conservative Party braced for a drubbing over a cost-of-living crisis and a morale-sapping string of political scandals. The elections for House of Commons seats are being closely watched be European Union rushes firefighters to Greece as grueling Mediterranean heat wave takes toll 07/20/2023 12:11am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighting aircraft and ground crews from other countries headed to Greece on Thursday to help battle wildfires that have intensified as a heat wave baked much of southern Europe in temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). New evacuations were ordered Israeli doctors hold 'warning strike,' caution that judicial overhaul threatens health care system 07/19/2023 10:10pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Doctors in Israel held a two-hour strike Wednesday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to overhaul the country's judiciary. The doctors say the plan will endanger public health by granting Netanyahu and his allies greater control over the country's health care syst Longtime college administrator Lew Perkins dies at the age of 78 07/19/2023 09:10pm • LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Longtime college administrator Lew Perkins, who played basketball at Iowa before serving as the athletic director at several universities and taking on an influential role within the NCAA, died Tuesday. He was 78. Perkins' family announced his death in a statement issued b