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The Latest | Israel forces block Gaza's Rafah border crossing. UN says it's running out of fuel 05/08/2024 12:10pm • Israeli forces have seized the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, pressing their offensive into the southern city on Tuesday. The closed border means U.N. humanitarian teams in Gaza will run out of diesel fuel by Wednesday, a senior humanitarian official said, leaving them unable to Israel seizes Gaza's vital Rafah crossing, but the US says it isn't the full invasion many fear 05/07/2024 11:02pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Israeli troops seized control of Gaza���s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday in what the White House described as a limited operation, as fears mount of a full-scale invasion of the southern city and talks with Hamas over a cease-fire and hostage release remain on a knife���s edge Denial and uncertainty are looming over a Biden-Trump rematch 6 months out from Election Day 05/06/2024 10:22pm • WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) ��� This North Carolina voter is nervous. Will Rikard, a 49-year-old father of two, was among several hundred Democrats who stood and cheered for Joe Biden as the first-term president delivered a fiery speech recently about the billions of dollars he has delivered to protect th Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates are pushed back in a 'measure of good news' 05/06/2024 05:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday. Still, officials warn that policy changes are neede Auditors can't locate former St. Louis circuit attorney to complete state audit 05/06/2024 02:57pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� A state examination of the office that handles criminal prosecutions in St. Louis is being delayed because auditors can���t find former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said Monday. Fitzpatrick said in a news release that auditors have tried for sev A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7 05/05/2024 08:27pm • KIBBUTZ MEFALSIM, Israel (AP) ��� When Hamas fighters invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, the militant group that rules the Gaza Strip perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. So this year���s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins on Sunday evening in Israel, carries a heavier Many Florida women can't get abortions past 6 weeks. Where else can they go? 05/05/2024 02:06am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� When Florida enacted its six-week abortion ban last week, clinics in several other Southern and mid-Atlantic states sprang into action, knowing women would look to them for services no longer available where they live. Health care providers in North Carolina, three states to t The American paradox of protest: Celebrated and condemned, welcomed and muzzled 05/05/2024 12:59am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� They���re hallmarks of American history: protests, rallies, sit-ins, marches, disruptions. They date from the early days of what would become the United States to the sights and sounds echoing across the landscapes of the nation���s colleges and universities during this activist sp South Sudan removes newly imposed taxes that had triggered suspension of UN food airdrops 05/04/2024 04:46pm • JUNA, South Sudan (AP) ��� Following an appeal from the United Nations, South Sudan removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered suspension of U.N. food airdrops. Thousands of people in the country depend on aid from the outside. The U.N. earlier this week urged South Sudanese authori The Latest | Israel's planned invasion of Rafah risks killing hundreds of thousands, UN says 05/03/2024 07:30pm • The United Nations humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of thousands of people would be ���at imminent risk of death��� if Israel carries out a military assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The border city is a critical entry point for humanitarian aid and is filled with displaced Palestinia Abortion is still consuming US politics and courts 2 years after a Supreme Court draft was leaked 05/02/2024 04:32pm • Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation's abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation's courts, legislatures and political campaigns ��� and changing the course of lives. On Wednesday, a ban on abortion a Tension grows on UCLA campus as police order dispersal of large pro-Palestinian gathering 05/01/2024 11:39pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Law enforcement on the UCLA campus donned riot gear Wednesday evening as they ordered the dispersal of over a thousand people who had gathered in support of a pro-Palestinian student encampment, warning over loudspeakers that anyone who refused to leave could face arrest. A lar The Latest | In Israel, Blinken pushes Hamas to agree on Gaza cease-fire deal 05/01/2024 04:08pm • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Wednesday to press for a cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war, saying ��� the time is now ��� and warning that Hamas would bear the blame for any failure to reach an agreement to halt the war in Gaza. On his seventh visit since the latest wa What marijuana reclassification means for the United States 05/01/2024 11:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn't legalize it for recreational use. The proposal would move marijuana from the ��� US poised to ease restrictions on marijuana in historic shift, but it'll remain controlled substance 04/30/2024 07:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. The proposal, which still must be