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Biden at 81: Often sharp and focused but sometimes confused and forgetful 07/03/2024 10:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden's conduct behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and in meetings around the world is described in the same dual way by those who regularly see him in action. He is often sharp and focused. But he also has moments, particularly later in the Biden at 81: Often sharp and focused but sometimes confused and forgetful 07/03/2024 10:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden's conduct behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and in meetings around the world is described in the same dual way by those who regularly see him in action. He is often sharp and focused. But he also has moments, particularly later in the The Latest | Israel kills a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon; group retaliates with rocket attacks 07/03/2024 06:27pm • Israel killed a senior commander in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Wednesday, the second top field leader killed in less than a month, and the group said it retaliated by firing scores of rockets at Israeli military positions near the border. The Israeli military estimated that around 100 Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades 07/03/2024 02:16pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, a settlement tracking group said Wednesday, a move that is likely to worsen already soaring tensions linked to the war in Gaza. Israel's aggressive expansion in the West Bank reflects An Afghan woman wanted to be a doctor. Now she makes pickles as the Taliban restricts women's roles 07/03/2024 12:55am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� Frozan Ahmadzai is one of 200,000 Afghan women who have the Taliban���s permission to work. She should have graduated from university this year in pursuit of her dream of becoming a doctor, but the Taliban have barred women from higher education and excluded them from man The Latest | Palestinians flee Khan Younis as Israel says 1.9 million are crammed in central Gaza 07/02/2024 06:46pm • Palestinians are streaming out of eastern Khan Younis, the second-largest city in Gaza, as an Israeli evacuation order affects roughly 250,000 people, the United Nations said Tuesday. Israel���s military estimated that around 1.9 million people ��� more than 80% of all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip UN launches global road safety campaign in US with goal of halving the number of victims by 2030 07/01/2024 08:06pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The United Nations on Monday launched its global road safety campaign in the United States, which aims to halve the number of road-related victims worldwide by 2030. The two-year advertising campaign seeks to educate people on basic, but life-saving, safety measures, such as Puerto Rico will include status plebiscite in November's general elections 07/01/2024 07:20pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Gov. Pedro Pierluisi announced Monday that Puerto Rico���s political status will be on the ballot in the general elections this November, and for the first time the island���s current status as a U.S. territory will not be an option in the non-binding plebiscite. Voter Nine years after Obergefell, number of same-sex marriages has jumped in Maryland 06/30/2024 11:17am • Same-sex couples could already get married in Maryland before the U.S. Supreme Court extended the right nationwide nine years ago, but the numbers have risen sharply since the ruling was handed down in Obergefell v. Hodges. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there were about 4,400 same-sex mar The Latest | ���Carry your son and run���: Gaza families describe fleeing Rafah under Israeli fire 06/28/2024 04:56pm • Displaced Palestinian families in Gaza's south have fled what they said was intensifying Israeli fire in northern areas of Rafah to seek shelter elsewhere, describing a chaotic night as the sounds of fighting drew closer and prompted the difficult decision to evacuate. ���Just carry your son and ru School's out and NYC migrant families face a summer of uncertainty 06/28/2024 05:56am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When Damien Carchipulla started his first school year in New York City in September, the first grader's family was living in a Manhattan hotel for migrant families. In the 10 months since, the family of four from Ecuador has moved shelters three times under a policy Mayor Eric Adam The Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now in a limited ruling 06/27/2024 07:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for Idaho hospitals to provide emergency abortions, for now, in a procedural order that left key questions unanswered and could mean the issue ends up before the conservative-majority court again soon. The order was briefly posted on th Israel lets 19 kids leave Gaza who are sick or wounded, first medical evacuation in nearly 2 months 06/27/2024 07:13pm • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Israeli authorities say 68 people ��� 19 sick or wounded children plus their companions ��� have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical evacuation since early May, when the territory���s sole travel crossing was shut down after Israel California bill crafted to require school payments to college athletes pulled by sponsor 06/27/2024 06:33pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� A proposal that would require California universities to pay their athletes through a ���degree completion fund��� has been withdrawn from consideration at the state legislature. Assemblyman Chris Holden pulled his proposed bill, the College Athlete Protection Act, from The Latest | Gaza families bid a tearful goodbye to critically ill kids leaving for treatment abroad 06/27/2024 05:38pm • Families bid a tearful goodbye to over a dozen critically ill children who left Gaza for treatment abroad on Thursday. It���s the first medical evacuation since the territory���s sole travel crossing shut down in early May after Israeli forces captured it, Palestinian officials say. Kamela Abukweik