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The Latest | UN food aid collapses in Rafah as Israeli leaders decry war crime accusations 05/21/2024 10:38pm • The United Nations said Tuesday that it was no longer able to distribute food aid in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity. The humanitarian crisis has escalated over the past two weeks since Israel launched an incursion into Rafah that closed a vital border crossin UN halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city 05/21/2024 08:38pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� The United Nations suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Tuesday due to a lack of supplies and an untenable security situation caused by Israel���s expanding military operation. The U.N. warned that humanitarian operations across the territory were nearing Delaware lawmakers OK bill enabling board of political appointees to oversee hospital budgets 05/21/2024 06:49pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) ��� The state House on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill aimed at curtailing the increase in health care costs in Delaware by establishing a state board with authority to impose budgets on the state���s largest hospitals. The legislation passed the House on a 24-16 vote with two Adult children of Idaho man charged with killing their mom and two others testify in his defense 05/21/2024 06:46pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� The adult children of an Idaho man accused of killing their mother and his girlfriend's two young kids testified in his defense this week, saying their mother's health was declining before she died. The testimony from Chad Daybell 's children on Monday marked the start of his Over 1 million claims related to toxic exposure granted under new veterans law, Biden announces 05/21/2024 04:19pm • NASHUA, N.H. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden, aiming to highlight his legislative accomplishments this election year, traveled to New Hampshire on Tuesday to discuss how he's helped military veterans get benefits as a result of burn pit or other toxic exposure during their service. ���We can never full Detroit officer placed on administrative duties after telling protester to 'go back to Mexico' 05/21/2024 02:55pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� A Detroit police lieutenant has been placed on administrative duties after a shouting match in which he told a pro-Palestinian protester to ���go back to Mexico.��� The encounter Sunday outside Huntington Place in downtown Detroit where President Joe Biden was giving the keynote dur California congressman urges closer consultation with tribes on offshore wind 05/20/2024 02:31pm • A congressman who represents California���s north coast has sent a letter to federal regulators asking that they ���urgently place��� a senior official in the state to respond to tribal needs as wind power is developed offshore. U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman sent the letter as the U.S. offshore wind indus Taiwan's new President Lai in his inauguration speech urges China to stop its military intimidation 05/20/2024 10:47am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� Taiwan���s new president, Lai Ching-te, said in his inauguration speech Monday that he wants peace with China and urged it to stop its military threats and intimidation of the self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own territory. ���I hope that China will face the re In Oregon's Democratic primaries, progressive and establishment wings battle for US House seats 05/19/2024 02:05pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Two Democratic primaries for U.S. House seats in Oregon could help reveal whether the party���s voters are leaning more toward progressive or establishment factions in a critical presidential election year. The state���s 3rd Congressional District, which includes much of libe Member of Israel's War Cabinet says he'll quit the government June 8 unless there's a new war plan 05/18/2024 06:15pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Benny Gantz, a popular centrist member of Israel���s three-member War Cabinet, threatened Saturday to resign from the government if it doesn't adopt a new plan in three weeks' time for the war in Gaza, a decision that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu m Trucks are rolling across a new US pier into Gaza. But challenges remain to getting enough aid in 05/17/2024 09:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hindered the delivery of food and other supplies. The shipment is the f Kosovo criticizes Council of Europe for not holding a vote on its membership, blames Serbia lobbying 05/17/2024 11:30am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) ��� Kosovo on Friday criticized the Council of Europe 's decision against holding a vote on its membership, saying it deprived its people and especially its ethnic minorities of democratic tools offered by the continent���s top human rights body. Kosovo���s membership was not o Turkey's Erdogan pardons elderly generals imprisoned over 1997 'postmodern coup' 05/17/2024 08:16am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday pardoned seven former top military officers who were sentenced to life terms in prison over the ouster of an Islamic-led government in 1997. The former generals, who are in their late 70s and 80s, were pardoned due to health is FIFA to seek legal advice on Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel from international soccer 05/17/2024 05:45am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Facing a Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel from international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas, FIFA bought time Friday by agreeing to seek legal advice before holding an extraordinary council meeting within two months. FIFA president Gianni Infantino outlined the plan What does a DC ward manager do? Meet the first one: Ward 8's Wendy Glenn 05/17/2024 05:39am • In a building off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Southeast, Wendy Glenn sat behind a desk, helping residents connect to the services that the District has to offer them. She's the city's first ward manager, a position D.C. plans to introduce to all eight wards. Her team will operate out of t