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During the Israel-Hamas war, Jews will soon celebrate Purim — one of their most joyous holidays 03/20/2024 02:16am • Purim is widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits, noisemakers and varying degrees of rowdiness. It celebrates the biblical story of how a plot to exterminate Jews in Persia was thwarted, and thus is embraced as an Competitive primary matchup for Chicago-area prosecutor remains too early to call 03/20/2024 01:58am • CHICAGO (AP) — An open race to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office remained too early to call Wednesday after a heated primary campaign in the Chicago area. The Democratic matchup for the Cook County state’s attorney primary features Eileen O’Neill Burke, a former appella Incumbents win big in Illinois primary with Chicago-area Democrats emerging from competitive races 03/20/2024 01:32am • CHICAGO (AP) — Incumbents in competitive U.S. House races around Chicago cruised to victory in Tuesday's primary, while a downstate Republican challenger conceded in a race that focused on an endorsement from President Donald Trump. Turnout was low, notably in Chicago, where roughly 20% of regist Court order puts Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants who cross illegally back on hold 03/20/2024 12:34am • A federal appeals court late Tuesday issued an order that again prevents Texas from arresting migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the strict new immigration law to take effect. The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes weeks afte Anticipation and anger on Texas border as strict immigration law again on hold 03/20/2024 12:30am • McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court late Tuesday again prevented Texas from arresting and deporting migrants accused of entering the U.S. illegally, hours after the the law briefly took effect. Before a divided U.S. Supreme Court earlier let the state law take effect while a legal chal US appeals court order puts Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally back on hold 03/19/2024 11:58pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — US appeals court order puts Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally back on hold. Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ deputies get yearslong sentences for racist torture of 2 Black men 03/19/2024 10:47pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker sat on the front row of a packed courtroom Tuesday and watched as a federal judge handed down yearslong sentences to two of the white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured the two Black men last year in a bruta Heavy fighting rages around Gaza's biggest hospital as Israel raids it for a second day 03/19/2024 10:40pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Explosions and shootings shook the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital and surrounding neighborhoods as Israeli forces stormed through the facility for a second day Tuesday. The military said it had killed 50 Hamas militants in the hospital, but it could not be independently c Cambodia's prime minister sounds a sour note on trucks' musical horns 03/19/2024 09:12pm • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has ordered a ban on musical horns, after videos posted on social media showed people dancing on roads and roadsides as passing trucks blasted rhythmic little tunes. Hun Manet, who last year took over the wheel of government from his f Buddhists use karmic healing against one US city's anti-Asian legacy and nationwide prejudice today 03/19/2024 09:01pm • ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — For one afternoon, on Antioch’s main street and tranquil riverbank, the fragrance of burning incense was paired with the sound of Buddhist and Tao chants. Their cumulative calming energy was meant to be a balm of sorts to soothe the racial and religious hate that cast a sh How will a new national security law affect different walks of life in Hong Kong? 03/19/2024 08:54pm • HONG KONG (AP) — As Hong Kong passed a new national security law, the city that evolved from a swampy fishing village to a financial center embarked on another transformation, one that may redefine its role on the world stage and the liberties of its citizens. For the government and supporters of Polygamous sect member pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children 03/19/2024 08:37pm • PHOENIX (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first man to be convicted in what authorities say was a scheme to orchestrate sexual acts inv Body found in western New York reservoir leads to boil-water advisory 03/19/2024 08:29pm • ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A human body was found Tuesday in a western New York reservoir that supplies drinking water to parts of Rochester, prompting city officials to advise residents to boil their water before consuming. Workers with the city's Water Bureau discovered the body in the Highland Park Retired Belarusian hockey player Konstantin Koltsov dies in Florida at 42 03/19/2024 07:17pm • MIAMI (AP) — Former Belarusian hockey player Konstantin Koltsov, who was coaching in the KHL, has died in Florida, police said Tuesday. He was 42. Miami-Dade Police detective Argemis Colome confirmed Koltsov's death in a statement sent to The Associated Press. Police said the death was an apparent A teen weighing 70 pounds turned up at a hospital badly injured. Four family members are charged 03/19/2024 07:01pm • ZEARING, Iowa (AP) — Four members of a rural Iowa family are accused of abducting and abusing an 18-year-old relative who had been handcuffed to a bed and beaten so badly that he had brain bleeding and multiple broken ribs, and who was so malnourished that he weighed just 70 pounds (32 kilograms)