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ANTI-ICE protests escalate in Minn.
minneapolis — Thousands of people converged at a downtown park on Friday afternoon in the state’s biggest show of opposition yet to the Trump administration’s immigration operations in Minnesota, braving subzero temperatures and skipping work and...
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In House hearing, Smith defends his prosecution of Trump
Former special counsel jack smith, right, during a hearing before the house judiciary committee. Smith told lawmakers he stood by his decision to charge president donald trump in two felony indictments. “No one should be above the law in our...
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Trump bends on Greenland demands
davos, switzerland — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had reached the “framework” of a deal on Greenland, backing away from his earlier demands to acquire the Danish territory after days of escalating threats and once-unthinkable worries...
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One day in the turbulence of the Twin Cities
minneapolis — On the seventh Friday of the largest immigration enforcement operation in a U.S. city, during a presidency defined by the issue, a growing cadre of activists searched tinted car windows for masked federal agents. A man facing a...
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High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39
Emergency personnel work monday at the site of a collision late sunday between two highspeed trains near adamuz in southern spain. the crash occurred after a madridbound train partially derailed, causing it to collide with a second train traveling...
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A monumental birthday
People braved snow and frigid temperatures to take photos in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall on Sunday. The birthday of the civil rights leader and Nobel Peace laureate, who was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 39,...
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Maduro’s top aides warm up to Trump
caracas, venezuela — Last month, as U.S. forces were massing off Venezuela, government officials here — the political heirs to Hugo Chávez, founder of the country’s socialist state — vowed American intervention would ignite 100 years of war. “If they...
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U.S. prisoners freed in Venezuela
Multiple Americans detained in Venezuela have been freed by local authorities, the State Department says, the first known release of U.S. citizens since the U.S. military capture of authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro this month. “We welcome the...
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Regulator pushed to go after Powell
Housing finance regulator Bill Pulte met recently with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-lago and shared a prop resembling a “wanted poster” he had made up featuring Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, according to a person with knowledge of the...
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A father mourns his ‘hero’ son
In the lonely house at the edge of the forest, an old man picked through the detritus of his life. Over here was the bed he and his wife had shared for decades. Over there, the trumpet his son had played in the military marching band. And here was his...
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Minn. is sidelined in probe of killing
Minnesota officials and federal authorities escalated their dispute Thursday over an immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, with state leaders saying the Trump administration was blocking local agents from an FBI investigation...
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Fear in Caracas amid new wave of repression
For a brief moment, some Venezuelans allowed themselves to celebrate. When they learned Saturday that strongman Nicolás Maduro had been seized by U.S. Special Forces, many group chats filled with messages of joy and relief. Some people cried. One...
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In N.Y. court, Maduro says U.S. ‘kidnapped’ him
NEW YORK — Deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro made his first court appearance Monday in New York and said he was “kidnapped” by the U.S. government, assailing the Trump administration for capturing him and portraying himself as his country’s...
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Uncertainty clouds U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela
Marco Rubio has held many titles during Donald Trump’s presidency. He may have just acquired his most challenging one yet: Viceroy of Venezuela. The secretary of state, national security adviser, acting archivist and administrator of the now-defunct...
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Authorities open criminal investigation into fatal Swiss fire
People comfort each other outside the constellation bar at switzerland’s cransMontana resort on friday. After watching footage of the incident, officials said the fire that killed 40 people attending a new year’s party was started by sparklers on...
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Portraits of a Palestinian diaspora
The dream of return has animated the Palestinian struggle for more than seven decades. In 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes during the violence surrounding the creation of Israel. That foundational trauma —...
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Welcoming the new year with a dance
Mona gantugs, left, and beck byambadorj of annandale, Virginia, trip the light fantastic wednesday night as images are projected onto the washington monument, kicking off a sixday art installation. The light displays will run nightly through...
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War’s grind corrodes a society
OLKHOVATKA, RUSSIA — The bus from the front lines ground to a halt outside the roadside kitchen, and the soldiers on board limped out into the winter mud. Most were missing feet or a leg. A water bottle filled with blood swung precariously from a...
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Altadena fire survivors confront hard choices on path to recovery
Nearly a year ago, wildfire swallowed this quiet town in the foothills of Los Angeles, killing 19 people, destroying thousands of homes and forever reshaping a beloved community. Twelve months later, recovery has been many things: plodding and painful,...
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Hurdles remain in peace process
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday took steps toward agreeing on a proposal to end Russia’s invasion, but difficult sticking points remain to be resolved and it’s unclear if Russia would agree to their...
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New science identifies 4 distinct types of autism
When Marc and Cristina Easton’s son was diagnosed with autism at 20 months, the Baltimore couple left the doctor’s appointment in confusion. Their toddler — who was very social — didn’t resemble the picture of the condition they thought they knew. And...
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In the grim shadows of war, the glow of hope
A woman lights a candle on christmas at st. Michael’s goldenDomed monastery in kyiv during an airstrike alarm. hundreds of miles to the east, an old ukrainian song that americans know as “Carol of the bells” was being adapted for just three...
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A respite for Ukraine’s war-weary
Ukrainian children, many of them internally displaced by the war, rest on a mountaintop in hutsulshchyna National park during a hike as part of an adventure-based camp. A growing number of organizations in the country are turning to nature as an...
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‘An attempt to renew life’ in Gaza
For the first time in three years, the Gaza Strip’s tiny Christian community is celebrating Christmas without the immediate threat of war. A ceasefire has brought the enclave a measure of calm, and over the past few weeks, Christians there have...
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Survivors endure painful hunt for care
Nadine was a top student at her high school in eastern Congo. Then, in April, she was gang-raped by four men as she was gathering firewood for her family. The 17-year-old set off on a frantic search for help — first to her local clinic, where there...
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Welcoming back the light on the winter solstice
People celebrate the winter solstice — the shortest day of the year — at sunrise Sunday at Stonehenge. The ancient monument on England’s Salisbury Plain, erected starting about 5,000 years ago, was built in alignment with the annual movements of the...
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A controversial renaming
The kennedy center installed president donald trump’s name on the building’s exterior friday morning. The center’s board voted thursday to rename the institution “the donald j. Trump and the john f. Kennedy Memorial center for the performing arts,”...
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A Russian missile, filled with U.S. tech, rips a Ukrainian boy’s life apart
kryvyi rih, ukraine — At the moment Russia launched the nearly four-ton ballistic missile, an 8-year-old Ukrainian boy was running across a playground. The missile was an Iskander 9M723, fresh off an assembly line in Votkinsk, where workers in the...
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In India, one dam shapes the fate of millions
thekkady, india — Deep in the mountains, shrouded by dense forests and tropical mists, the Mullaperiyar lurks like a creature from legend. Few locals have seen the massive dam that was erected here 130 years ago, plugging one of South India’s most...
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Black teen’s statue replaces Lee at Capitol
The symbolism was hard to miss: In the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, the statue of a Black teenager who fought against segregation replaced a Confederate general who fought to preserve slavery. Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a...
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Son of Rob, Michele Reiner is arrested in parents’ slaying
The 32-year-old son of filmmaker Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner was arrested on suspicion of murder in his parents’ deaths, the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday — a harrowing development in killings that have astonished...
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Floods threaten one of the driest places on Earth
On their final morning together in April of last year, two elderly sheikhs in a white Mercedes drove through a palm-tree-lined ravine to pay their respects at a funeral. The two local leaders were cousins and best friends, traveled the world together...
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A severe winter storm deals another blow to battered Gaza
A displaced palestinian man clears muddy water in nuseirat, in the central gaza strip, on friday. More than a dozen people were killed as heavy rains and strong winds flooded camps and caused buildings damaged by israeli strikes to collapse. Story,
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Democrats urge Noem to resign at fiery hearing
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem faced a combative congressional hearing Thursday, as Democratic lawmakers repeatedly demanded that she resign, accusing her of lying and violating the law as she helps lead the Trump administration’s mass...
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Venezuelan Nobel Peace laureate Machado misses ceremony
Ana Corina Sosa Machado, the daughter of Venezuelan opposition politician and Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado, attends the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo City Hall on Wednesday on her mother’s behalf. sosa said Machado had left...
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Republicans wary of Venezuela escalation
Congressional Republicans have largely expressed public support for the Trump administration’s strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea that the Defense Department claims are carrying narcotics to the United States, even as the tactic has come under...
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Ukraine refuses to cede territory
london — Ukraine will not surrender territory, President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Monday, rejecting a central Russian demand that President Donald Trump had incorporated into his latest proposal to end the Kremlin’s war. “Under our laws, under...
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HIS QUEST IS NEARLY OVER.
Karl Bushby made a barroom bet that he could walk from the southern tip of South America all the way home to England. His friends had little faith. “Suddenly, it became a challenge,” Bushby said of the bet he made in his 20s. “That conversation...
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Democrats press for wider probe into boat strike
Democrats have stepped up their demands to expand the inquiries underway in Congress into a U.S. military attack that killed two alleged drug smugglers who survived an initial strike on their boat. The push comes after a select group of lawmakers...
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Broken promises on road safety
los angeles — As the sun set over the Pacific Ocean one Sunday this past spring, Cecilia Milbourne returned from a walk on the beach with her dog, Gucci. To reach her parked Tesla, she had to cross a road that city officials have known for years poses...
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How Palantir shifted course amid ICE’S deportation efforts
For years, Alex Karp, Palantir’s CEO, had declared the data management company to be “involved in supporting progressive values,” saying he has repeatedly “walked away” from contracts that targeted minorities or that he found otherwise unethical. Even...
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Hegseth says he saw no one alive
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that “a couple of hours” passed before he was made aware that a September military strike he authorized and “watched live” required an additional attack to kill two survivors, further distancing himself from...
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Cheers for Pope Leo in Lebanon
Waving yellow and white Vatican flags, a crowd in Bkerké, Lebanon, greets Pope Leo XIV as he arrives Monday for an event focused on young people. The pope’s visit to Lebanon is inspiring fresh hope for peace.
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Pearl industry in Japan faces crisis
ago bay, japan — For generations, a string of perfectly round, classic white pearls — the kind worn by fashion icons like Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy — has been the epitome of understated class. The lustrous “akoya,” coveted around the world...
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Afghan suspect was vetted before entering U.S.
The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House this week underwent thorough vetting by counterterrorism authorities before entering the United States, according to people with direct knowledge of the...
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Suspect in D.C. ambush had worked with CIA
An Afghan national who previously worked with the CIA will face multiple criminal charges after federal authorities said he drove across the country and shot two National Guard members — one fatally — in an ambush Wednesday afternoon near the White...
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2 Guard troops shot near White House
Two National Guard members were shot and critically wounded Wednesday afternoon outside the White House complex in what officials described as a targeted attack. A suspect — whom police say appears to be the only shooter — was shot and taken in to...
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Spared from the table, ready for his closeup
Waddle turns heads Tuesday at the White House and captivates Niko, son of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. At the pardoning event, the president piled scorn onto his rivals
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Fir ... Ellipse
First lady Melania Trump receives the official 2025 White House Christmas tree — which arrived via horse-drawn carriage at the North Portico on Monday — while members the United States Marine Band, also known as “The President’s Own,” provided some...
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The woods they can’t forsake
Bill Lee slowed his truck by the spot where a sign should have stood, warning drivers on the mountain road about the sharp curve ahead. He remembered erecting it five years earlier, one morning out in the forest alongside Del Nelson, who had become...
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America marks Veterans Day
U.S. Army veteran Charles Elder touches the name of a fallen friend Tuesday at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Across the Potomac River, President Donald Trump laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery.
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For the last WWII vets, day is not yet done
World War II was nearing its end in March 1945 when Russell Sattazahn found himself taking cover from enemy fire with other GIS in the basement of a German house. At first they felt protected, but the onslaught was unrelenting. An artillery shell...
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Americans facing sticker shock over health costs
Americans are coming face-toface with the rising health insurance costs at the center of the longest government shutdown in history — and what it means for their pocketbooks next year. Since open enrollment started Nov. 1, they’ve been able to buy...
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China’s chemical exports are behind a ‘tsunami’ of meth swamping Asia
The shipment of chemicals from China was meant to stay near Bangkok. But a tracker, planted by Thai drug authorities based on a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, showed it moving north toward the porous 1,500-mile-long border with...
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Pelosi announces her retirement from Congress
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D- California) announced Thursday that she will not run for reelection next year, ending a nearly four-decade congressional career that saw her become the first female speaker of the House and wield more power on Capitol Hill than...
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For-profit industry fuels boom in veterans’ claims
He wears a straw cowboy hat, flashes fistfuls of cash and has attracted nearly 200,000 Youtube subscribers with his “Secret Strategies for Winning Big with VA Disability Claims.” The Gulf War veteran’s pitch to fellow vets: For just $99.95 a year, his...
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Spanberger leads sweep by Democrats
Democrat Abigail Spanberger defeated Republican Winsome Earle-sears to become the first woman elected governor of Virginia, winning with a pragmatic focus on the economy on a night when her party swept all three statewide offices and made gains in the...
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For those who lost everything, a fellowship of catastrophe
SONOMA, CALIF. — Amy Bernstein and Grace Park weren’t sure what to expect when they walked into the beige-paneled auditorium in California wine country. Other attendees wore lanyards that bore the names of places now seared into history: Santa Rosa,...
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Rekindling memories on Día de los Muertos
A man lights candles in remembrance of a loved one during festivities in Mazatlán Villa de Flores in Mexico’s Oaxaca state on Sunday. The holiday is intended to celebrate those who have died and reunite their spirits with the living. For a look at how...
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U.S. strikes sow fear across Caribbean
In Trinidad and Tobago, a Caribbean island nation so close to Venezuela that on a clear day it’s visible, the second homes off the northwestern coast lie empty. Fishers are staying close to the shore, and some have stopped working at night. As U.S....
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He’s cleared 35,000 pounds of trash. He’s not done.
MIAMI — It’s a steep drop into a mangrove forest brimming with three feet of brackish water over thick, twisty tree roots, but Andrew Otazo has no trouble navigating the descent. He scrambles down the craggy incline like a camo-clad SpiderMan, using...
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Melissa leaves a trail of destruction
kingston, jamaica — Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after devastating western Jamaica on Tuesday. Flooding in Haiti, meanwhile, killed at least 20 people, including 10 children, according to Haiti’s Civil...
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Angels over Washington
The U. S. navy’s elite blue angels squadron, which flies f/ A-18 super hornets and is known for daredevil stunts at public air shows, performs a surprise flyover tuesday near the washington monument, nearly a month into the government shutdown.
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Jamaica braces for a monster storm, and prays
As a monstrous Hurricane Melissa bore down on Jamaica, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said Monday that he had made time for one thing in addition to intense preparations. “I have been on my knees in prayer,” he said at a news conference ahead of the...
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Planned migrant detention center roils a rural Nebraska town
MCCOOK, NEB. — For nearly 25 years, prisoners like Mitch Stone moved furniture, mowed lawns and renovated buildings at no cost to residents of this small city in western Nebraska. Stone, 50, spent two years at a local Work Ethic Camp, where he...
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A defiant James pleads not guilty
norfolk — New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of mortgage fraud brought by the Justice Department amid President Donald Trump’s push to prosecute those who have investigated him. James, the highest-ranking...
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The East Wing is now only a memory
The East Wing of the White House is gone. Wrecking crews had completely removed the decades-old annex by midday Thursday, just three days after they started, to make way for a pet project of President Donald Trump: a 90,000-squarefoot ballroom. The...
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Ukraine hit hard after collapse of summit
Rescuers search a kindergarten Wednesday in Kharkiv, Ukraine, that was hit by a drone, killing one person. At least seven people were killed across the nation as the Kremlin renewed its attacks after plans for a Trump-Putin meeting were abandoned. The...
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Cries of overreach as East Wing decimated further
A demolition job that began Monday with the disappearance of the White House’s eastern entrance advanced Tuesday with the destruction of much of the East Wing, according to a photograph obtained by The Washington Post and two people who spoke on the...
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Demolition underway in White House ballroom project
Despite President Donald Trump’s pledge that construction of a ballroom at the White House would not “interfere” with the existing building, crews began tearing down part of the East Wing on Monday.
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Disaster at Dallas
The Commanders’ Jayden Daniels fumbles on this hit by the Cowboys’ Shemar James in the third quarter in Arlington, Texas. The second-year quarterback left the game with a hamstring injury, the most nightmarish moment of an ugly 44-22 defeat that...
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Trump floats a Ukraine armistice
President Donald Trump on Friday called for Russia and Ukraine to stop fighting at their current positions to settle the bitter war between the two nations — a proposal that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he accepted as a starting point...
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A test for fragile truce in Gaza
Family members mourn Tamir Nimrodi, an 18-year-old soldier whose remains were recently returned by Hamas, at his funeral Thursday in Kfar Saba, Israel. Hamas says finding the bodies of the remaining hostages requires special equipment it does not have....
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The Fourth Estate’s Pentagon exodus
Jared Szuba of Al-Monitor, a Middle East-focused news outlet, leaves the Pentagon on Wednesday along with journalists from dozens of other institutions that balked at new restrictions on newsgathering.
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