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How Joe Biden got on board with a wartime trip to Israel – and what he hopes to accomplish

CNN -- It took an explicit commitment from his Israeli counterpart to open Gaza for humanitarian aid for President Joe Biden to agree to make an extraordinary wartime trip to Tel Aviv. While the trip...

Jim Jordan loses first vote for House speaker amid GOP defections

CNN -- Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan fell significantly short of winning the House speaker’s gavel on a first ballot Tuesday, leaving the House in paralysis after 20 Republicans opposed the...

Hamas releases first video of a hostage taken to Gaza

Ivana Kottasová, CNN October 17, 2023

CNN -- The short video clip shows Mia Schem lying on a bed, her right arm being bandaged by someone out of the frame. A long, fresh scar is clearly visible. Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman,...

The ‘Gaza metro’: The mysterious subterranean tunnel network used by Hamas

Joshua Berlinger, CNN October 16, 2023

CNN — The myriad tunnels under Gaza are best known as passageways used to smuggle goods from Egypt and launch attacks into Israel. But there exists a second underground network that the Israel Defense...

Ismail Abd Almagid looks at a picture of his daughter on his phone. Ivana Kottasova/CNN

Palestinian men stranded outside Gaza look on as their families endure horrors at home

West Bank (CNN) — The men in the wedding hall at the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank spend most of their days and nights glued to their phones, smoking, constantly refreshing their news feeds....

Ohio Issue 1: Attacks on parental rights do not appear in amendment

Susan Tebben, Ohio Capital Journal October 16, 2023

The topic of parental rights does not appear in Ohio Issue 1 on the ballot Nov. 7. There is no mention of denying any rights to parents in the process of enshrining reproductive rights like abortion,...

Israel warns of new phase in war on Hamas, as Gaza civilians flee and Israeli troops gather near border

CNN -- A new phase in Israel’s deadly war against Hamas is coming, Israeli forces said on Saturday, warning that the past week of crippling airstrikes in Gaza could soon be followed by “significant...

Palestinians in Gaza struggle to follow Israeli evacuation order and face dire water shortage

Joseph Krauss and Wafaa Shurafa, AP News October 14, 2023

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip AP News — Palestinians struggled Saturday to flee from areas of Gaza targeted by the Israeli military while grappling with a growing water and medical supply shortage ahead...

Jordan faces grim prospects in speaker’s fight after whirlwind week for House GOP

October 14, 2023

CNN -- After a series of setbacks, Republicans ended the week no closer to electing a new speaker as deep internal divisions have left the conference struggling to govern and...

Kaiser Permanente workers picket in California on the second day of a three-day strike earlier this month. The union announced it had reached a tentative deal with Kaiser that could avert a second strike at the health care system.

Union workers reach a tentative deal with Kaiser Permanente after the largest-ever US health care strike

Chris Isidore and Samantha Delouya, CNN October 13, 2023

Ryan Sun/AP CNN— Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative deal with the unions representing 75,000 employees, following the largest-ever health care strike in US history. “The frontline healthcare...

A music festival survivor fleeing the attack, a pair of Hamas militants and a deadly decision

ALON BERNSTEIN AND SAM MCNEIL, AP NEWS October 13, 2023

KIBBUTZ RE’IM, Israel (AP) — The two militants were just ahead of him, spraying gunfire from their motorcycle at passing cars. One militant was driving, the 50-year-old man said, and the other sat...

Israel calls on 1.1 million Gazans to evacuate south, in order UN warns is ‘impossible’

Gaza and Jerusalem CNN — Israel’s military has warned 1.1 million people living in northern Gaza to evacuate their homes, amid signs Israel is set to ramp up its retaliatory offensive against Hamas...

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