Live updates | Relief operations in Gaza in jeopardy as Israeli airstrikes increase
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says its relief operations across the Gaza Strip will need to be sharply curtailed amid crippling Israeli airstrikes.Hospitals...
Japan’s top court strikes down required removal of reproductive organs to officially change gender
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring transgender people to have their reproductive organs removed in order to...
Snow hits northern Cascades and Rockies in the first major storm of the season...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Snow has started falling in the northern Cascades and Rockies in the first major snowstorm of the season, prompting people...
‘Shaft’ star Richard Roundtree, considered the first Black action movie hero, has died at...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several “Shaft” films beginning in the early...
Vermont ski town says it’s ‘waiting with open arms’ for the winter season after...
LUDLOW, Vt. (AP) — The debris and mud slide near the base of the road to the Okemo ski resort have long been cleared...
Support for Israel becomes a top issue for Iowa evangelicals key to the first...
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Steve Rowland peered beneath the brim of his baseball cap and admonished the roughly 500 people at Rising Sun Church...
Born after Superstorm Sandy’s destruction, 2 big flood control projects get underway in New...
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — A decade after they were first envisioned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy ’s destruction, two of the largest flood...
Mike Johnson is the latest GOP nominee for House speaker as Republican infighting shows...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans chose Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest nominee for House speaker desperate to unite their fractious majority and end the...
Russia maneuvers carefully over the Israel-Hamas war as it seeks to expand its global...
Russia has issued carefully calibrated criticism of both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas. But the conflict also is giving Moscow bold...
Japan’s automakers unveil EVs galore at Tokyo show to catch up with Tesla, other...
TOKYO (AP) — “We love battery EVs.”Takero Kato, the executive in charge of electric vehicles at Toyota, said that not once, but twice, to...
