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The war in Gaza is over, but the fight in Israel for accountability has barely begun

“Do you really think, Mr. Netanyahu, that you can rename wars, hand out medals, tell tales of your heroism – and still avoid investigating the greatest national failure in Israel’s history?”Eyal Eshel’s voice cracked with rage as he stood on stage in Tel Aviv Saturday night and read aloud to thousands of protestors the cabinet’s recent decision to rename the Gaza war from “Operation Swords of Iron” to the “War of Redemption.” Then he tore it to shreds.“Forget it,” Eshel, whose daughter Roni was killed as an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) observer at Nahal Oz on October 7,

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Trump pulling out all the stops to welcome Saudi crown prince for first White House visit since Khashoggi killing

President Donald Trump is planning to receive Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House this week with all the trappings of a state visit, sources familiar with the matter said, including a welcome ceremony in the morning and a formal dinner in the evening.“We’re more than meeting,” Trump said late Friday as he flew to Florida for the weekend. “We’re honoring Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince.”While the White House has decided to pull out all the stops, the visit cannot be classified as an official state visit as Prince bin Salman is not Saudi Arabi

Uzbek president proposes setting up bloc of Central Asian states

Immigration crackdown inspires uniquely Chicago pushback that's now a model for other cities

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Israeli leader insists there can be no Palestinian state, ahead of UN vote leaving that door open

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state, a day before the U.N. Security Council will vote on a U.S.-drafted resolution on Gaza that leaves the door open to Palestinian independence. Netanyahu has long ruled out Palestinian independence, asserting that creating a Palestinian state would reward Hamas and eventually lead to an even larger Hamas-run state on Israel’s borders. But as the U.S. attempts to push forward with its Gaza ceasefire proposal, he faces heavy international pressure to show flexibility.

Fetterman says he's back home after a fall put the Pennsylvania senator in the hospital

Netanyahu faces far-right backlash after US-backed statement on Palestinian state

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Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioter for gun offense and woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents

President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol, officials said Saturday. In a separate case, Trump issued a second pardon for a Jan. 6 defendant who had remained behind bars despite the sweeping grant of clemency for Capitol rioters because of a separate conviction for illegally possessing firearms. It's the latest example of Trump's willingness to use his constitutional autho

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Lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene blames Trump for threats against her after their split

Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene accused U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday of putting her life in danger, saying his online criticism has triggered a wave of threats against her.Greene, once a longtime Trump loyalist who has more recently taken positions at odds with the president, said she has been contacted by private security firms warning about her safety."Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the same type (of) rhetoric being directed at me right now," Greene, a U.S. House of Represent

Texas National Guard troops expected to leave Chicago and return home, source says

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman back home from hospital after fall

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Texas state trooper ‘sent home’ after altercation with South Carolina wide receiver Nyck Harbor

A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper was “sent home” after having a run-in with South Carolina player Nyck Harbor during Saturday’s game against No. 3 Texas A&M.In the second quarter, the junior wide receiver scored an 80-yard touchdown and his momentum took him up a tunnel at Kyle Field while hobbling with a slight limp.Harbor’s score gave South Carolina a 27-3 lead over the heavily favored Aggies.As Harbor and his teammates came back down the tunnel, walking 4-wide, a Texas DPS trooper was walking up the tunnel and the trooper bumped in Harbor and Gamecocks RB Oscar Adaw

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Trump issues new pardons for January 6 rioters, including militia member and woman who threatened FBI

President Donald Trump has issued a new pardon to a militia member involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, covering separate Kentucky firearms offenses that were not included in his initial Inauguration Day pardon.In April, the appeals court for the District of Columbia rejected Dan Wilson’s attempt to vacate his firearms-related sentences from the Western District of Kentucky that were transferred to DC.“The plain language of the pardon does not apply to the Kentucky firearms offenses,” the appeals court stated, returning him to prison.Trump in January issued more than a thousand

Michelle Obama says the country is ‘not ready for a woman’ president

FBI arrests New Jersey man for alleged property damage in office of federal prosecutor Alina Habba

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Iran’s nuclear program ‘intact’ despite US and Israeli strikes, deputy foreign minister tells CNN

Iran’s deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh has said his country’s nuclear program is still “intact” despite US and Israeli strikes on its nuclear facilities earlier this year.In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen Sunday, Khatibzadeh said Iran’s “nuclear program, the peaceful nuclear program is intact, as we are speaking,” adding that “we are going to be protecting that.”The exact state of Iran’s facilities remains unclear following a 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June and US airstrikes against three of the country’s nuclear facilities –

With the end of the penny, is the clock ticking for the nickel?

The American penny is history. The nickel might be next.The last pennies were pressed at the US Mint in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a victim of production costs higher than their worth coupled with limited usefulness. While the penny remains legal tender, banks and merchants are already reporting shortages.But the factors that prompted the government to stop making pennies are even truer for the nickel. Pennies cost nearly 5 cents to make – 4 cents more than they’re worth. The nickel’s net loss is nearly 9 cents per coin.Nickels are 75% copper and 25% nickel, while pennies — despite the

Last nuclear treaty between US and Russia nears expiration as Trump and Putin trade testing threats

Trump has suggested he’s made a decision on Venezuela military operations. Here’s what we know

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Britain to make refugee status temporary under asylum overhaul

Britain said it would make refugee status temporary and the wait for permanent settlement would be quadrupled to 20 years under the country's most sweeping overhaul of policy on asylum seekers in modern times.The Labour government has been hardening its immigration policies, above all on illegal small-boat crossings from France, in efforts to stem the soaring popularity of the populist Reform UK party, which has driven the immigration agenda.The government said it would take inspiration from Denmark's approach, one of the toughest in Europe - where growing anti-immigrant sentiment has led to i

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At least four dead as two migrant boats capsize off Libya's coast, Red Crescent says

At least four people were killed when two boats carrying 95 irregular migrants capsized off the Libyan coastal city of Al Khums on Thursday, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Saturday.The first boat was carrying 26 migrants from Bangladesh, four of whom died, the Red Crescent said in a statement on its verified Facebook page.The second boat carried 69 migrants, including two Egyptians and dozens of Sudanese, the Red Crescent added without specifying their fate.Khums is a coastal city, some 118 km east of the capital, Tripoli.On Wednesday, the International Organization for Migration said that at