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Attorneys say mosque leader denied diabetes care in ICE custody
23+ hour, 42+ min ago (443+ words) Attorneys for the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque say he is being denied basic medical care for diabetes and has lost 30 pounds in the two months since he was detained by immigration officers. Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident…...
Christian leaders in Lebanese city of Tyre call for quick international action after Israeli warning
19+ hour, 44+ min ago (628+ words) By MALAK HARB and BASSEM MROUE The Israeli military has issued an evacuation warning for the port city, including the Christian quarter, which has been spared so far. The statement by the Christian leaders was from George Iskandar, the metropolitan…...
Democratic group launches ad campaign to help flip control of Congress in midterm elections
19+ hour, 49+ min ago (596+ words) A Democratic group that previously focused on presidential races is wading into the midterms by targeting more than a dozen House and Senate contests, many of them on Republican turf, in a new advertising campaign that begins Tuesday. American Bridge…...
Israel's weapons exports reach a record high with sales doubling in the past 5 years
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (271+ words) More than half of 2025s sales were "mega-deals" valued at $100 million or more, the ministry said, adding that sales have more than doubled in the last five years, despite widespread criticism of Israels conduct in its wars in Gaza, with Hezbollah…...
Rubio will testify before Congress for the first time since the start of the Iran war
1+ week, 1+ day ago (400+ words) By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATTHEW LEE The Republican former senator will sit before House and Senate committees to make the State Department's annual budget request. But the focus is likely to shift quickly to the already unsteady ceasefire between Washington…...
Trump meeting with aides to make 'final determination' on Iran deal
1+ week, 4+ day ago (789+ words) By AAMER MADHANI and MICHELLE L. PRICE Ahead of the meeting, Trump said he was looking to make a "final determination." A senior administration official later said the roughly two-hour meeting with national security aides had concluded without a decision. The…...
US imposes sanctions on Iranian agency trying to control shipping in the Strait of Hormuz
1+ week, 6+ day ago (488+ words) The Trump administration on Wednesday placed additional sanctions on Iran as part of a sprawling economic pressure campaign during the war, this time targeting the country's newly created agency that is trying to control shipping through the Strait of Hormuz....
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie charted his own way, until he was toppled by Trump
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (756+ words) By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent There aren't many lawmakers like Thomas Massie left in Congress. The renegade Republican who rose to prominence as an idiosyncratic and stubborn outlier in his party, popular in the Kentucky district that repeatedly sent…...
Justice Department to seek death penalty for man charged with killing 2 Israeli Embassy staffers
3+ week, 4+ day ago (449+ words) Elias Rodriguez faces federal hate crime and murder charges in the killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as they left an event at the museum last May. Rodriguez shouted "Free Palestine" during the shooting and later told police, "I…...
In Gaza, some Palestinian children find respite and catharsis in breakdancing
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (360+ words) It's a rare moment of respite and catharsis amid the harsh realities of life in the Gaza Strip. The children, some wearing sliders on their feet, dance next to mangled metal rods jutting out from a mound of rubble and…...