Mountain View, CA

The Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — It was another day of war in Gaza, another day of what 19-year-old Palestinian TikTok star Medo Halimy called his “Tent Life.”. As he often did in videos documenting life’s mundane absurdities in the enclave, Halimy on Monday walked to his local internet cafe — rather, a tent with Wi-Fi where displaced Palestinians can connect to the outside world — to meet his friend and collaborator Talal Murad.

A Palestinian TikTok star who shared details of Gaza life under siege is killed by Israeli airstrike

Israeli troops have rescued an Israeli hostage from southern Gaza, the military announced Tuesday, the eighth captive held by Hamas to be brought back alive by Israeli forces since Oct. 7. Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, a Bedouin Israeli and father of 11 from the southern city of Rahat, worked as...

Hostage rescued from tunnel in Gaza; Bedouin father of 11 was a security guard on Oct. 7

After more than 300 days in Hamas captivity, a frail and malnourished Farhan Al-Qadi sat in a large tent set up by his family and friends in the Negev desert, where loved ones came by to welcome him home on Wednesday.

Frail and malnourished, rescued hostage hopes war in Gaza ends ‘for all Palestinian and Israeli families’

The bodies of six hostages being held by Hamas have been retrieved from an "underground tunnel route" inside the Gaza Strip, Israel's military has said. A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the bodies of Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Chaim Peri and British-Israeli Nadav Popplewell were recovered from the Khan Younis area on Monday.

Six hostages' bodies retrieved from Gaza tunnels, says IDF

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bullets were found in the bodies of the six Israeli hostages retrieved from Gaza this week, the Hostage Families Forum campaign group said on Thursday, citing recent autopsy reports. The comments came a day after U.S. President Joe Biden pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the...

Bullets Found in Bodies of Israeli Hostages Retrieved From Gaza, Hostage Families Forum Says

Georgia State

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Atlanta, GA

Daily Coffee Press

A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to over 28 years in prison for distributing significant amounts of fentanyl and other controlled substances to dealers in the Middle Georgia region. Authorities revealed that investigators uncovered evidence linking the drugs provided by the defendant, 40-year-old Lagary Williams, also known as "Frog," from Atlanta, to a fatal overdose.

Atlanta Man Sentenced to 28 Years for Supplying Deadly Fentanyl Linked to Fatal Overdose

Doral, FL

A Florida mother was arrested for leaving her three-year-old son alone in an apartment when she went to get plastic surgery. Jessica Renteria, 25, was taken into custody on charges of child neglect following the incident back on June 27. Police had responded to the woman’s apartment complex in Doral...

Florida mom arrested for leaving three-year-old son alone in apartment to go and get plastic surgery

Rebecca Cohen, Megan Lebowitz, Hayley Walker and Yarden Segev. Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli American taken hostage in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, is among six hostages whose bodies were recovered Saturday. "With broken hearts, the Goldberg-Polin family is devastated to announce the death of their beloved son and brother,...

Six hostages, including Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, found dead in Gaza

Two US service members have been assaulted by an anti-American youth group in Turkey, officials confirmed on Monday. The service members were aboard the USS Wasp and attacked in the coastal city of İzmir, where the vessel had docked. The US Embassy in Ankara confirmed in a post to X that the service members were now safe. There were no reported injuries to the Americans.

Two US service members attacked by anti-American youth group in Turkey

NBC News

It was supposed to be a joyful affirmation of new life in Gaza’s ruins. Instead, as Mohamed Abu Al-Qomasan waited to collect the birth certificates of his days-old twins, he learned the newborns and his wife had been killed in what local officials and witnesses said was an Israeli strike.

Newborn twins killed in Israel's offensive in Gaza as their dad went to get their birth certificates

Salem, OH

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli military strike hit the first vehicle in a convoy carrying medical supplies and fuel to an Emirati hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinians associated with a local transportation company, officials said Friday.  The Israeli military insisted the four men were carrying weapons while the American Near East Refugee Aid group said the missile strike Thursday came without any warning or prior communication with soldiers.  The attack underlines the chaotic situation prevailing in the Gaza Strip and the dangers posed to aid groups since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.  Over 80% of the Palestinian territory’s 2.3 million people have been displaced, with most now living in squalid tent camps. International experts say hundreds of thousands of people are on the brink of famine.

Israeli strike kills 4 Palestinians in an aid convoy to a Gaza hospital. Israel says they were armed

One of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords has been released from a US prison after serving most of a 25-year prison sentence, authorities confirmed Friday. Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, 57, who was nicknamed “El Mata Amigos,” which means “Friend Killer,” was reportedly handed over to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a US Bureau of Prisons official told the Associated Press.

Notorious Mexican drug cartel kingpin dubbed ‘Friend Killer’ released from US prison

Hamas’s military wing says that two of its guards have shot and killed one Israeli male hostage held in Gaza and seriously wounded two female hostages. The Israeli military said in response that it did “not have any intelligence information that allows us to refute or confirm Hamas’s claims”.

Hamas says guards killed hostage and wounded two others in Gaza

The Week

Violence and land grabs against Palestinians in occupied territories have risen since 7 October attacks

Will new Israeli settlers remain in West Bank?

Denver, CO

Aurora, CO

David Heitz

Aurora, Colo. -- Angry Aurorans on social media poked fun at the local news media Friday as more information came out about Venezuelan gangs on the Front Range. Mike Coffman, Aurora mayor, posted on Facebook that the city will use court orders to shut down additional apartment complexes that have been infiltrated by the gangs. It contradicted comments made by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who told the New York Post the gang problem was a figment of Aurora council member Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination.

Migrant gang crisis underrated? Denver media criticized

The Forward

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the best-known hostage held by Hamas since Oct. 7, was one of six kidnapped Israelis whose bodies soldiers discovered shot dead in a Gaza tunnel on Saturday, prompting hostage families to promise a major protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Together with all citizens of Israel, I was outraged to the depths of...

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, is one of 6 Israeli hostages killed by Hamas in Gaza, IDF reports

ABC News

As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict.

Israel-Gaza live updates: Israeli forces strike another school in Gaza, killing 2

Chicago, IL

Four people were killed in a shooting on Chicago’s Blue Line train early Monday morning. The shooting happened around 5am local time in Forest Park, Illinois, ten miles outside of Chicago, ABC 7 reported. Three people were pronounced dead at the scene, while the fourth victim was transported to a nearby hospital where they later died.

Four people killed as they slept on Chicago subway train in mass shooting

(JTA) — The Israeli army reported that a number of bodies have been recovered in the Gaza Strip, and the main group representing the hostage families promised a massive protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to achieve a deal that would release hostages. “The IDF located a number of bodies during combat in...

Bodies recovered in Gaza, Israeli army says; hostage families vow mass protest

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Stripped and held at gunpoint, the Gaza schoolboys ‘forced to be Israel’s human shields’

Sobbing and terrified, the 12-year-old Palestinian schoolboy says Israeli soldiers ordered him and his cousins to strip down to their underwear, before forcing them at gunpoint...

Stripped and held at gunpoint, the Gaza schoolboys ‘forced to be Israel’s human shields’

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