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Columbus, OH

The White House says a new round of talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war has resumed in Doha and is expected to run into Friday. The talks will also focus on securing the release of scores of hostages, with a potential deal seen as the best hope of heading off an even larger regional conflict.

Israel-Hamas war latest: Palestinian death toll surpasses 40,000 as mediators hold cease-fire talks

A deal is considered key to stopping the war from spiralling into an all-out regional conflict.

High-stakes Gaza ceasefire and hostage release talks resume in Doha

CBS News

Negotiations for a potential cease-fire deal in Gaza will resume in Qatar Thursday with hopes of preventing a wider war between Israel and Iran, but the talks will not include a delegation representing Hamas. CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio has more.

Gaza cease-fire talks resume in Qatar, but Hamas representatives won't be there

Qatar is set to host Gaza ceasefire talks on Thursday, seeking a so-far elusive agreement that the United States hopes would stop Iran striking Israel and avert a wider war. An Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank killed two Palestinians on Thursday as Jewish worshippers visited a nearby disputed holy site, Palestinian sources and Israeli army said.

🔴 Live: Gaza death toll tops 40,000 as new peace talks get under way in Qatar

The US believes a deal could help calm the Middle East, but do Israel and Hamas's leader want one?

Risk of regional war hangs over Gaza ceasefire talks

The Independent

Kellyanne Conway formerly served as campaign manager and senior advisor to Donald Trump

Former Republican staffer calls out ex-Fox host for ‘open threat’ to Kellyanne Conway: ‘Disturbing’

 A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public. Auckland City Mission told reporters on Wednesday that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets — which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers. New Zealand's police have opened a criminal investigation. The amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take...

Food bank unknowingly distributes candy made from meth

Houston, TX

A 37-year-old man was fatally shot after he approached “suspicious” people on his street in Houston, leaving behind his two children and wife, who is eight months pregnant, authorities say. The incident occurred on August 10 at 12.30am when the husband, later identified as Osvaldo Casas, confronted “suspicious person(s) on his street”, Houston police said.The night before, the family had reported that one of their cars had been vandalized, according to KHOU11, and noticed a black vehicle in the neighborhood. The following night, a neighbor called police to report that a black vehicle was driving slowly through the area, according...

Husband dies in pregnant wife’s arms after being attacked while confronting car vandals

Wisconsin State

A Wisconsin jury has convicted a man in the shootings of three men whose bodies were found outside a quarry

Wisconsin man convicted in killings of 3 men near a quarry

Minneapolis, MN

 Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, has been moved to a new federal prison following his stabbing by an inmate last year.Chauvin, 48, was transferred from Tuscon Federal Correctional Institution in Arizona to the Oklahoma Federal Transfer Center last week.The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the move to The Independent but said it could not give any further details “for privacy, safety, and security reasons.”In November 2023, Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by inmate John Turscak, while Chauvin was serving a 21-year sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin’s sentence is running concurrently with a 22.5-year...

Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin who murdered George Floyd is moved to new prison after near-fatal stabbing

Missouri State

Ferguson, MO

A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who was critically injured during a protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death is showing “small but significant signs of progress” from a severe brain injury

Injured Ferguson officer shows 'small but significant' signs of progress in Missouri

Fort Worth, TX

 A Texas mother will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars for poisoning her young daughter with Benadryl and other drugs to fake a seizure disorder.Jesika Jones, 32, was sentenced on Friday to 60 years in prison after reaching a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to one count of injury to a child with serious bodily or mental injury and abandoning or endangering a child with reckless criminal negligence.Jones was first arrested in June 2022, when she took her then four-year-old daughter to the Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth and said she had been having...

Mom who poisoned her 4-year-old with Benadryl to fake seizure disorder will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars

One mom said her two sons became ill after ingesting products from former councilman’s store

City councilman jailed for six years, forfeiting monster truck and $1.9m, for selling drugs

A cardiologist in Denver has been found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting nearly a dozen women. On Tuesday, Stephen Matthews, 36, was found guilty on 35 felony counts of assault and sexual assault, according to the Denver Post. Matthews attacked 11 people. “Stephen Matthews took advantage of nearly a dozen women in the most egregious way imaginable, and for that he will now pay a significant price,” Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said in a statement Tuesday. “I hope today’s verdict provides a measure of comfort to all the victims.”The cardiologist was arrested in March 2023 after a woman...

Cardiologist found guilty of 35 counts of date rape and assault after attacking a dozen women

 Teenage gang members rapped and waved weapons around in a video made after the attempted murder of a 20-year-old man in Hackney, London, on 7 August.Elisandro Pinto Alves, Hanzell Greenaway, and Jaheim Thomas, all 18, and 19-year-old Marvin Edokpolo - have now been sentenced to a total of over 77 years for the attack.They ambushed their victim in a lift, which was also occupied by a woman in her 60s, at an Overground station.Thomas proceeded to shoot into the lift while the victim used the woman as a shield.The victim sustained life-threatening injuries from the attack and received life saving treatment from paramedics at the scene and enroute to hospital; the woman was physically unharmed.       Read More               Statue honouring Black nurse Mary Seacole vandalised in ‘racially motivated’ attack‘His best work’: New Banksy artwork revealed in London as mystery murals continueEvery Banksy artwork that has popped up in the last week - and there’s eight of them      

Teenage gang members dance and rap about brutal gun and knife attack at London station

A total of 80 adults have been sentenced so far after unrest broke out across the country following the Southport stabbings at the end of July.

Who are the people sentenced so far following recent disorder?

Independent experts with the United Nations have urged Bahrain to ensure those held at its Jaw prison have access to adequate food, water and medical care

Independent UN experts urge Bahrain to ensure prisoners have adequate food, water in scorching heat

San Diego, CA

A rarely seen deep sea fish resembling a serpent was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast

A rarely seen deep sea fish is found in California, and scientists want to know why

Colorado State

The boy was reportedly splashing water on his friend when he accidentally splashed the man’s wife, leading to the confrontation

Private equity CEO filmed body-slamming teen at In-and-Out in Colorado

The Israeli military says it has recovered the bodies of five Israelis taken back to Gaza as hostages during Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on 7 October. The bodies of kindergarten teacher Maya Goren as well as the soldiers Sergeant Major Ravid Aryeh Katz, Master Sergeant Oren Goldin, Staff Sergeant Tomer Ahimas and Sergeant Kiril Brodski were found in a Hamas tunnel in the southern city of Khan Younis on Wednesday.

Gaza death toll passes 40,000 as fresh ceasefire talks begin

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