• Gaza death toll tops 69,000 as Israel and Hamas exchange more remains

    Gaza death toll tops 69,000 as Israel and Hamas exchange more remains

    Nov 08, 2025 05:19 PM EST

    ... returned the remains of another 15 Palestinians to Gaza, according to hospital officials in the strip, a day after militants returned the remains of a hostage to Israel. He was identified as Lior Rudaeff, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s office. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said Rudaeff ...

  • Capehart and Gorman on Democrats' election wins and Trump's push to end the filibuster

    Capehart and Gorman on Democrats' election wins and Trump's push to end the filibuster

    Nov 07, 2025 11:30 PM EST

    ... when I was at the NRCC in 2013 when Ted Cruz shut down the government over Obamacare. Obama had this thing, we will not hold hostage reopening the government. And I think Republicans now on the other side of this have held that same standard, because there will inevitably be ...

  • Louvre promises to restore imperial crown dropped by thieves during museum heist

    Louvre promises to restore imperial crown dropped by thieves during museum heist

    Nov 07, 2025 05:45 PM EST

    ... on display at the Paris museum, including a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a set linked to 19th-century Queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense. They forced their way through a window into the Apollo Gallery with the help of a freight lift, using disc cutters to cut through ...

  • News Wrap: Wing caught fire and engine fell off UPS plane before crash, investigators say

    News Wrap: Wing caught fire and engine fell off UPS plane before crash, investigators say

    Nov 05, 2025 11:45 PM EST

    ... their latest exchange, with Israel handing over the remains of 15 Palestinians and Hamas returning what is believed to be the body of an Israeli hostage. The exchanges are part of the ongoing, yet fragile cease-fire agreement that took effect last month. Meantime, in Gaza itself, residents are bracing ...

  • Israel returns bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza as exchanges outlined in fragile ceasefire proceed

    Israel returns bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza as exchanges outlined in fragile ceasefire proceed

    Nov 05, 2025 05:38 PM EST

    ... strikes, while Israel has said that soldiers have also been killed. The deal will not move to subsequent phases until all the remains of Israeli hostages are returned. The next parts of the 20-point plan call for creating an international stabilization force. Its makeup hasn't been finalized, but ...

  • Mary Sheffield wins Detroit mayoral election

    Mary Sheffield wins Detroit mayoral election

    Nov 05, 2025 02:49 AM EST

    ... just over 17%. Sheffield first was elected to the City Council in 2013 at age 26 and has been council president since 2022. Her father, Horace Sheffield III, is an activist and pastor of New Destiny Christian Fellowship church. Duggan endorsed her, calling Sheffield “the most qualified person, the best ...

  • News Wrap: At 35 days, government shutdown ties record for longest in history

    News Wrap: At 35 days, government shutdown ties record for longest in history

    Nov 04, 2025 11:45 PM EST

    Amna Nawaz: There are reports that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed more than 450 people at a hospital in El Fasher last week and have also carried out ethnically targeted killings. The RSF has denied carrying out the attacks. The Israeli military says the remains of a hostage who ...

  • News Wrap: Famine spreads to 2 regions of war-torn Sudan

    News Wrap: Famine spreads to 2 regions of war-torn Sudan

    Nov 03, 2025 11:40 PM EST

    In our news wrap Monday, famine has spread to two regions of war-torn Sudan, Israel transferred the bodies of 45 Palestinians to Gaza after Hamas handed over the remains of three Israeli hostages, Nigerian officials are pushing back after President Trump suggested U.S. troops may go in "guns ...

  • Israel hands over 45 bodies after Hamas returns the remains of 3 soldiers

    Israel hands over 45 bodies after Hamas returns the remains of 3 soldiers

    Nov 03, 2025 06:40 PM EST

    ... public health manager, told the AP. The Hamas-led attack on southern Israel two years ago killed about 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage. Israel’s military offensive has killed more than 68,800 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between ...

  • Trump will host first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the White House, official says

    Trump will host first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the White House, official says

    Nov 01, 2025 11:14 PM EST

    ... to seize the moment to build a durable peace in the volatile region after Israel and Hamas earlier this month began implementing a ceasefire and hostage deal. That agreement aims to bring about a permanent end to the brutal two-year war in Gaza. The fragile ceasefire and hostage deal ...