• Israeli military says forces have killed 3 Palestinians behind deaths of British-Israelis

    Israeli military says forces have killed 3 Palestinians behind deaths of British-Israelis

    May 04, 2023 08:39 PM EDT

    A man who identified himself only as Kareem for fear of reprisals said that he spotted older men and a woman in a long overgarment worn by Muslim women who he had never seen before walking through the limestone alleys and knew instantly they were Israeli special forces. He ran ...

  • Television, movie writers strike after failed negotiations with studios

    Television, movie writers strike after failed negotiations with studios

    May 02, 2023 01:13 PM EDT

    ... Friday’s episode of “Late Night,” Seth Meyers, a WGA member who said he supported the union’s demands, prepared viewers for re-runs while lamenting the hardship a strike entails. “It doesn’t just affect the writers, it affects all the incredible non-writing staff on these shows,” Meyers ...

  • Multiple generations of Earth's warriors keep battling, hoping for planet's future

    Multiple generations of Earth's warriors keep battling, hoping for planet's future

    Apr 22, 2023 09:35 PM EDT

    ... it's frustrating,” Nye says. “There's certainly plenty of things to be doomy about,” Nye says. “I mean just look around at just how lame global efforts have been to address climate change the last few decades.” Nye says he's borrowing a page from the playbook of “conservative ...

  • Catholic bankruptcy case rulings clouded by judge's donations

    Catholic bankruptcy case rulings clouded by judge's donations

    Apr 21, 2023 04:16 PM EDT

    ... archdiocese, defending the church against a cascade of sex abuse claims before Trump nominated her to the federal bench in 2018. Another federal judge, Ivan Lemelle, serves on the board of the Catholic Community Foundation. Yet another, U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey recused himself from cases related to the ...

  • Long COVID symptoms keeping many Americans from returning to work

    Long COVID symptoms keeping many Americans from returning to work

    Apr 18, 2023 10:35 PM EDT

    ... ultimately had to do. Meredith Hurst: When I tried to go back to work, I got physically sick. Paul Solman: Hurst tried to return to work twice. Meredith Hurst: The sore throat, the lymph nodes, the exhaustion, the fever, achiness. And that's what happens when I ever exert myself.

  • 130 Ukrainian POWs freed in Easter prisoner exchange with Russia

    130 Ukrainian POWs freed in Easter prisoner exchange with Russia

    Apr 16, 2023 08:05 PM EDT

    ... s invasion of Ukraine. In a video message broadcast on Russian state television late Saturday, before the start of the Easter service in Moscow, Kirill lamented “grave events taking place on our Russian historical land” in reference to the war, echoing the Kremlin’s claim that an independent Ukraine is ...

  • Israeli troops kill 2 alleged Palestinian gunmen in West Bank

    Israeli troops kill 2 alleged Palestinian gunmen in West Bank

    Apr 12, 2023 01:02 AM EDT

    ... s husband, Leo, and his remaining children wept at the podium — their family of seven reduced to four.“Lucy, I have a choice: I could lament over the next 25 years of marriage that I’ve lost, but I actually feel blessed to have had 25 years of a beautiful ...

  • Tributes pour in for 5 victims of the Louisville bank shooting

    Tributes pour in for 5 victims of the Louisville bank shooting

    Apr 11, 2023 01:48 PM EDT

    ... officer, was a mother and grandmother, according to the Herald-Leader. While mourning her friend and the other shooting victims in her hometown, Lonnie Ali lamented that “there is no place on this earth that we are safe as citizens.” “You always have to be aware of everything going on ...

  • Russian attacks continue across Ukraine amid Easter pleas for peace

    Russian attacks continue across Ukraine amid Easter pleas for peace

    Apr 09, 2023 09:58 PM EDT

    ... of Ukraine, the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces reported. According to the General Staff, Russia focused attacks on the Donetsk province communities of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka. Donetsk regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said Sunday morning that two civilians were wounded Saturday. Officials in Kherson province, where Ukrainian ...

  • Russia bombards illegally annexed Ukraine areas from ground, air

    Russia bombards illegally annexed Ukraine areas from ground, air

    Apr 07, 2023 07:59 PM EDT

    ... the General Staff statement, Russia was concentrating the bulk of its offensive operations in Ukraine’s industrial east, focusing on the cities and towns of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka in Donetsk province. Most of Friday's battlefield reports concerned the four Ukrainian provinces Russia annexed in September: Donetsk, Luhansk ...