Israel received the remains of two people Hamas said were deceased hostages, handed over via the Red Cross and sent to a national forensics lab. If confirmed, 11 bodies would still be in Gaza. The transfer followed Israeli strikes that killed more than 100 Palestinians, including at least 46 children,...
A Guardian investigation says US immigration officials are keeping people in small, secretive ICE holding rooms for days or weeks, despite federal policy. After a June memo lifted a 12 hour cap to three days, records show detentions still exceed limits, with average stays surging at 127 sites and nearly...
Eleven Democratic senators pressed immigration officials to explain deportation flights and halt ICE’s use of the WRAP, a full-body restraint, citing near-total secrecy and serious human rights concerns. In a letter led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, the group referenced an AP investigation documenting hours-long restraint of detainees on flights...
President Donald Trump unveiled a tabletop model of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom planned to replace the demolished East Wing, and architects spotted glaring mistakes. The model shows dead-end stairs, blurred windows, and mismatches with official renderings, including 11 rather than nine west-side arches, extra south-side columns, and a single staircase where...
Portland, Maine — Maine Family Planning will close its primary care services Friday, blaming Trump administration moves to block Medicaid funding to abortion providers. The network, which runs 18 clinics and serves about 8,000 patients, said primary care reached more than 600 people last year and that telling them to...
American farmers welcomed China’s pledge to purchase at least 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually for the next three years, plus 12 million between now and January, but warned the move won’t fix rising costs for fertilizer, machinery and seed. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said China will drop...
Abby Zwerner, the Virginia teacher shot by a 6-year-old in 2023, told a court she thought she had died as coworkers pressed her wounds. She said she lifted her hand just before the gun fired. Zwerner is seeking $40 million from former assistant principal Ebony Parker, accused of ignoring warnings...
Disney+ has begun streaming in HDR10+, though for now the option is limited to select Hulu titles—“over 1,000,” according to Samsung, which says its 2018-and-newer TVs are the first to play HDR10+ from Disney+. The Disney+ app on Apple tvOS also lists HDR10+. Previously limited to HDR10 and Dolby Vision,...
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Nikola Topic has begun chemotherapy for testicular cancer, general manager Sam Presti said Thursday. Doctors are "extremely positive" about his long-term outlook. Topic, the No. 12 pick in the 2024 draft who missed last season recovering from a torn ACL, had a biopsy at MD Anderson...
Official tallies in the Netherlands showed Democrats 66 and Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom locked on the same number of seats, ANP reported, turning a tense overnight lead for the centrists into a tie by morning. With about 15,000 more votes out of over nine million, Mr. Jetten’s party edged...
