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World Central Kitchen (NEW YORK) — The bodies of six of the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in an Israeli military missile strike this week left Gaza on Wednesday, hospital officials said, as the fallout from the deadly incident continues to grow. The bodies were taken by ambulance from the Abu Youssef Al-Najjar […]
Stella/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As schools across the United States continue to rebound from pandemic interruptions, more than half of teachers still say their profession is a difficult job and public education is in decline, according to newly released Pew Research Center data. Pew conducted two surveys last fall, one of 2,531 public K-12 […]
Samy Zayara/ABC News (DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA) — While he’d rather be playing games with his brothers or studying in school, 12-year-old Zakaria Sarsak said he no longer has that option. He, instead, said he spends his days racing from one emergency to another across the Gaza Strip, riding with an ambulance crew to ghastly scenes […]
Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, are seen in undated photos released on March 31, 2024, by the Texas County Sheriff’s Department. (Texas County Sheriff’s Department) (NEW YORK) — Two missing mothers in Oklahoma appear to be victims of “foul play,” according to authorities, who are investigating why the women never appeared to pick […]
Elephants walk through one of the dried channel of the wildlife reach Okavango Delta near the Nxaraga village in the outskirt of Maun, on September 28, 2019. (Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has offered to export 20,000 elephants to Germany in a conservation spat with Berlin following comments from […]
izusek/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles, like other major cities, has seen a surge in crime committed on buses, trains and stations’ transit hubs, according to statistics compiled by ABC News, and now transit officials are working to find a solution. Crimes reported on Los Angeles MTA properties increased by 65% since 2020 and, […]
Palestinians check a damaged vehicle after Israeli strikes in central Gaza Strip city of Deir el-Balah, on April 2, 2024. (Yasser Qudih/Xinhua via Getty Images) (LONDON) — The foreign-aid organization World Central Kitchen called on Thursday for an independent and international investigation into the killing of seven of its workers in an Israel airstrike in […]
A partial solar eclipse is seen in San Salvador, El Salvador, Oct. 14, 2023. (SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Excitement is mounting for one of nature’s most unique spectacles, the total solar eclipse, set to cast a historic shadow across a path through the United States on April 8, 2024. The track […]
fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Despite abortion being on the November ballot in Florida, pro-abortion groups say a six-week ban going into effect next month will have devastating consequences for women in the Southeast. The Florida Supreme Court issued two decisions earlier this week, allowing a question on the November ballot that would enshrine abortion […]
A landslide blocks a road near Taroko national park following an earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. (An Rong Xu/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The death toll from Wednesday’s powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan climbed on Thursday to 10 people, with dozens more missing, Taiwanese officials said. At least 38 […]
