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Amid massive search for mass killing suspect, Maine residents remain behind locked doors (apnews.com)
Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to their homes for a second night as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched intensely for Robert Card, an Army reservist authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass killing in state history....
Police dog's attack on Black trucker in Ohio echoes history (apnews.com)
A K-9 police dog's attack on a Black motorist in Ohio is resurrecting questions about race relations and law enforcement tactics.
Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the 'nightmare' of Gaza's hospitals (apnews.com)
When the Israeli bombing intensifies and the wounded swamp the Gaza City hospitals where Dr. Nidal Abed works, he treats patients wherever he can — on the floor, in the corridors, in rooms crammed with 10 patients instead of two. Without enough medical supplies, Abed makes do with whatever he can find – clothes for bandages,...
AP visual analysis: Rocket from Gaza appeared to go astray, likely caused deadly hospital explosion (apnews.com)
An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos found that the deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital Tuesday was likely caused by a rocket fired from inside Palestinian territory that veered off course and broke up in the air before crashing back to the ground.
Australia decides against canceling Chinese company's lease of strategically important port (apnews.com)
Scholz says that Germany needs to expand deportations of rejected asylum-seekers (apnews.com)
Ukraine displays recovered artifacts it says were stolen by Russians (apnews.com)
Breast cancer is deadlier for Black women. A study of mammograms could help close the gap (apnews.com)
Gaza carnage spreads anger across Mideast, alarming US allies and threatening to widen conflict (apnews.com)
Within hours after a blast was said to have killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital, protesters hurled stones at Palestinian security forces in the occupied West Bank and at riot police in neighboring Jordan.
As Biden heads to Israel and Jordan, aid is held up for a Gaza on the verge of total collapse (apnews.com)
Israeli airstrikes continued to pound Gaza early Tuesday, killing dozens of people in the besieged enclave’s south, where Israel told civilians from the north to seek shelter ahead of an expected ground offensive....
Police shoot dead suspected extremist accused of killing 2 Swedish soccer fans on a Brussels street (apnews.com)
BRUSSELS (AP) — Police in Belgium on Tuesday shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish soccer fans in a brazen shooting on a Brussels street before disappearing into the night.
Executive who had business ties to Playgirl magazine pleads guilty to $250M fraud at lending company (apnews.com)
A Florida executive whose family business once owned Playgirl magazine has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud for misleading investors in another of his companies — one that made high-interest loans to small businesses....
Judge denies bid to prohibit US border officials from turning back asylum-seekers at land crossings (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday denied a bid by immigration advocates to prohibit U.S. officials from turning away asylum-seekers at border crossings with Mexico if they don’t have appointments on a mobile phone app....
An Australian referendum to create an Indigenous advocacy committee to Parliament has failed (apnews.com)
Advocates for constitutional change in Australia said they were devastated on Saturday by the defeat of a referendum that would have created an advocacy committee to offer advice to Parliament on policies that affect Indigenous people — the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority....
A company cancels its plans to recover more Titanic artifacts. Its renowned expert died on the Titan (apnews.com)
The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck has cancelled plans to retrieve more artifacts from the site because the leader of the upcoming expedition died in the Titan submersible implosion, according to documents filed in a U.S. District Court on Wednesday....
An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder (apnews.com)
Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his son’s family....
After troubled start, New York is shaking up its legal marijuana market with new competitors (apnews.com)
New York officials launched legal recreational marijuana sales by promising many of the first retail licenses to people with past drug convictions, hoping to give people harmed by the war on drugs a chance to succeed before competitors crowded in....
Wall Street Journal reporter loses appeal and will stay in a Russian jail at least through November (apnews.com)
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich lost an appeal Tuesday to be released from jail on espionage charges, meaning he will remain behind bars at least through Nov. 30....
IMF outlook worsens for a 'limping' world economy. Mideast war poses new uncertainty (apnews.com)
The world economy has lost momentum from the impact of higher interest rates, the invasion of Ukraine and widening geopolitical rifts, and it now faces new uncertainty from the war between Israel and Hamas militants, International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday....
Jewish diaspora mourns attack on Israel, but carries on by celebrating holidays (apnews.com)
The Jewish diaspora awoke to horror Saturday in what was supposed to be among the most festive times on the Jewish holiday calendar....
Russian strike on village kills 51, Ukrainian officials say, as Zelenskyy seeks more Western support (apnews.com)
US shoots down Turkish drone after it came too close to US troops in Syria (apnews.com)
Georgia state Senate to start its own inquiry of troubled Fulton County jail (apnews.com)
A Georgia state Senate committee says it will start its own investigation of jail conditions in the state’s most populous county, three months after the U.S. Justice Department unveiled its own inquiry of Fulton County jail conditions....