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"Unfortunately, the Israeli government is supportive of these attacks and does nothing to stop this violence."

Four Black Democratic members of Congress criticized Florida’s new K-12 history curriculum, calling it racist and inaccurate. They objected to parts that claim slavery benefited slaves and downplay the horrors of slavery by comparing it to serfdom and indentured servitude. The lawmakers demanded the Florida Board of Education...

Ukraine’s state-run energy operator warned Saturday that “there are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances” from the country’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as shelling in the Russian-occupied area continues, despite international pleas for a ceasefire....

After Harrison Mann’s resignation from the U.S. military was finalized on Monday, the Jewish U.S. Army major who worked in the Defense Intelligence Agency gave a pair of interviews this week explaining his decision to resign over American support for Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip....

A medic who worked at Sde Teiman’s field hospital said that Palestinian detainees there are stripped “of anything that resembles human beings” and that the harassment and torture are done not to “gather intelligence” but “out of revenge” for the October 7 attacks....

The governments of Canada and Sweden have announced they will resume funding for the United Nation’s agency that provides humanitarian aide and protection to Palestinians living in Gaza and elsewhere—a move that other powerful nations, including Israel’s most powerful ally the United States, continue to refuse....

Data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction shows that the average global temperature reached 17.01°C, or 62.62°F, on Monday—making it the hottest day ever recorded....