Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Tariq’s neighborhood in Gaza’s Jabalya Camp was rapidly becoming a war zone when he and his family of eight fled Israeli bombing in November. When he returned home Sunday — after weeks spent scrounging for food, on the run from artillery and firefights — it … Read more
Less than a year before a Hamas attack out of Gaza sparked a war, one of the oldest and largest sports complexes in the Palestinian territories got a much-needed overhaul: brand-new basketball, volleyball and tennis courts, a soccer field, a running track and, for the first time, accessible bathrooms. It was a $519,000 upgrade, funded … Read more
The U.S. has spent more than $7 billion on humanitarian aid and building infrastructure in the Palestinian territories in recent decades, while sending more than $3 billion a year to Israel for its military Since Israel launched its offensive in Gaza following a deadly Hamas attack on Oct. 7, tens of thousands of buildings have … Read more
BEIJING — Hundreds of temporary one-room housing units were set up Thursday in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and killed at least 144 people, according to state media reports. The death toll rose by nine as search teams dug through heavy mudslides that had inundated two villages, … Read more
Honestly, it feels like part of just being alive in 2023 is getting about 15 scammer or spam texts every single day. It can be enough to drive one absolutely cuckoo. Join me, if you will, as we look at some people who absolutely dunked on some sorry scammers. Take for example… 1.The person who … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — Amid the bombed-out buildings and thousands of dead in Gaza City, there is another, often overlooked casualty: the embattled enclave’s shattered cultural institutions, particularly its few libraries. Both the Gaza Municipal Library and the Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center — which hosted a meeting between President … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Elon Musk met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in Israel, where the pair toured the Kfar Azza kibbutz, one of the Jewish communities attacked by Hamas militants during their Oct. 7 cross-border assault. After touring the scene of the violence, Musk was shown a … Read more
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said Donald Trump managed to utter “the stupidest possible thing he could say” while on the witness stand in his civil fraud trial in New York. “Because Donald Trump is one of the very stupidest people to be charged with business fraud, and because his demonstrably ineffectual lawyers obviously do not … Read more
John Cena got emotional after suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of a Samoan star at WWE Crown Jewel. Ever since joining the Bloodline last year, Solo Sikoa has been unstoppable. He has competed against and defeated some of the biggest names in the business. He has become Roman Reigns’ enforcer, who The Tribal … Read more
Jill Wine-Banks on Thursday poured cold water on a bid by Donald Trump’s lawyers to dismiss his charges in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case by claiming the protection of “presidential immunity.” Trump would be “destroyed on cross-examination” if he used that argument, the prosecutor in the Watergate scandal that took down President Richard … Read more