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Jim Jordan's zombie campaign for speaker

Updated Oct 18, 2023 - World

Israel to allow entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza from Egypt after U.S. pressure

Civil defense teams and residents launch a search and rescue operation around the buildings that were destroyed after Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images
Updated Oct 18, 2023 - Politics & Policy

Inside Biden's talks with Netanyahu, Israel's war team

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, hugs U.S. President Joe Biden.
Oct 18, 2023 - Economy

SBF trial: FTX lacked funds to meet customer deposits over a year before collapse, witness says

A man with a white heard looks straight ahead, slightly down, on a sidewalk

GOP scrambles for escape hatch as Jim Jordan falls short again

Oct 18, 2023 - Economy

If you pay Americans money, they will spend it

House may vote on empowering interim speaker McHenry

Oct 18, 2023 - Health

More people are getting HIV preventive drugs, but disparities remain

Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a malleable marvel

Biden administration announces new sanctions against Hamas

Updated Oct 18, 2023 - Politics & Policy

As Biden visits Israel chaos rises across Middle East

Oct 18, 2023 - Economy

You have to earn $115,000 a year to afford a typical house now

With Jordan slipping, House could make McHenry a temporary speaker

Oct 18, 2023 - Health

Insurers bash Biden's mental health parity proposal

Illustration of a piggy bank-like brain with a dollar going inside

Restaurants embrace AI and robots — warily

A human server places food dishes on a robotic waiter.

AI is resurrecting the dead, with or without permission

Illustration of a pixelated, distorted image of a person's face placed above a cemetery.

Universities struggle with responses as Israel-Hamas war reverberates

Illustration of Israeli and Palestinian flags stylized as college pennants on a wall.

Anti-Jewish, anti-LGBTQ hate crimes spiked in 2022

Rabbi Levi Notik outside F.R.E.E. synagogue in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, after multiple Jewish businesses and synagogues were vandalized.

China's Belt and Road pulls Putin closer

Photo illustration of Vladimir Putin wearing a hard hat, safety goggles and reflective vest.
Updated Oct 18, 2023 - Technology

X to test $1 subscription fee for new users

Gaza hospital blast kills hundreds, Palestinian officials say

Scores of injured people are being taken to Al-Shifa Hospital following Israeli airstrike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza on October 17, 2023

Extreme drought drives Amazon River port to lowest level on record

Floating houses that are not longer floating on the Negro River near Manaus, Brazil, on Oct. 16.
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