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At least four people were killed and dozens more injured after a bomb exploded during a morning Catholic Mass inside a university gym in the southern Philippines. The country’s military chief said he believed the attack was retaliation following a military operation against local pro-Islamic State groups. At least four people were killed and dozens…
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Nearly four months after the deadly wildfires, Lahaina’s youngest residents still face displacement, housing insecurity and lingering traumaWhen the destructive summer blaze swept across Lahaina, in west Maui, Maryann Kobatake’s nephew helped ferry a friend’s grandmother and cousins to safety. On the drive out of a burning Front Street, the town’s main thoroughfare, she said…
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Seminoles lost star QB to injury two weeks agoMichigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama selectedMichigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama were selected to the College Football Playoff on Sunday, making Florida State the first unbeaten Power Five conference champion to be excluded from the four-team field.The final season of the four-team playoff before it expands to 12…
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Twenty-year-old Hisham Awartani paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet lodged in his spine, his family saysOne of the three college students of Palestinian descent who were shot in Vermont last month is paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet lodged in his spine, the student’s family said.Hisham Awartani, a 20-year-old student at…
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Warnings that president stance on the war risks losing support of community in states critical to his chances for re-electionMuslim community leaders gathered on Saturday in Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the US, to protest President Biden’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, reiterating that the president’s…
The National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said Sunday on NBC News that the U.S. intelligence community has indicated it was not aware of Hamas’ plan to attack Israel. The National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said Sunday on NBC News that the U.S. intelligence community has indicated it…
The pain of those on the other side of the Rafah border is keenly felt: we know that their rights are inseparable from our ownOn the steps of the journalists’ union in Downtown Cairo last Thursday evening, a woman held up a poster that showed eight babies: four parcelled up into small, green packages, four…
LAFC are one away from repeating as championsColumbus Crew beat FC Cincinnati in a 3-2 thriller in the EastAfter the longest season in Major League Soccer history, Los Angeles FC still has one more week of work to do.A 2-0 win over the Houston Dynamo means LAFC will advance to their second straight MLS Cup…
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Last week, there were four high-profile departures from public service, ranging from highly distinguished to controversial to disastrous: Rep. George Santos became the sixth lawmaker to be expelled from Congress and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100, while Rosalynn Carter was remembered as she was laid to rest in…
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The show needs to return to its original recipe: focus on the triumphs, not the mishaps, and keep the bakes accessibleUtter the words “bin-gate” and you would be hard pressed to find any Great British Bake Off fan who wouldn’t go misty-eyed. Ingrained in our collective consciousness is 2014 contestant Iain Watters’ baked alaska-fuelled tantrum,…
