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Gal Cohen-Solal, his wife and three young children moved Oct. 1 to Kibbutz Reim. Less than a week later, their home and small community in southern Israel were under siege by Hamas.

Four people were killed and more than 1 million people were without power as intense thunderstorms swept through Texas on Thursday evening, bringing heavy rain, destructive winds and dangerous flooding to central and southeast portions of the state that had already flooded this month.

Posing as Americans, North Korean technology workers secured remote work contracts with hundreds of U.S. companies as part of a scheme to help fund Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear weapons and missile programs, the U.S. government said on Thursday.

President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege to deny House Republicans access to recordings of his interview with a special counsel investigating his handling of government documents, denouncing their effort as a political stunt with dire implications for federal law enforcement.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that he was pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting of a protester during a Black Lives Matter march, after a review board recommended he be released from prison.

The U.S. military said Thursday that its floating pier had been anchored to the Gaza shoreline and promised that humanitarian deliveries to the war-ravaged territory would begin “within days,” after delays and amid objections from critics who fear that the operation, directed by President Biden, will leave those involved vulnerable to attack.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping put their countries' partnership on red-carpet display in Beijing on Thursday, aiming to project a unified alternative to the West as each faces pressure amid Moscow's war on Ukraine.  

Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday took their best shot at Michael Cohen, the star witness in the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan, grilling Cohen about a medley of misrepresentations, manipulations and outright lies.

Scorching temperatures set numerous records across South Florida on Wednesday, and historically hot conditions for mid-May will persist through the weekend.

Attorneys for famed illusionist David Copperfield have denied accusations made by 16 women in a new report alleging decades-spanning sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior.

Hezbollah said it launched “more than 60 rockets” at Israeli military sites on Thursday in response to an attack that killed one of its senior commanders.

It’s a question that has stood the test of time - and one that fed a years-long legal battle in an Indiana city. Are tacos considered sandwiches? According to one judge in Fort Wayne, Ind., the answer is yes. And he says burritos are sandwiches, too.

The rain was pounding in the Mojave Desert on the Saturday before Easter when the first call came in about a crash along Interstate 15. Details were sketchy: head-on collision, Mercedes versus another car, a 7-year-old not breathing, a nurse on scene performing CPR.  

There is one thing holding the nation back from the dream of an all-electric future: political polarization. Sales data have consistently shown that while Democrats have been buying the new cars in droves, Republicans haven’t jumped onto the EV-buying train.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has relied on Trump’s fixer and attorney Michael Cohen to make their case at trial that the former president was directly involved in a scheme to conceal a hush money payment on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.

More than 100 wildfires were burning in Canada on Wednesday, and thousands of residents in rural communities choked by the worst blazes remained evacuated, even as improving weather allowed firefighters to make some progress.

Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean begins June 1, and forecasters are warning people to brace for what could be an anxious six months - for residents along the coast and even well inland. While an average season bears witness to 14 named storms, this season could feature twice that number. Experts are sounding the alarms for an active season, in some cases issuing the most extreme preseason outlooks they ever have.

More than 3.5 million student loan borrowers who received funding under a defunct private program will have more time to consolidate their loans if they want to qualify for a one-time initiative that could wipe out their debt, the Education Department said Wednesday.

President Biden and former president Donald Trump agreed Wednesday to a June 27 debate on CNN and a Sept. 10 debate broadcast by ABC News, hours after Biden announced he would bypass the decades-old tradition of three fall meetings organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.