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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing a medic and wounding nine other people, a spokesman for the hospital said. The strike hit the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Muwasi area, where hundreds of...

AURORA, Ill. — At her mother’s home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he’s smiling in front of a bucket of sweating beers and wearing a blue T-shirt that reads, “Pops. The man. The myth. The legend.” Balhan’s father died last...

A New York teacher has been placed on administrative leave after giving her students edible THC gummies that she mistook for Sour Patch kids. The incident happened at William J. Grabiarz School of Excellence in Buffalo, N.Y., according to WKBW. The edibles were packaged to look like regular candy, police...

There was a time in Cody Balmer’s life where, from the outside, you might say things were on an even keel. He was a married homeowner, working full-time as an auto mechanic at a well-regarded shop, and a fixture at his kid’s youth sports events. “Always seemed like a hardworking...

BANGKOK — China’s Xi is making the case for free trade as he tours Southeast Asia this week, presenting China as a source of “stability and certainty.” On Monday, he was welcomed to Hanoi with pomp and ceremony by Vietnam’s President Luong Cuong. He arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital,...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader said Tuesday that the first round of talks with the United States went “well,” in his first public comment on the negotiations, state television reported. The comments by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while couched, represented his endorsement of the talks so...

TOKYO — Japan’s chief trade negotiator will visit the United States this week for talks aimed at convincing U.S. President Donald Trump to remove tariff measures against the East Asian country, officials said Tuesday. Economic Revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa will be in Washington from Wednesday to Friday for talks with...

HARRISBURG — Investigators worked Tuesday to uncover the motive behind an arson fire over the weekend at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s mansion, the latest act of political violence in the U.S. They dug into Cody Balmer’s background after, authorities say, he scaled an iron security fence in the middle of...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said Tuesday it will expand its financial support package for its crucial semiconductor industry to about $23 billion in part of efforts to address uncertainties posed by the Trump administration’s tariff hikes. The package represents roughly a 26% increase from the nearly $18 billion...

CHICAGO — Former President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump has “taken a hatchet” to Social Security, weighing in on a critical issue for millions of Americans as the 82-year-old Democrat briefly returned to the national stage. Biden, who has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the...

NEW YORK — The last time a New York City jury sat in judgment of Harvey Weinstein, the ex-movie studio boss was convicted of rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison. Five years later, that landmark #MeToo verdict is gone — wiped away on appeal — and Weinstein is...

Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from the Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename...

Monday’s magnitude 5.2 temblor marked another success for California’s earthquake early warning system, with users in some areas saying they received alerts on their phones before they felt shaking. The alerts in some cases provided pivotal seconds of lead time — a heads-up that could be critical in the event...

Hempfield Area School District’s students might get home earlier next academic year. The school board will vote next week on whether to make an adjustment to the district’s arrival and dismissal schedule. The adjustment would place the high school and middle school students on the same schedule — shifting the...

WASHINGTON — The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, slashing the number of diplomatic staff, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and...

ROME — President Donald Trump complained Monday about the pace of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran as the two countries start a new round of pivotal negotiations. “I think they’re tapping us along,” he said in the Oval Office during a meeting with El Salvador’s president. The...

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat,”...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s parliament Monday passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities, a decision that legal scholars and critics call another step toward authoritarianism by the populist government. The amendment, which required a two-thirds vote, passed along party lines...

WASHINGTON — A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a base, which could allow troops to detain any trespassers, including migrants, U.S. officials told The Associated...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The search has been suspended for five people missing after a boat capsized during a “failed suspected smuggling venture” off of Florida’s Atlantic Coast, the Coast Guard said Monday. On Sunday, Coast Guard crews rescued four people from the ocean some 29 miles off of...

BOSTON — The federal government says it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University, since the institution said Monday it won’t comply with the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus. In a letter to Harvard Friday, the administration called for...

MINNETONKA, Minn. — A person was arrested near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in Minnesota after reports of an intruder, months after the company’s CEO was killed, authorities said Monday. Police in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka said the suspect was arrested outside of the United Healthcare corporate campus. The Minnetonka Police Department...

It remained unclear how a man evaded security to firebomb the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence in an attack that has been decried by elected officials and religious leaders. But the attack is merely the latest in what appears to be a rising tide of violence against elected officials. Recent incidents include...

MADISON, Wis. — The municipal clerk in Wisconsin’s capital city has quit amid investigations into how she failed to count nearly 200 absentee ballots in the November elections. Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s office announced City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl’s resignation Monday. The mayor’s spokesperson, Dylan Brogan, said Witzel-Behl submitted her resignation...