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  • How the lives of the few child amputees allowed to leave Gaza are being rebuilt elsewhere

    To find safety from Gaza, you need first to become the victim of a catastrophic injury and then be lucky enough to be identified, selected and extracted. Less than 100 children have been granted permissions and temporary visas for the United States to receive treatment since the war began in October 2023. In all, several hundred children have left Gaza for treatment in that time - most to other Middle Eastern countries.

  • Jayden Daniels inspires Washington win to end Philadelphia Eagles streak

    Washington quarterback Daniels led his side down the field and threw his fifth touchdown pass of the game with just seconds remaining.

  • AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EST

    Takeaways from Trump's 1st rally speech as president-elect

  • Police: 1 person dead, 3 injured after wrong way crash on Ronald Reagan Highway in Blue Ash

    Police: 1 person dead, 3 injured after wrong way crash on Ronald Reagan Highway in Blue Ash

  • Indonesian tsunami survivor holds on to hope for missing son after 20 years

    In front of Saudah's house on Indonesia's Sumatra island lie two damaged coast guard ships, washed ashore by a tsunami 20 years ago and a daily reminder that her youngest son has yet to come home. Saudah, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, believes Muhammad Siddiq, who was six when the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami struck on Dec. 26, 2004, is still alive and has not given up hope that he might one day return. The deadly wave, triggered by a 9.1 magnitude quake, killed some 230,000 people along the coasts of more than a dozen countries, including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand making it one of the deadliest disasters in recorded history.

  • B.C. village mourns death of 2 longtime residents in landslide

    Barbara and David Enns were residents of Lions Bay, B.C., for several decades until they died last weekend in a landslide, says the village's mayor.David's body was found the day after the Dec. 14 mudslide destroyed their home. But Barbara's remains weren't found until Dec. 21, according to Squamish RCMP.Mayor Ken Berry says residents of the small community are devastated."It's just been a complete profound loss for the family and the community," he said.Search crews, comprised of professionals

  • Markets in 2024: Wall Street's high-octane rally keeps investors captive to the US

    Markets that began the year with investors expecting a global stock rally to fizzle, swift U.S. interest rate cuts to boost Treasuries and soften the dollar and emerging market currencies to strengthen have firmly defied that consensus. That comes mostly thanks to a second year of huge gains for Wall Street stocks as artificial intelligence fever and robust economic growth sucked more global capital into U.S. assets and took the dollar up 7% against peers in 2024. U.S. exuberance rose after Donald Trump's Nov. 5 election win, as traders focused on the President-elect's plans for tax cuts and deregulation, with the surge in animal spirits propelling cryptocurrency bitcoin to a 128% annual gain.

  • Friends and Family Publicly Back Blake Lively Amid Co-Star’s Alleged Smear Campaign

    Blake Lively’s friends and family members have come out of the woodwork to offer words of support after she filed a lawsuit accusing Justin Baldoni, the director and co-star of her upcoming film It Ends With Us, of sexual harassment and plotting a smear campaign against the former Gossip Girl star. Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrara, and Alexis Bledel, Lively’s co-stars from the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, issued a statement in support on Sunday night, praising her for speaking

  • What to stream: 'Squid Game' returns, the movie 'Bird' and Mariah Carey teams up with the NFL

    The long-awaited second season of “Squid Game” on Netflix and singing superstar Andrea Bocelli’s Christmas TV special are some of the new television, films and music headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: the British coming-of-age tale “Bird” from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold and Mariah Carey's Christmas special ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers game. NEW MOVIES TO STREAM DEC. — British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (“Fish Tank”) made perhaps her most divisive movie yet with “Bird,” a coming-of-age tale about a 12-year-old named Bailey (Nykiya Adams) that come to MUBI on Monday.

  • Wordle hint today: Clues for December 23 2024 NYT puzzle #1283

    WARNING: THERE ARE WORDLE SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT THE DECEMBER 23, 2024 WORDLE ANSWER SPOILED FOR YOU. Ready? OK. We've seen some hard Wordle words over the years and if you’re here, you’re proba

  • Why Airport Architects Don’t Want Travelers to Depend on Signs

    Are you an expert at navigating airports? Chances are, you’re actually being subtly guided by design techniques meant to keep crowds moving. WSJ asked an architect to explain.

  • Oil gains as cooling US inflation points to possible easing

    SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Monday as lower-than-expected U.S. inflation data revived hopes for further policy easing, although the outlook for a supply surplus next year weighed on the market. "Risk assets, including U.S. equity futures and crude oil, have started the week on a firmer footing," IG markets analyst Tony Sycamore said, adding that cooler inflation data helped alleviate concerns following the Federal Reserve's hawkish rate cut. "I think the U.S. Senate passing legislation to end the brief shutdown over the weekend has helped," he said.

  • Syria’s disappeared: one woman’s search for her missing father

    Uncertainty over the disappeared is forcing many to confront the brutal reality of Assad’s military prisons

  • Ethiopian resistance hero’s family tries to reclaim medal taken by Italian troops

    Ras Desta Damtew’s solid gold Imperial Order of the Star of Ethopia failed to sell on auction site this month

  • ‘I’m a pain in the backside ... an awkward sod’: Alan Bates on love, justice and the Post Office scandal

    He became a household name after ITV turned Britain’s biggest miscarriage of justice into a drama. He reflects on his fight for compensation, turning down an OBE – and getting married on Richard Branson’s island

  • Champagne’s sordid secret: the homeless and hungry migrants picking grapes for France’s luxury winemakers

    A Guardian investigation finds an underpaid, underfed workforce, some of whom are forced to sleep on the streets, exploited by a system of labour providers

  • Today in History: December 23, Franco Harris makes the ‘Immaculate Reception’

    On Dec. 23, 1972, in an NFL playoff game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders, Steelers running back Franco Harris scored a game-winning touchdown on a deflected pass with less than 10 seconds left in the game. The “Immaculate Reception,” as the catch came to be known, is often cited as the greatest NFL play of all time. In 1823, the poem “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” was published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel of New York; the verse, more popularly known as “The Night Before Christmas,” was later attributed to Clement C. Moore.

  • Machine to revive donor organs used in double-lung transplant in UK first

    Exclusive: Daniel Evans-Smith tells of transformative effect of operation using technology that could cut waiting lists

  • 'The whole area is really great': South BA residents enjoying recent development

    'The whole area is really great': South BA residents enjoying recent development

  • Former US Marines pilot who worked in China to be extradited to US, says Australia government

    Australia's Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said on Monday he had approved a United States extradition request for former U.S. Marines pilot Daniel Duggan, who faces charges including breaking U.S. arms control law by training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers. Duggan, 55, a naturalised Australian citizen, was arrested by Australian Federal Police in a rural town in New South Wales state in October 2022, shortly after returning from China, where he had lived since 2014. Dreyfus said he had determined Duggan should be extradited to the United States to face prosecution, after a New South Wales magistrate in May found him eligible for surrender.