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Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks.

The Lebanese militant group targeted an Israeli army base near the central city of Binyamina, in one of the most serious mass casualty attacks the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group has caused in Israel.

The Israeli military said it targeted militants hiding out among civilians at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, without providing evidence.

Ukraine’s brigades can recruit their own soldiers, and they compete with each other to craft the best advertising campaigns to sell the war.

Vice President Harris on Monday released an opportunity agenda for Black men, focusing on helping business owners, teachers, cryptocurrency investors, men with health conditions, and men in the marijuana industry. She laid out the focused agenda in an effort to provide Black men “the tools to thrive: to buy a home, provide for our families,...

The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements have begun. Track the winners here.

An eyewitness tells the Daily Beast that he saw the 85-year-old director’s kiss and reported it to his bosses.

A crew of nearly two dozen young Tren de Aragua gang members shacking up at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown are wreaking havoc in Times Square, but remain free because of their ages.

Prize was awarded for work on how institutions are formed and how they affect differences in prosperity.

Israel’s military struck what it said was a Hamas command center embedded inside a hospital compound in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza early on Monday.

Democrats have a fair shot at flipping control of the House — largely because of the boost provided by Vice President Harris at the top of the ticket — but the battle is a horse race that is too close to call heading into the final weeks of the campaign, according to a host of...

In today’s issue: There are three weeks to go in a presidential contest so close, the result will depend on whether former President Trump or Vice President Harris does the superior job of getting their respective supporters to the polls while raising voters’ doubts about the competition. The latest in the nail-biting race may be obvious, but campaign insiders...

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If the Dodgers go on to win a World Series, what Jack Flaherty accomplished in Game 1 of the NLCS against the Mets will define his career in his native L.A.

The trial, largely based on historical documents and fading memories, has underlined the difficulties Germany has faced in bringing former East German officials to justice.

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Highly Regulated Germany Considers New Laws To Deter Terrorists Who Don't Obey Laws

President Biden pledged an additional $612 million in aid as Florida struggles with power outages, gas shortages and persistent flooding.

Wetlands absorb carbon from the atmosphere. The Coeur d’Alene’s restoration would do more than just that.

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said Sunday that former President Trump “lies about everything,” but is telling the truth when he says he will round up his political opponents, if he wins the election next month. “He lies about everything, except, except he’s telling the truth when he’s going to have a roundup,” Carville said...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said he sees a “significant” decline in former President Trump’s skills. Christie, in a conversation with The New York Times, was asked if Trump, 78, is not as cognitively fit as he was in recent years. “He’s not. He wasn’t as good in 2020 as he was in...

LAUSD quietly overhauled BSAP, a program meant to bolster struggling Black students, after a legal challenge from a conservative group against basing such help on race.

Former President Trump early Monday said Vice President Harris should take a cognitive test, as the Harris campaign hammers him for his refusal to release his own detailed medical records and questions his fitness for office. “I believe it is very important that Kamala Harris pass a test on Cognitive Stamina and Agility,” Trump posted...

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The trial, largely based on historical documents and fading memories, underlined the difficulties Germany faces in bringing ex-East German officials to justice.

Former President Trump is slamming "The Apprentice," calling the film about his early rise in New York "fake and classless." "It’s a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country," Trump wrote in an early morning...

A crew of nearly two dozen young Tren de Aragua gang members shacking up at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown are wreaking havoc in Times Square, but remain free because of their ages.

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Residents face an uphill battle as they rebuild from the back-to-back storms that devastated Florida communities.

The Israeli military said it targeted militants hiding out among civilians at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, without providing evidence.

The attack by Hezbollah highlights a weak spot in Israel’s vaunted air defense system that military officials say is hard to counter.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said North Korean troops were now fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, appearing to confirm reports that have been circulating in the past couple of weeks. Zelensky, in a video address, said there was an "increasing alliance" between Russia and North Korea, which are already cooperating on arms and...

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Over 4,500 square miles of ocean will be protected off the California coast. It will also be managed in partnership with the indigenous groups that fought to create it.

As the Russian economy tanks, immiseration and social discontent grow, and money dries up, Putin won’t have the resources to fuel his war machine.

North Korea is preparing to blow up roads that cross the militarized border with South Korea, Seoul announced on Monday.

Canada on Monday ordered six Indian diplomats to leave the country, including India’s top diplomat in Ottawa, Sanjay Kumar Verma, officials said.

The Lebanese Red Cross says an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon, killing at least 21 people.

Tech bros promising “community engagement” are trying to cash in on health equity. Silicon Valley’s answer to social welfare involves slapping a progressive label on subscription social services while monetizing the safety net.

Conservative pundit Meghan McCain blasted Martha Raddatz of ABC News for the way she handled an interview with Sen. JD Vance on the network's Sunday public affairs program "This Week." "It’s really insane Martha and her producers didn’t see how awful her line of questioning sounds to a normal person," McCain wrote Sunday on X,...

Kamala Harris’s campaign is pushing a version of the credit intended to fight child poverty, while Donald Trump sees the program primarily as a tax cut for people higher up the income scale.

The day of the attack, the U.N.'s peacekeeping force said an Israeli tank broke down the entrance of its base in Lebanon.

A train operator was killed and at least 20 passengers on board were injured when a train crashed after a tree fell onto the tracks in New Jersey Monday morning, according to local officials.

Economists expect higher inflation, national deficits and interest rates under former President Trump’s proposed agenda than under policies proposed by Vice President Harris, a new survey by The Wall Street Journal finds. In the new survey conducted between Oct. 4-8, 68 percent of the respondents said they think inflation would rise faster under a second...

Sources who spoke to The Times anonymously said they have uncovered no evidence that a man who brought guns to the California rally intended to harm the former president, though they stressed that the investigation is ongoing.

On Sunday, the Pentagon announced that the U.S. will send Israel an advanced anti-missile system, along with some 100 American troops to operate it.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law Assembly Bill 2839, which bans altered content during election season if it is materially deceptive and falsely portrays a candidate, in an effort to protect the reputation and electoral prospects of candidates.

FEMA says its disaster assistance teams will be at fixed locations after National Guard troops reportedly encountered armed militia who said they were "hunting FEMA."

45th President Donald Trump recently stated that he will be appearing on comedian Joe Rogan’s widely popular The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, which indisputably ranks as the most listened to podcast in the world.

The decision is the latest flare-up between the countries since the killing of an activist in 2023.

As physicians, we are witnessing firsthand how growing health care costs affect average Americans.

Reported threats targeting government employees halted some Hurricane Helene recovery aid operations in North Carolina over the weekend.

A single drone, which evaded Israel’s vaunted aerial defense system, slammed into a mess hall at a military training camp deep inside Israel, killing four soldiers and wounding dozens of others.

Lilly Ledbetter, an activist for equal pay whose legal fight against her employer paved the way for the Fair Pay Act, has died. She was 86.  Ledbetter worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Alabama for nearly two decades before learning from an anonymous note stuffed in her work mailbox that she earned significantly...

Her fight for equal wages inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

Marc Benioff, the owner of Time Magazine, recently criticized Democrat nominee Kamala Harris on social media for her refusal to take an interview with the publication, which has been a "conventional norm" for presidential candidates to take part in throughout the years.

The vice president appeared on Roland Martin Unfiltered on Monday.

It’s assumed that American-born children are immune to immigration enforcement — but this assumption is dangerously false.

Officials say federal disaster workers paused and then changed some of their hurricane-recovery efforts in North Carolina, including abandoning door-to-door visits, after receiving threats.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, who rose to mononymous fame as a contestant on "The Apprentice" before joining the Trump White House, says she's "100 percent endorsing Kamala Harris for president." "Donald Trump squandered the greatest opportunity he had in his life to be a consequential leader, to shape the direction of our nation and bend it...

The vice president appeared on Roland Martin Unfiltered on Monday.

Former President Trump’s campaign is using a snippet of former President Clinton campaigning in Georgia on Sunday to attack Vice President Harris on immigration. Clinton, stumping for Harris at a Georgia fish fry event, defended the failed bipartisan Senate border security bill, arguing that, had the bill become law, the federal government would have had...

Now officially known as a box office failure, Suffs, the feminist Broadway musical featuring Hillary Clinton as one of its primary producers, announced its closure date after reportedly failing to make a profit after over six months.

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Milwaukee’s Black voters expose cracks in Democratic foundation for Harris

After weeks of Republican criticism about Vice President Harris’s media availability, the tables have turned as the Harris campaign accuses former President Trump of avoiding "mainstream" media interviews over the past month. Trump spoke with a local ABC affiliate in Nevada on Sept. 14. In the 30 days since, he has mostly spoken with conservative...

Idaho prosecutors told a judge that Bryan Kohberger, the 29-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students, should face the death penalty if convicted.

The prize was given to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work that advanced the understanding of differences in prosperity between countries.

The decision is the latest flare-up between the countries since the killing of an activist in 2023.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut is calling on Americans to leave Lebanon as soon as possible as the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continues to ramp up.

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Plus: Remembering Lilly Ledbetter {beacon} Evening Report Monday, Oct. 14   © AP Photo/David Yeazell Harris blitzes 'blue wall' states in final sprint Vice President Harris is hunkering down in the “blue wall” states this week and making a direct appeal to Black men as concerns grow among Democrats about erosion among a key pillar...

Former President Trump has a slight edge over Vice President Harris with early voters in battleground states, new polling shows, a promising sign for the Republican in the highly competitive presidential race. A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found 48 percent of voters who said they would cast their ballots early in critical swing states picked Trump,...

Canadian officials expelled India’s top diplomat and five others in a dispute set off by the assassination of a Sikh separatist in British Columbia last year.

Georgia Election Board chair John Fervier slammed his Republican colleagues Monday, after the state passed new election rules regarding hand counting ballots. Fervier, in an exclusive interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) called his GOP peers "inappropriate and unprofessional." “Our job is to clarify law, not create new law,” he said in the interview....

Even Bubba gets it. Former President Bill Clinton blamed the Harris-Biden administration for not properly vetting the migrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley — after being tapped to shore up Democratic votes for…

Twenty-two days before Election Day, Kamala Harris's presidential campaign has sent former President Bill Clinton to strategic states.

Bath and Body Works has stopped selling a candle that had a winter theme in what many social media users are claiming looks like the KU Klux Klan (KKK) hoods.

Minnestoa Gov. Tim Walz (D), the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said former President Trump “crossed a line” by saying he would use the National Guard or military to combat "the enemy within" when asked in an interview about potential Election Day chaos. “He crossed a line that, I have to tell you, in my lifetime, I...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) criticized the Biden administration on Monday over what she called an “unrestrained” Israeli government. “The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a post...

An Ohio professor was devastated to learn her job was on the chopping block. Then Sen. JD Vance started spreading falsehoods about her college's town.

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Schools tackle false info amid hurricanes, election Schools face challenges teaching children how to identify and handle misinformation without getting political, as false claims swirl amid back-to-back hurricanes and the upcoming election. © OLIVIER TOURON/AFP via Getty Images Some schools opt for...

The murder trial of Nima Momeni, the man accused of fatally stabbing cash app founder Bob Lee, began on Monday.

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Mark Vientos hits a second-inning grand slam off Landon Knack, sending the New York Mets to a 7-3 win over the Dodgers in Game 2 of the NLCS.

Israel’s military struck what it said was a Hamas command center embedded inside a hospital compound in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza early on Monday.

Progressives conquered economic policy under Biden. Would they lose it under Harris?

Mark Vientos hits a second-inning grand slam off Landon Knack, sending the New York Mets to a 7-3 win over the Dodgers in Game 2 of the NLCS.

Mark Vientos hits a second-inning grand slam off Landon Knack, sending the New York Mets to a 7-3 win over the Dodgers in Game 2 of the NLCS.

The U.N. Security Council expressed “strong concern” as Israel has fired on and wounded U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon during intensified fighting, reiterating its support for their role in supporting security in the region.

Milwaukee’s Black voters expose cracks in Democratic foundation for Harris

Former President Trump’s attorneys on Monday made their latest bid at moving his hush money criminal case to federal court, telling an appeals panel that a lower judge’s refusal to do so was “rushed” and “profoundly flawed.”  Trump previously hoped to move courts to derail his sentencing, but the gambit has so far proved unsuccessful. A...

October baseball was on the menu Monday for Taylor Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce.

Asian Americans are the fastest growing-voting group in the country. That means parties are courting them in tight races in states like Pennsylvania.

A local sheriff claimed he may have stopped a third attempt on Trump's life. But Vem Miller says he's been a Trump caucus captain and vote collector

Milwaukee’s Black voters expose cracks in Democratic foundation for Harris

Bill Belichick’s days of chasing rings may not be over… On or off the field.

Americans trust local government more in comparison to Congress and the media, according to a new poll. The Gallup survey, released Monday, shows 67 percent of respondents said they had a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust and confidence in the local governments around them to handle top issues. In comparison, only 34 percent...

Panama’s Migrant Authority registered a surge of U.S.-bound migrants passing through the Darién Gap jungle trail in September, largely driven by Venezuelans fleeing from their country in the wake of the fraudulent July 28 sham presidential election, the Associated Press (AP) reported over the weekend.

A new migrant caravan of approximately 1,000 migrants departed from Mexico’s southern border this weekend to make its way to Mexico City. From there, the group is expected to disperse and find various ways to reach the U.S. border. The caravan is the second to start in Mexico since October 1, when the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, took office.