Secretary of State Antony Blinken talked with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah II about the current Israeli-Gaza conflict in separate meetings in Jordan's capital of Amman. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III says the U.S. stands firmly behind the people of Israel and if necessary, will supply additional resources to safeguard its defense. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas ruled Friday that a Galveston County, Texas political redistricting plan violates the Voting Rights Act. President Joe Biden Friday announced $7 billion in federal funds to accelerate clean hydrogen production at seven renewable energy hubs in an effort to boost clean energy and create jobs. House Republicans Friday nominated Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for Speaker Jordan got 124 votes, more than 90 votes short of the 217 he will need to become Speaker. A suspect accused of torturing and murdering Chilean folk singer Victor Jara following a 1973 violent right-wing military coup has been arrested in Florida. Chilean President Salvador Allende died during the coup. A 17-year-old suspect was arrested Thursday, in connection with the Oct. 3 shooting that wounded five people at Morgan State University. A rope rescue team responded to a cave to rescue a dog trapped 40 feet down a narrow opening -- and they encountered a bear. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said an angler on Lake Superior reeled in a 10-pound, 14-ounce coho salmon, breaking a 53-year-old state record. For some older women, recurring urinary tract infections -- and the antibiotics typically prescribed for them -- become a fact of life, but a new study offers a novel treatment that may deliver relief. Just over half of U.S. teens said in a Gallup Poll published Friday they spend at least 4 hours a day on social media sites like Tok Tok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and X. A nonprofit set up 12,952 cereal boxes in Detroit and toppled them like dominoes to break a Guinness World Record. North Korea Friday called the arrival of U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in South Korea an undisguised military provocation and warned of "catastrophic consequences" and the danger of outbreak of a nuclear war. A Missouri man ended up having a "pretty amazing birthday" when he won $100,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Shayda, the debut feature by Tehran-born, Australia-based Noora Niasari, tells a deeply moving story based on the director's own childhood experience of fleeing domestic violence with her mother in a foreign country. The Israeli military early Friday ordered citizens of northern Gaza to evacuate to the southern half of the Palestinian enclave, seemingly in preparations for a ground invasion. Michelle Williams will narrate the audiobook of Britney Spears' memoir "The Woman in Me," set for release Oct. 24, Simon & Schuster Audio said Friday. The Department of Health and Human Services has announced over $500 million in awards to help advance vaccines and therapeutics. UAW President Shawn Fain said Friday no additional plants were added to the union's ongoing strike against GM, Ford and Stellantis. But he called for solidarity as the strike hits the one-month mark. NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which will study a large asteroid, hopefully offering insight into the creation and composition of Earth and similar planets, launched Friday. Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing 75,000 of its workers reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that comes a week after a massive three-day strike conducted by the employees. Police in England said multiple emergency calls came in reporting an unusual traffic hazard: a bathtub in the middle of the highway. Meta has "removed or marked as disturbing more than 795,000 pieces of content," since the October 7 Hamas attack that killed at least 1,300 Israelis. At least 1,799 Palestinians, including 583 children and 351 women. Security cameras were rolling at a Connecticut home when a bear wandered inside, stole a lasagna from the freezer and climbed out a window. Rapper Offset released his 21-track album "Set It Off" on Friday. |
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