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Israeli army issues new evacuation orders in north Gaza after fresh rocket fire
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli forces on Wednesday issued new evacuation orders to Palestinians in areas of north Gaza that were among the first to be hit at the start of the war with Hamas in October, aft...
Aug 07, 2024 A Palestinian woman walks past destroyed houses at the site of an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, August 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Democrats Harris, Walz to campaign in crucial Michigan, Wisconsin
(Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will campaign alongside her new running mate, Tim Walz, on Wednesday, holding events in battleground states Wisconsin and Michigan that will...
Aug 07, 2024 U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks next to her newly chosen vice presidential running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., August 6, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Rivian sticks to production forecast, posts second-quarter margin below estimates
(Reuters) -Rivian Automotive maintained its production forecast for the year on Tuesday and said it lost more per electric car delivered than analysts had expected as cost-cuts are yet to take effect....
Aug 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A Rivian Automotive Inc facility is pictured in Costa Mesa, California, U.S.,November 1, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Two men indicted in alleged pit bull attack near Bradley University
PEORIA, Ill. - Felony indictments have been given to two men after their pit bulls allegedly injured a couple near Bradley University. A Peoria County grand jury on Tuesday indicted 45-year-old Robert...
Aug 06, 2024 Brian Turner / CC
US charges man with alleged ties to Iran in foiled assassination plot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran has been charged in the United States in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate a U.S. politician or government officials, the Jus...
Aug 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: An American flag waves outside the U.S. Department of Justice Building in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo
New Illinois law aims to give free ID cards to citizens leaving correctional facilities
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill on Tuesday that's aimed at providing free identification cards to more people exiting correctional facilities in Illinois. The st...
Aug 06, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a news conference in Chicago prior to signing a bill aimed at giving more Illinoisans who leave a correctional facility access to a free state ID. (Credit: Illinois.gov)
Hamas names Oct 7 mastermind Sinwar as leader after Haniyeh assassination
CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, the group said on Tuesday, in a move that rei...
Aug 06, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Hamas leader Yehya Al-Sinwar looks on as palestinians Hamas supporters take part in an anti-Israel rally over tension in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, in Gaza City October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
Israel says dozens of Palestinian fighters killed in Gaza over past 24 hours
CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed 45 Palestinian fighters in Gaza over the past day, the military said on Tuesday, after heavy fighting in which militant group Hamas said it destroyed t...
Aug 06, 2024 Mourners react during the funeral of three Palestinians, who were killed in an Israeli raid, in Aqaba near Tubas, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 6, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
PPD: Arrest made in connection with Big Al's shooting
PEORIA, Ill.-- Peoria Police have arrested a man they say was responsible for a shooting at Big Al's last month. PPD says the suspect, 42-year-old Jerry Watson, is facing charges including aggravated ...
Aug 06, 2024 (Peoria County Jail)
Debby pours more than a foot of rain on coastal Georgia, South Carolina
ATLANTA (Reuters) -Tropical Storm Debby inundated coastal Georgia and South Carolina with a deluge of rain that could flood Charleston, Savannah and other cities on Tuesday, a day after it slammed int...
Aug 06, 2024 A view of a flooded street due to storm Debby, which made landfall as a hurricane before being downgraded to a tropical storm, in Holmes Beach, Florida, U.S., August 5, 2024, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. @ErnieVanderwalt via X/via REUTERS/File Photo
