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By Kayla Epstein In Manchester, New Hampshire 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images Miranda Blair didn’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016 because he scared her. This week, she was wearing a bright red “Make America Great Again” hat as she waited in sub-freezing temperatures to hear him speak . . .
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature US personnel suffer minor injuries in Iraq base attack – US official A US official has told the Reuters news agency that US personnel suffered minor injuries and a member of Iraq’s security forces was wounded in an attack on Iraq’s […]
Dozens killed and wounded in aerial and artillery shelling, information ministry says Leila Sackur Dozens of Palestinians including women and children were killed and others wounded in Israeli aerial and artillery shelling across both the north and the south of the Gaza Strip, Gaza’s Ministry of Information said in a post on Telegram. In the […]
When Iranians took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979, they held 52 Americans hostage for over 444 days. On this day in 1981, the hostage crisis ended, but that wasn’t the end of the story – or the suffering – for the hostages and their families. The hostage crisis began when Iranians stormed […]
A U.S. fighter jet shot down a missile fired from a Houthi-controlled area in Yemen toward a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Red Sea, Central Command said, adding that there were no reported injuries or damage. Israel has made clear in recent discussions that its high-intensity military campaign in Gaza will continue throughout January, U.S. […]
Kerry has been instrumental in brokering a number of international climate agreements. John Kerry, the United States’s special envoy on climate, will be stepping down from his role as he is expected to work on President Joe Biden’s re-election bid, according to media reports. The former secretary of state and senator has been pushing for […]
The twin specters of a widening regional war and intensified suffering of civilians loomed over the Middle East on Saturday, after the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen threatened to respond to American airstrikes and a senior U.N. official warned that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza was hurtling toward famine.
This photo released by the Houthi Media Center shows Houthi forces boarding the cargo ship Galaxy Leader on November 19, 2023. Houthi Media Center/AP/File The US has carried out further strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, but who are the group? The Houthi movement, also known as Ansarallah (Supporters of God), emerged in the . […]
Black birthing people are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts, while Black infants are two times more likely to die within their first year than white infants. Reasons behind the disparities vary, but experts often point to implicit bias in the medical system that leads to […]
So far, the war in Gaza prompted by Hamas’s attack on 7 October has not precipitated the nightmare scenario – a wider Middle East conflict drawing in the US and Iran. But after events of the past few days, that risk appears to be becoming more serious. The centre of the danger is in the […]