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The United Nations humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of thousands of people would be “at imminent risk of death” if Israel carries out a military assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The border city is a critical entry point for humanitarian aid and is filled with displaced Palestinians, many in densely packed tent camps.
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Middle East crisis: Netanyahu again vows to invade Rafah ‘With or without’ cease-fire deal. “The idea that we will halt the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question,” the Israeli premier told relatives of hostages on Tuesday.
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Solar eclipse is today. The total eclipse will begin in Mexico at about 11:07 a.m. PDT, Monday before crossing into Texas at 1:27 p.m. CDT. It will end in Maine at 3:35 p.m. EDT. The partial eclipse will last for awhile longer. Even if you’re not in the path of totality and won’t see the full eclipse, you may still see a percentage of it.
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St. Patrick’s Day. If it’s March, and it’s green, it must be St. Patrick’s Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage.
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‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma for civil rights movement. On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
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‘Initial signs’ that Israel-Hamas cease-fire could finally be near: Live updates. White House Special Envoy Brett McGurk was in Israel on Thursday to breathe life into talks aimed at a cease-fire and release of militant-held hostages while also trying to dissuade Israeli leaders from a ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
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Biden Cancels Another $5 Billion in Student Loan Debt
Most of the borrowers who will benefit from the latest wave of relief are teachers, nurses, firefighters and others in public service.
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Henry Kissinger, the most powerful secretary of state of the postwar era, is dead at 100
Henry Kissinger, a German-born American diplomat who shaped U.S. foreign policy in the second half of the 20th century and won a Nobel Prize for brokering an end to the Vietnam War, has died
