Unbiased headline news – Israeli airstrikes hit a school used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30 people including several children, as the country’s negotiators prepared to meet international mediators about a proposed cease-fire.
Seven children and seven women were among the dead taken from the girls’ school in Deir al-Balah to Al Aqsa Hospital. Israel’s military said it targeted a Hamas command center used to direct attacks against Israeli troops and store “large quantities of weapons.” Hamas called the military’s claim false.
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Damage caused by an apparently coordinated attack on France’s high-speed rail system Friday should be fixed by Monday, but three trains are canceled while others have two-hour delays until then.
Officials for France’s national rail line SNCF said they shut down three of its 10 high-speed trains Saturday that normally would travel rail routes struck by alleged saboteurs on Friday. Passengers traveling to and from Paris, where the 2024 Summer Olympics opened on Friday, should expect two-hour delays.
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President Joe Biden nominated Air Force Major General Jennifer M Short as a senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense.
The DOD said in a statement, “Secretary of Defense Lloyd J Austin announced today that the president has made the following nomination: Air Force Major General Jennifer M Short for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general, with assignment as senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon, Washington D.C.”
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A Texas woman who self-managed her abortion is suing prosecutors and a local sheriff after she was held in jail for two nights on a murder charge that was ultimately dismissed.
Lizelle Gonzalez, a Star County, Texas, resident, filed a civil rights complaint alleging that hospital staff provided her private information to prosecutors and the county sheriff who later charged her with murder, according to court documents. Under Texas’ multiple abortion bans, it is not a crime for a woman to obtain or seek abortion care for herself.
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The Park Fire, one of many wildfires raging in Northern California, grew from a small brush fire in Chico to the largest blaze in the state in less than two days. A man suspected of starting the fire has been arrested.
The Park Fire started last Wednesday afternoon in a park and grew from about 6,400 acres late Wednesday night to 45,550 acres Thursday morning. As of Friday evening, it had grown five-fold to a staggering 239,100 acres, some 373 square miles. Containment had been at 3%, but it fell to zero percent.
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The Justice Department is accusing TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion, and religion.
Government lawyers wrote in documents filed late Friday to the federal appeals court in Washington that TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance used an internal web-suite system called Lark to enable TikTok employees to speak directly with ByteDance engineers in China.
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Thirteen people were rescued after getting lost on an Arizona hiking trail during high heat, including three children and an adult who were transported to the hospital, authorities said.
The group, who were in town for a family reunion, started hiking the Gateway Loop Trail in Scottsdale, according to the Scottsdale Fire Department. Fire crews were dispatched shortly after 10 a.m. for a mountain rescue, the department said. They were found in a wash under a tree several miles into the trail, according to authorities.
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Apple has reached a tentative collective bargaining contract with the first unionized company store in the country.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees at a retail location in Maryland, announced that it struck a three-year deal with the company that will increase pay by an average of 10% and offer other benefits to workers. The agreement must be approved by roughly 85 employees at the store.
