The top U.S. official working on the humanitarian situation in Gaza told aid groups in August that the U.S. would not consider withholding weapons from Israel for blocking food and medicine from entering the enclave — a rare admission by someone in the administration. At the Aug. 29 meeting in Washington, Lise Grande told the leaders of more than a dozen aid organizations that the U.S. could potentially consider other tactics to convince Israel to allow life-saving aid into Gaza — such as applying pressure through the United Nations, but stressed that the administration would continue to support Israel and would not delay or stop weapons shipments. In the nearly two-hour long meeting, aid representatives detailed the ways in which Israel was blocking access in Gaza and raised concerns about the U.S. refusing to restrict weapons shipments. They also argued to Grande that Israel was violating international humanitarian law, which broadly prohibits countries from restricting or blocking humanitarian aid or the movement of humanitarian workers in conflict zones. “She was saying that the rules don’t apply to Israel,” one person who attended the meeting said.

Robert Leslie Roberson will go to the death chamber in Huntsville this week unless there is a last-minute recommendation by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and an 11th-hour decision in his favor by Governor Greg Abbott. WFAA has learned that a decision may come by Wednesday. The Thursday execution date remains on the calendar after a procedural hearing in Palestine early Tuesday morning. Robert Leslie Roberson III was convicted of capital murder after the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki. She had pneumonia, had been prescribed powerful opioids that are no longer considered the proper standard of care, and died of a brain bleed that prosecutors successfully argued was a case of shaken baby syndrome. Roberson's apparent lack of remorse or emotion during his questioning by police was used against him. His attorneys say the fact that he has autism, the reason they say for his muted emotional reaction, was not admitted in court. And, despite a 2013 "junk science" writ that allows those convicted in Texas to challenge their sentences due to outdated or debunked theories such as shaken baby syndrome, Roberson's death sentence remains, now nearing his 22nd year on death row.

New research finds that Gliese 229B, co-discovered by Rebecca Oppenheimer in 1995, is two tightly spiraling brown dwarfs.

How Floridians struggled through the successive traumas of Helene and Milton

Court documents unsealed in the Western District of Arkansas reveal accusations of child labor at Tyson processing plants, which have since prompted searches by the U.S. Department of Labor. Applications for inspection warrants were filed in September 2024 for Tyson Foods Rogers and Tyson Foods Green Forest. For the Rogers application, the Wage and Hour Division cited an anonymous tip from a teacher at a nearby school, who reported that one of her 14-year-old students discussed working at the Tyson facility with his mother for the summer. For the Green Forest application, the complainant said she was a mother of middle schoolers and overheard children between 11 and 13 years old discussing their employment at the Green Forest plant on the night shift, which runs from 11 p.m. to 7 or 8 a.m. The children were allegedly heard talking about not knowing how to get money from their paycheck out of the ATM, the documents said.

Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal

"The animal is a little smaller than the size of your palm and has a question-mark shape in the middle of its body that distinguishes between the left and the right side,"

Operation Mayan Jaguar was a mid-2000s ICE mission aimed at drug trafficking that went off the rails, resulting in serious allegations against the agency.

Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake images even as lawmakers and tech companies try to crack down.

Health secretary announces trials to assess impact of medicines such as Ozempic on worklessness

Lillian Schwartz, a computer art pioneer who awed scientists and curators alike, has died at 97.

Ryan Lizza has wholly denied allegations of blackmail while claiming that RFK Jr. told his former fiancé he wanted to “possess,” “control,” and “impregnate” her.

Audiences say Art the Clown > Arthur Fleck.

Organisers say they are still looking at video evidence but believe the steel conker was kept in the winner's pocket throughout.

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The proudly independent musician and New York firefighter released the final album of his lifetime, The Thief Next to Jesus, in August

The novelist Howard Jacobson has argued that too much press coverage of dead Palestinian children is a new form of “blood libel” against Jews.

Business interests have been bringing challenges all year to the National Labor Relations Board. Now, a car supplier brought its case to SCOTUS's shadow docket.

Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car.

The false claim has taken off on Twitter and is being repeated by at least one major news aggregator.