While the U.S. has largely been unwavering in its public support of Israel, internal communications reveal deepening humanitarian and legal concerns about the crisis in the region. The cable ends with estimates from the UN’s Office for The Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that there are an estimated 1.4 million internally displaced persons in Gaza, with about 590,000 of those sheltering in 150 overcrowded UN designated shelters. The last point in the cable is headlined: “If this Stays an Additional Week, it will be Non-Reversibly Catastrophic.” The cable ends by stating “A UN OCHA [Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs] contact described the situation as reaching ‘deep into devastation,’ and begged the United States to urgently ‘prioritize’ a humanitarian response.”

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Former Vice President Mike Pence is dropping his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, ending his campaign for the White House after struggling to raise money and gain traction in the polls.

The boxing match between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou fits well in a contemporary sports scene that treasures appeal-broadening crossover events, and where financial support comes increasingly from deep-pocketed Middle Eastern kingdoms, writes CBC Sports senior contributor Morgan Campbell.

Trump has been holding about two rallies per month. That’s way down from his previous campaigns, like in 2016 when he held 323 rallies, or 70 rallies during COVID.

Two Alberta lawyers charged with attempting to obstruct justice have been prohibited from practising law anywhere in Canada for three years as part of a deal with Manitoba prosecutors that saw their charges stayed.

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The 33 year old Ukrainian hero said 'no to fascism, no to Putinism' after delivering the overhand bell ringer.

Artforum editor David Velasco was fired after a Gaza ceasefire letter drew the ire of Bed Bath & Beyond scion Martin Eisenberg, a collector.

As Maine and federal law enforcement officials continue their search for the man suspected in the death of 18 people at a Lewiston, Maine, bowling alley and restaurant, we're learning more about the victims.

“Official propaganda is trying its best to make us believe that [émigrés], especially IT specialists, have returned to Russia en masse,” said Alexandra Arkhipova, a Russian anthropologist. The reality was more nuanced, she said. “Work is very bad, visas are bad too, so some people come back and some don’t.”

In one tense moment, Sassoon pulled up a payment agreement between FTX and its trading firm, Alameda Research, and asked Bankman-Fried to find the section that he interpreted as allowing him to use FTX customer deposits for his own purposes. After a long pause, Bankman-Fried admitted that he had not done a “careful read” of the document “contemporaneously.”

Communities across the American South have removed Confederate monuments from public spaces in recent years. Some have gone to museums, others are locked away in storage. But one particularly controversial statue from Charlottesville, Va. is on a different journey — to be transformed into something new. The massive bronze sculpture of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in uniform, astride his horse Traveller, stood in a downtown Charlottesville park for nearly a century. It was at the center of a deadly white nationalist rally in 2017, when Neo-Nazis and white supremacists tried to stop the city's plans to remove the statue. It came down to cheers in July of 2021. Charlottesville prevailed in a protracted legal battle with the Sons of Confederate Veterans and other groups, and donated the Lee statue to a coalition that proposed to melt it down and create a more inclusive public art installation. Lawsuits to stop the project failed, and last weekend organizers moved forward, with great secrecy, to disassemble and melt down the Lee monument.

Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House, worked with a non profit that believed Noah's Ark contained dinosaurs.

What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 2023, and if you place what’s happening in the wider historical context of colonialism and anticolonial resistance, what’s most remarkable is that anyone in 2023 should be still surprised that conditions of absolute violence, domination, suffocation, and control produce appalling violence in turn.

General Dynamics and Raytheon execs tell investors that Israel’s war on Gaza will mean more business.

The Supreme Court’s new term opened this week with the extreme actions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit looming over the entire term. Among the most alarming cases to arise is the first major gun-safety challenge that will test the court’s new Second Amendment doctrine, adopted last year. Hanging in the balance of United States v. Rahimi, and less remarked upon than the Second Amendment implications, is the modern movement against intimate partner violence. The verdict will bring home how the court treats contemporary progress against endemic violence with the lives of real people literally in the crosshairs. Guns play an outsized role in the lethality of intimate partner violence. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reports that the presence of a firearm in the home increases the risk of homicide between 500 percent and 1,000 percent. While gender violence is a global epidemic, the Giffords Law Center estimates that women in the United States are 21 times more likely to die from guns than women in other high-income countries. Women of color are harmed at disproportionately higher rates. The consequences of firearms inside the home ripple outside immediately: In almost 50 percent of mass shootings, the perpetrator first shot an intimate partner or family member. As an unrepentant abuser, Zackey Rahimi is a far cry from the model citizens recruited for prior gun-rights cases. After assaulting his girlfriend in a parking lot in 2019, Rahimi shot at a witness. The domestic violence protective order issued against him by a Texas state court in February 2020 prohibited the possession and use of firearms. But Rahimi subsequently participated in five separate shootings over a two-month period, leading to a search at his house where police discovered several firearms. Rahimi’s continued gun possession violated his protective order under the federal provision he’s now challenging

In 2015, he decided to retrain as a diver. "I have faced a lot of my fears in my life, and I decided to face this once and for all," he said. “One day, instead of dying, I may decide to just kill God.” Okene now makes underwater repairs on oil and gas facilities, and can dive to a maximum depth of 165 feet, the outlet reported, far deeper than the site of the shipwreck that almost claimed his life.

Dozens of US states, including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platforms.

A new Scholastic policy, meant to protect schools from censorship laws, was criticized as caving to book-banners’ demands.