Monday, February 24

Author: Grace Thompson

Trump’s Gaza proposal and USAID workers and shipments in limbo: Morning Rundown
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Trump’s Gaza proposal and USAID workers and shipments in limbo: Morning Rundown

Trump's plan to seize control of Gaza is criticized by lawmakers from both parties. Communities in grave need are not receiving vital humanitarian relief supplies from USAID. And after their neighborhood was ravaged by the L.A. flames, dads turn to baseball for comfort. What to know today is as follows. Trump s vision for Gaza: We ll own it Many people condemned President Donald Trump's suggestion that the United States should assume responsibility for the war-torn Gaza Strip. Trump stated during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday that the United States would develop Gaza and generate thousands of jobs, aiming to make it the Middle East's Riviera. Trump responded, "I envision the world people living there, the world's people," when asked w...
Trump fuels fury and fear in Middle East after vowing to ‘take over’ Gaza Strip
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Trump fuels fury and fear in Middle East after vowing to ‘take over’ Gaza Strip

President Donald Trump's assertion that the United States would pursue ownership of the Gaza Strip and that the Palestinians would be forced to evacuate their homes in the war-torn enclave was denounced by indignant Palestinians. The 29-year-old Narmin Nour El Din told an NBC News crew in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, that all Palestinians would strongly oppose Trump's proposals. Standing outside a tent encampment, she declared, "We will be adamant on our land and all the Palestinians reject the idea." We request that Trump let the people reside on their land and improve its aesthetics. She said, to help the people here. not to rob them of Gaza. Others, like 25-year-old Hussein Abdel Jawad, expressed their anxiety that Trump's plan would be successful and that it was obvious that he had ...
Manhunt underway after 1 killed and 5 injured in Ohio warehouse shooting
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Manhunt underway after 1 killed and 5 injured in Ohio warehouse shooting

Police reported early Wednesday that a shooting at a warehouse in Ohio had left at least one person dead and five others injured, sparking a manhunt. Greg Jones, the chief of the New Albany Police Department, stated at a press conference that they now have a person of interest and are working to find and apprehend them. According to him, some 150 people were evacuated to a nearby building because the massive warehouse had a sizable overnight crew. Many of them were unaware of what had transpired. According to Jones, they were unaware of it until they were evacuated. Jones stated that although the police were aware of the suspect's whereabouts, they were still working to capture him. Jones stated that the incident seemed to be targeted, but he would not say if the suspect was a current or ...
Trump is talking tougher toward Putin but has yet to ratchet up assistance to Ukraine
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Trump is talking tougher toward Putin but has yet to ratchet up assistance to Ukraine

Washington The relationship between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin has notably cooled off in the new administration, but Trump has not yet indicated how much pressure he will put on Russia to stop its grueling conflict with Ukraine. Trump has made no mention of Putin's strategic "genius" or skill since he became office. Trump has made a dramatic change in language, warning that the Russian ruler he once referred to as "very smart" is destroying his nation by dragging out the conflict. On his first day back in the White House, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he [Putin] should strike a deal. I believe that by refusing to make a deal, Putin is ruining Russia. Russia is going to have serious problems, in my opinion. The frostier tone has a rather straightforward ex...
Belgian police hunt for armed gunmen after shooting in Brussels
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Belgian police hunt for armed gunmen after shooting in Brussels

Following a gunshot on Wednesday, police hunted for two accused gunmen who reportedly ran into the Brussels subway tunnels, according to prosecutors. According to a post on X by STIB, the Belgian public transportation agency, the police closed a number of metro stations and disrupted service on six lines. According to the Belgian prosecutor's office, Reuters reported that no injuries had been reported during the incident at the Clemenceau station in central Brussels. According to people familiar with the inquiry, drugs may have had a role in the occurrence. The story is still evolving. For updates, please return.
Spanish ministers agree to cut legal working week to 37.5 hours
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Spanish ministers agree to cut legal working week to 37.5 hours

Madrid Despite objections from employers' associations, Spanish ministers decided on Tuesday to implement one of the coalition government's major policies: reducing the legal working week to 37.5 hours without affecting salaries. Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz, the leader of the hard-left party Sumar, wrote an executive decree proposing the reduction from the existing 40 hours, which the cabinet accepted during its weekly meeting. Diaz told reporters, "This proposal is about living better, working less, and being much more productive and efficient economically." In parliament, where the center-left government of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez lacks a clear majority and must balance the demands of multiple smaller parties to pass legislation, the bill still needs to be passed. The pr...
Baseball meetup helps a group of dads stitch life back together after L.A. fires
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Baseball meetup helps a group of dads stitch life back together after L.A. fires

California (ARCADIA). Out of Brian Gardner's baseball bats, just one made it through the Eaton Fire. But he only required that. The 48-year-old Gardner picked up the bat and prepared to hit. He was informed to anticipate a heater. He laughed, "I call it a fastball, not a heater." One of my new trigger words is "heater." He and eight other guys had met up to play in a park in Arcadia on a Sunday afternoon with clear skies. Before the Eaton Fire tore through their neighborhood in Altadena three weeks prior, uprooting them all from their tight-knit community in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, they were performing a weekly routine for a few hours. Even Gardner's home bar, which contained over 1,000 bottles of whiskey, was burned to ashes. Additionally, he lost a Cadillac Eldora...
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims and a philanthropist, dies at 88
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The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims and a philanthropist, dies at 88

Paris At the age of 20, the Aga Khan, a Harvard undergraduate who established a material empire on billions of dollars in tithes to build homes, hospitals, and schools in impoverished nations, became the spiritual head of the millions of Ismaili Muslims worldwide. He passed away on Tuesday. He was eighty-eight. His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the 49th hereditary imam of Shia Ismaili Muslims and the Aga Khan IV, passed away in Portugal with his family by his side, according to a statement from the Ismaili religious community and his Aga Khan Development Network. His testament, which will be read in front of his family and Lisbon's ecclesiastical authorities before the name is made public, named his successor. No date has been specified. The website of the Ismaili community states t...
Decorated pilot Harry Stewart, Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 100
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Decorated pilot Harry Stewart, Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 100

retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a famous World War II pilot who was honored for his combat heroics and broke down racial boundaries as a Tuskegee Airman, has away. He was 100 years old. Stewart was among the final combat pilots to survive from the renowned 332nd Fighter Group, popularly referred to as the Tuskegee Airmen. They were the first Black military pilots in the country. His death was verified by the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum. According to the group, he died quietly on Sunday at his Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, home. When Stewart shot down three German planes in a dogfight on April 1, 1945, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was also one of four Tuskegee Airmen that won the 1949 U.S. Air Force Top Gun flying competition, though it would take decad...
Texas man set to be executed for killing a pastor in his own church
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Texas man set to be executed for killing a pastor in his own church

Wednesday was the second scheduled execution in the United States this year for a Texas man convicted of choking and assaulting a pastor in the Dallas region in his own church during a heist. For the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled, and smothered with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Steven Lawayne Nelson received a condemnation. Despite being badly assaulted and left for dead, Dobson's secretary managed to survive. Nelson, 37, will be given a fatal injection at the state prison in Huntsville on Wednesday night. In addition to being the first of four death row inmates planned in Texas over the next three months, Nelson would be the first Texas death row inmate executed after Robert Roberson's Oct. 17, 2024, execution date was pos...