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Israel-Gaza War: Israel’s New Unity Government Pledges to ‘Crush’ Hamas
After forming a wartime cabinet, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a top rival, Benny Gantz, presented a united front to the Israeli people. Mr. Netanyahu also detailed more of the atrocities he said Hamas terrorists had committed.
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‘Always Under Fire’: On the Battlefield With Ukraine’s Elite Troops
Along a front stretching hundreds of miles, Ukraine’s forces are stuck in a daily grind punctuated by drone attacks, artillery strikes and eerily terrifying moments of silence.
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Rescuers in Gaza Struggle With Dwindling Fuel and Equipment
Paramedics said they would need bulldozers, which they don’t have, to pull more people from buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes amid power cuts.
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‘The Wrath of God’: Afghans Mourn Unimaginable Loss From Quake
The deadliest earthquake to strike the country in decades leveled entire hamlets. Many people lost most, if not all, of their immediate family.
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Israel Forms Unity Government and Bombs Gaza in the Wake of Hamas Attack
Following the deadliest assault on Israel in half a century, the country is vowing to crush Hamas, and both sides are bracing for an escalating war.
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Freedom Monument Sculpture Park’s Unflinching Look at Slavery
The new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, opening in early 2024 in Montgomery, Ala., arrives at a time when Black history is being debated in many states.
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This Story Doesn’t Stop: Director Raoul Peck on Silver Dollar Road
The latest documentary from director Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”) is “Silver Dollar Road,” available on Prime Video this Friday and playing at this week’s Chicago International Film Festival. Peck’s new film documents the struggles of a Black family against developers trying to take their land on the coast of North Carolina that they’ve lived on…
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Gravity Turns 10: Alfonso Cuarón’s Obsession with Loss
There’s a scene in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” that exemplifies one of the strongest thematic cores of his filmography. Arriving not even halfway through the film, it pulls the rug out from under us. Until this point, we’ve experienced an overwhelming, nauseating survival film where the key players—Sandra Bullock’s Dr. Ryan Stone and George Clooney’s Matt…
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NASA Reveals First Pictures of Osiris-Rex Asteroid Samples
Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven-year journey to the asteroid Bennu.
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Fossil Reveals Ancient Seafloor Communities
Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years.