While Friday’s resolution gives Palestine some new rights and privileges, it reaffirms that it remains a non-member observer state without full U.N. membership and the right to vote in the General Assembly or at any of its conferences.
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Eden Golan has become a focus for protests by pro-Palestinian demonstrators who want Israel kicked out of Eurovision over the war that began with the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack.
The Biden administration said Friday that Israel’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law.
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman called President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold military aid to Israel “deeply disappointing.”
Philadelphia and campus police moved in around daybreak at Penn to remove protesters from an encampment that was in place for more than two weeks.
For the first time since January 2005, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a severe geomagnetic storm watch for Friday evening.
The untreated sewage forced Los Angeles County health officials to warn people to stay out of the water at Dockweiler State Beach, Venice Beach and the surrounding area.
Planet Fitness is doing something it hasn’t done in 26 years: raising the price of membership.
Target has Pride merchandise in fewer stores this year after backlash it received after pulling some items from last year’s collection.
Two climbers reported missing on California’s towering Mount Whitney have been found dead, officials said.
Police detained several people Thursday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after demonstrators blocked a parking garage in their ongoing protest movement connected to the Israel-Hamas war.
Search crews recovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City, officials said.
State officials reported the presence of deadly chronic wasting disease in two wild California deer earlier this week.
The United States warned that Israel will be dealing a strategic victory to Hamas if it carries out plans for an all-out assault on Rafah.
Republican Attorney General Dave Yost advised the presidents of Ohio’s 14 public, four-year universities to forewarn students about the 1953 law.