Israel resumes strikes in Gaza after 2-month ceasefire, reportedly killing hundreds and promising increased force against Hamas

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip — Israel has launched new strikes in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 400 people, according to the Palestinian territory’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, and promising to wield “increasing military force” after talks on further hostage releases stalled, according to officials on both sides of the war. The resumption of Israel’s war

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Missing student Sudiksha Konanki vanished in Punta Cana on spring break. Here’s what we know about the case.

Search efforts pressed on into their second week for Sudiksha Konanki, a college student at the University of Pittsburgh who went missing earlier this month during a trip to the Dominican Republic resort town Punta Cana.  Details surrounding Konanki’s disappearance have begun to emerge as the international investigation continues. Here’s what we know so far

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Starliner astronauts head for home after being stuck in space for 286 days

With a fresh crew now aboard the International Space Station, the four fliers they are replacing — including long-delayed Starliner astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams — undocked early Tuesday for a long-awaited return to Earth, finally closing out an extended 286-day space odyssey. Launched last June aboard Boeing’s problem-plagued Starliner capsule, Wilmore and

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Reporter’s Notebook: Economic turbulence

Reporter’s Notebook: Economic turbulence – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump has promised a little light turbulence. “A little bit of an adjustment period,” is what he called it in the joint address to Congress. Consumers are feeling something different. John Dickerson explains. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser

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Trump’s dismantling of Voice of America could lead to dominance of anti-American propaganda, director says

Washington — President Trump’s dismantling of the government-funded Voice of America will pave the way for America’s adversaries to have greater influence abroad, predicted the agency’s director Michael Abramowitz.  After Mr. Trump signed an executive order that seeks to make sweeping cuts at the nation’s largest international broadcaster, about 1,300 employees, including Abramowitz, learned over

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