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Satellite images show mass displacement of Palestinians fleeing Israeli assault on Gaza City

Satellite imagery shows the mass displacement of Palestinians as the Israeli military launched its intense effort to take total control of Gaza City.Vast tent encampments across the Sheik Radwan neighborhood, northwest of the city center, almost completely emptied out in the first few weeks of September as residents fled the operation and headed south to what the Israeli military is calling a designated humanitarian zone. Israeli tanks and troops have pushed into the city in recent days, backed...
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xAI's Grok offers political explanations for why it was pulled offline

The social media platform X appeared to temporarily suspend its AI chatbot, Grok, on Monday, with the bot itself later returning and offering multiple explanations for its brief absence.The bot, which has become widely embraced on X as a way for users to fact-check or respond to other users’ arguments, posted that it had been taken offline over various statements it made regarding U.S and global politics, ranging from claims of genocide in Gaza to discussions about homicide rates by race. It als...
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Chaos amid starvation: Videos from Gaza show Palestinians struggling to get food at distribution sites

Between May 27 and July 31, “at least 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food,” according to a report from the United Nations Human Rights Office.Of the total, 859 people were killed  "in the vicinity" of GHF sites and 514 others along the routes of food convoys, it said, adding that most of these killings were committed by the Israeli military.

Israel continues to control almost every part of the aid distribution process, with its military inspecting all aid arriving at border c...
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Georgia teen charged with killing her mother and stepfather earlier this year

A Georgia teenager, who grieved for her mother and stepfather on social media, was arrested and accused of fatally shooting the couple back in February, authorities said Thursday.Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault in connection to the slayings of Kristin Brock, 41, and James Brock, 45, Carroll County Sheriff's officials said in a statement.The couple was found dead inside their home on Feb. 20 at 1531 Tyus Road near Carrollton, abo...
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How user-generated videos on social media brought Trump’s immigration crackdown to America’s screens

The videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids emerged just after President Donald Trump was sworn in to his second term. Chaotic and shaky, they spread across social media from all parts of the United States, depicting the new era of immigration enforcement.The following video collected and verified by NBC News represents a small fraction of the videos that have populated timelines across TikTok, Instagram, X and beyond.Warning: This report includes explicit and disturbing language.

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Wounded Gaza children find respite from war at Ohio summer camp

BUTLER, Ohio — Their bodies are maimed or burned. Their childhoods have been shattered. And their futures are filled with uncertainty as war rages in Gaza.But for one week, three dozen wounded Palestinian children and members of their families have found a respite from the fighting at a summer camp in Mohican State Park, just an hour north of Columbus. Thanks to HEAL Palestine, a nonprofit group that aids the youngest victims of the Gaza war, children like 7-year-old Qamar Alkordi, who uses two-...
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Crushed by Israeli missile strikes, Gaza's hospitals are barely functioning

Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip’s hospitals have ramped up in recent weeks to the highest level so far this year, bringing a health system already weakened by 19 months of war to a breaking point. NBC News has analyzed 27 videos and images from the last two months taken by civilians and our own journalists on the ground to piece together a picture of the full extent of the destruction of a health system engulfed in war. In footage from a surveillance camera, men, women and children c...
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Just how much damage did Ukraine do in its 'Spiderweb' drone attack on Russia?

As the jet-fuel smoke and aircraft debris clear following Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian airfields, Kyiv and Moscow have launched into a propaganda war about the extent of the damage.While Russian claims that none of its planes were destroyed are demonstrably false, there are also questions around Ukraine’s own triumphant account of the success of its “Spiderweb” operation.That tracks with a wider propaganda war being fought in parallel to the actual battlefield, with Russia making...
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Canadian stores pull U.S. liquor from shelves as Trump's tariffs take effect

As the Trump administration’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, Canadians discovered empty shelves where U.S. liquor products were once stocked. Canadian social media users posted photos and videos of stores across the country seemingly pulling U.S.-made liquor from their inventories.Joshua Gariepy, a college student in Quebec, posted a photo Wednesday showing empty shelves in a store in Quebec, where U.S. liquor products were once displayed.“To me, this photo perfectly capt...
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Trump administration weighs closing office overseeing resettlement of Afghans to the U.S.

The Trump administration has told the office overseeing the resettlement of Afghans to the United States to draw up plans to shut down by April. The move could strand more than 250,000 Afghans and their families who face persecution from the Taliban for their ties to America, according to a refugee advocate and two sources with knowledge of the matter.“This is a national disgrace, a betrayal of our Afghan allies, of the veterans who fought for them and of America’s word,” Shawn VanDiver, preside...
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Jan. 6 conspiracy theory promoter named to a top State Department job

A conservative author who has spread conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and written on social media that "competent white men must be in charge" has been named to a top post at the State Department.Secretary of State Marco Rubio tapped Darren Beattie to be acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. The position, in a permanent capacity, requires Senate confirmation.Beattie confirmed his appointment, first reported by Semafor, in a letter on his website, Revolver...
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Trump’s suspension of refugee program puts Afghans and others in potential danger, advocates say

The State Department suspended its refugee program Tuesday night, halting all refugee flights into the United States, under direction of one of President Donald Trump's Day 1 executive orders.The order initially was set to go into effect on Monday, and its swift implementation surprised and alarmed advocates and nonprofits, leaving some refugees who were already in transit to the U.S. stranded in intermediate countries.“Travel has been canceled for people who had plans," said Kathie O’Callaghan,...
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From Baptist churches to Buddhist temples, religious groups volunteer for fire victims

Moninder Singh has spent the past week serving food and beverages at a Gurdwara — a Sikh temple — in Covina, California, to hungry victims displaced by Los Angeles County’s devastating wildfires. “When we serve chai, there is a glow on people’s faces like we are giving them gold. The pleasure in their eyes is soothing to me,” Singh said. “We are planning to make samosas tomorrow.”Asians Americans are the third-largest racial group in L.A. and the most religiously diverse group in the U.S. This d...
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Electrical tower a focus as Eaton Fire's potential origin after video clues emerge

When the first flashes of fire and billows of smoke grabbed the attention of people living in the foothills of Eaton Canyon in Los Angeles County, residents recorded videos of the same cluster of transmission towers high on the chaparral-covered hillside, illuminated by flames.California fire officials pinpointed the start of the Eaton Fire on the evening of Jan. 7 to that area, but more than a week later, the exact source remains under investigation, fueling speculation over whether a high-volt...
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On Reddit account linked to Luigi Mangione, posts describe back pain and spinal surgery

The man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson posted online in recent years about undergoing spinal surgery and struggling with chronic back pain, numbness and restless sleep, according to what appears to be an archived version of his deleted Reddit account.Luigi Mangione, 26, was charged Monday in New York with one count of murder, three counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of possession of a forged instrument. Thompson’s murder, which occurred last week ou...
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Zone of destruction

The Israeli military claims to have limited goals for its southern Lebanon invasion. But an NBC News investigation found widespread destruction in areas occupied by the IDF.By Jiachuan Wu and Frank Matt
Nov. 26, 2024
When Israel launched its invasion of southern Lebanon in September, it publicly set narrow goals for the operation: “limited, localized,” with “targeted ground raids” aimed at stopping cross-border fire and degrading Hezbollah’s command structure.

But an NBC News...
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Israel is ethnically cleansing in Gaza, Jordan charges

LONDON — Jordan, one of the United States' closest allies in the Middle East, confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday with a stark and unwelcome assessment: Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Gaza. Blinken was in London after holding meetings in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during which he pressed the need for a cease-fire and the return of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. "We do see ethnic cleansing taking place" in Gaza, Blinken's Jordanian counterpart, For...
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Teen recounts horror after his mom and brother were burned alive by Israeli strike on Gaza hospital

When an Israeli airstrike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah sparked a fire that swept through a cluster of tents Monday night, 19-year-old Shaban al-Dalu was sleeping near his mother, Alaa, 38. In a video that circulated widely on social media, Shaban's arms could be seen reaching from the enveloping flames, horrifying a world that watched him being burned alive.In an interview with NBC News a day after the strike, Shaban's 17-year-old brother, Mohammed al-Dalu, described the Israeli...
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Ka, a New York rapper celebrated as a legendary wordsmith, is dead at 52

Celebrated New York City rapper and former firefighter Ka, whose real name was Kaseem Ryan, has died, according to his social media accounts. He was 52.He passed away “unexpectedly” on Saturday, a statement on his Instagram account, verified by NBC News, said Monday. It praised his contributions to firefighting, to his beloved neighborhood of Brownsville and to hip-hop as part of a “life of service—to his city, to his community, and to his music."A cause of death was not available, and a spokesp...
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Israeli strike on Gaza hospital ignites devastating fire

The Israeli military has launched a series of deadly strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including on a flour distribution center, a school and a hospital where displaced Palestinians were sheltering.Video of a fire at a tent camp that started after Israeli forces launched an airstrike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah overnight showed harrowing scenes.In multiple videos shared on social media and verified by NBC News, at least one person could be seen rea...
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Grief and anger mix as Tennessee plastic plant survivors say permission to leave came too late

Bertha Mendoza made a final call to her husband of 38 years as raging Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped her and others at a Tennessee plastics plant. Workers have said they were allowed to leave when water was already swamping its parking lot in Erwin on Friday.In a call to her husband, Elias Mendoza, Bertha, 56, said she loved him, her son Guillermo Mendoza told NBC News. She asked him to also tell her children she loved them. “Those were her last words,” said a tearful Mendoza, 33, a minist...
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Helene floodwaters trapped Tennessee plastics plant employees, and some are among the missing and dead

Floodwaters from Hurricane Helene trapped workers at an eastern Tennessee plastics factory, with several family members learning Monday that their loved ones didn't survive.Some of the workers' relatives got frantic video phone calls as the flood swelled around Impact Plastics in Erwin, where rushing waters swept some workers away from the parking lot next to the Nolichucky River. The families and friends had been posting desperate pleas on social media for help in finding their relatives. Some...
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Protests around the world commemorate 76th anniversary of the Nakba and call for a cease-fire in Gaza

Protests commemorating the upcoming 76th anniversary of the Nakba and calling for a cease-fire in Gaza were seen around the world this weekend.The “Nakba,” which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the forced removal of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in preparation for the founding of Israel in 1948. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, some Jewish militias massacred Palestinian civilians, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, and hundreds of thousands of them were forced...
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Crowdfunding and suitcases full of cash: How Gazans are paying to escape war

Anas Al Borno was lying on a flimsy mattress with his wife and children in a Rafah refugee camp in January when a relative texted with a rare piece of good news. For the first time since Oct. 7, Al Borno and his family were eligible to cross into Egypt.The main travel agency that arranges such crossings had changed its rules, allowing Palestinians without foreign passports through the land border. But there was a catch — the price to get out for Al Borno and his family was at least $18,000, far...
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