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Israel says it took out a Hezbollah commander in a Beirut strike that killed 12

Israel says it took out a Hezbollah commander in a Beirut strike that killed 12

The attack came hours after Hezbollah fired 140 rockets at northern Israel and follows this week’s deadly explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies carried by Hezbollah members.
by Jane Arraf and Vincent Ni

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‘This is affecting a lot of people in my community‘: Haitians in Minnesota stand strong amid hateful rhetoric

‘This is affecting a lot of people in my community‘: Haitians in Minnesota stand strong amid hateful rhetoric

Djenane Saint Juste is an author, dancer and the founder of the Haitian arts organization Afoutayi. She said that the political discussion around Haitians has deeply impacted her community here in Minnesota.
by Cathy Wurzer and Alanna Elder

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What to know about the two waves of deadly explosions that hit Lebanon and Syria

What to know about the two waves of deadly explosions that hit Lebanon and Syria

Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary number of people.
by The Associated Press

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Tracking the exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah

Tracking the exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah

Gold Apollo denied all involvement with the explosive pagers, telling NPR outside its offices in Taiwan that it was a Budapest-based company called BAC Consulting which manufactured the devices.
by Emily Feng

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Questions linger for adoptees after China ends international adoptions

Questions linger for adoptees after China ends international adoptions

Thousands are left wondering what’s next after China announced last week it has ended its international adoption program. Grace Shu Gerloff is one of more than 80,000 kids who were adopted from China and brought to the U.S. in the past three decades. She grew up in Minnesota and now studies transnational adoption.
by Tom Crann and Ngoc Bui

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Israel strikes Gaza as an American activist killed by Israeli fire is buried

Israel strikes Gaza as an American activist killed by Israeli fire is buried

Israeli airstrikes have hit central and southern Gaza and killed at least 14 people as friends and family members of a Turkish-American activist killed by an Israeli soldier buried her in Turkey. 
by The Associated Press

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Share of foreign-born people in the U.S. is at its highest rate in over a century, survey says

Share of foreign-born people in the U.S. is at its highest rate in over a century, survey says

The share of people born outside the United States increased in 2023 to 14.3 percent from 13.9 percent in 2022, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey, which tracks commuting times, internet access, family life, income, education levels, disabilities, military service, and employment, among other topics.
by The Associated Press

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