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Amir Levy/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The death toll in Gaza has reached a grim milestone, with one of every 100 Palestinians there killed since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, which started following Hamas surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. With 23,357 killed in Israels military operation in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, the Gaza Strip population has now lost 1% of its 2.3 million residents. More than 10,000 of those killed were children, and about 7,000 a...

Gaelen Morse/Bloomberg via Getty Images(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- The Ohio House has voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto against Ohio House Bill 68 in a 65-28 vote. This bill would ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming medical care and prevent transgender girls from taking part in girls and womens sports. The Ohio Senate will vote on whether to override the veto on Jan. 24. Legislators need 60% of the vote in both houses to override the governor’s veto. Physicians who provid...

Namthip Muanthongthae/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday gave its approval for some Bitcoin ETFs, just a day after a fake post on the agencys account on X made a similar announcement and sent the value of Bitcoin soaring. The price of Bitcoin vaulted skyward on Tuesday afternoon after the SEC appeared to deliver a major breakthrough for the cryptocurrency. Minutes later, SEC Chair Gary Gensler punctured the euphoria, saying on X that a hacker had comma...

Tetra Images - Erik Isakson/Getty Images(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- The California legislature began debating a bill Wednesday that would ban youth tackle football for children under age 12. AB 734, introduced last year by Sacramento Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat, would "prohibit a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program, or a youth tackle football league, from allowing a person younger than 12 years of age to be a youth tackle football participant through ...

The crime report for the first week of the new year has been released, and it shows that in Fairfield County, police received a total of 270 crime cases. 179 of them were listed as ‘Other’. 27 cases of theft were reported. There were 19 reports of a ‘Suspicious Situation,’ and there were 15 disturbances, 9 assaults, and 6 cases of vandalism. Burglaries totaled 4 cases and there was one single instance of trespass.

Gov. Phil Murphy announced a series of new measures he wants the newly expanded Democrat-led Legislature to adopt during his State of the State address Tuesday. Among them, allowing 16-year-olds to vote in school board elections, reducing medical debt, expanding affordable housing and launching an artificial intelligence “moonshot.” It was Murphy’s sixth and final state ... Read more

ABC/Randy HolmesTom Cruises Mission: Impossible and Top Gun franchises live at Paramount Pictures, but the global superstar has just inked a huge deal with rival Warner Bros. Pictures. The "excited" star took to Instagram to share the news, noting, "I look forward to making great movies together!" Cruise has made movies with WB before, including his first huge hit, 1983s Risky Business. In the statement posted by the producer and actor, co-CEOS of the Warner Bros. Motion Pict...

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(DES MOINES, Iowa) -- CNN is set to host the next debate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, just days ahead of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses on Monday. The debate, the first of two that will be hosted by CNN, is set for Wednesday night in Des Moines, Iowa. With more stringent qualifications, even fewer candidates are expected to appear on the stage. Front-runner Donald Trump, again, isnt set to attend. Heres what to know. How to watch the debate The d...

An Ecuadorean police squad approach the premises of Ecuadors TC television channel after unidentified gunmen burst into the state-owned television studio live on air on Jan. 9, 2024, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Armed and masked gunmen stormed a television station in Ecuador during a live broadcast on Tuesday, taking the hosts hostage and calling for President Daniel Noboa to end his crackdown on organized crime. The incident at TC Televisión, a state-ow...

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Severe weather across the United States on Tuesday has left at least five people dead, according to local authorities, and the latest forecast shows more winter storms are on the way. The Jefferson County Sheriffs Office in Wisconsin said one person was killed in a car crash due to poor road conditions amid snowfall on Tuesday morning. Another car crash killed a 35-year-old woman in Webber Township, Michigan, on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Lake...