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ABC News(NEW YORK) -- An image of a mother holding her dead infant in her arms outside a hospital in Gaza went viral last year but it was denied in online posts viewed millions of times online.The babys name was Muhammad Hani Al-Zahar. He was just shy of 5 months old when a bomb hit a neighboring home, killing him on Dec. 1, 2023, in Al-Mughraqa. Muhammad was just three months old when Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, and the Israeli military declared war on the neighboring Gaza Strip....

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An 83-year-old man imprisoned for more than three decades for a string of 1980s bank robberies is back behind bars, according to federal officials.Donald "Doc" Bennett, once dubbed by the FBI as the "leaping bandit" for jumping over counters in his younger days during bank robberies, was arrested hours after allegedly holding up Chase bank in Hickory Hills, Illinois, on Valentines Day with an accomplice identified as 55-year-ol...

The Cape May County Board of Commissioners plans to post audio recordings of its meetings. According to the Press of Atlantic City, people can listen to the meetings live, as approved by the commissioners recently. If you miss a meeting, a recording will be posted to the county website, but not until the next meeting, ... Read more

Paramount PicturesBob Marley: One Love topped the domestic box office, grabbing $28.6 million between Friday and Sunday, and an estimated $34.1 million through Monday. The biopic, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the legendary reggae artist, which opened on Wednesday, Valentines Day, is expected to bring in $52 million in its first six days of release.One Love pulled in an estimated $29 million internationally, bringing its global tally to over $80 million so far.Sony/Marvels Madame Web took second...

Flowers are seen placed around portraits of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian Arctic prison, at a makeshift memorial in front of the former Russian consulate in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on Feb. 20, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Kremlin officials rejected on Tuesday a call for an independent postmortem examination on the remains of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.The Council of the European Union had on Monday called for the independent rev...

Www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Supreme Court will allow one of the nations top public schools to move forward with a new admissions policy that critics say has "racial balancing" at its core.The closely watched case from Fairfax County in northern Virginia involves Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.For years, its student body -- drawn from a race-blind process relying heavily on standardized tests -- was more than 70% Asian American. In 2020, s...

DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The number of measles cases linked to an elementary school outbreak in southern Florida has risen to five.The outbreak at Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston -- 20 miles west of Fort Lauderdale and located in Broward County -- was first reported on Friday with the initial patient being a third-grade student without a history of travel, according to the Florida Department of Health (DOH).Its unclear what grade the other infected stu...

Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Capital Ones decision to acquire Discover could establish a new megafirm that shakes up the credit card industry.The move may hold long-term implications for credit card holders, regardless of whether they bank with Capital One or shop with Discover, experts told ABC News.If approved by shareholders and regulators, the merger would leave Capital One in a stronger market position, potentially allowing the company to offer more attractive bonus...

Absecon Police are trying to track down the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run on the White Horse Pike on Saturday night. It happened shortly after 9 p.m. in the westbound lane of U.S. Route 30 near the Executive Lodge motel, just east of Turner Avenue. The driver failed to stop and fled, leaving the ... Read more

Mphotoi/Getty Images(INDIANAPOLIS) -- At least one person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting at a Waffle House in Indianapolis, Indiana, early Monday, police said.Authorities said they were dispatched to the scene at approximately 12:40 a.m. ET and, upon arrival, they found five people with gunshot wounds.Those five victims -- three men in stable condition, one woman in stable condition and one woman in critical condition -- were transported via ambulances to area hospitals, a...