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ABC Politics - WOND

ABC NewsSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is defending a controversial account she shares in a new book about killing her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, in an incident she said was decades ago."I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch, in my upcoming book -- No Going Back," Noem, who is speculated to be among the leading contenders to be Donald Trump's choice of a running mate, wrote on X on Sunday."The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons learned," Noem wrote.Touting her "years of public service," including leading her state during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Noem went on to write, "My hope is anyone reading this book will have an understanding that I always work to make the best decisions I can for the people in my life."In her new book, "No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward," set to be released next week and obtained by ABC News, Noem writes about what led up to her decision to kill Cricket, a wirehair pointer -- a choice that has been widely criticized by animal advocates and others as inhumane and excessive. Democrats have also joined the outcry.In the book, Noem describes the dog as having an "aggressive personality" and being "out of her mind with excitement."According to the book, as first reported in The Guardian, things apparently came to a head for Noem, when, on the way home from a pheasant hunt one day, Cricket attacked a family's group of chickens, acting, she says, like a "trained assassin."When Noem eventually got control of the dog, by grabbing her collar, she writes, "She whipped around to bite me.""I hated that dog," Noem writes, claiming Cricket was "untrainable.""This was my dog and my responsibility, and I would not ask someone else to clean up my mess," Noem writes. "I stopped the truck in the middle of the yard, got my gun, grabbed Cricket's leash and led her out into the pasture and down into the gravel pit.""It was not a pleasant job," she writes, "but it had to be done."Noem's stories of putting animals down don't end there.After shooting her dog, Noem writes that she also killed a goat her family owned that she calls "nasty and mean." She describes the goat as being a "problem for years," writing that male goats "urinate on their own heads and beards while in rut" and that the specific goat loved to chase her kids, scaring them.In her book, Noem compares both decisions to put down the animals to a leader needing to make difficult decisions."It's often messy, ugly, and matter-of-fact, dealing with a problem that no one wants to deal with," she writes, adding, "I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn't tell the story here."On Friday, Noem doubled down on X amid backlash over killing her dog."We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm," Noem wrote. "Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years."She expanded on her experiences in her statement on Sunday."The fact is, South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down. Given that Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did," she wrote."Whether running the ranch or in politics, I have never passed on my responsibilities to anyone else to handle. Even if it's hard and painful," Noem wrote. "I followed the law and was being a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor."Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Jacobs Solutions Inc. (NYSE:J) Shares Sold by Dover Advisors LLC

Dover Advisors LLC reduced its stake in shares of Jacobs Solutions Inc. (NYSE:J – Free Report) by 20.7% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 6,115 shares of the company’s stock after selling 1,598 shares during the quarter. Dover Advisors LLC’s holdings in Jacobs Solutions were worth $794,000 as of its most […]

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ABC National - WOND

Lena Badr’s grandmother, Aziza Badr, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Az-Zawayda neighborhood in Gaza on Dec. 23, 2023. (Lena Badr)(NEW YORK) -- When Palestinian American Lena Badr learned about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, she said she was "horrified and immediately concerned" about what Israel's retaliation would mean for the Gaza Strip where part of her family resides.Badr scrambled to reach her family, to send money in anticipation of the hardships ahead: "I knew it would be bad. I did not – I couldn't have envisioned that it would be this bad," said Badr.Since Israel began its retaliatory bombardment of the Gaza Strip, she said two of her family's homes have been hit with airstrikes.The massive loss of life in the Israel-Hamas war has wiped out swaths of family lines -- and gone with them are parts of the culture they carried, Palestinians say. The loss has become all the more poignant as Arab American Heritage Month celebrations come to an end, while Palestinians mourn their loved ones and they ponder what this growing loss means for the survival of Palestinian culture.Badr said she has lost 15 family members in the airstrikes, including her grandmother, three aunts, two uncles and seven cousins."Palestinian people have always been deliberately silenced, or preferably unheard victims and I'm determined to change that," Badr said."They had names, they had dreams, they had hopes," she said, listing the names of her relatives who were killed: Aziza Badr, Awatef Badr, Islam Al-Najjar, Abdelrahman Albeheiri, Asmaa Al-Najjar and Akram Al-Najjar, Etaf Badr, Maysoon Albeheiri, Mazen Albeheiri, Mohammad Albeheri, his wife and two young daughters, Tawfiq Albeheiri and Hanan Badr.Her family members are some of the more than 34,000 people killed and 77,143 injured in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health.In Israel, at least 1,700 people have been killed and 8,700 others injured in the war, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The massive loss of life in Gaza has wiped out large swaths of family lines -- and gone with them are parts of the Palestinian culture they carried: The stories, the history, the memories."I always imagine seeing us back together," said Badr, who has not been able to visit Gaza in years due to the blockade on goods and people imposed by Israel. "My grandmother would end every phone call with, 'May God bring us together to celebrate things soon.'"Helga Tawil-Souri, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, said the rising loss in the war may affect Palestinian culture for years to come and how it gets passed from generation to generation."Every song, every dance, every recipe, every expression is itself a form of resistance against our erasure and our obliteration," said Tawil-Souri. "Culture is also not just simply what is being done in the moment, but what connects us across these sorts of timeframes."Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Gazan who came to America as a teen and lives in California, said he has lost 31 family members, his childhood homes and many of the cultural landmarks that shaped his life in Gaza to the war.Somewhere in the rubble of his mother's home in Gaza are the photos of his family and his childhood."I feel like a part of me is lost," Alkhatib told ABC News. "I'm just so desperate to [preserve] the memories and the heritage and the connections. If I ever have children, like, I can't show them what I used to be like, as a child or as a young man."Alkhatib watches as photos and videos come out of Gaza capturing the flattened streets he used to walk as a child and teen.Within a month of the war, more than 100 cultural sites -- including universities, mosques, museums and more -- across the Gaza Strip were destroyed, according to the cultural research group, Heritage For Peace.This includes the destruction of the Great Omari Mosque, one of the largest and oldest mosques in Palestinian territories dating back centuries, and damage to Church of Saint Porphyrios, one of Gaza's oldest active churches."You had an endless street full of restaurants and also private clinics -- I actually got my braces done in this downtown area," Alkhatib said.He continued, "The sheer amount of destruction to the infrastructure is just unimaginable. And yet, even up until the war, it was a beautiful place – still with the blockade, with the restrictions, with all of the pain that people have endured as a result of Hamas' control over the Gaza Strip, as a result of the multiple wars that we've experienced in the last decade and a half."The memory of some cultural landmarks, including the Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City, have been tainted by footage of unrest in the region.One video appears to show rows of men stripped to their underwear and Israeli soldiers rounding up stripped detainees in Yarmouk Stadium, though ABC News has not been able to independently verify the date of the incident nor the origins of the video.The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the video, but told ABC News that the video was not released by any official IDF channels and was not filmed by an IDF videographer."Layers upon layers of sadness and pain, to see beautiful landmarks not only destroyed, but become symbols for what is so horrible about this war, which is damage, death, destruction and detention, imprisonment and humiliation," said Alkhatib.In Washington, D.C., where Badr lives with her husband and children, she has begun pulling out and dusting off the embroidery from her aunt Awatef that has been kept protected and put away for many years.Her aunt was part of a collective of women who created embroidered goods as a source of income.She's pulled out her pillow covers, tissue covers, tapestries and more -- placed carefully around her house as reminders of her family and home: Palestine."What we are seeing in Gaza is a very immense loss of everything that spoke to the cultural fabric of the Gaza Strip," said Badr, adding that it feels "impossible to recall an aspect of our culture that has remained untouched by these experiences."However, she said, Palestinian culture "is not something that can easily be extinguished."Tawil-Souri said that documenting and passing on the culture, traditions, languages and other aspects of Palestinian heritage are vital to protecting Palestinian culture into the future."When I look at how I'm raising my son and how we are responding as a family to this conflict, I don't see us burying our culture anymore," Badr said. "We will continue to refute this fate of erasure."Before this war, Badr said she would represent her culture in a way that is "palatable" to the masses -- the cuisine, the art and the hospitality of Palestinian people.She thought it would keep her safe. Amid ongoing warfare in Gaza, she said it is impossible to divorce the beauty of Palestinian culture from what is happening on the ground."Starvation is widespread. Food, diapers, shelter, everything is almost impossible to find and every day presents new challenges people fight for survival," she said. "It is really important for us to keep the easier parts of the culture intertwined with those realities, because you don't get one without the other."Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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ABC World - WOND

Palestinian medics rush to the site of an Israeli strike on al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 22, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Israel launched a retaliatory strike against Iran on Friday, a senior U.S. official told ABC News. The strike followed Iran's April 13 attack, when Tehran sent a volley of more than 300 drones and missiles toward targets in Israel, according to Israeli military officials.Iran's attack came more than six months after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, after which the Israeli military began its bombardment of Gaza.Here's how the news is developing:Apr 25, 7:08 PMUS pier in Gaza on track to begin humanitarian assistance in early MayA senior U.S. military official shared an update on the temporary pier intended to help deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza in a briefing for Pentagon reporters Thursday."We are on track to begin delivery of humanitarian assistance to Gaza from the sea in early May," the military official said.Once operational, the U.S. expects the pier will be able to handle about 90 trucks a day and then quickly build up to 150 trucks worth of humanitarian aid, the official added.The official explained how the flow of aid will be transferred via the pier, saying, supplies will be unloaded onto a floating platform located miles off the Gaza shore and then a smaller watercraft carrying five trucks will be offloaded onto the floating pier that will be anchored to the shore.From there, the trucks will drop off their cargo in a secure area for future distribution and constantly repeat that process, according to the official.The truck drivers will not be U.S. military personnel but the drivers, from an undisclosed country, will have their own security, according to the official.Apr 25, 3:16 PMUS begins building pier off coast of Gaza: PentagonThe U.S. military has begun to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza to help deliver humanitarian aid, the Pentagon's top spokesperson confirmed at a press briefing Thursday."We are aware of the significant interest in this important effort and will provide much more information in the very near future as we work alongside the international community to rush aid to the people of Gaza," Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters.In the wake of a mortar attack in the general vicinity of where the pier is located near Gaza City earlier Thursday, Ryder said the pier and causeway are being built miles offshore and are "nowhere near mortar range."The incident "in no way delays our efforts to establish the maritime corridor," Ryder said.The pier should be ready to off-load humanitarian aid from ships by early May, he said.-ABC News' Luis MartinezApr 25, 9:34 AMUS, 17 other countries call for immediate release of hostagesPresident Joe Biden and the leaders of 17 other countries -- Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand and the U.K. -- are calling for the release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in a new statement released Thursday.“The fate of the hostages and the civilian population in Gaza, who are protected under international law, is of international concern," they said in a statement released Thursday. "We emphasize that the deal on the table to release the hostages would bring an immediate and prolonged cease-fire in Gaza, that would facilitate a surge of additional necessary humanitarian assistance to be delivered throughout Gaza, and lead to the credible end of hostilities.""Gazans would be able to return to their homes and their lands with preparations beforehand to ensure shelter and humanitarian provisions. We strongly support the ongoing mediation efforts in order to bring our people home. We reiterate our call on Hamas to release the hostages, and let us end this crisis so that collectively we can focus our efforts on bringing peace and stability to the region," the statement read.Apr 25, 7:45 AMVideo of kidnapped son brings 'total mix' of emotions, say parents of Hamas hostageThe parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken hostage by Hamas more than six months ago, felt a "total mix of emotions" when a new video of their son was released on Wednesday."First and foremost, just a huge sense of relief and gratitude to both see him and hear him. Something about that multi-sensory was really overwhelming. He's alive," Jon Polin, his father, said in an interview on ABC News' Good Morning America on Thursday. "Assuming this video is current, which we believe it is, he's alive."A video released on Wednesday on a Hamas-run Telegram channel showed a man who identified himself as Goldberg-Polin, a 24-year-old American who was captured at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7.In the heavily edited video, the Israeli-American hostage asks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to continue working to secure the release of the hostages.Rachel Goldberg, his mother, she said on Thursday she couldn't pay attention to the words her son was saying when she first watched the new video."I wasn't even listening to the content, I was just hearing my only son's voice. Seeing him move and try to look into his eyes," she said. "Any parent, anyone, anyone who has parents, can imagine after 201 days, more than half a year of doubt and fear and angst and trauma to have that, it was very bittersweet. And it was truly overwhelming."Goldberg-Polin's parents in a GMA interview in October described their son as a "curious" and a "laid-back person."Goldberg said at the time that her mantra had become, "Stay strong, survive. Stay strong, survive."She repeated that mantra on Thursday."We love you, stay strong, survive," she said. "And I definitely, you know, more than ever, after seeing him and seeing that he is clearly medically compromised, medically fragile, that is my continued plea to him, to his soul."Apr 24, 6:25 PMNew video claims to show American hostage in GazaA video showing a man who identifies himself as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 24-year-old American who was captured at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, and made under duress, was released Wednesday on a Hamas-run Telegram channel.According to the video, his left arm has been amputated at the forearm. Goldberg-Polin suffered a serious injury to that arm before being captured, his parents told ABC News in an interview in Israel just days after the attack. His family said Wednesday they wanted the video and its message published.In the heavily edited video made under duress, he denounces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to secure the release of the hostages.It is unclear when the video was filmed. In the video, he makes reference to a holiday and says he has been held for nearly 200 days."Hirsch's cry is the cry of all the abductees - their time is up! The State of Israel has no more time to waste, the abductees must be put first, without them the State of Israel will have no resurrection and no victory. All must be brought home - the living for rehabilitation, the murdered for a dignified burial," a spokesperson for the Hostage Release Center said in a statement Wednesday.Apr 24, 12:06 PMGaza could surpass famine thresholds in six weeks, WFP official saysThe World Food Programme warns that famine in the Gaza Strip is getting closer by the day and it could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks, according to an official."We estimate 30% of children below age of two is now acutely malnourished or wasted, and 70% of the population in the north is facing catastrophic hunger. There is reasonable evidence that all three famine thresholds -- food insecurity, malnutrition, mortality -- will be passed in the next six weeks," said Gian Carlo Cirri, the director of the World Food Programme's Geneva office."The conflict makes it so difficult and sometimes impossible to reach

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ABC Entertainment

MGMChallengers, Luca Guadagnino's romantic tennis drama starring Zendaya, opened in first place at the domestic box office, grabbing an estimated $15 million. The film added an estimated $10 million overseas, for a global tally of $25 million.Meanwhile, Zendaya's other release, Dune: Part Two, crossed $700 million at the global box office.The faith-based drama Unsung Hero finished a distant second at the North American box office, earning an estimated $7.75 million in its opening weekend, followed by Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, delivering an estimated $7.2 million in its fifth week of release. The latest film set in the so-called Godzilla Monsterverse has racked up $181.7 million domestically and $519.4 million worldwide.Last week's top film, Civil War, dropped to fourth place, grossing an estimated $7 million in its third week of release. The film has grabbed $56.2 million in North America thus far and $86.2 million globally.Rounding out the top five was the horror film Abigail, earning an estimated $5.3 million for a domestic total of $56.2 million. Worldwide, Abigail has scared up $28.6 million.Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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These Are Your Picks For The Most Influential Car Design Of All Time

The Pontiac Aztek may well be the most correct choice

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WOND News - VNC News

In Egg Harbor township, the Goodwill in the Cardiff Plaza Shopping Center is set to reopen this week after a fire in the middle of January closed the store for nearly four months.The store at 6701 Black Horse Pike will open at 9 a.m. May 2, the company said in a news release.“We are excited ... Read more

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Google Entertainment News - U93 :: Michiana's Number One Hit Music Station!

'Survivor' host Jeff Probst says season 50 will be all returning players Entertainment Weekly NewsView Full Coverage on Google News

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17-year-old graduates with master's degree from University of Pittsburgh

A local teenager just earned his second degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Family, friends gather to honor Lori Vallow's slain children Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow

Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ Vallow, seven, were found buried on Chad Daybell’s property nine months after they vanished

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