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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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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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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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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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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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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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ABC NewsAt least two deaths, including one of a 4-month-old child in Oklahoma, were confirmed Sunday from a severe storm that swept through the heartland, spawning multiple tornadoes across four states, including a powerful pair of twisters that touched down in Nebraska, officials said.Emergency officials in Hughes County, Oklahoma, said the baby was one of two people killed in storms that struck Holdenville.Sunday marks the third day of the severe weather outbreak across the heartland states. More than 22 million people are under a threat of violent storms Sunday in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Illinois.Holdenville, a town of about 6,000 people 77 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, was left reeling after a violent tornado touched down near the city late Saturday amid a statewide tornado outbreak.A search for victims and an assessment of damage was launched Saturday night after storms passed through the area, Hughes County Emergency Management officials said.At least four other people were injured in the Hughes County storms, including three with major injuries, Hughes County officials said.A Holdenville family told Oklahoma City ABC affiliate station KOCO that a relative lost their home in the storm and remained hospitalized Sunday.At one point, crews searched the damaged Holdenville home for the child before finding the baby, who was pronounced dead at a hospital, according to the Hughes County emergency manager."My prayers are with those who lost loved ones as tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma last night," Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said in a statement Sunday. "Thank you to Oklahoma Emergency Management and those who have worked through the night to keep Oklahomans safe and have worked to clear debris and assess damage."A destructive tornado also hit Sulfur, Oklahoma, in Murray County, destroying buildings and scattering debris for miles, authorities said.Tornadoes were reported Saturday across Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, officials said. There were nearly 120 tornado reports in the last two days, according to the National Weather Service.NWS teams were working Sunday to confirm the tornado reports but cautioned that the numbers are constantly being adjusted as new reports come in and duplicates are removed.An enhanced risk for severe thunderstorms is in the outlook Sunday from eastern Texas to southern Missouri, as well as the possibility of strong tornadoes, damaging wind and large hail.While Oklahoma was taking the brunt of the tornado outbreak, Nebraska endured the strongest tornados confirmed on Saturday.Preliminary information suggests that two "strong, rare tornadoes" touched down in Douglas County, Chris Franks with the National Weather Service said during a press briefing Saturday. The NWS found evidence of EF-2 and EF-3 tornado damage there following Friday s storms, Franks said.No fatalities have been reported so far following the Nebraska storms, officials said.Widespread damage was reported in the Elkhorn neighborhood of Omaha, officials said. New photos emerged Sunday showing numerous destroyed homes in the area."For that big of a storm, to have the property damage that was so extensive, without the loss of life," Douglas County Emergency Management Director Paul Johnson said during the press briefing. "It s a tremendous attribute to the city of Omaha."Another tornado emergency was issued Saturday for Knox City, Texas, where a large and damaging tornado was reported near the town. Baseball-sized hail was also reported with this tornadic storm, officials said.A tornado was also confirmed Saturday near the intersection of Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. The confirmed tornado was eight miles north of Robinson, Kansas.Storms are forecast to continue Sunday across the multistate region with heavy rain expected at times.A flood watch remains in effect Sunday for a large area in the southern Plains and Ozarks, covering portions of seven states. Flash flood warnings were issued Saturday night and into Sunday morning as many communities reported 2 to 5-plus inches of rainfall and emergency officials urged residents to avoid flooded roads.ABC News Jessica Gorman and Alexandra Faul contributed to this report.Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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RIP: Here's What Really Killed O.J. Simpson

The departure of the Juice has left many fans and spectators wondering about the circumstances surrounding his death, and now they need not wonder more.

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