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FILE - Students gather on the UCLA campus to protest the Israel-Hamas War, April 29, 2024, in Los Angeles. A federal judge ordered Monday, July 29, that UCLA craft a plan to protect Jewish students, months after pro-Palestinian protests broke out on campus. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes,File)

FBI: Antisemitic hate crimes in US surge to all-time high

By Etgar Lefkovits – JNS.org

Tourists sit on La Pared beach as Tropical Storm Ernesto passes by Luquillo, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Tropical Storm Ernesto pummels northeast Caribbean and leaves hundreds of thousands in the dark

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Tourists sit on La Pared beach as Tropical Storm Ernesto passes by Luquillo, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Ernesto becomes a hurricane after pummeling northeast Caribbean and knocking out power in the region

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - The James R. Browning United States Courthouse building, a courthouse for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is seen in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Sentence overturned in border agent’s killing that exposed ‘Fast and Furious’ sting

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

Patricia Huhem, left, and her daughter, Elisa Huhem, celebrate while watching a live feed from Paris moments after the International Olympic Committee awarded Salt Lake City the 2034 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Spenser Heaps)

Salt Lake City celebrates announcement that it will host the 2034 Winter Olympics

By Hannah Schoenbaum - Associated Press

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks about Salt Lake City's bid to host the 2034 Winter Olympics, during the 142nd IOC session at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

IOC awards 2034 Winter Games to Utah, pushes state to help end FBI probe

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Workers stand by the olympic swimming pool, Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at the Paris La Defense Arena, in Nanterre, outside Paris. The Paris La Defense Arena will host the swimming and some water polo events during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

World Anti-Doping Agency ‘disappointed’ at U.S. investigation into Chinese doping case

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Cambodian museum staff members prepare an artifact statue as it returned from U.S to Cambodia, before an official ceremony at the Cambodian National Museum in Phnom Penh Cambodia, Thursday, July 4, 2024. Cambodia on Thursday officially organized a welcome ceremony for the arrival of more than a dozen rare Angkor era sculptures from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art that were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia welcomes 14 sculptures looted over decades of turmoil

Associated Press

President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde attends a press conference after an ECB's governing council meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, on Jan. 25, 2024. The European Central Bank appears ready to start cutting interest borrowing costs for businesses and consumers — and do it ahead of the Fed. Analysts say a first-rate cut is coming Thursday when the bank's policymakers meet in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Inflation is down in Europe, but the European Central Bank is in no hurry to make more rate cuts

By David McHugh - Associated Press

A bridge is damaged after Hurricane Fiona hit Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico, Sept. 21, 2022. Puerto Rico continues reconstruction work after two devastating hurricanes and a string of strong earthquakes, spending less than 10% of the more than $23 billion available in federal funds, according to a U.S. government report released on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo, File)

Federal audit finds ‘a lot of work remains’ in Puerto Rico’s hurricane and earthquake recovery

Associated Press

Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-17 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, on Oct. 1, 2019. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, that China’s pursuit of hypersonic weapons “increases tensions in the region” and vowed the U.S. would maintain its capability to deter potential threats posed by China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Chinese-born engineer arrested for theft involving missile sensor technology

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

All Nippon Airways (ANA) airplanes are seen at Haneda airport in Tokyo on March 31, 2022. An All Nippon Airways domestic flight turned back to Japan’s northern airport of Sapporo on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, after a crack was found on the cockpit window, according to the airline and media reports. (Kyodo News via AP)

A Japanese domestic flight returns to airport with crack on a cockpit window. No injuries reported.

Associated Press

View at the Bank of England, at the financial district in London, Thursday, May 11, 2023. The Bank of England is set to join its peers in the U.S. and Europe in keeping borrowing rates unchanged at its policy meeting on Thursday, Dec. 14 despite mounting worries over the state of the British economy. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Bank of England holds interest rates at a 15-year high despite worries about the economy

By Pan Pylas - Associated Press

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Aug. 22, 2007, in Washington. Judge Pauline Newman, a 96-year-old U.S. federal appeals court judge, has been barred from hearing cases for a year after a panel said she refused to undergo medical testing over concerns she's no longer mentally fit to serve on the bench. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

96-year-old federal judge is barred from hearing cases in bitter fight over mental fitness

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, off in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Lee charges over Atlantic waters as a Category 5 storm, approaching the Caribbean

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