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Fierce fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas engulfed the Jabalya region of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday amid heightened speculation that negotiations over a hostage exchange and a pause in the conflict could be reaching its final stages.

Maksym, 13, needs a life of stability and routines, but almost two years of war in Ukraine have given him anything but that. The boy, his adult brother and his mother fled their home city, Mariupol, under Russian attack. His father was captured as a prisoner of war. And Maksym has had to live with the sounds of bomb explosions and air raid sirens in Kyiv, where he now lives. The therapist who once treated him in Mariupol has also become a refugee.

A few days before Thanksgiving every year, Hoang Ly settles into a chair at his home in Fredericksburg, Va. to write a thank-you email to Stephen Greene, the lanky American who helped his family escape Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. "We wish you a healthy and happy Thanksgiving!" Ly wrote in last year's note to Greene, who now lives in Annapolis.

The White House on Monday launched several official accounts on Threads, the social media platform created by the tech giant Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram), which is broadly seen as a rival of X - formerly known as Twitter.

Paul Landis stood guard outside Parkland Memorial Hospital's Trauma Room No. 1 as Father Oscar Huber rushed past, dressed in his Roman collar. It was just before 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. Less than half an hour earlier, Landis had been riding on the running board of a Secret Service car when he witnessed President John F. Kennedy's murder up close as the motorcade drove through Dallas's Dealey Plaza.

A black felt bicorn hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte sold for 1.9 million euros, or $2.1 million, at an auction in Fontainebleau, France, on Sunday, fetching the highest price ever paid for one of the 19th century French emperor's hats.

It’s been a tense autumn at the White House. Between wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, a leadership scramble in the House, and the President’s plummeting approval rating, it’s unclear how voters will treat the administration next year. But two Biden administration VIPs already know they’ll fight to see another day: On Monday, President Joe Biden pardoned turkeys named Liberty and Bell, saving them from a certain fate on an American Thanksgiving table.

On the day her tax evasion trial was set to begin in Barcelona, Shakira announced that she struck a deal with Spanish prosecutors, settling a years-long legal dispute.

The effort to get Donald Trump removed from the 2024 ballot over Jan. 6 has thus far failed to achieve its stated objective. But late Friday, it did notch a major victory: A judge ruled that while the former president can't be disqualified, he did incite an insurrection.

The 97th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will take place Thursday, with more than 3 million spectators expected to brave the early morning cold for a view of the procession's many floats, balloons and celebrity performers.

The World Health Organization said Sunday that it had evacuated 31 premature infants from Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the newborns to a facility near the Egyptian border and signaling a broader effort to save the most vulnerable amid an Israeli siege of the sprawling medical complex.

Before you decide to board your dog as you head out for the holidays, be aware there is a mystery illness affecting canines across the United States. The potentially fatal respiratory illness begins as a cough that can last for weeks, Today first reported. If antibiotics don’t help, your pet can develop severe pneumonia and struggle to breathe. Some dogs have died from the disease.