Blinken meets Jordan’s king and foreign minister on Mideast push to keep Gaza war from spreading
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Sunday with Jordan’s king and foreign minister and visited a World Food Program warehouse in Amman as he pressed ahead with an urgent Middle East diplomatic mission to...
Israel signals it has wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza as the war enters its fourth month
By JULIA FRANKEL, SAMY MAGDY and NAJIB JOBAINH Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military signaled that it has wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza, saying it has completed dismantling Hamas’ military infrastructure there, as the war against the...
Senior Biden leaders, Pentagon officials unaware for days that defense secretary was hospitalized
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized since Monday, U.S. officials said Saturday, as...
A woman in her 90s is rescued alive 5 days after Japan’s deadly earthquake
By HIRO KOMAE, AYAKA MCGILL and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — A woman in her 90s was pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan late Saturday, 124 hours after a major quake slammed the region, killing at least 126 people, toppling...
