In the news today: Hezbollah’s heaviest barrage on Israel in months; a look at Trump’s second administration picks; and Charlotte airport workers go on strike during a busy Thanksgiving travel week. Also, an ex-Colorado football player is hoping to fulfill wishes for older adults.
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Israeli police bomb squad inspects the site after a missile fired from Lebanon hit the area in Petah Tikva, outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Hezbollah fires about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel in heaviest barrage in weeks
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Hezbollah fired around 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday in one of the militant group’s heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut while negotiators pressed on with ceasefire efforts to halt the all-out war. Read more. |
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Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated seven people, including a 60-year old man in severe condition from rocket fire in northern Israel. In Haifa, a rocket hit a residential building that police said was in danger of collapsing. And the Palestine Red Crescent reported 13 injuries that it said were caused by an interceptor missile that struck several homes in the West Bank.
An Israeli strike on an army center killed a Lebanese soldier and wounded 18 others in the southwest between Tyre and Naqoura, Lebanon’s military said. The Israeli military expressed regret, saying that the strike occurred in an area of combat against Hezbollah and that the military’s operations are directed solely against the militants. Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, condemned the latest strike as an assault on ceasefire efforts.
- The Israeli ambassador to Washington says that a ceasefire deal to end fighting between Israel and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah could be reached “within days.” Ambassador Mike Herzog told Israeli Army Radio on Monday that there remained “points to finalize” and that any deal required agreement from the government.
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A look at Trump’s latest picks for key administration positions
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Since Friday afternoon, Trump nominated Scott Turner to be housing secretary; Scott Bessent as treasury secretary; Brooke Rollins as agriculture chief; Russel Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget; and U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the Department of Labor. Read more. |
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Bessent is a former George Soros money manager and advocate for deficit reduction. If confirmed by the Senate, he would be the nation’s first openly gay treasury secretary. Trump also said he would nominate Russel Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, a position Vought held during Trump's first presidency.
Turner is a former NFL player and White House aide. Trump, in a statement, credited Turner, the highest-ranking Black person he’s yet selected for his administration, with “helping to lead an Unprecedented Effort that Transformed our Country’s most distressed communities.”
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U.S. Rep. Chavez-DeRemer would oversee the Labor Department’s work force, its budget and put forth priorities that impact workers’ wages, health and safety, ability to unionize, and employer’s rights to fire employees. The Oregon House member who narrowly lost her reelection bid earlier this month received strong backing from union members in her district. Rollins was Trump’s last announced pick to lead executive agencies. The Texas attorney is a longtime associate who served as Trump’s domestic policy chief and director of his office of American innovation in his first term.
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The week that upped the stakes of the Ukraine war |
This past week has seen the most significant escalation in hostilities that Ukraine has witnessed since Russia’s full-scale invasion and marks a new chapter in the nearly 3-year war — one tinged with uncertainty and fear. Read more.
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It began with U.S. President Joe Biden reversing a longstanding policy by granting Kyiv permission to deploy American longer-range missiles inside Russian territory and ended with Moscow striking Ukraine with a new experimental ballistic weapon that has alarmed the international community and heightened fears of further escalation.
NATO and Ukraine have scheduled emergency talks slated for Tuesday, the alliance said. The meeting will be held at the request of Ukraine and will convene at the level of ambassadors. Ukraine’s parliament also canceled a session as security was tightened in the city. Lawmakers said there was a credible threat of an attack on government buildings.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday he was confident the war could be ended in 2025. “There are appropriate steps for this, they are included in our peace formula,” he told journalists at the Grain from Ukraine international conference in Kyiv. “We realize that Russia will not take all these steps. But there is a U.N. charter and we hope that all our steps based on the U.N. charter will be supported by our partners.”
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An apron with a fabric print by Kristen Knechtel. (Minted via AP)
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Aprons can evoke memories and spark inspiration for the Thanksgiving cook
Aprons carry all kinds of associations. Professional cooks and contestants on TV cooking shows wear large, utilitarian ones: grill masters might have the goofy “BBQ Dad” variety. They go especially well with Thanksgiving, evoking memories and putting the focus on the cook. |
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