World Briefly
June 25, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collaps...
World Briefly
June 25, 2024
TODAY IN HISTORY 26 Today is Wednesday, June 26, the 178th day of 2024. There are 188 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight: In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut ...
World Briefly
2004
June 25, 2024
• Families in the Perryopolis area will receive some letters and postcards a little late this week but the U.S. Postal Service isn’t to blame. Those late letters have been buried underground for decad...
World Briefly
June 25, 2024
Jazz musician-film composer Dave Grusin is 90. Singer Billy Davis Jr. is 86. Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician Gilberto Gil is 82. R&B singer Brenda Holloway is 78. Actor Robert Davi is 73. S...
World Briefly
June 10, 2024
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial began deliberating Monday whether the president’s son is guilty of federal firearms charges over a revolver he bought in 2018 when prosecutor...
Jury is chosen in Hunter Biden’s federal firearms case
World Briefly
June 3, 2024
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A jury was seated Monday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, after prospective panelists were questioned about their thoughts on gun rights and dr...
World Briefly
2004
May 21, 2024
• The area was mourning the death of popular educator Rosalie Carroll, who passed away at 77. Carroll spent most of her life molding the lives of young students, first as a teacher in the Bentworth Sc...
Testimony concludes in hush money trial without Trump testifying
World Briefly
May 21, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money trial moved into a new phase Tuesday, drawing closer to the moment when the jury will begin deciding his fate after testimony concluded without the former pre...
Key mediator Qatar urges Israel and Hamas to do more to reach a cease-fire deal
World Briefly, World News
April 28, 2024
By TIA GOLDENBERG, JON GAMBRELLAND SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A senior Qatari official has urged Israel and Hamas to show “more commitment and more seriousness” in cease-fire ...