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...

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 ...

• 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...

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, was caused by a wheel bearing that video showed was on fire for more than 20 miles (32.19 ...

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...

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...

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...

NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ended its first day of delib erations without a verdict Wednesday but asked to rehear potentially crucial testimony about the al leged hush ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will be formally nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee through a virtual roll call ahead of the party’s official convention in Chicago in August — a ma...

A federal judge has signed off on the $600 million class action settlement over last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio, but many people who live near East Palestine are sti...

• 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...

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...

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 ...

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment bu...