"It went from wonderful to horrible in an instant," Charlotte Hauptman said of that fateful Saturday morning. "Not only did we hear the bombs, but we also found out there was an invasion of Hamas coming into the country. And we didn't know where or what or who they were."
The Israeli military chief has told commanders that the military will "enter the Gaza Strip" and initiate an operation to take out Hamas, but he did not provide a specific timeframe. Follow for live updates.
China and the Philippines on Sunday accused each other of causing collisions in a disputed area of the South China Sea, the latest in a string of maritime confrontations between the two countries that have heightened regional tensions.
Michigan State University apologized for displaying a picture of Adolf Hitler on the videoboard during a trivia quiz before the school's football game against in-state rivals the University of Michigan on Saturday.
The first convoy of aid trucks passed through the Rafah crossing and entered besieged Gaza on Saturday morning, as the Israeli military said it's preparing for an operation on the ground there. Follow for live updates.
Norma weakened to tropical storm strength Saturday after bringing hurricane-force winds, flash flooding and storm surge to Mexico's Pacific coast. Meanwhile, another late-season storm continued to threaten island nations in the Atlantic.
Japan's government on Friday asked a court to order the dissolution of the Unification Church branch in Japan following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.
The first trucks carrying aid entered Gaza on Saturday, but international leaders have warned that much more is needed to combat the "catastrophic" humanitarian situation in the enclave that holds more than 2 million people.
Paddy Cosgrave, the chief executive of Web Summit, stepped down Saturday after several Big Tech companies withdrew from the company's upcoming annual technology conference over his comments on the Israel-Hamas war.
A judge has rejected three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to shut down a lawsuit seeking to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state based on the 14th Amendment's "insurrectionist ban."
Tal and Zak have no idea how long they'll be deployed in what the Israelis call "the Gaza envelope," the area in southern Israel that was attacked by Hamas terrorists two weeks ago.
Their decisions to transform from Trump diehards to a key witness against him have likely shattered any sense of invincibility that Trump or others charged may be feeling
Two of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants -- Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro -- in the criminal case brought against him for trying to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election result pleaded guilty this week.
Hamas released two American hostages, Judith Tai Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie Raanan, on Friday nearly two weeks after launching a deadly attack in Israel and abducting around 200 people.
