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Humanitarian workers have started moving tons of aid that piled up at a U.S.-built pier off the Gaza coast to warehouses in the besieged Palestinian territory, the United Nations said on June 29, an important step as Washington considers whether to resume pier operations after yet another pause because of heavy seas. It was not known when the aid might reach Palestinians in Gaza, where experts have warned of the high risk of famine as the Israel-Hamas war is in its ninth month. This is the first time trucks have moved aid from the pier since the World Food...

The Supreme Court on July 1 ruled for the first time that former presidents have some immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and all but ending prospects the former president could be tried before the November election. In a historic 6-3 ruling, the justices returned Trump’s case to the trial court to determine what is left of special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump. The outcome means additional delay before Trump could face trial. The court’s decision in a second...

The U.S. surgeon general on June 25 declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation’s top doctor, came as the U.S. grappled with another summer weekend marked by mass shootings that left dozens of people dead or wounded. “People want to be able to walk through their neighborhoods and be safe,” Murthy told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “America should be a place where all of us can go to school, go to work, go...

The criminally convicted ex-president and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump warned during his debate with President Joe Biden, and again at a June 28 rally, that migrants were taking “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs” from Americans, angering critics who called it a racist and insulting attempt to expand his appeal beyond his White conservative base. While President Joe Biden’s halting debate performance on June 27 stirred widespread concerns among fellow Democrats about his readiness, Trump also repeatedly made false claims and promoted the same outlandish conspiracy theories that he has long peddled during his campaign. Trump suggested without evidence that...