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CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Nikki Haley pressed her attack on Donald Trump’s age and mental fitness over the weekend as she seeks an upset win in the New Hampshire Republican primary. “He’s just not at the same level he was in 2016,” the former South Carolina governor said Sunday of Trump on CBS’s ̶…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Ron DeSantis dropped out of the 2024 U.S. presidential race on Sunday and endorsed front-runner Donald Trump, narrowing the Republican field to two major candidates ahead of the closely watched New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. “He has my endorsement because we can’t go back …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — U.S. military action to deter Iranian-backed groups such as Yemen’s Houthi rebels will take time and the Biden administration “will have more to say about it soon,” Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer said. While hinting at unspecified additional measures, Finer’s comm…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign co-chairman portrayed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace in the Middle East and suggested he’s wrong to reject calls by the U.S. and Arab countries for movement toward a Palestinian state. “This wouldn’t…

(Reuters) — Russian energy company Novatek said on Sunday it had been forced to suspend some operations at a huge Baltic Sea fuel export terminal due to a fire started by what Ukrainian media said was a drone attack. The giant Ust-Luga complex, located on the Gulf of Finland about 170 km (110 miles…

DOHA/GAZA (Reuters) — Israeli attacks and street battles raged across the Gaza Strip on Sunday as Palestinian health officials said the death toll from Israeli strikes since war broke out in October had passed 25,000. Gaza’s health ministry said 178 Palestinians had been killed in the past 24…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The Israeli and Palestinian foreign ministers are to meet their European Union counterparts on Monday as the EU considers potential steps toward a comprehensive peace between the two sides even as the war in Gaza rages on. Israel’s Israel Katz and Palestinian Foreign Mini…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — United States airstrikes destroyed a Houthi anti-ship missile that was prepared for launch into the Gulf of Aden, the latest action against the Yemen-based militants that have targeted Red Sea commercial traffic for weeks. U.S. forces struck at about 4 a.m. Saturday in Yemen …

(Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday announced student debt cancellation of nearly $5 billion for an additional 74,000 borrowers, including more than half who earned forgiveness after 10 years of public service as teachers, nurses and firefighters. The White House announcement brings the …

(Reuters) — An Alabama death row prisoner who survived a botched execution attempt by lethal injection asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to halt the state’s planned second attempt next week, this time by the novel method of asphyxiation with nitrogen gas. Lawyers for Kenneth Smith, convi…