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With famine looming, Israeli strike kills 7 aid workers and halts food charity’s operations in Gaza

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
Associated Press,

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen, leading the charity to suspend delivery Tuesday of vital food aid to Gaza, where Israel’s offensive has pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation. Ships still laden with some 240 tons of aid from the charity that arrived just…

National News

Alex Murdaugh gets 40 years in federal prison for stealing from clients and his law firm

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press
Associated Press,

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — For maybe the last time, Alex Murdaugh, in a prison jumpsuit instead of the suit he used to wear, shuffled into a courtroom Monday in South Carolina and was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison. Murdaugh was punished — this time in federal court — for stealing from clients and his law firm. The 55-year-old…

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Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It’s the biggest bug emergence in centuries

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
Associated Press,

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are nature’s kings of the calendar….

Kentucky News, National News

AT&T says a data breach leaked millions of customers’ information online. Were you affected?

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Reporter
Associated Press,

NEW YORK (AP) — The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend. In a Saturday announcement addressing the data breach, AT&T said that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information including some Social Security numbers and passcodes for about 7.6 million…

Kentucky News, National News

Republican-backed budget bill with increased K-12 funding sent to Kentucky’s Democratic governor

Associated Press,

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s legislature delivered on a new two-year state budget Thursday that would increase funding for K-12 schools as lawmakers accomplished their biggest responsibility of this year’s legislative session. The spending plan won final passage in the House and now heads to Gov. Andy Beshear, who has line-item veto authority over state budget bills. The Senate gave…

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