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Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a Bedouin Israeli hostage who was kidnapped in the deadly October 7 Hamas attack, is greeted by a loved one after being rescued by Israeli forces at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, in this handout photo from August 27, 2024. Courtesy of Soroka Medical Center/Handout via REUTERS

Israel rescues hostage found alone in underground tunnel in southern Gaza

Merit Street Media | Aug 27, 2024

Jerusalem — Israeli forces rescued a hostage found alone underground in Gaza on Tuesday, freeing a living captive from Hamas’ vast tunnel network for...

Zuckerberg says Biden admin 'pressured' Meta to censor COVID-19 content

Merit Street Media | Aug 27, 2024

Washington — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the...

Discovery of Jurassic proportions: Matching sets of dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of Atlantic Ocean

Merit Street Media | Aug 26, 2024

Africa — Matching sets of footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs once traveled along a type of highway 120 million...

U.S. Representative Madeleine Dean (D-PA) hugs Christy Shamblin, mother-in-law of Marine Corps Sergeant Nicole L. Gee who was killed in Afghanistan following “A Gold Star Families Roundtable: Examining the Abbey Gate Terrorist Attack

3 years later, US service members killed in Kabul Airport attack remembered

Annie Gimbel | Aug 26, 2024

Anywhere, U.S.A -- Today marks three years to the day since the U.S. withdrawal from the Afghanistan War where a suicide bombing killed 13 service...

An explosion takes place as Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Zibqin, Lebanon, August 25, 2024, in this still image obtained from a video. Reuters TV via REUTERS

What to know about the heavy exchange of fire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah

Merit Street Media | Aug 25, 2024

Southern Lebanon — Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah on Sunday launched their heaviest exchange of fire after months of strikes and counterstrikes that...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose ahead of the launch of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 25, 2024. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

NASA will keep astronauts Butch and Suni in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule

Merit Street Media | Aug 25, 2024

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they'll have...

NASA considering if Boeing's new capsule safe enough to fly astronauts back from space

Merit Street Media | Aug 23, 2024

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — NASA said Thursday it will decide this weekend whether Boeing’s new capsule is safe enough to return two astronauts from the...

World's second-largest diamond found in Botswana

Merit Street Media | Aug 22, 2024

Gaborone, Botswana — The largest diamond found in more than a century was unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country's president showed off the...

Spacecraft successfully changes course in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

Merit Street Media | Aug 21, 2024

Space — The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth...

Oldest person in the world dies 'peacefully in her sleep' at age 117

Merit Street Media | Aug 20, 2024

Madrid, Spain — Maria Branyas, an American-born Spaniard considered the world’s oldest person at 117 years old, has died, her family said on Tuesday.

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