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US military says Gaza Strip pier project is completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on
The U.S. military has finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip. Officials said Thursday that they are poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war. The final, overnight construction sets up a complicated delivery process more than two months after U.S. President Joe Biden ordered it to help Palestinians facing starvation as food and other supplies fail to make it in. Israel recently seized the key Rafah border crossing in its push on that southern city on the Egyptian border, complicating those shipments. American officials insist U.S. troops will not set foot in Gaza, though they acknowledge the danger of operating near the war zone.
As the U.S. prepares to host its first cricket World Cup next month, a temporary stadium is rising in the New York City suburbs. The sport has found fertile ground there among waves of Caribbean and South Asian immigration. The U.S. is co-hosting the T20 World Cup, with eight games at Eisenhower Park on Long Island. American cricket organizers hope the games will provide the same boost soccer enjoyed when the U.S. hosted its first FIFA World Cup in 1994. USA Cricket estimates there are more than 400 local leagues and more than 200,000 Americans playing the sport nationwide.
A Florida deputy's fatal shooting of a U.S. service member has jarred the former top enlisted officer of the Air Force. In 2020, Chief Master Sgt. Kaleth O. Wright warned that his greatest fear was waking up to news that police had killed a Black airman. The death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson has community leaders including the NAACP asking whether unconscious bias led the deputy to shoot the young service member simply because he was a young, Black male and ask what, if anything, can be done to prevent this kind of tragedy. The investigation into Fortson’s death is ongoing. The sheriff’s office says they received the local NAACP’s “list of demands and understand their concerns.”
Census estimates: Detroit population rises after decades of decline, South still dominates US growth
U.S. Census Bureau estimates show America's Northeast and Midwest cities are rebounding slightly from years of population drops, highlighted by modest growth in Detroit after decades of declines. Government figures released Thursday show Detroit saw its population grow for the first time in decades, rising by 1,852 people to 633,218 inhabitants last year. That’s a milestone for Detroit, which had 1.8 million residents in the 1950s only to see its population plummet afterward. Meanwhile, Census estimates show 13 of the 15 fastest-growing cities in the U.S. were in the South last year, eight of them in Texas alone.
President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College's commencement. Morehouse is a center of Black politics and culture. It's also located in Atlanta, the largest city in a swing state Biden flipped from Donald Trump four years ago. Biden’s speech Sunday will come as he tries to make inroads with a key and symbolic constituency — young Black men. The announcement of the speech last month triggered peaceful protests and calls for the university administration to cancel over Biden’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas.
Prosecutors' star witness will be back in the hot seat in Donald Trump's hush money trial as defense lawyers try to chip away at Michael Cohen’s crucial testimony implicating the former president. The trial will resume Thursday in Manhattan with the defense cross-examining Cohen. His credibility could determine the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s fate in the case. He's the last witness for prosecutors before Trump's lawyers get a chance to put on a defense. Prosecutors are trying to prove Trump schemed to suppress a damaging story he feared would torpedo his 2016 presidential campaign, and then falsified business records to cover it up. Trump says he did nothing wrong.
The Dali container ship experienced a near perfect storm of calamities before it struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March. But a report released Tuesday by federal investigators leaves many questions unanswered. The National Transportation Safety Board described four power failures on the ship in roughly 10 hours. Two occurred the day before the crash, and the other two happened in the minutes before. Reasons for three outages are yet to be explained, including the two right before the crash. Experts say the tragedy in Baltimore is raising questions about whether more safeguards are needed.
A bus carrying people to work in a watermelon field in central Florida was sideswiped by a suspected drunk driver and overturned in a field, killing eight of them and injuring up to 40 others. The man accused of causing Tuesday morning's crash appeared before a judge in Ocala, Florida, on Wednesday morning and was ordered held without bond. The farmworkers were from Mexico, working on seasonal or temporary visas, and authorities have released some of their names. Here’s what to know about the crash.
Kansas governor cites competition concerns while vetoing measure for school gun-detection technology
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a measure that could have earmarked up to $5 million for certain gun-detection software in schools. Kelly's line-item veto Wednesday leaves the money in place for general school safety efforts but deletes wording that would have set very specific criteria to use. The only company that would have currently qualified is ZeroEyes, which has lobbied lawmakers in various states to adopt its artificial-intelligence technology. Kelly said the provision amounted to “a no-bid contract” and would have limited schools from spending grant funds on other safety measures such as communications systems and security staff.
A consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relations with American Indian tribes is accusing the team, its charity foundation and its CEO of fraud, breach of contract and sexual harassment. Nina Sanders filed a civil lawsuit in Cook County late Tuesday. According to the lawsuit, Blackhawks CEO Dan Wirtz hired her in 2020 to serve as a liaison with tribes pushing the team to change its name. She alleges that Wirtz promised to create positions for American Indians and promised to change the team's name if she came to work for him but never followed through. Sanders goes on to allege that she told her immediate boss that an employee made inappropriate sexual advances toward her. A team spokesperson didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
