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When Hamas seized her son Hersh at the Nova music festival near the Gaza border on October 7, Rachel Goldberg-Polin became one of the most visible faces of Israel’s hostage crisis. An American Israeli who had moved to...
Anderson Cooper interviewed Rachel Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem about the life and killing of her only son, Hersh, who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023 and later executed. This is a condensed retelling of their...
Highly enriched uranium (HEU) — material concentrated to weapons‑usable levels — is central to the possible spread of nuclear weapons in the Iran conflict. Since strikes began last June, international inspectors have...
Highly enriched uranium (HEU) — uranium enriched to levels usable in nuclear weapons — is central to the risk of a wider conflict between the United States and Iran. International inspectors have been unable to verify...
Rachel Goldberg-Polin has kept her son’s bedroom unchanged since he was taken — everything the way he left it, except for a ball of tape. After Oct. 7, 2023, she began writing the number of days since Hersh and the...
When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, two and a half years ago, the violence set off a war that would cost countless lives on both sides. Among the many parents left bereft was Rachel Goldberg-Polin, an...
April 19, 2026 — In a nearly 10-minute video address Sunday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada’s long-standing economic reliance on the United States, once a source of strength, has turned into a strategic...
U.S. Central Command said Marines from the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli boarded and seized the Iran-flagged container ship M/V Touska after the vessel was disabled by fire from the guided-missile destroyer USS...
President Trump said the United States struck and seized an Iranian tanker while speaking on Weekend Nightly. He asserted that U.S. forces carried out the action, but there was no immediate independent confirmation of...
Updated on: April 18, 2026 / 7:19 PM EDT / CBS/AP A gunman who killed at least six people in Kyiv and then took hostages inside a supermarket was shot and killed by police after a tactical unit stormed the store...
Pope Leo pushed back on suggestions he was trying to spar with President Trump, saying his trip to Africa is fundamentally pastoral: to preach peace and care for Catholics facing hunger, political violence and deep...
Ukrainian authorities say they are treating a mass shooting in Kyiv as a suspected terror attack after at least six people were killed. According to officials, a local man began shooting on a street before entering a...
