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Israeli military says it will operate with ‘significant force’ in Gaza in the days ahead, urges civilians to evacuate

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military says it will operate with ‘significant force’ in Gaza in the days ahead, urges civilians to evacuate.Source

Golden Knights spoil the Sharks opener with a 4-1 victory

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Nic Hague and Nicolas Roy scored in the final 2 minutes of the second period and the Vegas Golden Knights spoiled San Jose’s season opener by beating the Sharks 4-1 on Thursday night.The teams were locked in a tight game before Vegas broke it open with the goals from Hague and Roy 53 seconds apart.Michael Amadio also scored and Brayden Pachal added his first career goal to help the defending champions win their second straight to open the season. “Tonight I thought it was our guys that we don’t typically rely on that did a lot,” coach Bruce Cassidy said. “That shows you’re a good team when you don’t need your top guys to have their ‘A’ games all the time. Tonight I thought some of them were fine, but not dominant like they can be and have been. … It’s not the usual suspects and you need that if you’re going to be a good team.”Logan Thompson made 22 saves in his first regular-season game since being sidelined by a lower-body injury last March.“I’m ...

PGA Tour Shriners Children’s Open Scores

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

ThursdayAt TPC SummerlinLas VegasPurse: $8.4 millionYardage: 7,255; Par: 71First Round Play SuspendedBeau Hossler30-32—62Cameron Champ29-34—63J.T. Poston31-32—63Lanto Griffin32-32—64Davis Thompson30-34—64Luke List34-31—65Matti Schmid33-32—65Nick Taylor33-32—65Adam Long34-32—66J.J. Spaun33-33—66Hayden Buckley35-32—67Cameron Davis33-34—67Nicolas Echavarria35-32—67Adam Hadwin33-34—67Henrik Norlander33-34—67Davis Riley33-34—67Sam Ryder33-34—67Greyson Sigg33-34—67Sam Stevens34-33—67Akshay Bhatia35-33—68Tano Goya34-34—68Tom Kim34-34—68Kelly Kraft33-35—68Yuxin Lin32-36—68Troy Merritt34-34—68Alex Noren34-34—68Vince Whaley34-34—68Ludvig Aberg35-34—69Nick Hardy35-34—69Kyoung-Hoon Lee34-35—69Taylor Pendrith34-35—69Scott Piercy35-34—69Chad Ramey36-33—69Isaiah Salinda36-33—69Webb Simpson33-36—69Ben Taylor36-33—69Matt Wallace35-34—69Jason Dufner33-37—70Harrison Endycott37-33—70Chesson Hadley34-36—70Harry Hall35-35—70Charley Hoffman36-34—70Nicolai Hojgaard34-36—70Michael Kim33-37—70Patton Kizzire3...

PGA Tour Shriners Children’s Open Par Scores

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

ThursdayAt TPC SummerlinLas VegasPurse: $8.4 millionYardage: 7,255; Par: 71First Round Play SuspendedBeau Hossler30-32—62-9Cameron Champ29-34—63-8J.T. Poston31-32—63-8Lanto Griffin32-32—64-7Davis Thompson30-34—64-7Luke List34-31—65-6Matti Schmid33-32—65-6Nick Taylor33-32—65-6Adam Long34-32—66-5J.J. Spaun33-33—66-5Hayden Buckley35-32—67-4Cameron Davis33-34—67-4Nicolas Echavarria35-32—67-4Adam Hadwin33-34—67-4Henrik Norlander33-34—67-4Davis Riley33-34—67-4Sam Ryder33-34—67-4Greyson Sigg33-34—67-4Sam Stevens34-33—67-4Akshay Bhatia35-33—68-3Tano Goya34-34—68-3Tom Kim34-34—68-3Kelly Kraft33-35—68-3Yuxin Lin32-36—68-3Troy Merritt34-34—68-3Alex Noren34-34—68-3Vince Whaley34-34—68-3Ludvig Aberg35-34—69-2Nick Hardy35-34—69-2Kyoung-Hoon Lee34-35—69-2Taylor Pendrith34-35—69-2Scott Piercy35-34—69-2Chad Ramey36-33—69-2Isaiah Salinda36-33—69-2Webb Simpson33-36—69-2Ben Taylor36-33—69-2Matt Wallace35-34—69-2Jason Dufner33-37—70-1Harrison Endycott37-33—70-1Chesson Hadley34-36—70-1Harry Hall35-35—70-...

US defense secretary is in Israel to meet with its leaders and see America’s security assistance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived Friday in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv to meet with senior government leaders and see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group.Austin is the second high-level U.S. official to visit Israel in two days. His quick trip from Brussels, where he was attending a NATO defense ministers meeting, comes a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the region on Thursday. Blinken is continuing the frantic Mideast diplomacy, seeking to avert an expanded regional conflict.Austin is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, and the Israeli War Cabinet.His arrival comes as Israel’s military directed hundreds of thousands of residents in Gaza City to evacuate “for their own safety and protection,” ahead of a feared Israeli ground offensive. Gaza’s...

Israel’s military issues unprecedented orders to evacuate Gaza City ahead of feared ground offensive

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military told some 1 million Palestinians living in Gaza on Friday to evacuate the north, according to the United Nations, an unprecedented order for almost half the population of the sealed-off territory ahead of an expected ground invasion against the ruling Hamas militant group.The U.N. warned that so many people fleeing en masse would be calamitous, and Hamas, which staged a shocking and brutal attack on Israel this week, dismissed it as a ploy and called on people to stay in their homes, adding to widespread panic.The evacuation order, which includes Gaza City, home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, sparked confusion among civilians and aid workers already running from Israeli airstrikes and contending with a total siege and a territory-wide power blackout.“Forget about food, forget about electricity, forget about fuel. The only concern now is just if you’ll make it, if you’re going to live,” said Nebal Farsakh, a spokeswoman for the Palestinia...

Muslims gather at mosques for first Friday prayers since Israel-Hamas war started

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

In Muslim communities across the world, worshippers gathered at mosques for their first Friday prayers since Hamas militants attacked Israel, igniting the latest Israel-Palestinian war.IN INDONESIA, PRAYERS FOR GOD’S PROTECTION AND FOR THE ABSENTIslamic leaders in Indonesia appealed to all mosques in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation to pray for peace and safety for the Palestinian people.The chairperson of the Indonesian Mosque Council had urged all mosques to perform the Qunut Nazilahto prayer, one made for protection, to ask for God’s help so that “the conflict in the Gaza Strip would end quickly.” The appeal from the nation’s former Vice President Jusuf Kalla is in line with most Indonesian Muslims, who stand with Palestinians. The prayer was held along with the Salat Al-Ghaib, or prayer for the absent.In a sermon at Abu Bakar Al Shidiq, one of the most conservative mosques in Jakarta, a cleric called for mobilizing “our power and efforts to help the M...

Fear and confusion mark key moments of Lahaina residents’ 911 calls during deadly wildfire

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

Maui County officials released two hours of audio of 911 calls to The Associated Press that were recorded as frantic residents tried to escape the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century. The inferno that engulfed Lahaina killed at least 98 people and leveled more than 2,000 buildings, most of them homes.Here are chronological summaries of some of the more than 200 calls recorded with 911 dispatchers between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 8 obtained by the AP.___3:31 p.m.A woman called to ask if she had to evacuate. When she said she was on Front Street and Baker Street, an area in the historic heart of the town that would ultimately be razed by the flames, she was told she didn’t have to leave.“That’s not close to it yet,” an audibly stressed dispatcher said before adding they were trying to answer all the calls coming in.___4:41 p.m.A man called 911 saying he was seeking refuge in a big rig truck that he came across near the Pioneer Mill Smokestack just off Lahainaluna Road. He said...

7 killed as a suspected migrant-smuggling vehicle crashes in southern Germany

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — A vehicle trying to evade a police check in southern Germany left a highway at high speed on Friday and crashed, killing seven people, authorities said. The overcrowded vehicle appeared to be carrying migrants.The accident happened near Muehldorf, east of Munich on the A94 highway, which leads to the Austrian border. The vehicle left the road and overturned.Police said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that initial investigations showed that it was “a suspected smuggler vehicle with more than 20 people on board.” They said prosecutors had opened a homicide investigation.All of those on board were at least slightly injured and some were seriously injured, German news agency dpa reported. They were taken to nearby hospitals. The people packed into the vehicle included children. It wasn’t immediately clear where they came from.Germany has seen large numbers of migrants arriving in recent months.The Associated Press

Wet, Blustery Weather As Giant Atmospheric Wind Machine Comes to Chicago

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:39 GMT

The storm, with a central pressure of 990 mb (29.22") was centered of Kansas and creeping eastward. The system is a giant atmospheric wind machine—and will be here in Chicago too.  Gusts topping 50 mph are occurring beneath its southern flank from New Mexico into the Texas Panhandle. The system has sprung up on the nose of a powerful 150 mph jet stream wind max  which widely varied temps across the powerful system have developed. Those upper winds roaring across the Four Corners area of the Southwest at jet airplane cruising altitudes and encourage the large scale ascension of air which drops surface pressures and encourage the powerful winds I've mentioned—which, in turn, import copious amount of Gulf moisture into the system.Overnight and Thursday morning rains drenched the southern half as well as western sections of the Greater Chicago area with totals topping 2" at Coal City, Ottawa, Marseilles, Morris and Sublette to name a few—and heavy 1.50" rains have already occurred thro...