- Israel sharply intensified its strikes on the Gaza Strip, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded phase of the war that Washington said contradicted Israeli promises to do more to protect civilians.
- Arab states have renewed their push for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, with the United Arab Emirates asking the U.N. Security Council to vote today on a draft resolution.
- The Israeli military, responding to a Reuters investigation that determined its forces killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon on October 13, said the incident took place in an active combat zone and was under review.
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- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court order allowing her to obtain one for medical necessity.
- The Department of Justice filed new criminal charges against US President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, accusing him of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes while spending millions of dollars on a lavish lifestyle.
- Donald Trump is readying what may be his best shot at avoiding spending much of next year in a courtroom facing criminal charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, kicking off an appeal that could go to the Supreme Court.
- Volunteers waded through stagnant water to hand out food and supplies, and some manufacturing plants remained shut in India's southern tech-and-auto hub district of Chennai, four days after cyclone Michaung lashed the coast.
- Taiwan said that 12 Chinese fighter jets and a suspected weather balloon had crossed the Taiwan Strait's sensitive median line, in a ratcheting up of tensions about a month before the island's presidential election.
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