Here is the news to know this Monday. |
Israel intensifies Gaza strikes and battles to repel Hamas |
A reeling Israel battled to drive Hamas fighters out of southern towns and seal its borders Monday, as it pounded the Gaza Strip from air. Meanwhile, Palestinian media described what it called an "Israeli massacre" in Gaza. |
What's happening: Israel and Palestinian militants are in an all-out war after stunning and deadly surprise attacks over the weekend by Hamas in one of the most significant attacks on Israel in decades. |
| • | Why is Hamas attacking Israel now? Hamas, whose main power base is located in Gaza, has been designated a terrorist organization by dozens of countries, including the U.S., because it is committed to the destruction of Israel. The leader of Hamas' military wing said that the start of "Operation Al-Aqsa Storm" was in connection to a highly-contested mosque compound in Jerusalem. | | • | Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians have been killed, and thousands more on both sides injured. Perhaps dozens of Israelis have been kidnapped in a dramatic and unprecedented move, setting off a panicked scramble among Israelis trying to track down their loved ones. | | • | 'We are at war': Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of a long war ahead and the Pentagon is rushing warships, warplanes, and ammunition to the Middle East and to Israel. | | A plume of smoke rises in the sky of Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on October 9, 2023. MAHMUD HAMS, AFP via Getty Images |
Republicans running for House speaker to face off in televised talk |
Republican candidates running for speaker of the House will face off Monday night in a joint interview hosted by Bret Baier on Fox News, the network confirmed to USA TODAY. The segment will feature House Majority Leader Steve Scalise; Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio and Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla. Jordan − who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump − and Scalise announced their speakership bids Wednesday, a day after Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was removed from the position. The House is set to vote on a new speaker when the chamber returns this week. Read more | U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) at the U.S. Capitol October 4, 2023 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer, Getty Images |
Earthquakes kill over 2,000 in Afghanistan |
Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades. The United States Geological Survey reported that the initial quake in Herat province on Saturday had a magnitude of 6.3. That was followed by three strong aftershocks measuring 6.3, 5.9 and 5.5. On Sunday, people attempted to dig out the dead and injured with their hands in Herat, clambering over rocks and debris. Survivors and victims were trapped under buildings that had crumbled to the ground, their faces gray with dust. Read more | Afghan people carry the body of a relative killed in an earthquake to a burial site after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Ebrahim Noroozi, AP |
Supreme Court weighs 'conversion therapy' bans for minors |
The Supreme Court is being asked to weigh a ban on "conversion therapy" − the practice of trying to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity − in an appeal that tests the court's appetite for engaging this term in the ongoing legal battle between religion and LGBTQ+ rights. Long discredited and already banned for minors in about half of U.S. states, the practice of using ''treatment'' to make a gay or lesbian person straight has reemerged as the Supreme Court has become more conservative and receptive to appeals dealing with religious freedom. Read more |
Simone Biles finishes with four golds at 2023 Gymnastics World Championships |
Five medals, four of them gold, after not competing for two years. Only Simone Biles can pull that off. Biles capped her first major international competition since the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 with two more golds Sunday, winning the titles on both balance beam and floor exercise. She also won golds in the team competition and all-around, and a silver on vault. She's the most-decorated gymnast in history, male or female, with 37 medals at the world championships and Olympics. Of those, a whopping 27 are gold. Read more | Simone Biles celebrates on the podium after winning the women's floor exercise at the Gymnastics World Championships in Belgium on Oct. 8, 2023. Kenzo Tribouillard, AFP via Getty Images |
Photo of the day: A world record shattered at the 2023 Chicago Marathon |
Kelvin Kiptum, 23, finished Sunday's Chicago Marathon in two hours, zero minutes and 35 seconds. Kiptum's time shattered the previous world record set by fellow Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge at 2:01:09 in the Berlin Marathon last September. It also brought a sub-two-hour mark clearly within reach in an unbelievable feat of human achievement. Read more | Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum celebrates winning the 2023 Bank of America Chicago Marathon in Chicago, Illinois, in a world record time of two hours and 35 seconds on October 8, 2023. KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI, AFP via Getty Images |
Associated Press contributed reporting. | | | |
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