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Is Israel committing genocide? About ICJ's ruling

A panel of 17 judges at the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to avert genocide in the Gaza Strip. Here's what the ruling means.

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Sat Jan 27 2024

 
A Palestinian man holds a portrait of late Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat and South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela outside a municipality building in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, on Jan. 12, 2024.

A panel of 17 judges at the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to avert genocide in the Gaza Strip. Here's what the ruling means.

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Writer E. Jean Carroll (C) leaves federal court after the verdict in her defamation case against former US president Donald Trump in New York on January 26, 2024. Trump was ordered Friday by a New York jury to pay $83 million in damages to Carroll, whom he publicly insulted and called a liar for alleging that he sexually assaulted her. The jury reached its decision after slightly less than three hours of deliberations. Trump made multiple comments about Carroll   while he was president, demeaning her in the wake of her allegation of a 1990s assault.
 

Trump hit with $83.3 million in damages for defaming E. Jean Carroll

 

A New York federal jury reached the verdict after a few hours of deliberations in the sex assault defamation case.

The Plus Power Kapolei Energy Storage facility, located on eight acres of land in Kapolei on Oahu 20 miles west of Honolulu. The battery helped replace the island's coal-fired plant which closed in 2022. It was turned on just before Christmas of 2023 and fully operation in January 2024.
 

How one state is quickly becoming America's clean energy paradise

 

Hawaii has an audacious goal of 100% clean energy in just 21 years – a goal that makes financial sense for an island 2,300 miles from the mainland.

Signatories of Republican Governors' statement backing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Abbott and the Biden administration have been going head to head over border control jurisdiction in Texas.
 

Republican governors support Gov. Greg Abbott in border control dispute

 

The Texas border dispute drew support from 25 states with Republican governors this week; here's what that means and why it's not a civil war.

A fan holds a sign of Taylor Swift and Travis Kielce in Green Bay on Dec. 3.
 

Taylor Swift images show the threat from AI will only get bigger

 

Explicit faked images of Taylor Swift and a lawsuit over an AI-generated George Carlin special are just the tip of the AI iceberg, experts say.

Bumpass Hell is the largest hydrothermal area at Lassen Volcanic National Park.
 

If you like Yellowstone but hate crowds, this national park is for you

 

Lassen Volcanic National Park has a lot in common with its famous sister parks, but far fewer visitors.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., departs from an all-senators closed briefing where they heard from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky via video conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 05, 2023 in Washington, D.C.
 

Hawley nods to nuclear testing victims as Oscars honor 'Oppenheimer'

 

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley sent a letter Friday urging the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize victims of nuclear testing.

North Dakota Special Assistant Attorney General Dan Gaustad, right, argues before South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick, not pictured, during a December hearing in Bismarck, North Dakota over the state's revised abortion laws. At left is Meetra Mehdizadeh, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, who argued on behalf of the Red River Women's Clinic, which has sued over the abortion ban.
 

Abortion lawsuits highlight confusion over medical emergency exceptions

 

Lawsuits in several states are seeking to clarify and expand the circumstances under which doctors can perform abortions during medical emergencies.

LYNCHBURG, VA - MAY 17: Mourners wait to get into Arthur S. DeMoss Learning Center of Liberty University to pay respects to the late Rev. Jerry Falwell at a viewing May 17, 2007 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Falwell, founder of Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University, died at the age of 73. The funeral service for Falwell is scheduled on May 22 at Thomas Road Baptist Church. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
 

House Republicans protest fed's investigation of Liberty University

 

Virginia Foxx, chairwoman of the House committee on education, asked whether the Department of Education is unfairly targeting religious schools.

TOPSHOT - US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift arrives for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 7, 2024. (Photo by Michael TRAN / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)
 

Can Taylor Swift sue over deepfake porn? Justice could be elusive.

 

USA TODAY was only able to identify 10 states that have passed laws banning exploitative deepfake pornography. Legal remedies are still being created.

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