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JERUSALEM — Israel’s internal security agency said Thursday it has arrested a senior employee of the international aid group World Vision in the Gaza Strip, accusing him of siphoning millions of dollars of the charity’s funds and transferring them to the Islamic militant group Hamas. Mohammed el-Halabi established a “systematic and sophisticated mechanism” to divert up to $50 million over the years to the militant group, which rules Gaza, creating fictitious humanitarian projects and doctoring inflated... Читать дальше...

After a brief visit with a trainer, he returned for just one play, exiting for good after hobbling through a route. After practice, Smith did not immediately receive medical assistance and was seen lifting in the weight room. [...] Rogers, who led the CFL in receiving yards last year, fell down while running a route and didn’t return to practice.

(AP) — The Harvard Republican Club won't be endorsing Donald Trump, marking the first time in 128 years that the organization has not backed the Republican nominee for president. The organization said Trump's platform would endanger Americans' security both at home and abroad, and his views are not consistent with conservative principles.

NEW DELHI — Two men who had not been heard from since last month’s restaurant attack in Bangladesh were arrested Thursday on allegations they were involved in the deadly siege carried out by radical Islamists. British national Hasnat Karim and University of Toronto student Tahmid Hasib Khan were arrested in different areas of the capital, Dhaka, and a court has allowed police to keep them in custody for eight days to question them, said Masudur Rahman, a Dhaka police spokesman. Five armed gunmen... Читать дальше...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Like dozens of other couples who got married this summer in the isolated Gaza Strip, for Saed and Falasteen Abu Aser, their wedding was an elaborately planned celebration, complete with a procession through streets of their neighborhood. The coastal territory has faced three wars with Israel over the last decade and a stifling blockade imposed by both Israel and Egypt after the Islamic militant Hamas group violently overran the territory in 2007. [...] for the happy couple and their families... Читать дальше...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who is threatening to bomb churches and kill Christians while ending attacks on mosques and markets used by ordinary Muslims, according to an interview published Wednesday by the Islamic State group. The interview with al-Barnawi indicates a major shift in strategy for the Nigerian extremists, who have killed many more Muslims than Christians in attacks in mosques with suicide bombers and gunmen. There have also been attacks... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Each identical triplet is so tiny she can fit in her father's hand -- and soon these rare medical wonders in Oregon will have painted toenails so the new parents can tell them apart. The infants -- who respectively weighed 2 pounds, 12 ounces; 3 pounds, 11 ounces and 2 pounds, 15 ounces -- are in the neonatal intensive care unit at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland. The mass turned out to be a cyst the size of a basketball and Hills had surgery to remove the ovary and the cyst while she was pregnant.

[...] Young, 36, of Fairfax, Va., is the first law-enforcement officer in the U.S. to be charged with a terror-related crime, after prosecutors say he bought about $250 worth of gift cards in an FBI sting for someone he thought was working with the Islamic State. Young was arrested Wednesday at Metro Transit Police headquarters in Washington and charged with a single count of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist group. According to an FBI affidavit, Young bought the gift cards... Читать дальше...

After-school religious clubs appear to be the next venture of a national group that sought to install a statue of Satan outside two state capitols to protest Christian monuments on public grounds. The Satanic Temple contacted nine public school districts across the country this week seeking to start after-school Satan programs. Mat Staver, founder of a Christian legal aid group that has represented the Child Evangelism Fellowship, said Greaves’ organization was illegitimate and an “atheist group masquerading” as religious. Читать дальше...

The Professional Staff Congress says the agreement with the CUNY administration includes 10.4 percent in compounded salary increases covering more than seven years, retroactive pay and job security and health care provisions for adjunct faculty.

Austin Aaron has decided to retire from football and focus on school, the Cal wide receiver announced Thursday on Twitter. “I know people will say you are giving up a dream, but I have found different dreams and passions that I promise I will pursue with everything I got,” Aaron wrote. A three-star recruit coming out of Napa High School, Aaron redshirted last season. Though the Bears lost their top six receivers from last year, Aaron was still listed fourth at one of the outside receiver spots on the preseason depth chart.

Authorities say the Canadian woman was killed July 8 when the ARC inflator ruptured and sent metal shrapnel into the passenger compartment of 2009 Hyundai Elantra she was driving. NHTSA said it is focusing on determining the entire population of ARC inflators in the U.S., which it estimates at 8 million mainly in older vehicles made by General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Hyundai and Kia. According to NHTSA, the Elantra in the Newfoundland crash had an ARC inflator that was made in China, but it's unknown... Читать дальше...

Samsung’s 360-degree camera, the Gear 360, is finally going to be available to the public soon. The camera was originally announced more than five months ago; however, up until this point it hasn’t been widely in the United States. This week at its launch event for the Note 7, Samsung announced that it will be

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a slow start, it appears increasingly likely that the Obama administration will hit its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States before the end of September. If the pace from June and July continues this month, the target should be reached with a couple weeks to spare before Obama heads to the United Nations to urge world leaders to admit more refugees and to increase funding for relief organizations. Obama would have been hard-pressed to make the... Читать дальше...

Scientists say they may have found a sort of magic ingredient to prevent asthma in children: microbes from farm animals, carried into the home in dust. The results of their research, published on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, were so convincing that they raised the possibility of developing a spray to do the same thing for children who do not have regular contact with cows and horses. It is a pressing problem because as many as 10.6 percent of grade-school children have asthma... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group backed by the billionaire Koch Brothers announced Thursday it is getting back into the Wisconsin Senate race with an ad buy on behalf of GOP incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson, just two weeks after canceling ad reservations in the state. A spokesman for the group, Freedom Partners Action Fund, cited "some shifts in the polls" in explaining the new $1 million buy boosting Johnson's record on veterans' issues, and attacking Democrat Russ Feingold. The group's earlier decision to... Читать дальше...

(AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education has approved a total of $7.2 million in additional state aid to 31 public school districts. Legislators financed the "extraordinary needs" aid with proceeds from selling off an economic development agency's assets.

Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek grabbed headlines last year by showing how they could kill a Jeep Cherokee's engine while it was traveling down a highway. The news prompted an embarrassing recall of 1.4 million Jeeps and other vehicles by parent company Fiat Chrysler. In front of a packed lecture hall at the Black Hat hacker conference on Thursday in Las Vegas, the pair demonstrated how they could again take control of the same 2014 Jeep Cherokee they hacked the year before. Fiat Chrysler said... Читать дальше...

Regent Katie Mulholland, who is leading the board's presidential search, says AGB has "a proven track record of assisting with successful searches in a timely and efficient manner."

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania investigators said Thursday they charged six people after recovering more than a quarter ton of cocaine from a Philadelphia warehouse and two vehicles. The arrest report said officers followed a vehicle leaving the warehouse Monday night to a parking lot, watched as the driver met with occupants of another vehicle, then stopped both and searched them.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia is urging residents not to swim in dumpsters after a rented trash bin was filled with fire hydrant water and transformed into a pool. The Department of Licenses and Inspections issued a statement saying the city won't issue permits for block party dumpster pools.

Through no fault of their own, the athletes who will march in massed, joyful ranks behind their nations' flags in Friday night's opening ceremony for the first Olympic Games in South America shoulder expectations beyond their own ambitions for gold, silver, bronze and personal bests. [...] no feat of theirs, or the other 10,500 Olympians, between the first medal awards on Saturday and the Aug. 21 closing ceremony will paste over recent horrors of 84 people murdered with a truck in Nice or the shooting... Читать дальше...

When Starbucks and JPMorgan Chase last month separately revealed plans to raise worker pay, they were the most recent in a steady barrage of high-profile announcements of companies’ human resources strategies. News releases and social media posts trumpeting generous parental leave policies, unlimited vacation time, flexible work arrangements and revamped performance-management systems have become as reliable as earnings statements, reflecting a scramble to retain and attract talent in a tightening labor market. Читать дальше...

The U.S. Attorney for Kansas said in a release that a grand jury Wednesday indicted Goran Sabah Ghafour of Lawrence on charges alleging he falsely claimed on a visa application that he served as a translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq. Court document show Ghafour's accused of submitting fake letters about his service for the U.S. military when he applied for a visa while he was a graduate assistant in the university's journalism department.