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An Israeli air strike targeted a senior Hezbollah leader in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Sunday, marking the first such attack without warning since last year’s ceasefire. The strike hit an apartment building in the densely populated Haret Hreik area of Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of the city. The Lebanese health ministry said one person was killed and 21 were wounded, though their identities have not been immediately released. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that the strike “in the heart of Beirut” targeted what he described as “Hezbollah’s chief of staff”. Israeli media identified the target as Haytham Ali Tabatabai,…

It’s natural to want to comfort a child when they’re crying. When parents see their kid hurting physically or emotionally, they often want to do anything in their power to stop their heartache. As a dual certified child life specialist and therapist, I’ve heard parents and even health care workers telling kids “don’t cry” while wiping away their tears during medical procedures and other difficult moments. It comes from a place of wanting to fix the hurt and make it all better. But it can make kids feel like their emotions and tears aren’t okay, especially when they’re in pain or distress. Instead,…

President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his White House campaign that if he won the 2024 election, he would be able to end the war between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours.” But in the 10 months since he took office, the road to a peace deal has been fraught with changing dynamics involving the American leader, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.Trump’s rhetoric toward both men has evolved. It continues to do so. At the outset of his second term in January, Trump was conciliatory toward Putin, for whom he long has shown admiration. Over time,…

Oregon returned to the top five of The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday, five Atlantic Coast Conference teams were ranked for the second time this season and Georgia Tech took the biggest fall after its second loss in three games.Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M remained the top three teams for a sixth straight week, and Georgia was No. 4 for the second week in a row.Oregon jumped over idle Mississippi to No. 5, its highest ranking since it was No. 3 in the Oct. 5 poll. The Ducks strengthened their College Football Playoff resume with a…

Amina AlTai has always been a high achiever.As a child of immigrants, she was told to “keep your head down, work really hard, and if you do that, you’ll have everything you want,” she tells CNBC Make It.Her early career looked “great on paper,” she says: AlTai opened her own marketing agency in her late 20s, and says she was “achieving all the milestones” of success.At the same time, she was overworking herself to the point of illness, she says. One day, while driving to a client meeting, she got a call from her physician. “My doctor called to say…

Aston Villa came from behind to beat Leeds 2-1 at Elland Road to lift themselves into the Premier League’s top four.Morgan Rogers continues to typify Villa’s impressive resurgence after a winless start to the campaign, taking until matchweek five to even score a goal, and netted twice in a second-half turnaround in Yorkshire. Leeds were good value for their lead after Lukas Nmecha benefitted from a hashed clearance from Ezri Konsa in the eighth minute, and showed plenty of intent to inflict further damage via Brenden Aaronson, who flashed an effort wide before drawing a decent save from Emiliano Martinez.…

Florentino Perez hit out at LaLiga president Javier Tebas, rivals Barcelona, Spain’s referees and UEFA in a combative speech at Real Madrid’s annual general meeting, while insisting the club will “win the next battles” on the Super League.Around 1500 representatives of Madrid’s 98,000 members participated in Sunday’s meeting at the club’s Valdebebas training ground, approving its annual accounts, and quizzing the board.In an 80-minute intervention, Perez criticised the league’s failed plan to hold a regular-season game in Miami, attacked changes in Spanish refereeing as “cosmetic” in the aftermath of the Negreira case, and said he was “more convinced than ever”…

A travelers check flight information at LAX as the shutdown passes the one-month mark, leaving essential workers unpaid in Los Angeles, California, on November 5, 2025. Grace Hie Yoon | Anadolu | Getty ImagesU.S. airlines are predicting another record Thanksgiving holiday travel period and are upbeat now that the travel-snarling government shutdown has ended.Airlines will carry more than 31 million people between Friday, Nov. 21, and Monday, Dec. 1, Airlines for America, a lobbying group representing the largest U.S. carriers, predicted Thursday. The busiest days are expected to be the Sunday after Thanksgiving, with about 3.4 million people flying, followed…

Even as the U.S. economy adds jobs, there are fewer employment prospects for college graduates just starting out, as those armed with a newly minted diploma are facing one of the toughest job markets in a decade, studies show.”Right now is a really difficult time to find a job,” Cory Stahle, senior economist at Indeed Hiring Lab, told CNBC.By many measures, the labor market is still relatively strong. The U.S. economy added more jobs than expected in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, the overall unemployment rate edged up to 4.4%, and for younger workers, ages 16 to 24, unemployment was…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Build AI Day in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024.Adek Berry | AFP | Getty ImagesOn Microsoft’s earnings call last month, CEO Satya Nadella boasted about the company’s artificial intelligence products, and said over 150 million people are using its Copilot assistant for productivity, cybersecurity, coding and other endeavors.But conversations with IT buyers at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in San Francisco this week highlighted some of the hurdles the company must overcome as it tries to sell its AI chatbot in the enterprise market.”I know a lot of customers who are like, ‘Yeah, I…