Critics slam development: "They're trying to screw over veterans."

The United Nations Security Council has demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages as the United States abstained from the vote. The remaining 14 council members voted for the resolution on Monday.

The U.S. abstained from the vote on a resolution calling for a halt to fighting in Gaza for the month of Ramadan‚ breaking a five-month impasse. The Security Council vote followed months of wrangling and vetoes of several earlier resolutions. Israel’s defense minister will meet several senior U.S. officials. Here’s how a disaster relief group built a jetty to get aid into Gaza. Missing people under Gaza’s rubble make for a shadow death toll.

A New York appeals court on Monday paused for 10 days a massive civil business fraud judgment against Donald Trump — and sharply reduced to $175 million the bond amount he will have to post to obtain a longer stay of that award. The ruling came the same day that New York Attorney General Letitia James would have been allowed to start seizing the former president’s real estate assets and bank accounts to satisfy the $454 million-and-rising judgment after he failed to obtain an appeal bond...

An appeals court slashed former President Trump's bond payment on Monday‚ saying Trump must pay $175 million within the next 10 days. Trump had previously faced a Monday deadline to pay a $464 million bond payment that came as a result of civil fraud allegations from New York Attorney General Letitia James. A New York Appeals Court‚ hours before the deadline to post the $464 million‚ lowered that bond considerably. The court ordered that Trump post $175 million within 10 days. ...

With Donald J. Trump on the clock to secure a nearly half-billion-dollar bond in his civil fraud case‚ a New York appeals court appears to have handed the former president a lifeline on Monday‚ saying it would accept a far smaller bond of $175 million. The ruling by a five-judge panel of appellate court judges was a crucial and unexpected victory for the former president‚ potentially staving off a looming financial disaster. Had the court denied his request — and had he failed to obtain the...

Four years on from the first Covid lockdown‚ life feels to be largely back to normal‚ although legacies of the pandemic remain. Collective amnesia seems to have set in. Politicians seem eager to move forward and not relive the decisions‚ delays and deaths that characterised public policy and press briefings. Yet we can’t forget such a brutal event‚ when Covid is estimated to have killed nearly 16 million people worldwide in 2020 and 2021‚ and caused life expectancy to decline in 84%...

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