Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would “permanently bury the idea of a Palestinian state.

Israel’s far-right finance minister says a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead, a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts.

Peter Wang, killed in the 2018 Parkland shooting at the age of 15, was an honorary member of the West Point class of 2025.

The slaying of Deonte Alexander led to Cleveland police shooting an armed suspect Wednesday on East 73rd Street and Clark Avenue.

The bronze sculpture of three women lifting a bowl of fruit aloft, gifted to Kansas City in 2013 by its sister city, Morelia, Mexico, has been “gathering dust” for 12 years. It’s time for it to go up.

West Ham United have tabled a £42 million bid for Chelsea midfielder Andrey Santos, according to Diario AS journalist Eduardo Burgos.West Ham want reinforcements in the middle of the park at the

Due to personal and family health concerns, Powell has announced her retirement for later this year. Officially, she will take family and medical leave through the fall, and retire in December. In the meantime, Libby Huettl, formerly the principal at Somerset Elementary School in Mendota Heights, will serve as interim principal at Garlough.

An American crow in Walnut Creek was found to be the second bird infected with West Nile Virus, according to the Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District.