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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Naked, hungry, raped and lying in her own urine, the woman said her captors after two days of misery handed her a phone. Call your friends and family, they said. Tell them to buy your freedom or you’ll be killed. The 38-year-old said she screamed on the calls as horrified loved ones listened to her being tortured in a remote village in western Sudan. Now safely […]

By David Morgan WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks won renomination in Iowa’s first congressional district on Tuesday, positioning the incumbent congresswoman for her third general election contest against Democrat Christina Bohannan. Miller-Meeks, a 70-year-old physician and three-term House Republican, defeated MAGA Republican challenger David Pautsch, according to U.S. media reports. Democrat Bohannan overcame Travis Terrell to clinch her party’s nomination, media projected. Miller-Meeks is one […]

PAJU, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of Korean adoptees from North America and Europe recently gathered to leave their names on a wall at a former U.S. military base, hoping that, after decades, a birth mother might still be looking for them. Misted in rain, they fastened ceramic nametags onto mesh that covered a cobblestone wall at Omma Poom Park — meaning “mother’s embrace” — in Paju, South Korea. More […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is running for reelection in Alaska and faces a field of 15 competitors. One of them is Dan Sullivan. The senator told reporters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that he thinks the appearance on the state’s primary ballot of another Republican with the same name is a dirty political trick coordinated by Democrats and the campaign of his chief rival for […]

Israeli Source Denies President Trump Insulted Netanyahu   By The Media Line Staff   An Israeli source denies that US President Donald Trump used vulgarities and insulted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday over the Lebanon conflict, contrary to an Axios report.    “Trump did not get into personal insults with Netanyahu,” the Israeli source familiar with the matter said, adding that the tense exchange focused  on “the statements by each side” after the conversation.   […]

IDF Says It Killed Hamas Commander Involved in Hersh Goldberg-Polin Kidnapping   By The Media Line Staff   An Israeli military operation in Gaza has killed a Hamas commander accused of participating in the October 7 abduction of four hostages from a roadside shelter near Re’im Junction, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced.   The military identified him as Yousef Ayesh Awad Ramadan, a commander in Hamas’s Nukhba force. According to the IDF, Ramadan took part in […]

Hezbollah Rejects Ceasefire Plan as Israel-Lebanon Talks Begin   By The Media Line Staff   Lebanon and Israel began their fifth round of peace talks since April at the US State Department in Washington, DC, as fighting between Hezbollah and Israel continued despite a declared truce announced Monday night.   The negotiations are taking place amid continued exchanges of fire and after a senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday that the group would refuse […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Short of winning the Super Bowl, Myles Garrett did almost everything a defensive player can do in his first nine seasons in the NFL. Now a member of a Los Angeles Rams team favored to raise the Lombardi Trophy next February, Garrett is ready to fill the one glaring hole in his football resume. “Since the very beginning, it’s always been about winning. … And to […]

SEATTLE (AP) — A portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board a research vessel and motor off the Oregon coast to pull a research buoy from deep out of the Pacific. The buoy 80 meters (260 feet) below the water’s surface will be removed June 16 from the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a network of more than […]