TEL AVIV — A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was delayed from going into effect Sunday morning in the Gaza Strip after Israeli officials said Hamas had yet to provide a list of names of the hostages it planned to release under the truce deal agreed days ago. The ceasefire deal was expected to take effect at 8:30 a.m. local time (1:30 a.m. ET). But Israel Defense Forces spokesman Rear...
In one of the wildest playoff games in years, the Washington Commanders outlasted the Detroit Lions to move onto the NFC Championship.
WASHINGTON — TikTok was not available for many of its 170 million users in the U.S. hours before a ban on the popular social media platform was supposed to officially go into effect. TikTok greeted some users opening the app Saturday night with the message, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now.” “A law banning TikTok...
Kansas City Chiefs punter Matt Araiza intentionally tiptoed out of the end zone Saturday to surrender a safety, which added meaningless points to the scoreboard but shook the gambling world. Araiza’s end zone surrender — which put the finishing touches on Kansas City’s 23-14 playoff victory over the Houston Texans — settled wagers from Las...
Preparations are underway as an arctic blast dives into the nation’s interior and southern regions and pushes a snowstorm into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast that will be followed by lethal cold. In key messages on the icy atmosphere, the National Weather Service said today that it would produce “the coldest air of the season thus...
The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure. She has multiple chronic health problems, including heart failure, and uses an oxygen tank at home. But her request for supplemental oxygen while hospitalized...
President-elect Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is considering a visit to the war-torn Gaza Strip as part of his efforts to keep a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on track, according to a transition official with direct knowledge of the ceasefire process. Underscoring just how fragile the president-elect’s team believes...
WASHINGTON — No matter what path President-elect Donald Trump takes to the Capitol rotunda before he says his oath on Monday, he’s guaranteed to pass sites of chaos, violence and destruction wrought by supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. If Trump comes through the Senate carriage entrance, as he did en route...
The NFL postseason’s divisional round is here with two intriguing matchups today: Houston Texans at Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Commanders at Detroit Lions. C.J. Stroud’s team is a massive underdog on the road at Arrowhead Stadium, but after an up-and-down season the quarterback has been playing well as of late. Will it be enough...
TikTok is set to “go dark” on Sunday for its 170 million American users after the Supreme Court upheld a law that would ban the app that same day in the United States. In April, President Joe Biden signed a law requiring TikTok — owned by the Chinese company ByteDance — to sell the popular social...