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An 81-year-old Daly City, California, grandmother is suing the U.S. secretaries of State and Defense, claiming they are violating the U.S. Constitution by not evacuating Palestinian Americans from besieged Gaza. A relative of the woman, Dina Bseiso, a Bay Area resident, said her family is disappointed that the U.S. government “has left one of our own family members stranded” despite her U.S. citizenship. “When we are lucky enough to get her on the phone, she tells us how scared she is that by the time she is evacuated it’ll be too late for her.” The woman tried to cross into Egypt from Gaza in......

NEW YORK — Embattled New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was hit with a damning new charge Thursday in his Manhattan case, alleging he conspired to act as an unregistered agent for the Egyptian government behind the scenes as the powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The explosive development comes weeks after Menendez and his wife, Nadine, were accused of bribery and corruption offenses for allegedly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from three New Jersey businessmen in the form of gold bullion bars, stacks of cash, and a sports car in exchange for advancing co......

NEW YORK — When it’s hot out, Shalisa Richardson likes to take her two young girls from their Bed-Stuy home to the McCarren Pool. On her most recent trip, Richardson noticed something different: Just outside the pool area, migrants were coming in and out of the rec center. She’s protective of her daughters and is worried about the male asylum seekers. She’s reconsidering the family pool visits. New York is at the center of a global migration crisis, and the front lines are creeping to locals’ pools, parks, senior centers and soccer fields. More than a year after buses from the southern border ......

The king of the legal thriller is coming back — and he’s bringing a fan favorite with him. John Grisham has written a sequel to his smash-hit novel “The Firm,” which will also see character Mitch McDeere return as the protagonist. “The Exchange: After The Firm” is scheduled to be released by Doubleday on Oct. 17. Published in 1991, “The Firm” was Grisham’s second novel and quickly became a bestseller. It kicked off a series of legal thrillers, mostly set in the American South, including “A Time to Kill,” “Runaway Jury” and others, many of which were later turned into movies. The first novel wa......

PHILADELPHIA — Harrath Araissi, 47, is a native of Tunisia but lives in Fishtown and considers himself a true Philadelphian now — and the Mummers are as integral to the city as the Liberty Bell, he says. "I come almost every year," Arraisi said as he pushed his son, Rayyan, 4, in a stroller at the Mummers Parade Sunday morning. "It's so much fun. It's part of Philly." Arraisi attended in 2022, and said it was cold and the crowd was sparse. He noted the thousand more that lined Broad Street this year. He staked out a spot at Broad and Chestnut Streets. Indeed, multiple Mummers said it appeared ......

Pope Francis has joined the global community in mourning the dozens of migrants found dead inside a trailer truck abandoned in Texas amid sweltering temperatures. “Let us #PrayTogether for these brothers and sisters who died following their hope of a better life; and for ourselves, may the Lord might open our hearts so these misfortunes never happen again,” the Pontiff tweeted. On Monday, a San Antonio city worker heard soft cries for help coming from a rig parked along Quintana road, between railroad tracks and salvage yards. At least 50 people, all of them believed to have been smuggled into......