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Andrés dismissed Israel's explanation in his interview, telling ABC News: "Every time something happens, we cannot just be bringing Hamas into the equation."

Andrés' interview came on the six-month anniversary of Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which launched the war in Gaza.

The United States is pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government over the rising number of civilian deaths in Gaza. Some officials have suggested cutting off aid to Israel in an effort to forge a cease-fire.

Investigators are treating a fire in Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office Friday night as arson, according to local authorities.

In an updated press release Saturday afternoon, the Burlington Fire Department announced that it had “deemed this fire incendiary in nature” and said the investigation has been transferred to the Vermont State Police.

State police said they are looking for one male suspect who is believed to have used a possible accelerant to start a “significant fire” in an area of the senator’s office that endangered staff who were inside. According to the Burlington Fire Department, the sprinkler system doused the flames, and none of the staff members were injured.

As of Saturday afternoon, authorities did not release a motive for the attack.

Friday’s fire follows a series of smaller violations — that have otherwise been limited to stickers and spray-paint vandalism — at the offices of other lawmakers in recent months.

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Shoppers across large swaths of the country are mourning the bargains they'll soon never bag again behind the bright-pink-branded storefronts.

99 Cents Only Stores — a discount chain with stores in California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada — is winding down its business operations at all 371 locations, the company said Thursday.

After more than four decades in business, the chain has succumbed to financial pressures affecting many retail spaces coming out of the pandemic, including inflation and shrinkage — a term for inventory losses due to factors such as shoplifting, employee error and product damage.

"This was an extremely difficult decision and is not the outcome we expected or hoped to achieve," said interim CEO Mike Simoncic in a company news release.

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Iowa's 71-69 victory over UConn at the women's Final Four on Friday night averaged 14.2 million viewers on ESPN, making it the most-viewed women's basketball game on record and the largest audience for an ESPN basketball broadcast.

The previous women's hoops mark was 12.3 million for last Monday's Iowa-LSU game in the Elite Eight. Game 7 of the 2018 Eastern Conference finals between Cleveland and Boston was ESPN's most-watched basketball game at 13.51 million.

That also makes it one of the most-viewed games in any sport other than college football and the NFL over the past couple years. Last year's NCAA men's title game between San Diego State and UConn averaged 14.79 million.

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The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) has requested a temporary injunction barring the state of Tennessee from enforcing its near-total abortion ban. The ban’s only exceptions include if the mother’s life or health is threatened by the pregnancy or if the fetus is not expected to survive.

The Tennessee Attorney General’s office asked that the case be dismissed because the argument presented by the plaintiffs lacks merit and the Tennessee state constitution does not guarantee any right to an abortion.

The panel — Judge Sandra Donaghy, Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal and Chancellor Kasey Culbreath  — will issue a ruling after they’ve deliberated over the arguments presented. The two sides spoke for over eight hours on Thursday.

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Russia has been accused of systematically using illegal chemical gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers.

Ukrainian troops told the Daily Telegraph that they have been subjected to regular attacks from small drones dropping teargas and other chemicals.

The use of such substances, which is known as CS, is banned during wartime under the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Moscow was accused of using chemical weapons in a drone assault on the port of Mariupol in the early stages of its invasion in February 2022.

Slava, a senior lieutenant whose unit is deployed near Lyman, in Donetsk oblast, said some Ukrainian units in his area were coming under “almost daily” gas attacks.

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Donald Trump’s speeches on the 2024 campaign trail so far have been focused on a laundry list of complaints, largely personal, and an increasingly menacing tone.

He’s on the campaign trail less these days than he was in previous cycles – and less than you’d expect from a guy with dedicated superfans who brags about the size of his crowds every chance he gets. But when he has held rallies, he speaks in dark, dehumanizing terms about migrants, promising to vanquish people crossing the border. He rails about the legal battles he faces and how they’re a sign he’s winning, actually. He tells lies and invents fictions. He calls his opponent a threat to democracy and claims this election could be the last one.

Sunday marks six months since the start of the 2023 Israel-Hamas war, which began Oct. 7 after Hamas militants launched a barrage of rockets, breached security fencing and fanned out into the countryside surrounding the Gaza Strip, killing about 1,200 people in Israel's deadliest day since its 1948 founding. Militants kidnapped more than 200 people within hours, taking them to Gaza as hostages.

The response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli military was swift; airstrikes rained on Gaza within hours. A declaration of war came the next day, and with it a siege of the Gaza Strip.

The enclave of more than 2 million people has largely been sealed off since the war began; so too has critical access to water, electricity, food and medicine, leaving most of the population displaced and more than half facing catastrophic hunger, according to a U.N.-backed report. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been reported killed in Gaza according to the Ministry of Health.

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