Israel orders 1 million Gaza residents to evacuate south

Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as “Shout” and “Twist and Shout” and the funky hits “That Lady” and “It’s Your Thing,” has died at age 84.

Facing painful choices, Israel will likely have to place a higher priority on striking a military blow against Hamas than rescuing all the hostages held in Gaza.

A dominant mother bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve has been crowned Fat Bear Week’s queen of corpulence.

A special grand jury in Virginia indicted a former police officer on Thursday for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a suburban shopping mall.

Presidential candidates looking to get on New Hampshire’s primary ballot are heading to the state Capitol for a traditional rite of passage.

A Colorado jury convicted one of two officers charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black pedestrian who was put in a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative, and acquitted the other officer on Thursday.

A Florida man who was accused of locking his adopted 14-year-old son in a small structure in a garage was convicted on child abuse and other charges Thursday, according to court records.

Gaza is home to two million Palestinians and 40 percent of them are under the age of 15. As Israel’s airstrikes slam the region where there are no air defenses, the United Nations is sounding the alarm about a growing humanitarian crisis. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports on human rights groups calling for civilians to be allowed to leave.

In the nearly 25 years after Julie Jensen was found dead in her home in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, her husband Mark Jensen was convicted of poisoning her twice.