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For years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency has sent millions of dollars each month to Gaza to pay employees and support hospitals, schools and other infrastructure. The money is wired from New York, where the agency has an office, to the West Bank, where the cash is loaded…

Mr. Trump’s supporters, by contrast, often project serene confidence about how their candidate will perform against Mr. Biden. Mr. Trump “is going to eat him up and spit him out,” said Maria Tiernan, 80, a retiree who saw the former president speak at a rally on Saturday in Philadelphia. “I’m…

Some Wall Street banks, worried that landlords of vacant and struggling office buildings won’t be able to pay off their mortgages, have begun offloading their portfolios of commercial real estate loans hoping to cut their losses. It’s an early but telling sign of the broader distress brewing in the commercial…

President Biden on Monday forcefully condemned as antisemitic a pro-Palestinian demonstration that took place a day earlier at a synagogue in a Jewish area of Los Angeles. The situation turned violent when pro-Palestinian demonstrators and Israel supporters clashed on Sunday afternoon outside Adas Torah, a synagogue in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood…

Iranian officials insisted for decades that the law requiring women to cover their hair and dress modestly was sacrosanct and not even worth discussion. They dismissed the struggle by women who challenged the law as a symptom of Western meddling. Now, as Iran holds a presidential election this week, the…

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether a Tennessee law that bans certain medical treatments for transgender minors violates the Constitution. The move means the court will for the first time hear arguments on the issue of medical care for transgender youth. The Biden administration had asked the…

The White Clam Pizza at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Conn., is a revelation. The crust, kissed by the intense heat of the coal-fired oven, achieves a perfect balance of crispness and chew. Topped with freshly shucked clams, garlic, oregano and a dusting of grated cheese, it is…

In the decades that Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, abortion rights groups tried to shore up support for it by declaring “Abortion Is Health Care.” Only now, two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, and just six months before the presidential…

At least 15 law enforcement officers and four civilians were killed in two seemingly coordinated attacks by gunmen in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, Russian investigators said on Monday. Wielding rifles and Molotov cocktails, the attackers assaulted synagogues and Orthodox churches on Sunday night in two major cities of Dagestan,…

A fire at a lithium battery factory near Seoul​ on Monday killed 22 workers, most of them migrant laborers from China, in one of the deadliest blazes in South Korea in years, officials said. Officials said that rescuers were still searching the building in Hwaseong, 28 miles south of Seoul,…