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Israel minister suspended after calling nuking Gaza an option

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “one of the possibilities,” the government announced on Sunday.“Eliyahu’s statements are not based in reality,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on X.Israel and its military “are operating in accordance with the highest standards of international law to avoid harming innocents,” the prime minister added.A member of the ultra-nationalist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, Eliyahu earlier on Sunday claimed in a radio interview that since there were “no non-combatants in Gaza,” using an atomic weapon on the Palestinian enclave was “one of the possibilities.”Eliyahu later sought to rectify his statement, saying it was “clear to all sensible people” that his reference to nuclear weapons had been “metaphorical.”Opposition le...

Police investigating South Boston shooting that left victim with life-threatening injuries

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

Boston police are investigating an early morning shooting in South Boston that left a man hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, police said.Officers responding to a reported shooting on Gavin Way around 1 a.m. found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds.No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Nice today, cooler overnight

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

Hope you all got to enjoy that extra hour of sleep as Daylight Saving Time came to an end overnight. Today, will be another great day to get outside with mild afternoon temperatures. Cooler air works in overnight and is with us tomorrow. A cold front has been to our north and provided us with cloud cover this weekend. It will work across our region today. We stay dry but get some more clouds as it slides through and a shift in our wind direction by later today. We won’t feel the cooler air until tomorrow morning. It’ll be a chilly start in MetroWest. Along the coast there will be a slight breeze and temperatures should stay closer to 40. Tomorrow temperatures will be close to 50/low 50s. More mild Tuesday with some morning showers. Then temperatures drop Wednesday and Thursday into the upper 40s. Scattered showers Thursday.I’ll just leave this note about our sunrise and sunset changes into December for you here…-Meteorologist Melanie Black

Police respond to violent crash in Nubian Square in Boston

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

Police responded to a violent crash in Nubian Square in Boston early Sunday morning.Video from the scene showed a damaged sedan against a utility pole.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Virginia school board elections face a pivotal moment as a cozy corner of democracy turns toxic

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The “crossroads of the Civil War,” as Virginia’s Spotsylvania County calls itself, is once again a cauldron of hostilities, this time minus the muskets.Within range of four devastating battles that laid waste to tens of thousands of lives, 21st century culture wars rage. The stakes hardly compare to such tragic losses, but feelings run fever high.Dirty tricks spill out; political struggles are taken to the extreme.The principal flashpoint: school board meetings. And not just here. A long tradition of doing prosaic but vital work has sunk into chaos and poisonous confrontation across the United States. The lower rungs of democracy are cracking.In Tuesday’s elections in Virginia, the far right is fighting to gain control of more local offices — often school boards — while the left claws back with cries of “fascism.”“Just bananas,” a Spotsylvania School Board candidate with Democratic support says of the local fight over education. “So far out of hand,” agree...

MTO employee struck, critically injured in Hwy. 400 crash

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

A Ministry of Transportation (MTO) employee is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 400 in the Holland Marsh area.Provincial police say they responded to a crash in the southbound lanes of the highway near Line 5 just before 3 a.m. Sunday.The MTO employee was assisting police in setting up lane closures in the area when they were struck from behind by another vehicle around 7 a.m.The worker was taken to a trauma centre in Toronto with life-threatening injuries.Police say the vehicle that struck the worker remained on scene.

Ship traffic ramps up through the Northwest Passage as Arctic ice retreats

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

MONTREAL — Michael Wenger still remembers the patches of blood red and vivid violet that daub the landscape of the Northwest Passage.“People usually think it’s ice and glaciers and rocks. And then you get there and you see these meadows, with all the different plants,” he said, speaking by phone from Reykjavik, Iceland, where he was attending an Arctic Circle Assembly conference.“It’s very colourful,” said Wenger, CEO of Polar Journal AG, who worked as an expedition guide on a northern cruise vessel in 2016.A growing number of people are now getting to witness those vibrant tundras first-hand. The same climate shifts that affect Arctic flora have also forced a massive retreat in Arctic sea ice — even in the passage, where geography and wind currents freeze the waters for a longer period of the year than in other parts of the Far North.“It’s happening at a crazy rate,” said Bernard Funston, former chairman of the Canadian Polar Commission.In step with the melt, more and more sh...

16-year-old boy, 2 others injured after shooting in Gage Park

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

CHICAGO -- A 16-year-old boy and two other individuals were injured after a shooting on the city's Southwest Side Saturday night.According to police, the victims were standing in the street near the 5100 block of South Christina Avenue around 11:17 p.m. when a male offender approached and fired shots at them.A 20-year-old woman was transported to Holy Cross Hospital with a graze wound to the left thigh. She is listed in good condition. ‘We are all pretty upset about it’: Neighbor shocked after 10-year-old shot while inside home on South Side A 24-year-old man was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital with a graze wound to the abdomen. A 16-year-old boy was also transported to University of Chicago Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the left leg. He is in fair condition.There is currently no one in custody and police are investigating the incident.

1 dead, child injured following serious collision near COTA, ATCEMS confirms

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — One person died Sunday morning following a serious collision in southeastern Travis County.The Travis County Sheriff's Office said it was responding to the crash, which happened on Farm-to-Market Road 812 near Circuit of the Americas Boulevard.According to Austin-Travis County EMS, one person died at the scene, a child was taken to the hospital with potentially serious injuries, and another person refused transport.In a 6:46 a.m. social media post, TCSO officials said road and lane closures were expected to last several hours.

Unseasonably warm ahead of next rain chance

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:35 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Dense fog is reducing visibility in parts of Central Texas this morning -- be sure to factor in extra time to allow for slower speeds if out on the roads early.Dense Fog Advisory in effect until 10AM for visibility 1/4 mile or lessMainly cloudy skies will stretch overhead today as afternoon highs warm well above average. Temperatures in the 80s will return each day through through Wednesday, coming within 2° of record highs midweek.The warm, breezy and humid weather will come to an end Thursday with the arrival of our next cold front. Scattered to widespread rain, gusty north winds and cooler temperatures will blow in Thursday and likely hold through Friday. Early rainfall projections show 0.25"-0.75" of rain for areas along and east of I-35, and lighter amounts in the Hill Country.Next weather maker comes in the form of a cold front on Thursday BLOG: El Niño into 2024: What that means for winter and spring BLOG: NOAA releases winter forecast Austin Interact...