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Israel Wednesday again closed the border crossings into the Gaza Strip in retaliation for rocket attacks from Gaza into the southern city of Sderot. Hamas called the move a violation of a truce, but urged Palestinian factions to hold their fire.

Colombia says it rescued three Americans and a French-Colombian politician from leftist FARC rebels who held them for years. John Otis, South America bureau chief for the Houston Chronicle, says all the former hostages are in reasonably good health.

President Obama and the Democrats scored another major legislative victory Thursday. The Senate passed a broad bill to overhaul financial regulations. The measure rewrites the rules for Wall Street to try to avoid crises like the 2008 economic meltdown. This time the Democrats got a little help from Republicans.

Record rainfall and high winds have caused flooding, power outages and evacuations across California's Bay Area. This comes as the state has been grappling with a two-year drought.

President Biden is under pressure from people in his own party who say he's not meeting the moment, saying he hasn't been forceful enough on gun legislation and the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

The move restores regulations guiding environmental reviews of big projects such as highways and pipelines that were scaled back by the Trump administration in a bid to fast-track the projects.

Scores of Iraqis -- mostly Sunni Arabs -- have been killed since Wednesday's bombing of a major Shiite shrine north of Baghdad. Sunni political leaders have withdrawn from talks on a new government and say they will not return until attacks on Sunnis by mobs of Shiite men are halted.

The West African nation of Mali is one of the impoverished countries that could benefit from the debt relief proposed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Economic development has been slow in Mali, but with debt forgiveness its potential for growth is rife.

An action thriller of a symphony, Mahler's First is piled high with ambition, self-reflection and fear. Conductor Marin Alsop shares her approach to Mahler's multilayered music.

The United States is not mad about soccer but it has some pretty dedicated fans — and they're up in arms over news that player Landon Donovan will not be going to the World Cup.