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NEW & DEVELOPING . . Adds: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-BRAZIL, CALIFORNIA-STORMS, HKN-PENGUINS-JAGR-JERSEY, HKN-RANGERS-ISLANDERS, NASCAR-DAYTONA-500-CELEBRITY-FLAVOR. . . TOP STORIES . . ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is brushing off growing calls to halt the military offensive in Gaza and vowing to finish the job..

WORLD-COURT-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS The United Nations highest court opens historic hearings into the legality of Israels 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict..

Game starts at 8 p.m. . . ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR . . ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-BRAZIL Israel has condemned Brazils president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II..

GERMANY-SECURITY-CONFERENCE-UKRAINE A Republican opponent of new U.S. funding for Ukraine has argued at an international security conference that the package stuck in Congress wouldnt fundamentally change the reality on the ground and that Russia has an incentive to negotiate peace..

The trio of Sunshine State celebrities brought a dose of star power to Sundays scheduled race day that was washed out by rain. . ELECTION 2024-REPUBLICANS-TRANS ISSUES For Republican presidential candidates, transgender-related issues have become perhaps the biggest rallying call to Christian conservatives, more so than abortion rights or same-sex marriage..

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