Palestinian children scrape a pot for leftover food after all meals were distributed at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)2025-05-12T10:14:27Z TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) The Gaza Strip will likely fall into famine if Israel doesnt lift its blockade and stop its military campaign, food security experts said in a stark warning on Monday.Nearly half a million Palestinians are facing possible starvation, living in catastrophic levels of hunger, and 1 million others can barely get enough food, according to findings by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises.The group said there is a high risk of outright famine if circumstances dont change. Israel has banned all food, shelter, medicine and any other goods from entering the Palestinian territory for the past 10 weeks, even as it carries out waves of airstrikes and ground operations. Gazas population of around 2.3 million people relies almost entirely on outside aid to survive, because Israels 19-month-old military campaign has wiped away most capacity to produce food inside the territory. Desperate scenes as food is running outFood supplies are emptying out dramatically. Communal kitchens handing out cooked meals are virtually the only remaining source of food for most people in Gaza now, but they too are rapidly shutting down for lack of stocks.Thousands of Palestinians crowd daily outside the public kitchens, pushing and jostling with their pots to receive lentils or pasta.We end up waiting in line for four, five hours, in the sun. It is exhausting, said Riham Sheikh el-Eid, waiting at a kitchen in the southern city of Khan Younis on Sunday. At the end, we walk away with nothing. It is not enough for everybody. The lack of a famine declaration doesnt mean people arent already starving, and a declaration shouldnt be a precondition for ending the suffering, said Chris Newton, an analyst for the International Crisis Group focusing on starvation as a weapon of war.The Israeli government is starving Gaza as part of its attempt to destroy Hamas and transform the strip, he said. Israel demands a new aid system The office of Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did not respond to a request for comment. The army has said that enough assistance entered Gaza during a two-month ceasefire that Israel shattered in mid-March when it relaunched its military campaign.Israel says the blockade aims to pressure Hamas to release the hostages it still holds. It says it wont let aid back in until a new system giving it control over distribution is in place, accusing Hamas of siphoning off supplies. The United States says it is working up a new mechanism that will start deliveries soon, but it has given no timeframe.The United Nations has so far refused to participate. It denies substantial diversion of aid is taking place and says the new system is unnecessary, will not meet the massive needs of Palestinians and will allow aid to be used as a weapon for political and military goals.Mondays report said that any slight gains made during the ceasefire have been reversed. Nearly the entire population of Gaza now faces high levels of hunger, it said, driven by conflict, the collapse of infrastructure, destruction of agriculture, and blockades of aid. Mahmoud Alsaqqa, food security and livelihoods coordinator for Oxfam, called on governments to press Israel to allow unimpeded humanitarian access. Silence in the face of this manmade starvation is complicity, he said. Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after the groups Oct. 7, 2023, surprise attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostage, most of whom have been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Israels offensive has killed over 52,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gazas Health Ministry, whose count does not distinguish between civilians or combatants. Three criteria for declaring famineThe Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, first set up in 2004 during the famine in Somalia, groups more than a dozen U.N. agencies, aid groups, governments and other bodies. It has only declared famine a few times in Somalia in 2011, and South Sudan in 2017 and 2020, and last year in parts of Sudans western Darfur region. Tens of thousands are believed to have died in Somalia and South Sudan.It rates an area as in famine when at least two of three things occur: 20% of households have an extreme lack of food, or are essentially starving; at least 30% of children six months to five years suffer from acute malnutrition or wasting, meaning theyre too thin for their height; and at least two people or four children under five per every 10,000 are dying daily due to starvation or the interaction of malnutrition and disease.The assessment on Monday found that the first threshold was met in Gaza, saying 477,000 people or 22% of the population are classified as in catastrophic hunger, the highest level, for the period from May 11 to the end of September. It said more than 1 million people are at emergency levels of hunger, the second highest level, meaning they have very high gaps in food and high acute malnutrition. The other thresholds were not met. The data was gathered in April and up to May 6. Food security experts say it takes time for people to start dying from starvation.The report said if the blockade and military campaign continues, the vast majority in Gaza will not have access to food or water, civil unrest will worsen, health services will fully collapse, disease will spread, and levels of malnutrition and death will cross the thresholds into famine. It had also warned of imminent famine in northern Gaza in March 2024, but the following month, Israel allowed an influx of aid under U.S. pressure after an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers. Aid groups now say the situation is the most dire of the entire war. The U.N. humanitarian office, known as OCHA, said Friday that the number of children seeking treatment at clinics for malnutrition has doubled since February, even as supplies to treat them are quickly running out. Aid groups have shut down food distribution for lack of stocks. Many foods have disappeared from the markets and whats left has spiraled in price and is unaffordable to most. Farmland is mostly destroyed or inaccessible. Water distribution is grinding to a halt, largely because of lack of fuel. Beth Bechdol, deputy director of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, said more than 75% of Gazas farmland had been damaged or destroyed, and two-thirds of the wells used for irrigation were no longer operating. The destruction, she said, is driving these large numbers of people closer towards the famine numbers that we think are possible. ___Follow APs war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war___AP correspondents Wafaa Shurafa in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Samy Magdy in Cairo and Sarah El Deeb in Beirut contributed to this report. SAM MEDNICK Mednick is an AP correspondent for Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She focuses on conflict, humanitarian crises and human rights abuses. Mednick formerly covered West & Central Africa and South Sudan. twitter

This morning I cruised through the streets of a scenic Maine town while classic country music played on the radio. Several of the 900 people in the backseat of the car on the day I hopped in counted pride flags as we passed them. Every time we came across an intersection, several of them would reach up and try to jerk the wheel onto a new road.This is the Internet Roadtrip, a pleasant cruising journey across America one Google Street View screenshot at a time. Anyone on the website is also on the road trip and can vote on where the car will go, what radio station to listen to, and whether or not to honk the horn. The site counts votes at every new section of Street View and makes a decision about where to take the car every nine seconds. Then, it moves a few feet forward.Its a road trip made entirely of backseat drivers, all jockeying to spin the wheel. A steering wheel at the bottom of the screen shifts from left to right as the votes come in, indicating the direction the car will take. A window in the upper right tallies the votes as they come in. Another window tells you the exact address of the car. The radio stations are pulled from internet streams near the cars location.The Internet Roadtrip began last Tuesday in Boston and is, as of this writing, tooling around Ogunquit, Maine. Developer Neal Agarwal told 404 Media he was inspired by Twitch Plays Pokmon and Reddits /r/Place. I think communal experiences on the internet are so fun, especially when theres some shared goal, he said. Ive had the idea of Twitch plays self-driving car for a long time, but thats probably not street legal so this is the next best thing.Theres a Discord server for the Internet Roadtrip where everyone tugging on the wheel can gather to discuss where to take the car. The chat from one of the servers channels runs along the side of the website. It makes it feel like the entire server is in the car with you, all of them yelling from the backseat.If we go off track I swear Ill explode into plastic fishes, says one user.Lef left left, another person says at an intersection.HIT THEM, another user says as some pedestrians appear on a nearby sidewalk.A round of users start spamming honk in chat, trying to get people to vote for it. The sound of a honk fills my headphones. They won.YES WE HONKED, one of the users says.This isnt a convenient way to travel. Tallying votes every few few feet slows down the trip and the car is only going about 3 MPH. So itll take a while to cross the country, Agarwal said.A big moment happened for the drivers a few days ago when it got a shoutout from WMUA 91.1 FM, a college radio station out of Amherst, Massachusetts while it was driving through the state. Someone from the Discord server called into the station, got on the air, and shared the project with the DJs. This is so cool, one of the DJs said on air.In the bottom left corner of the screen a map that shows the cars current location. As it moves across the country, it paints a red line to show where its been. The drivers lit out from Boston last week and cruised down to Providence before cutting west and heading north to Maine. People wanted to go to Woonsocket because it had a funny name. And then we were arguing about whether to go to New York City or to go to Maine. And Maine won out, the driver who called the radio station explained.In the Discord server, users are arguing about where to drive and attempting to find a route that will take them across the U.S. border into Canada via Street View. Its also really cool seeing the different route plans people are making, Agarwal said. Hitting all 50 states also seems to be a common goal. I like how people are interpreting the shapes on the map and someone also recorded a 30 hour timelapse.Back in Maine, repulsed users changed the station off of classic country when Deana Carters Strawberry Wine hit the airwaves. Users hit seek until it spun back around to a Maine-area college station, WBOR 91.1, where David Bowie Life on Mars.Get back on the highway to Canada, says one user.Its Canada time, says another, as the car navigates a tidy neighborhood in Maine.Someone asks how long until the car gets to Portland, Maine. 4 or 5 hours i think, we keep making a lot of detours though, someone says.Another person in the backseat says, at this pace, itll take the car a week to get to Canada.

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This undated photo released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum shows Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander, who was abducted and brought to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum via AP)2025-05-12T16:17:30Z JERUSALEM (AP) Edan Alexander was 19 when Hamas militants stormed the Israeli military base where the American-Israeli from New Jersey was a soldier and dragged him into the Gaza Strip.Hamas released Alexander, the last living American hostage in Gaza, on Monday ahead of President Donald Trumps visit to the region this week. The militant group called it a goodwill gesture aimed at reviving mediated efforts to end the 19-month war.Alexander was among 251 people taken hostage in Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war. Fifty-eight remain in Gaza. Around a third are believed to be alive. Most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.After Hamas announced on Sunday he would be released, Alexanders family said it received the greatest gift imaginable news that our beautiful son Edan is returning home after 583 days in captivity in Gaza. Alexanders parents flew to Israel on Monday. Trumps hostage negotiator, Adam Boehler, posted a picture on social media showing Alexanders mother, Yael, aboard the flight.A native of Tenafly, a suburb of New York City, Edan Alexander moved to Israel in 2022 after high school and enlisted in the military. Hamas militants seized him from his military base after he volunteered to stay there over the Jewish Sabbath. In a video Hamas released of Alexander over Thanksgiving weekend in November 2024, he cried and pleaded for help. Though the video was difficult to watch, his family said, it came as a relief to see he was alive. Hostages freed since then have given the family more news, his father said. Some said Alexander had lost a lot of weight. Others said hed been an advocate for fellow hostages, standing up for captive Thai workers and telling their captors that the workers werent involved in the conflict and should be freed.Alexander, like other male soldiers held in Gaza, was not included among hostages released during a ceasefire earlier this year. Hamas released 25 Israeli hostages and the bodies of eight others in January and February in return for nearly 1,800 Palestinian prisoners. The sight of some emaciated hostages among those freed brought fresh despair to families whose loved ones remained in Gaza. Hamas has said it will only release the remaining hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, along with the release of more Palestinian prisoners. Israel has rejected those terms, saying it will continue the war until all the hostages are freed and Hamas is defeated.Hamas said in March it would release Alexander and the bodies of four other hostages if Israel recommitted to the stalled ceasefire agreement. Alexanders father, Adi, said at the time he was speaking with Trumps hostage negotiators almost daily, pressing for his sons release.Days later, Israel shattered the truce with a surprise bombardment that killed hundreds of Palestinians. Israel called the renewed bombardment a tactic to pressure Hamas to negotiate different ceasefire terms. Hamas said the offensive puts remaining hostages at risk. In April, Hamas published another video of Alexander in which he spoke from a dark room. His family believes he has been held in Hamas vast tunnel network.Days later, Hamas said it had lost contact with the militants holding Alexander after an Israeli airstrike targeted their location. Israeli officials have not commented on the claim.The Alexander family Monday urged the Israeli government to continue efforts to free all the hostages a plea that other families have echoed since the Hamas announcement on Sunday.Please dont stop, Alexanders family said. We hope our sons release begins negotiations for all 58 remaining hostages, ending this nightmare for them and their families.___Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writer Sam Mednick in Tel Aviv contributed.___Follow APs war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war JULIA FRANKEL Frankel is an Associated Press reporter in Jerusalem. twitter mailto MELANIE LIDMAN Lidman is an Associated Press reporter based in Tel Aviv, Israel. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Less than a week from the start of the 2025 WNBA season, the newest member of the Chicago Sky family was announced to the world.Chicago Sky guard Courtney Vandersloot and her basketball star wife, Allie Quigley, revealed the birth of their first baby together in an exclusive with People.Although the happy couple waited until Mothers Day to break the news, Jana Christine Vandersloot Quigley was born on April 8."We are over the moon to welcome our baby girl to the world," Vandersloot, 36, and Quigley, 38, told the publication.See on Instagram"We have been dreaming of this moment for a long time, and its better than we could have ever imagined!" the pair continued.Vandersloot and Quigley, who are affectionately known as "VanderQuigs," may be making headlines today for expanding their personal team, but the lovebirds also wowed everyone when they became the first married couple to win a professional sports championship together in 2021.The photos from People show the basketball superstars holding baby Jana nicknamed "Jacey" and their dog while smiling at the camera, and in the second photo, they are looking down lovingly at their newest addition.See on InstagramVandersloot also posted a carousel of photos of Jana to her Instagram account in honor of her late mother on Mothers Day. The post included a photo of the baby girl posed asleep on a basketball and one of her wearing a pink lace dress, with a photo of Vandersloots mother. Quigley also posted another Ann Getty-style baby photo of Jana smiling while curled up in a nest-like basket.See on InstagramThe brand-new parents initially met while they were both playing basketball in Slovakia, and their teams ended up going head to head. After Quigleys team won and took home the championship, the two women ended up on the same flight back to the United States, where they were both about to start playing for the Chicago Sky.At first, they decided to just remain friends, but when the basketball season ended, they started dating. Vandersloot and Quigley tied the knot back in 2018, but kept their relationship out of the public eye for more than five years before announcing their marriage on Instagram.

Netflix just dropped the trailer for Ginny & Georgia Season 3, and things are getting darker in Wellsbury. Premiering globally on June 5, 2025, the new season promises more secrets, more drama, and higher stakes than ever before. Season 3 picks up where Season 2s jaw-dropping finale left off. Georgia (Brianne Howey) is arrested for murder during her wedding to Mayor Paul Randolph (ScottSource

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Starbase, home to SpaceXs private launch site, has voted to become an official Texas city. The Onion shares the perfect two-day itinerary for Starbase tourists.Day One9:30 a.m. Get started at the visitor centerFrom the airport, head straight to the Starbase Visitor Center, where you can book tours, buy souvenirs, and pick up a handy map showing which facilities your race is allowed to use.11 a.m. Check out Build-a-Son Workshop at Starbase MallGet in touch with your creative side by combining sperm and eggs to make your very own Elon Musk male progeny.2 p.m. Stroll through the farmers marketPick up a meal-replacement shake for lunch, or help yourself to one of the many free samples of artisanal monkey jerky.5:30 p.m. Rocket launchWatch that big fucker blow up.8 p.m. Movie nightHead to the drive-in theater to catch the nights programming, a video of Elon Musk walking into Twitter HQ carrying a sink, set to a loop for three and a half hours.1 a.m. The FeedingThe feeding begins.Day Two8 a.m. Rise and shineStart your day as the locals do by heading to the employee cafeteria, grabbing breakfast, and forcing a laugh at whatever Elon Musk does with a banana.12 p.m. Take an Aryan child sled rideEnjoy a relaxing ride through town on a sled pulled by six energetic 9-year-olds of pure Caucasian heritage.3 p.m. Pick up a souvenir Stop by town hall to purchase a copy of one of the many surveillance photos taken of you and your family during your visit.7 p.m. Cut loose with Rick And Morty quote karaokeHead to the local bar and participate in the time-honored tradition of shouting quotes from the animated series at the top of your lungs. 2:30 a.m. Awaken to screaming. Across the way, a waifish woman holding a baby hangs out a window yelling for help. Is thatGrimes?Yes! Good spot. 4 a.m. Come to bound and gagged inside a SpaceX test rocket The last thing you may remember is something hard hitting the back of your head. Its Starbase fun for the whole family. The post 48 Hours In Starbase appeared first on The Onion.

Robert Francis Prevost, known now as Leo XIV, will be the 267th occupant of the throne of St. Peter, the first American to fill the role of Pope. What do you think?Now all 340 million of us have somewhere to crash in Rome.Duncan Knight, Systems AnalystIf he can speak more than one language, hes not American.Seamus OConnor, Juice BottlerI thought walking out to Springsteen was a bit much.Kelly Chen, Squirrel WhispererThe post First American Pope Elected appeared first on The Onion.

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The first two episodes of RuPauls Drag Race All Stars 10 introduced us to a new tournament-style format (that we love), and the first six queens in the orange bracket gave us everything from looks to death drops to a brand-new feud heating up the interwebs.In the first episode, Ice Spice served as a guest judge, and the lip sync for the win between Aja and Irene the Alien was her most popular song, Think U The Sh*t (Fart).See on InstagramDuring the judges critiques, Ice Spice had a few things to say about the performance from Drag Race superstar Phoenix, who has made her first appearance on the show since season 3.I hear youre a legendary icon, but tonight I dont think I would have been able to tell with how shy you were, she said.See on InstagramAlthough Phoenix took it in stride on stage and even let Ice Spice play with her fake breasts during Untucked, she took to her Instagram story after the episode aired to tell us how she really felt about the comment.I appreciate the love from everyone about the Ice Spice comment, she wrote, adding that she would tell the funny part about this later.However, she also said to trust her as she continued, My 25 years of experience and decades of contributing to my community is what makes me an ICON! Not 3 minutes on a tv show.She went on to say she was perfectly fine not getting icon validation from someone whos [sic] fame has come from 1 song about sh*tting and farting.And I oop!To be fair, Ice Spice wasnt the only judge who commented on Phoenixs shyness in the episode, so she wasnt necessarily alone in her overall critique. Questioning her role as a legend in the space, however, was a little off-putting to fans.As of this writing, Ice Spice has yet to respond to the clapback, and Phoenix has yet to divulge what the funny part about all of this is.Catch new episodes of All Stars 10 on Fridays, streaming on Paramount+.

Barry Diller is finally ready to tell the truthand name names.In his new memoir titled Who Knew, the 83-year-old billionaire media mogul and longtime husband of fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg confirms what had long been whispered about in Hollywood: that he is gay (or, as he puts it, bi with Di). And in typical Diller fashion, he isnt holding much back.Michael Bennett, the late Broadway legend behind A Chorus Line, and Joe Holland, Johnny Carsons stepson, who died of AIDS in 1994, are among the men he reportedly had relationships with. Diller, whos been with von Furstenberg for nearly 50 years, told The New York Times he never talked about his private life publicly out of fear rather than shame. I was just too chicken to tell anyone anything, he admitted. Its a guilt that will never leave me.On CBS Sunday Morning, he described first realizing he was gay at age 11 and sneaking off to the Beverly Hills Public Library in search of books on homosexuality. Everything I read was, like, horrible, he said. And I got on my bike and rode home and thought, Im a condemned person.He and von Furstenberg married in 2001, after decades of a love story that began with desire and settled into a deep, unconventional partnership. Theyve even famously lived in separate residences for much of their marriage.I dont see anything mutually exclusive with that, he said of loving her while also being attracted to men.While von Furstenberg was the only woman hes ever been with, he writes that his interest in men never went awayand he spent years compartmentalizing that side of himself, afraid it would ruin him professionally.I wanted to tell the story, Diller said, and I knew if I told the story, I had to tell the truth.Dillers coming-out moment may have arrived late in life, but it lands in a cultural moment thats increasingly embracing nuance over labels. Still, hes candid about what his silence cost him, and what it may have cost others. I should have been a role model, for whatever good that might have done for others, he writes. I was wrong.Who Knew hits shelves May 20.

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MIAMIGroaning as he scrolled through the terms and conditions and agreed to hold the platform harmless in the event of a financial loss, local man Ben Tormos told reporters Monday that he couldnt believe he had to download a stupid app just to bribe the president. Why cant bribing the president be as straightforward as doing a dead drop of a briefcase in a parking garage like it used to be? said Tormos, complaining that he had to link his bank account to a cryptocurrency exchange and make space on his phone by deleting some of the apps he used to bribe other world leaders and public officials. What do you mean I have to create a wallet and convert all my funds into special tokens? This was supposed to make kickbacks simple and streamlined, but its just a headache. Christ, I dont want push notifications informing me about new opportunities to funnel money to the president and his family. At press time, Tormos phone was reportedly glitching as a result of the Chinese spyware that came with the app.The post Man Cant Believe He Has To Download Stupid App Just To Bribe President appeared first on The Onion.