Another US Navy carrier strike group is heading to waters near Israel, where it'll join a large amount of American firepower already there

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Personnel assigned to the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower conduct small boat operations during a training exercise in the Arabian Sea April 17, 2020.
Personnel assigned to the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower conduct small boat operations during a training exercise in the Arabian Sea April 17, 2020.

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  • The Pentagon ordered a second US Navy carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean.
  • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and several other vessels will join a

A Reuters journalist died after his crew was struck by Israeli artillery

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A journalist's car burns after it was hit by Israeli shelling in the Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel, South Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023.
A journalist's car burns after it was hit by Israeli shelling in the Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel, South Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023.

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  • Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah died in an artillery strike near the Israel-Lebanon border.
  • The news agency told Insider that two other journalists were injured in the attack on Friday.
  • The crew was struck while filming a

Doctors affiliated with Israel's top public university treated a badly wounded Hamas gunman alongside victims of attacks

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An aerial view of Be'er Sheva, the home city of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Be'er Sheva, the home base of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, near Gaza, has been a shelter for civilians amid the conflict, the NYT reported.
  • In the past week, doctors affiliated with the university treated hundreds of patients, including a Hamas militant.
  • "It's not so simple to treat casualties and attackers in the same facility," one doctor

A temporary pay bump for federal firefighters is slated to end in November, raising fears that up to 50% of the workforce could quit as the country faces more extreme wildfires

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Firefighters battle the Mosquito Fire
Firefighters battle the Mosquito Fire burning on Michigan Bluff Road in unincorporated Placer County, Calif., on September 7, 2022.

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  • Federal wildland firefighters could see sizable pay cuts if Congress doesn't step in soon.
  • Many fear that there could be an exodus of firefighters at a time when the US can least afford it.
  • In recent years, extreme weather events have
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