The Israeli airstrikes—particularly the spectacular destruction of high-rise towers—galvanized progressive support for Palestinians in the U.S. and left President Joe Biden facing demands from within his own party to re-evaluate America’s long alliance with Israel. But IDF officials that spoke with Newsweek defended the service’s extensive recent airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, which aid organizations say have exacerbated the coastal enclave’s dire humanitarian situation and devastated its already crumbling infrastructure....

Since water is lost through various bodily processes like sweating or urinating, dehydration is more likely to occur with increased physical activity, in warmer temperatures, or when someone is sick (e.g., vomiting). The good news is that most cases of dehydration can be treated by simply drinking fluids. Sometimes though, with more severe dehydration, fluids will need to be given intravenously or through the vein. Symptoms Dehydration is often mild and usually does not cause any symptoms....

The situation is becoming increasingly dire, and that is having a significant impact on one of the sports teams that calls Jackson home: Deion Sanders’ Jackson State Tigers. Sanders posted a video on his Instagram outlining the issues he and his team are facing. Sanders said that at Jackson State’s facility, players are unable to shower, use the bathroom or participate in ice-bath recovery. The air conditioning is not working, either....

Currently, eligible medical volunteers can book round-trip flights to Georgia, Louisiana and Michigan, for free, but Delta is considering adding California, New York and Washington to the list. The medical volunteers will work with state and local government offices and be deployed to hospitals in areas that have been most affected by COVID-19. The three states that Delta will fly medics to for free each have thousands of coronavirus cases....

Some attention has recently been diverted away from the Delta variant, which currently accounts for 99 percent of COVID cases in the U.S., by the emergence of the Mu variant of COVID, and the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describing it as a variant of interest. Mu has been found in 46 countries, as well as 49 U.S. states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico....

However, it’s too early to say whether this strain could be more evasive to immunity than Delta and it also doesn’t appear to be taking over as fast as Delta did from Alpha. The variant, which has been given the label AY.4.2, appears to have branched off from the Delta AY.4 sub-variant by gaining two mutations known as Y145H and A222V. Both have been seen before in previous COVID variants but at low frequencies....

Rival airlines are mandating vaccines after a recent order by President Joe Biden requiring federal contractors to vaccinate their employees by December 8. Delta is among the major U.S. carriers to qualify as a federal contractor because of government contracts to provide airlift flights. However, Delta continues to offer regular testing as an alternative, although it will impose a $200 monthly surcharge on unvaccinated employees enrolled in the company’s health care plan from next month....

But not this year. MORE: Best active NBA player at every uniform number | Get live scores and stats The Kings, who have won just four of their last 10 games, were ninth in the Western Conference as of Tuesday afternoon. And superstar big man DeMarcus Cousins seemed to be in a good mood for once, telling reporters that this Kings team has the “best vibe” of any he’s played on....

The Warriors fear Cousins has suffered a torn left quadriceps but won’t know for sure until he undergoes an MRI examination Tuesday, unidentified league sources told ESPN. Cousins suffered the injury in the first quarter of Game 2 of the Warriors’ playoff series against the Clippers after he fell chasing down a loose ball. The four-time All-Star did not return and the Warriors threw away a 31-point lead as the Clippers completed the biggest comeback in NBA playoff history to win 135-131 and even the Western Conference first-round series....

“We talked for a quick second. I told him ‘Thank you for what you’ve done for my family,’ for giving my mother clemency,” Thomas said (via the team’s website). Thomas’ mother, Katina Smith, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2000 for cocaine distribution. She was granted clemency by Obama along with 46 other non-violent drug-related offenders last year, which led to her returning home two years before her scheduled release in 2017....

“I am proud to represent the best athletes in the world,” Smith told the players association board, which met in Hawaii. “There will always be those who will sacrifice their dignity in a race to the bottom so that they can climb over others to get to the top. I will not join them, and no human should. “As a union, it is your duty to decide who should and will lead....

After his €105 million move from Borussia Dortmund to Camp Nou in August, Dembele has made just seven appearances in all competitions due to hamstring injuries. Dembele tore the muscle in only his second Barca appearance and spent three and a half months on the sidelines. He returned in January but suffered a relapse two weeks later. The 20-year-old is back in contention to face Getafe on Sunday in La Liga, though, and Valverde is keen to get him involved....

The WBO middleweight champion dropped Luke Keeler twice before eventually securing a ninth-round TKO at the Meridian at Island Gardens in Miami on Thursday of Super Bowl week. Andrade (29-0, 18 KOs) defended his title for a third consecutive time. He then called out stiffer competition — WBO super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year “I want to go up to 168 (pounds), fight Billy Joe ‘Joke-Ass’ Saunders my next fight, and that’s what I’m looking to do,” Andrade told DAZN in his postfight interview....

Africa badly needs such victories. Contrasting starkly with the image of the so-called Dark Continent, they confirm its slow but steady embrace of democracy. That evolution appears to be stronger than the many obstacles still ahead: dictatorship, intolerance, complacency and armed conflict. Zimbabwe, Guinea and Togo, to name a few examples, still balk at democratic change. Peace, the first requirement of democracy, remains a distant prospect in Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo and Sudan....

Representative Tom Malinowski, the elected House official for New Jersey’s 7th district, said that the public needs to think about the jobs immigrants take. “We have to think about the jobs, right. Because the reason this happens is there there are a lot of jobs in our community that like it or not, for better or worse, Americans are not willing to take. Who do you think is taking care of our seniors?...

Host Anderson Cooper, in his final question on the night, said: “Last week, Ellen DeGeneres was criticized after she and former President George W. Bush were seen laughing together at a football game. Ellen defended their friendship, saying, “We’re all different and I think that we’ve forgotten that that’s OK, that we’re all different.” “So in that spirit, we’d like you to tell us about a friendship that you’ve had that would surprise us and what impacts it’s had on you and your beliefs....

The remaining 10 candidates of the 20 who qualified for the debates, based on garnering at least 1 percent in three polls and 65,000 individual donors, will take the stage at the Fox Theater for about two hours. Candidates were split up more evenly than in the first debates hosted by MSNBC late last month. CNN will broadcast the debates live on television, and provide a live stream at CNN....

Appearing on Fox News, the U.S. senator from West Virginia said he would “not vote” with Democrats on those key issues if the Senate were split down the middle—effectively offsetting Kamala Harris’ deciding vote as vice president. Speaking to Special Report with Bret Baier, Manchin said: “If both of the Georgia senators were elected from the Democratic Party, then that would be 50-50, if both Dan Sullivan and Thom Tillis win....

Their pleas for amounts ranging from $5-$50 dollars came after hopeful Cory Booker suggested he would have to drop out of the race if he didn’t bump up his campaign pot, and as other less popular candidates face the challenge of meeting fundraiser thresholds set by the DNC, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. “If you are being outraised 3-to-1 by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden, you have no viable path to victory,” Rufus Gifford, Barack Obama’s former finance director, told the AP....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a letter to colleagues over the weekend, described the week as “a time of intensity,” describing the confluence of issues coming to a head in the coming days. “The initiatives of the Build Back Better Act are ones in which President Biden takes a great pride, which House and Senate Democrats share,” the California Democrat wrote in her letter announcing a caucus meeting Monday evening....