BREAKING: Israeli warplanes pound the Gaza Strip, killing at least 8 children in a refugee camp and flattening a high-rise building housing the offices of international media outlets as Hamas unleashes new barrage of rockets targeting central Israel. on.msnbc.com/3wbFgZt
BREAKING: Israel airstrike flattens building housing Associated Press, Al Jazeera offices.
NEW: AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt issues statement after building that housed AP’s Gaza bureau was destroyed in Israeli airstrike:
“The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.”
White House: "We have communicated directly to the Israelis that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility."
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JUST IN: Gov. DeSantis signs Florida's new voting legislation into law that enacts restrictions on voting by mail and at drop boxes. on.msnbc.com/3b6Tseg
DeSantis signed the bill, which was passed by the GOP-controlled legislature last month, live on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" during an interview.
Throughout the week, the governor had been holding more formal bill-signing ceremonies across the state as he signed bills into law.
BREAKING: Former President Trump's Facebook ban upheld by Oversight Board. on.msnbc.com/3uhxlJI
"The Board has upheld Facebook’s decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump’s access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account," Oversight Board says.
Former President Trump's Facebook ban upheld by Oversight Board.
"It's the right decision in this case," says @karaswisher. "He violated the rules. This is not a bigger issue of public figures being censored in any way."
At least 11 deaths have been confirmed and more than 1,400 people sought care at emergency rooms and urgent care clinics for carbon monoxide poisoning during the weeklong Texas outage in February. Children made up 42% of the cases.
Black, Hispanic and Asian Texans suffered a disproportionate share of the carbon monoxide poisonings, @propublica, @TexasTribune and @NBCNews found based on a review of hospital data. They accounted for 72% of the poisonings, far more than their 57% share of Texas' population.
JUST IN: North Carolina judge rejects bid to have body-cam footage of sheriff's deputies shooting Andrew Brown Jr. released to the public — but says his family would be allowed to view it.
Superior Court Judge Jeff Foster said turning over footage to news media could affect a potential trial of law enforcement officers who opened fire while serving a warrant on the 42-year-old Black man in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
But Foster ordered the sheriff to allow Brown's immediate family and lawyer to privately view body-cam footage from 4 deputies within the next 10 days.
NEW: Florida's Senate advanced a restrictive voting bill Monday that includes limits on casting ballots by mail and drop boxes over the concerns of Democrats and voting-rights activists, who say the bill would create significant new barriers to voters. on.msnbc.com/2QTTOxH
The Republican-led Senate approved the bill in a largely party-line vote, with one Republican joining all Democrats to vote against it after weeks of contentious debate.
The legislation would limit where drop boxes can be placed and would require those casting ballots that way to show identification to an election official first.