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An explosion Tuesday killed more than 500 Palestinians at a Gaza City hospital. Hamas said it was an Israeli airstrike, but Israel said the explosion was caused by a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group that works with Hamas. After arriving in Israel today, President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "It appears as though it was done by the other team, not you." 

At Al Shifa hospital following the explosion at Al Ahli Arab.

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The president's arrival in Israel was planned to show U.S. support and to meet with Arab leaders, but those meetings were canceled after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas withdrew in protest of the hospital bombing. In the shortened trip, Biden will push Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow deliveries of water, food, fuel, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid into Gaza for the first time since Oct. 7, following Hamas' attacks in southern Israel. Ahead of the visit, the U.S. began evacuating 2,500 U.S. citizens from Haifa, in northern Israel, on ships to Cyprus.

Rep. Jim Jordan lost his first attempt to become House speaker as 20 Republicans refused to back him. Jordan needs to flip 15 of those holdouts — some who are from purple districts, others who are loyal to ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy — if he wants to win a majority in today's scheduled second vote. That could happen: Former President Donald Trump and his allies have pressured dozens of House members to support Jordan in recent days.

Rite Aid's plan to close stores as part of its bankruptcy restructuring could leave some Black, Hispanic and rural communities without a pharmacy. The company hasn't said how many stores it will close or where, but pharmacy industry experts said that chains typically close locations that have more customers on publicly funded insurance plans like Medicaid, which pay pharmacies less than private plans.

Anybody there? A Brooklyn Rite Aid in August. 

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The IRS said it will test its free tax filing service next year with hundreds of thousands of taxpayers in 13 states, although filers in just four states — Arizona, California, Massachusetts and New York — will be able to file their state returns at the same time. Tax prep software companies — namely Intuit, the maker of TurboTax — see the "direct file" system as an existential threat.

Sorry if you saw the words "free" and "taxes" and thought this story would be much bigger and better news than it actually is.

Pepper X, certified earlier this month as the world's hottest by Guinness World Records, is so painful that it would hurt less to consume bear spray. Ed Currie, the pepper creator with an unimprovable surname, broke his own record for the most caustic capsicum, which was held until October by the Carolina Reaper. Pepper X is three times hotter in Scoville Heat Units. 

Currie said his first taste of Pepper X gave him cramps so terrible that he lay groaning on the ground for an hour. Sounds like fun.

In a few weeks, the National Toy Hall of Fame will open the chest to three classic toys chosen by judges for their cultural significance. But for the first time, this year the hall is adding a fourth toy chosen by voters (i.e., you if you want to). Will the people's choice be the pogo stick, Fisher-Price Corn Popper, My Little Pony, PEZ dispensers or Transformers? 

We hate to be pedantic, but the PEZ dispenser? Not a toy. It's a decorative candy utensil.

Again, one (set) of these things is not a toy.

(National Toy Hall of Fame via AP)

We need to get rid of this artificial division between food that tastes great and food that's great for you. Roberto Santibañez, the chef and owner of Fonda restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn, shows how you can make spinach-and-mushroom enchiladas with an easy from-scratch salsa that looks so good it will make you mad you cannot taste things through your screen.

New Mexico prosecutors will ask a grand jury to charge Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins two years ago this Saturday. Prosecutors, who dropped the manslaughter charge against Baldwin in April, have been weighing whether to refile it since August, when a forensic report concluded that Baldwin pulled the gun's trigger at least partway, which he denies. 

Baldwin was involved in the fatal shooting on a Western movie set.

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After three days stuck 40 feet deep in a cave, Charlie the dog was delivered to safety by local fire rescue teams in Tennessee. But before firefighters could lower themselves into the cave to rescue the pooch, they to "bear" with another challenge.

Haunted houses not your speed? Try Haunted Hues at Color Factory New York, which has a giant fake pumpkin named Sandrine and a "confetti accumulation room" that beflecks everything in a seasonally appropriate palette. Built-in cameras get all the shots you could reasonably want for your Instagram stories without the hassle of staging a bunch of photos (and getting in other people's way).

 A haunted house but it's filled with fitted sheets you need to fold
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