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Target announced it will stop accepting personal checks at its stores starting July 15th due to extremely low volumes of check payments. Target will still accept checks for payments through its current Target Circle sales week until Saturday. After that date, it will accept other forms of payment like cash, cards, digital wallets, EBT, and buy now pay later options. Checks can still be mailed in for Target Circle Card payments.

Gov. Jim Justice has made his English bulldog, Babydog, a minor celebrity in West Virginia where she often joins him on gubernatorial trips. Now she’s enshrined in a new mural under the golden dome of the state Capitol. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday. (Scripps News)

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through the streets of Malmo on Saturday as the Swedish city prepared to host a Eurovision Song Contest final mired in tensions over Israel’s participation.

The Maine Legislature has approved sweeping gun safety legislation nearly six months after the deadliest shooting in state history. #maine #news Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home

An Israeli group representing the families of hostages held in Gaza released a video message Saturday from one of the captives who was rescued from Hamas a week ago.

Since its grand opening in April 1957, the Tropicana Las Vegas has been a familiar landmark in a city known for constant reinvention. But the resort is being torn down to make way for a new baseball stadium. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3vEjD9J #lasvegas #tropicana #casino Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home

Both sides try to claim victory after Iranian aerial attack on Israel, AP explains Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home

U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump warned of dire consequences for the country if the other wins another term in the White House as the pair held dueling rallies in Georgia.

WHO’s Margaret Harris warns Gaza hospitals have 2-3 days’ fuel left due to blocked crossings; humanitarian aid halted. Urges ceasefire.

Watch St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer David Carson capture the moon completely covering the sun as seen from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Video by Allie Schallert, aschallert@post-dispatch.com

This footage was filmed and produced 3 March 2024. Widespread destruction in the northern Gaza Strip.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993, according to a legal summons filed Wednesday.

The European Parliament and EU member states reached an agreement on Thursday on a key biodiversity bill aimed at rewilding EU land and water habitats. The law will force EU countries to put in place measures to restore at least 20 percent of the EU’s land and 20 percent of the EU’s seas by 2030, said a statement by the council, which represents the 27 member states.

‘Time’ reports that the Biden administration has selected clean-energy projects based in seven states to participate in a $7 billion program focused on hydrogen fuel.

The Israeli military on Friday dropped flyers on Gaza warning residents to flee “immediately” to the south, AFP correspondents in the Palestinian territory said. “Evacuate your homes immediately and go south of Wadi Gaza,” read flyers dropped by drones and seen by AFP.

In Washington, hundreds of people gathered at the Smithsonian National Zoo to bid farewell to three giant pandas who are going back to their homeland of China. Children, adults and families who have built traditions around these pandas are sad to see them go, but a certain government agreement about the precious bears has come to an end. Yair Ben-Dor has more.

Palestinians say Israel has now arrested more than 10,000 people in total.

Once celebrated as a movie palace, Marion’s Lincoln Theatre is one step closer to being able to claim that moniker once again. The news announcement that shared that good news

After sitting unused since 2020, the Holston Hills Golf Course Swimming Pool is open again thanks to a new partnership between the course operators and the Lifetime Wellness Center (LWC).