Israel strikes

Gaza high-rise

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has struck a high-rise building in Gaza City after warning residents to evacuate.

Strikes elsewhere in Gaza City killed at least 27 people, health officials said.

The military accuses Hamas of using high-rises for surveillance and plans more targeted strikes. Israel has declared Gaza City a combat zone, sparking protests among Israelis worried about hostages.

Hamas released a video of two hostages pleading for an end to the war. Israel’s offensive has killed over 64,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Judge extends

protections

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States.

The ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs means 600,000 Venezuelans whose temporary protections expired in April or whose protections were about to expire Sept. 10 have status to stay and work in the United States. It also keeps protections for about 500,000 Haitians.

Chen said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s actions in terminating and vacating three extensions granted by the previous administration exceeded her statutory authority and were arbitrary and capricious.

Trump plans

Florida summit

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the U.S. will host next year’s Group of 20 summit at his golf club in southern Florida.

In his first term, Trump tried to host a separate global summit at the club, located in Doral, but backed down after criticism from his own party about the propriety of doing so.

On Friday, though, Trump argued it was “the best location” for the high-stakes international gathering and insisted his family’s business “will not make any money on it.”

The president has nonetheless prided himself in blurring the line between domestic and global policy and generating profits for the Trump brand.

475 detained

in Georgia raid

ELLABELL, Ga. (AP) — U.S. immigration officials say some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles.

South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lee Jaewoong described the number of detained South Koreans as “large,” though he did not provide an exact figure. No charges were immediately announced.

Officials from Homeland Security Investigations say the raid resulted from a monthslong investigation into allegations of illegal hiring at the site and was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the agency’s two-decade history.