JERUSALEM — The intensive phase of Israel’s war against Hamas is “about to end,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Sunday night interview on Israeli television, although he said that did not mean the conflict was coming to a close.

On the morning of June 11, Lukas McClish stopped by the home of a friend who told him about a granite outcropping in the nearby woods that piqued his interest, so McClish set out on his own, shirtless, to explore the scenery.

JERUSALEM — At least two Israeli airstrikes shook Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, sending rescue workers rushing to the scene amid destruction and unconfirmed reports of high casualties.

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it had approved the first menthol-flavored e-cigarettes in the United States, less than two months after the Biden administration delayed a fiercely contested decision on whether to ban traditional menthol cigarettes.

About 100 million Americans were under hot weather advisories as a blistering heat wave dragged on for a fifth day Friday and the nation approached its first summer weekend.

During the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, one of the most important events on the Muslim calendar, at least 450 people died under a scorching sun as they prayed at sacred sites around the holy city of Mecca.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a tax on foreign income that helped finance the cuts President Donald Trump imposed in 2017 in a case that many experts had cautioned could undercut the nation’s tax system.

Donald Sutherland, whose ability to both charm and unsettle, both reassure and repulse, was amply displayed in scores of film roles as diverse as a laid-back battlefield surgeon in “M*A*S*H,” a ruthless Nazi spy in “Eye of the Needle,” a soulful father in “Ordinary People” and a strutting fascist in “1900,” died Thursday in Miami. He was 88.