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A cruise ship carrying some 800 people who have tested positive for the coronavirus docked in downtown Sydney on Saturday, triggering memories of a deadly ship-related outbreak in Australia’s largest city in the early, pre-vaccine days of the pandemic. The Majestic Princess, which returned from New Zealand, is carrying more than 4,000 people, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC). Princess Cruises, the cruise line, said in a statement that all guests onboard

November 13, 2022

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Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus has resigned, according to a statement from the White House released Saturday evening. Magnus had clashed with immigration officials over how to handle an influx of migrants at the southern border, lost the confidence of his bosses, and been asked to resign or be fired, POLITICO reported Friday.“The President has accepted the resignation of Christopher Magnus, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border

November 13, 2022

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The man who inspired Tom Hanks’ blockbuster film ‘The Terminal’ died after suffering a heart attack in the Parisian airport he called home for 18 years, officials revealed. Mehran Karimi Nasseri lived in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport from 1988 until 2006 – first in legal limbo and later by choice. He had recently returned to the airport and taken up residence in Terminal 2F after several years in a shelter in Paris. Police and a medical team were called to the terminal on Saturday

November 13, 2022

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Democrats sealed control of the Senate on Saturday as Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada narrowly defeated Adam Laxalt, a Republican former state attorney general, a decisive moment in an extraordinary midterm election in which Democrats defied historical patterns and predictions of major losses.Control of the House has still not been decided, several days after an Election Day that fell short of predictions that Republicans would sweep to power in Washington in a repudiation of

November 13, 2022

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Dave Chappelle tackled Kaye West’s recent antisemitic remarks at the start of Saturday Night Live’s show in a lengthy monologue lasting almost 17 minutes in which he appeared to defend the rapper’s comments. Chappelle began by reading a letter he had prepared that denounced antisemitism. ‘I wanted to read a statement I prepared: I denounce antisemitism in all its forms and stand with my friends in the Jewish community,’ he began.’And that, Kanye, is how you buy

November 13, 2022

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Two World War II-era planes collided in mid-air at the Wings Over Dallas event Saturday, sending debris flying and igniting a fire nearby. Video posted online shows a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress bomber approaching the flight path of a Bell P-63 Kingcobra. Soon, the bomber ultimately collides with the Kingcobra, tearing it apart as the larger plane crashes into a ball of fire nearby. One man who was at the air show said the-63 was banking left at the time and had the B17 in his blind spot, so he could not

November 12, 2022

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Elon Musk says FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried set his ‘bulls**t meter’ off -Elon Musk has revealed he rejected crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried’s offer to help finance his Twitter takeover last spring, saying the now-disgraced FTX founder set off his ‘bulls**t meter’. ‘To be honest, I’d never heard of him,’ Musk said of the embattled crypto mogul while speaking in a Twitter Spaces audio chatroom early on Saturday, according to CoinDesk. ‘But then I got a ton of people telling me

November 12, 2022

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Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó, the U.S. considers him Venezuela’s legitimate president? Hunched over a tablet at his office in a rundown shopping center, the man the U.S. considers Venezuela’s legitimate president, watched videos of the country’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, as he shook hands with world leaders at the United Nations climate summit in Egypt. It was the latest sign of the isolated situation for Juan Guaidó as the head of Venezuela’s opposition,

November 12, 2022

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Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Elizabeth Holmes to 15 years in prison and require the Theranos founder to pay $800m in restitution, according to court documents filed on Friday. A jury found Holmes guilty in January of four counts of investor fraud and conspiracy. Her sentencing is scheduled for 18 November, and she faces a maximum 20 years in prison. Prosecutors argued that “considering the extensiveness of Holmes’s fraud”, their recommended sentencing

November 12, 2022

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Trump lawyers — Alina Habba, Peter Ticktin, Michael T. Madaio, and Jamie Alan Sasson -Judge fines them $66,000 – A federal judge on Thursday fined lawyers for former president Donald Trump more than $66,000 and admonished them for filing frivolous and baseless claims in Trump’s defamation case against Hillary Clinton and her allies, stemming from the 2016 presidential election. The fines levied by Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a President Bill Clinton

November 12, 2022

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A bus fell into a canal in Egypt’s Nile River Delta region Saturday, killing at least 21 people, the country’s Health Ministry said. Dr. Sherif Makeen, a health ministry official, said three children were among the dead. In a statement, the ministry said the accident happened in Dakahlia province, around 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of the capital of Cairo. Other injured passengers were transported to a local hospital. The head of police investigations in the province, Brig. Mohamed

November 12, 2022

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Cuba has agreed for the first time since the pandemic to accept U.S. deportation – flights carrying Cubans caught at the U.S.-Mexico border, three U.S. officials told Reuters, giving U.S. authorities a new but limited tool to deter record numbers of Cuban border-crossers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has about a dozen Cubans in custody who failed an initial screening for asylum at the border, the officials said, requesting anonymity to discuss the diplomatic situation

November 12, 2022

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Actor Alec Baldwin filed a lawsuit against several original “Rust” crew members, accusing them of negligence that led to the fatal shooting on the New Mexico set of the film last year. The suit names Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer and assistant prop master for the Western; David Halls, the first assistant director; Seth Kenney, an assistant armorer for the film who also supplied prop weapons and ammunition for the movie; and Sarah Zachry, the film’s prop master. Ms. Gutierrez-

November 12, 2022

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The Miami Heat are seeking to immediately terminate their business relationship with Crypto Exchange FTX, the NBA team announced Friday. FTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, announced they are filing for bankruptcy and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has resigned. Miami also announced that they will begin working to find a new naming rights partner for the arena. The statement from the Miami Heat in part read: ‘Miami-Dade County and the Miami Heat are

November 12, 2022

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President Joe Biden landed in Phnom Penh Saturday for the second leg of his international trip, with North Korea’s escalating missile launches and Russia’s war in Ukraine providing a tense backdrop to the confab. Biden is here for the annual ASEAN summit of Southeast Asian nations, but the war in Europe and a nuclear threat to key allies and the U.S. mainland loom. In a demonstration of the threat, Biden has plans to huddle with two key partners, South Korea and Japan, following a series

November 12, 2022

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Donald Trump is suing to block a subpoena the House Jan. 6 Committee issued seeking to force him to testify next week. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday evening, argues that the subpoena intrudes on executive privilege still guaranteed to him by the Constitution even though he left office more than 21 months ago. The suit also challenges the committee’s authority on other grounds.“Former President Trump turns to the courts to preserve his rights

November 12, 2022

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Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly is the winner of the Arizona Senate race, NBC News projects, defeating Blake Masters, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump. Kelly’s projected victory on Friday comes three days after polls closed, and as Arizona officials continued counting ballots that were mailed or dropped off, particularly in the vote-rich Maricopa County, home to Phoenix. It gives Democrats 49 Senate seats, one short of securing a majority, with Nevada

November 12, 2022

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Inside the very millennial life of ‘bankrupt’ FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. For a one-time crypto billionaire who rubs shoulders with A-listers from Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen to Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, departing FTX chief Sam Bank-Fried leads an unassuming lifestyle. Some might even say boring.The 30-year-old, nicknamed SBF, is a tee-total vegan who sleeps four hours a night, drives a Toyota Corolla, and shuns designer clothes for scruffy loungewear and sneakers.

November 11, 2022

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The ex-boyfriend of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, the sister of reigning Prince Albert II of Monaco, has been found dead at a villa in the Dominican Republic. Former model and Los Angeles nightclub owner Mario Oliver, 71, was apparently choked to death by burglars in a home in Las Terrenas after they ripped out the property’s safe and stole valuable Rolex watches, Deadline reports.According to local media, he died from head trauma and manual compression of the neck

November 11, 2022

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After more than 35 years in prison, Mutulu Shakur, Tupac Shakur’s stepfather, will be released on parole on Dec. 16, when he’ll spend what are expected to be his final days among family and friends. The U.S. Parole Commission in October granted a request to release Shakur, an activist and holistic healthcare advocate, now 72, according to court documents obtained by NBC News. The decision to grant parole was made public on Thursday. Shakur has several health

November 11, 2022

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Election officials in the swing state of Arizona are still processing and counting hundreds of thousands of ballots cast during this year’s midterm elections, leaving the results of key races in limbo. Experts say a combination of Arizona’s voting laws and shifting voter behavior is to blame for the long wait for vote totals, and tight margins mean outlets like The Associated Press can’t call certain contests. Tammy Patrick, a senior adviser at the Democracy Fund, spent a decade working

November 11, 2022

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That was some divine intervention. Dramatic video has captured an SUV flying over a priest’s vehicle in a high-speed crash in Ohio, narrowly avoiding striking the clergyman.“It’s a miracle,” the Rev. John Bok, an 87-year-old Franciscan priest, told the Catholic News Agency about the incident. Bok was driving to St. Andrew Catholic Church in Milford, Ohio, to celebrate Mass on the Feast of the Guardian Angels at about 8:40 a.m. Oct. 2 when the SUV driver suffered a seizure. The stricken

November 11, 2022

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James Click is now a free agent. The Astros GM, fresh off winning the 2022 World Series, declined the team’s one-year contract offer on Friday morning and has parted ways with the team.“We are grateful for all of James’ contributions,” Astros owner Jim Crane said in a statement. “We have had great success in each of his three seasons and James has been an important part of that success. I want to personally thank him and wish him and his family well moving forward.”Click’s contract

November 11, 2022

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The Customs and Border Protection commissioner said Friday that he had been asked to step down but was refusing to do so, in what appears to be the Biden administration’s first attempted shake-up after the midterm elections. The commissioner, Chris Magnus, who oversees much of the customs and trade policy and the country’s borders, said both Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, and the department’s deputy secretary asked him to resign or face being

November 11, 2022

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More than 100 workers represented by five labor unions at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are currently on an unfair labor practice strike, including production, distribution, advertising and accounts receivable staff.The strike initially began after the newspaper’s management, Block Communications owned by the Block family, cut off health insurance for employees on 1 October after refusing to pay an additional $19 a week per employee to maintain the existing coverage. “Having health

November 11, 2022

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Crypto exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy, Sam Bankman-Fried Steps Down as CEO – Beleaguered cryptocurrency platform FTX filed for bankruptcy protection Friday—a swift demise for a company hailed as a trusted platform just a week ago. In a statement, the company said Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried resigned from his position but would remain at the company to assist with an orderly transition. FTX said that it would begin a

November 11, 2022

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President Joe Biden praised Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Friday for his support of Ukraine, after arriving in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on the first leg of an around-the-world trip. Biden is under pressure to raise the issue of human rights with the Egyptian leader, but instead described how el-Sisi had been an important ally after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.’In the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Egypt has spoken up strongly at the United Nations

November 11, 2022

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United States to resume granting 20,000 visas to Cubans each year – High-level officials from Cuba and the United States held talks this week in Havana on migratory issues, as a first step to reopening US consular services on the island.The Trump administration suspended these services five years ago while curtailing Cuban immigration from 2017 until 2021. Under existing immigration agreements, Washington must grant at least 20,000 visas to Cuban

November 11, 2022

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A History Channel documentary crew has discovered a piece of the space shuttle Challenger — which broke apart after takeoff in 1986 — on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, NASA announced Thursday.It marks the first discovery of Challenger debris in more than 25 years, according to the History Channel, which will air footage of the find when it premieres a series about the Bermuda Triangle on Nov. 22. In a preview posted to Twitter, two divers explore a large panel covered in orange tiles,

November 11, 2022

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A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, delivering a victory to a conservative advocacy group that sued to halt the plan. The Job Creators Network Foundation filed a lawsuit in October on behalf of a borrower who does not qualify for the full $20,000 in debt relief and one who is ineligible altogether. The suit alleges the administration violated federal procedures by denying borrowers the opportunity to provide public comment

November 11, 2022

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Construction has been suspended at the Obama Presidential Center after a noose was found at the site on Chicago’s South Side, the builders said Thursday, condemning what they called an “act of hate.” We are horrified that this would occur on our site,” the Lakeside Alliance, the group of construction companies building the center, said in a statement. The Lakeside Alliance said it was informed Thursday morning about the discovery at the project site and reported it to the police

November 11, 2022

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The Bahamas securities regulator has frozen the assets of the Bahamas subsidiary of FTX, as the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange struggles for survival. The Securities Commission of the Bahamas said on Thursday it had frozen the assets of FTX Digital Markets and related parties, as well as appointing a liquidator for the unit.“The powers of the directors of FDM have been suspended and no assets of FDM, client assets or trust assets held by FDM, can be transferred,

November 11, 2022

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HarperCollins Publishers – union workers go on strike over pay ‘for as long as it takes’ -Stephanie Guerdan started working in the children’s book department of HarperCollins Publishers six years ago. It was a dream job – just not a dream paycheck. The $33,500-a-year (£28,750) salary was well below a livable wage in New York City, but Guerdan didn’t ask for more. “I was terrified that I was not going to get that job if I negotiated,” they said. “Publishing is very much an industry where they

November 11, 2022

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President Joe Biden on Thursday evening said Democrats still have a hope of holding on to the House, with control still in the balance despite Republican gains.’ It’s still alive,’ he told reporters as he left the White House for a major trip to Egypt and on to Asia for a series of major international summits.’ It’s still alive. But it’s like drawing an inside straight.’The poker term means holding four out of the five cards needed for a ‘straight’ – a run of five cards in numerical sequence – and hoping the dealer

November 11, 2022

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Donald Trump announced he would be delivering his promised ‘special announcement’ this Tuesday at 9 pm EST from his Mar-a-Lago home. It is expected but not confirmed that the former president will be announcing his intent to run for president again in 2024. Trump announced during a rally last Monday that he would be making a statement next week, but whether it would finally happen seemed up in the air after his GOP aides implored him to put off the announcement until after the

November 11, 2022

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The Washington, D.C., attorney general filed suit on Thursday against the Washington Commanders, accusing the troubled NFL franchise of perpetuating “a toxic culture of sexual harassment.”The team, owner Dan Snyder, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and the league itself were named as defendants for allegedly “colluding” to keep the franchise’s poor treatment of female employees under wraps, according to District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine. Representatives for

November 10, 2022

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Crypto exchange FTX lent billions of dollars worth of customer assets to fund risky bets by its affiliated trading firm, Alameda Research, setting the stage for the exchange’s implosion, a person familiar with the matter said.FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried said in investor meetings this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion, people familiar with the matter said. FTX extended loans to Alameda using money that customers had deposited on the exchange for trading purposes

November 10, 2022

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Nicole a Category 1 hurricane made landfall on North Hutchinson Island around 140 miles north of Miami. Five people have died after they were electrocuted by a power line that was downed by the 75mph winds of Hurricane Nicole as it swept through Florida – ahead of Tiffany Trump’s lavish weekend wedding. A man and a woman made contact with a power line in Conway, Orlando, after getting out of a car and were rushed to hospital where they later died according to the Orange

November 10, 2022

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Several top privacy and security executives resigned from Twitter on Thursday, citing fears over the risks from Elon Musk’s leadership, a stunning exodus that prompted federal regulators to warn they might step in.Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner tweeted Thursday morning that they had made the “hard decision” to resign, and the company’s chief privacy officer and chief compliance officer also quit, according to screenshots of an employee’s internal Slack message shared

November 10, 2022

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Gisele Bündchen secretly bought an $11.5 million Miami Beach mansion directly across the creek from Tom Brady’s pad.The supermodel splurged on a stunning five-bedroom, 6,600-square-foot home that has a nearly direct view of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback’s under-construction manse on Indian Creek Island.Proving their troubled marriage was already doomed, Bündchen first viewed the mansion on Aug. 16, days before Brady’s shocking 11-day

November 10, 2022

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Former President Donald Trump turned to one of his favorite tropes early Thursday to deflect the cascade of criticism he’s facing — calling the press “THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!!!”The under-fire ex-prez went on the attack as Republican leaders roundly blamed his “toxic” influence for the red wave that never came in the midterms.“Incredible how dishonest the Fake News Media is,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, ignoring how the loudest critics are from within his own party . He

November 10, 2022

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President Biden will hold his first in-person presidential meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday in Bali ahead of the Group of 20 summit next week.“The Leaders will discuss efforts to maintain and deepen lines of communication between the United States and the PRC, responsibly manage competition, and work together where our interests align, especially on transnational challenges that affect the international community,” White House press secretary Karine

November 10, 2022

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Stocks rallied Thursday after a better-than-expected report on inflation showed that the galloping price increases that consumers have had to endure all year are beginning to slow. Consumer prices in October were 7.7% higher than a year ago, according to the Labor Department. That’s a slower pace of inflation than September’s 8.2% rate. It’s also the smallest year-on-year increase in prices since January. And the price hikes between September and October were

November 10, 2022

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Nikita Dragun, an influencer and content creator, was arrested and held in a men’s unit of a Miami jail this week, court records show.Dragun, who is a transgender woman, creates content on YouTube (her videos have well over 250 million views) and Instagram (where she has 9 million followers). She discusses her gender identity openly and covers her lifestyle and beauty tricks in her videos. She also founded a makeup company called Dragun Beauty.Dragun was held in a men’s unit

November 10, 2022

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A castle-style home tied to retired baseball star Derek Jeter is slated to hit the auction block.Known as Tiedemann Castle, the lakefront property is located less than 50 miles from Manhattan in New York’s Orange County. It has been on and off the market since June 2018, when it was first listed for $14.75 million. At the auction slated for Dec. 15, the minimum bid on the property will be just $6.5 million, according to a marketing email from Paramount

November 10, 2022

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The Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department are investigating cryptocurrency platform FTX following its sudden implosion this week, a person familiar with the matter said.Staff at the two law-enforcement agencies were in close contact Wednesday, the person added. The Justice Department prosecutes criminal violations such as fraud, while the SEC enforces civil investor-protection laws.Spokesmen for the Justice Department and SEC declined to

November 10, 2022

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A Louisiana woman has accused Hollywood legend Warren Beatty of coercing her into a sexual relationship when she was a teenager decades ago.Kristina Charlotte Hirsch outlined the accusations in a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court that states she was 14 in 1973 when she met Beatty on a movie set.Beatty is not identified by name in the suit, which did include a detailed description of the actor.The defendant “acted in television and several Hollywood

November 10, 2022

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The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is spending $7 million on field operations in the Georgia Senate runoff, kicking off an expensive overtime race that could give the winning party control of the Senate.The DSCC’s multimillion-dollar expenditure on its ground game will fund direct voter contact programs, particularly door-to-door canvassing, according to details shared first with POLITICO. The DSCC’s program will fortify get-out-the-vote work conducted by a constellation of

November 10, 2022

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Listeria outbreak linked to deli meat and cheese, One Dead – New York – One person died, a woman lost her pregnancy and over a dozen other people were sickened in a listeria outbreak believed to be linked to deli meat and cheese, public health officials said Wednesday.At least 16 people in six states have been sickened, with New York state reporting the most, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, but the real number is likely higher.Anyone at a higher risk of

November 10, 2022

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A disappointing night for most Republicans turned into a very good night for one Floridian. Gov. Ron DeSantis not only won a second term in Tuesday’s midterm elections but also did so by a sizable margin — even winning Miami-Dade County, marking the first time a Republican has taken that largely urban electorate in two decades.The results cemented many expectations that DeSantis would run for president in 2024 — a situation that’s already sparking tension with another Floridian

November 10, 2022

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Both key facets of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire – Fox News on TV and the New York Post in print – appear to have pivoted away from former President Donald Trump and to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the GOP’s next great hope.The Post promoted their upcoming Thursday front page as ‘TRUMPTY DUMPTY’ with a fairly scathing criticism of the 45th president. Their caption reads: ‘Don (who couldn’t build a great wall) had a great fall

November 10, 2022

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President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would support a U.S. government review of the foreign investors backing Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter purchase.Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and his Kingdom Holding Company have become the second largest investor in Twitter since Musk officially bought the platform in late October. Alwaleed has had a large share in the social media site since 2011 and chose to roll over its ownership after

November 10, 2022

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Donald J. Trump faced unusual public attacks from across the Republican Party on Wednesday after a string of midterm losses by candidates he had handpicked and supported, a display of weakness as he prepared to announce a third presidential campaign as soon as next week.As the sheer number of missed Republican opportunities sank in, the rush to openly blame Mr. Trump was as immediate as it was surprising.Conservative allies criticized

November 10, 2022

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Hurricane Nicole made landfall on Florida’s Atlantic coast just south of Vero Beach early Thursday, officials said. The hurricane made landfall at around 3 a.m. EST on the east coast of the Florida peninsula on North Hutchinson Island, with sustained winds estimated to be around 75 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Hurricane warnings had covered Florida’s coast from Boca Raton to the county line between Flagler and Volusia counties,

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