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The suspect in the fatal stabbing of two Las Vegas residents on the city’s famous strip has been named as 32-year-old Yoni Barrios. The Clark County coroner’s office named Brent Allan Hallett, 47, and Maris Mareen Digiovanni, 30, as the two who were killed in the crazed knife attack that also saw four showgirls get slashed in broad daylight.The horror unfolded around 11:40 am local time on Thursday. The entertainers who were attacked were said to have been outside the Wynn greeting tourists when the deranged

October 7, 2022

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President Joe Biden said on Thursday evening that Vladimir Putin was not joking about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine – and said the risk of of Armageddon is the highest it has been since the Cuban missile crisis.He delivered his doomsday warning at a fundraising event for Democrats at the New York home of James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert.It comes amid growing fears that Putin is backed into a corner and could use tactical nuclear weapons to push back advancing Ukrainian forces.’We’ve got a guy

October 7, 2022

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Two Russian nationals fleeing President Vladimir Putin’s call-up of military reservists landed by boat on a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Sea and are seeking asylum in the United States, the state’s two senators and U.S. government officials said Thursday.The unusual incident highlights the lengths some Russians have gone to avoid a mobilization of up to 300,000 as Putin’s military, having suffered heavy losses in Ukraine, has made multiple retreats in recent weeks amid an aggressive offensive push by

October 7, 2022

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A Delaware judge has postponed the Twitter – Elon Musk trial in order to give the Tesla chief executive time to complete his proposed $44bn takeover of the social media platform. The litigation was halted until 28 October to allow both parties to close the transaction after Musk said he needed time to put together the funds for the deal. Judge Kathaleen McCormick said if the deal did not close by her deadline the parties were to contact her to schedule a November trial.“This action stays until 5 pm on October

October 7, 2022

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The Justice Department told Trump’s legal team – they believe Donald Trump did not return all government documents – A senior Justice Department official recently told Donald Trump’s legal team that law-enforcement officials don’t believe the former president returned all of the government documents he took with him when he left the White House, people familiar with the matter said. The communication from Jay Bratt, chief of the Department of Justice’s counterintelligence and export-control section, was

October 7, 2022

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Jeremy Bertino -First Proud Boys leader pleads guilty to Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy. A lieutenant of longtime former Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio became the group’s first member to plead guilty to seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Thursday, deepening the government’s case against an organization accused of mobilizing violence to prevent the inauguration of Joe Biden.Jeremy Bertino, 43, of Belmont, N.C., becomes a potential key witness for the Justice Department against Tarrio and

October 6, 2022

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Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska plans to resign from the Senate by the end of the year to take a job as the president of the University of Florida, according to a source familiar with the deliberations.The University of Florida’s presidential search committee voted unanimously to name Sasse as their sole finalist for president of the university, the source said. Now, Sasse will go to Florida and meet with students and staff. Then there needs to be a vote by the University of Florida board of trustees and board of governors

October 6, 2022

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Police detained an American tourist at a Vatican museum after he disfigured two ancient Roman sculptures by hurling them to the floor, authorities said Thursday. The man toppled the artwork on Wednesday at the Chiaramonti Museum, which is part of the Vatican Museums and home to one of the most important collections of Roman portrait busts. Italian newspapers reported that the man grew angry because he was not allowed “to see the Pope.” A representative for the Vatican Museums told The Washington Post

October 6, 2022

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President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he will take executive action to pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession.”Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit,” Biden said in a statement. “Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And while white and Black and brown people use marijuana at

October 6, 2022

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The firing of a New York University (NYU) professor who was the subject of a petition from students who said his class was too hard continues to stoke controversy, as some parents and teachers say the incident points to a lowering of academic standards.Maitland Jones Jr, a professor of organic chemistry, was fired by NYU after more than 80 students from his 350-student course signed a petition –complaining about grades, teaching and help received during the Covid pandemic.Jones, 84, received a message

October 6, 2022

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Babcock Ranch — an innovative community north of Fort Myers where homes are built to withstand the worst that Mother Nature can throw at them- Like many others in southwest Florida, Mark Wilkerson seemingly gambled his life by choosing to shelter at home rather than evacuate when Hurricane Ian crashed ashore last week as a Category 4 storm.But it wasn’t just luck that saved Wilkerson and his wife, Rhonda, or prevented damage to their well appointed one-story house. You might say that it was all by

October 6, 2022

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Legendary New York City radio host Bernard McGuirk has died at the age of 64 following a “courageous” battle with prostate cancer, his station announced Thursday.McGuirk — who hosted WABC’s “Bernie & Sid in the Morning” with co-host Sid Rosenberg — died Wednesday night surrounded by family at a local hospital, the station said. He had been on the air in the city since 1986 and was the executive producer of the nationally syndicated program “Imus in the Morning.”In 2007, McGuirk moved to WABC with Don Imus,

October 6, 2022

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The Sikh family who was kidnapped from their business in California earlier this week have been found dead in a rural orchard, with police still unable to explain the motive for their senseless murders.Jasleen Kaur, 27, her husband Jasdeep Singh, 36, their eight-month-old baby daughter Aroohi Dheri and Singh’s brother Amandeep, 39, were all found dead on Wednesday afternoon. They are believed to have been killed by Jesus Salgado – a 48-year-old criminal who was tracked down earlier this week after trying

October 6, 2022

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Last year, US lawmakers urged the CEOs of major tech companies including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to do more to combat disinformation spreading in Spanish, warning that inaccurate information on key issues such as vaccines and the presidential election was proliferating on their platforms.“There is significant evidence that your Spanish-language moderation efforts are not keeping pace, with widespread accounts of viral content promoting human smuggling, vaccine hoaxes, and election misinformation,”

October 6, 2022

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Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been taken to hospital after feeling unwell during the Jewish fasting day of Yom Kippur. Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, said Netanyahu, 72, was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital after feeling chest pains while attending synagogue services. Local media quoted the hospital as saying he underwent a series of tests that came out normal but was being kept under observation overnight. In a statement on social media, Netanyahu said, “I feel better and thank

October 6, 2022

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More than 30 people have been killed and many wounded after a former police officer opened fire at a child-care center in Thailand, police said. The incident occurred in the northeastern Nong Bua Lamphu province Thursday afternoon local time, according to police. They identified the gunman as Panya Kamrap, who they said had been fired from the police service in connection with drugs. The police didn’t provide additional details. Mass shootings areuncommon in Thailand. In 2020, a soldier killed at least 29 people

October 6, 2022

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President Biden stunned viewers of a Hurricane Ian recovery briefing Wednesday by saying into a hot mic that “no one f—s with a Biden” shortly after he told devastated residents of southwest Florida that he can commiserate due to a minor house fire that destroyed an “awful lot” of his own home almost 20 years ago. The 79-year-old president made the unexpected vulgar remark about family loyalty to Fort Myers Mayor Ray Murphy after taking several questions from reporters.“You were raised the same way I was,”

October 6, 2022

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The Mayor of a small southwestern Mexican town, with a population of about 4,300 people, has been identified as one of 18 people killed during a gruesome mass shooting. Mayor of San Miguel Totolapan Conrado Mendoza Almeda, his American brother-in-law Gustavo Salazar and the mayor’s father, who shares his name, have been identified along with 7 others.Police and councilors were among the victims of the suspected gang crime, with the attack being blamed on the Los Tequileros criminal group,

October 6, 2022

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The Biden administration is preparing to scale down sanctions on Venezuela’s authoritarian regime to allow Chevron Corp. to resume pumping oil there paving the way for a potential reopening of U.S. and European markets to oil exports from Venezuela, according to people familiar with the proposal.In exchange for the significant sanctions relief, the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro would resume long-suspended talks with the country’s opposition to discuss conditions needed to hold free and fair

October 6, 2022

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A professor at the University of Arizona was shot and killed on campus Wednesday by a former student, authorities said. The suspect has been taken into custody. The shooting occurred inside the Harshbarger Building on the university’s main campus in Tucson, University of Arizona Police Chief Paula Balafas said. At around 2 p.m. local time, somebody inside the building contacted police and asked them to remove a former student who was notallowed to be there, Balafas said. While police were on their way, they received

October 6, 2022

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A federal appeals court on Wednesday said the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy violates U.S. immigration law, dealing a blow to an Obama-era program that provides deportation protection and work permits to nearly 600,000 immigrant “Dreamers” who lack legal status. A three-judge panel for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded the Obama administration did not have the legal authority to create DACA in 2012, affirming a July 2021 ruling from a federal judge

October 6, 2022

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The National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against Apple, alleging that the company “discriminated against employees” at its World Trade Center store, according to Kayla Blado, a spokesperson for the regulator. The NLRB’s investigation was spurred by charges filed in May by the Communications Workers of America, the union working with organizers at Apple retail stores in New York, Atlanta, and Oklahoma. The latter store is preparing to hold a vote later

October 5, 2022

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Mason Dixon Polling & Strategy Gov. Ron DeSantis -commanding 11-point lead over Charlie Crist – While Florida is still dealing with the fallout of Hurricane Ian, one new poll suggests that Republicans — including Gov. Ron DeSantis — could be on their way to a significant sweep in the November elections. Double digits— Mason Dixon Polling & Strategy on Wednesday released survey results that showed DeSantis with a commanding 11-point lead over Democrat Charlie Crist:

October 5, 2022

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Biden on Wednesday emphasized their “cooperation” — despite their political differences — as the president visited Fort Myers, Florida, which was hard hit by Hurricane Ian last week. DeSantis thanked Mr. Biden for visiting the state and for his responsiveness and said he’s probably never seen better coordination among state, local and federal governments. DeSantis said Florida has been “very fortunate” to have good coordination with the

October 5, 2022

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U.S. 11th Circuit agrees to Fast-Tracks Justice Department Appeal in the special-master review of documents – Trump case. An appeals court handed the Justice Department another win in the multipronged litigation stemming from the FBI’s search at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, saying on Wednesday it would fast-track its consideration of the government’s request to halt an outside review of seized documents. The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last month sided

October 5, 2022

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The OPEC+ alliance announced Wednesday that it will cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day, a move that’s likely to send gas prices higher again after a year of tumult at the pump. In its statement announcing the cuts, the OPEC+ alliance cited the “uncertainty that surrounds the global economic and oil market outlooks.”It represents the largest cut in production since the start of the pandemic.In a statement, the Biden administration said it was

October 5, 2022

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SpaceX blasted another crew toward the International Space Station, launching a group that includes a Russian cosmonaut at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and Russia.Four people began their flight to the station on a Crew Dragon vehicle that SpaceX launched around 12 p.m. ET Wednesday using one of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters, according to a live stream from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.The second

October 5, 2022

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An American tourist was shot dead in an ambush in the Turks and Caicos- American tourist identified as an NAACP leader from Virginia was shot dead in an ambush in the Turks and Caicos on Sunday, police said. Kent Carter was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in on his way back from an excursion in Long Bay was shot up by several men brandishing automatic weapons, the Arlington County NAACP confirmed to Fox 5 DC “These

October 5, 2022

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Cory Youmans, the fan who caught Yankees superstar Aaron Judge’s record-breaking 62nd home run Tuesday night, has already turned down offers of $ 2 million for his piece of history. Judge finally broke the single-season AL home run record Tuesday night, and Youmans, who muscled his way above his rivals to catch the ball, is in for a massive payday.Not long after grabbing the historic memento,

October 5, 2022

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Alec Baldwin and the production of Rust have reached a settlement agreement with the family of Halyna Hutchins- Alec Baldwin and the production of Rust have reached a settlement agreement with the family of Halyna Hutchins, the film’s cinematographer who was killed on set when a gun handled by Baldwin reportedly misfired. Filming for the Western film will now resume in January 2023, with all “the original

October 5, 2022

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This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded in equal parts to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to design medicines. Their work, known as click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions, is used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and create materials that are tailored to a specific purpose. Hans Ellegren, secretary

October 5, 2022

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Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward asserted her Fifth Amendment right with the Jan. 6 select committee- Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid answering questions from the Jan. 6 select committee, a lawyer for the panel revealed in federal court Tuesday.“Dr. Ward was deposed by the select committee, and she declined to answer on

October 5, 2022

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America’s gross national debt exceeded $31 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a grim financial milestone that arrived just as the nation’s long-term fiscal picture has darkened amid rising interest rates.The breach of the threshold, which was revealed in a Treasury Department report, comes at an inopportune moment, as historically low interest rates are being replaced with higher borrowing costs as the Federal Reserve tries

October 5, 2022

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Flint Water Crisis -Judge Dismisses Charges Against Seven Former Officials – A Michigan judge dismissed indictments against several former state officials related to their handling of the Flint water crisis. The decision followed an earlier opinion from the state Supreme Court that canceled a lower court’s ruling due to concerns over how the indictments were handled. Genesee Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Kelly

October 5, 2022

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New York Yankees star Aaron Judge hit his 62nd home run of the year against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night, passing Roger Maris for the most in a season by an American League player and punctuating a late stretch of breathtaking drama that only once-in-a-generation pursuits can create.The home run record has long been sacred, measuring the most uncomplicated feats of baseball strength that

October 5, 2022

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Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group have announced that they will restart peace talks next month for the first time since 2018. After meeting in Caracas, representatives of the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army issued a statement saying a start date for the peace talks would be announced after the first week of November. The statement added that Norway,

October 5, 2022

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Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed three of the looters who targeted homes following Hurricane Ian were in the country illegally. -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis revealed Tuesday that three of the four looting suspects arrested in Lee County were in the United States illegally.The Republican executive made the revelation during a news conference in Fort Myers on Tuesday as he gave an update about the response to Hurricane Ian

October 5, 2022

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Herschel Walker’s team knew of an abortion allegation months before it surfaced. – Months before news broke alleging that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion, top Republicans in the state — including those advising his team — warned him that the story could torpedo his campaign.Four people with knowledge of those preliminary discussions said that the abortion issue was well known within the state, even before

October 5, 2022

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Actor Pablo Lyle was found guilty Tuesday of manslaughter in a deadly road rage case back in 2019.Lyle, 35, delivered the fatal punch that killed 63-year-old Juan Ricardo Hernandez during a road rage incident in Miami.He faces up to 15 years in prison.A security camera video showed Lyle rushing up to Hernandez and punching him in the face. Hernandez died after hitting his head on the pavement.In court Monday, Lyle

October 4, 2022

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Donald Trump – asks Supreme Court to halt DOJ review of classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. Former President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in the fight over records the FBI seized from his Florida home as part of an investigation into the alleged retention of classified information, theft of government documents and obstruction of justice. Lawyers for Trump asked Justice Clarence

October 4, 2022

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Bennet Omalu, the famed neuropathologist, says Tua Tagovailoa should give up football forever – Bennet Omalu, the famed neuropathologist who discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in former football players, has advised that Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa “stop playing” football after suffering a concussion last Thursday.“Tua, my brother. I love you,”Omalu told TMZ. “I love you as much as I love

October 4, 2022

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Elon Musk has offered to close his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter Inc. on the terms he originally agreed to, according to a person familiar with the matter, an unexpected twist that could allow the two sides to avert a high stakes trial set to begin soon.The billionaire’s lawyers communicated the proposal – to Twitter’s lawyers overnight Monday and filed a letter confidentially with the Delaware Chancery Court ahead of

October 4, 2022

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Hurricane Ian’s death toll rises. As of Tuesday, at least 102 people have been reported killed by the hurricane in Florida – After Hurricane Ian obliterated communities in Florida, rescue crews going door to door in search of survivors are reporting more deaths, and residents grappling with loss are facing a long, daunting recovery- 55 deaths in Lee County alone. Ian also claimed the lives of four people in North Carolina.The storm

October 4, 2022

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Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen seem to be heading for the end zone: Both have retained divorce lawyers, multiple sources tell Page Six exclusively. As previously revealed, the couple have been living separately for the past couple of months following an epic fight — and they’re now apparently looking at dividing up their multimillion-dollar empire.“I never actually thought this argument would be the end of them, but it

October 4, 2022

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Country music star Loretta Lynn, known for her hits “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” has died. She was 90. She died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee; her family shared in a statement obtained by the Associated Press. Lynn, the daughter of a Kentucky coal miner, made a name for herself by writing songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia. Already a mother to four

October 4, 2022

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in South America first stop Colombia – Gustavo Petro.Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in South America as part of an effort to engage some of the continent’s new leftist leaders who are shaking up traditional alliances at a time when China is increasingly offering itself as an alternative to Washington.Mr. Blinken made his first stop in the Colombian capital on Monday and

October 4, 2022

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Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz told a prosecution psychiatrist he began contemplating a mass murder during middle school, doing extensive research on earlier killers to learn their methods and mistakes to shape his own plans, the video played at his penalty trial showed on Monday.Cruz told Dr. Charles Scott during a March jailhouse interview that five years before he murdered 17 at Parkland’s Marjory

October 4, 2022

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“F— off is my very diplomatic reply to you @elonmusk,” Ukrainian diplomat Andriy Melnyk tweeted. Officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, shot back at Elon Musk on Monday after the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO tweeted out a poll proposing that Ukraine cede some of its territories and hold new elections in areas annexed by Russia in order to achieve peace.“This is highly likely to be the outcome in the end —

October 4, 2022

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Clashes between inmates armed with guns and knives inside the Latacunga prison in central Ecuador on Monday left at least 15 people dead and 20 injured, authorities said. Officials attributed the fighting to national and international drug trafficking groups, which have turned the Andean nation’s prisons into the scene of repeated massacres as the groups fight for power and drug distribution rights. Ecuador’s

October 4, 2022

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Donald Trump asked one of his lawyers to tell the National Archives and Records Administration in early 2022 that Trump had returned all materials requested by the agency, but the lawyer declined because he was not sure the statement was true, according to people familiar with the matter.As it turned out, thousands more government documents — including some highly classified secrets — remained at Trump’s

October 4, 2022

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The billions of dollars in damage caused by Hurricane Ian has exacerbated an already urgent housing crisis for Florida, with thousands of displaced residents unsure where they’ll live in one of the country’s most expensive states.On Monday, about 1,700 people remained in emergency shelters, many of them evacuated before their homes were either leveled by the 150 mph winds orrendered uninhabitable by a storm

October 4, 2022

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden finished a three-hour visit to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico on Monday evening, leaving residents with mixed feelings about whether it will make a difference in speeding up the island’s recovery.Mercedita International Airport in Ponce, where the Bidens landed, was submerged under brown water just two weeks ago when Hurricane Fiona brought heavy rains

October 4, 2022

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Donald Trump on Monday accused CNN in federal court of defamation, launching legal proceedings seeking $475 million in punitive damages. His complaint says the national news organization used its power and reach to defeat him politically. And the court document claims that CNN has stepped up its attacks as Trump mulls whether to run for the presidency again in 2024. Trump said he was proud to file a

October 4, 2022

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North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile over Japan early Tuesday- North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, a hugely provocative move that ramps up simmering tensions in the eastern Pacific.The missile was launched around 7.20 am Tuesday from North Korea’s Mupyong-ri test site, near the border with China, and passed over Japan’s Tohoku region around five minutes later

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