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A Reuters videographer was killed while working in southern Lebanon, the news agency said Friday. The videographer, Issam Abdallah, was part of a crew providing a live signal. According to the Reuters statement, two other journalists, Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh, sustained injuries. Issam Abdallah/Reuters via AP
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A Reuters videographer was killed while working in southern Lebanon, the news agency said Friday. The videographer, Issam Abdallah, was part of a crew providing a live signal. According to the Reuters statement, two other journalists, Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh, sustained injuries. The statement didn’t include further details of Abdallah’s death, but it noted that Reuters is seeking more information and working with regional authorities.

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October 14, 2023
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is supporting the city’s effort to suspend a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to homeless people, as a large influx of migrants overwhelms the city’s shelter system. Hochul endorsed New York City’s challenge to the requirement in a court filing this week, telling reporters Thursday that the mandate was never meant to apply to an international humanitarian crisis. The city has for months sought to roll back the so-called right-to-shelter rule

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October 13, 2023
The Israel Defense Forces said infantry forces and tanks entered the Gaza Strip on Friday in “localized raids” in order to clear the area of potential terrorists and locate missing Israelis in a likely precursor to a full-scale incursion AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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The Israel Defense Forces said infantry forces and tanks entered the Gaza Strip on Friday in “localized raids” in order to clear the area of potential terrorists and locate missing Israelis in a likely precursor to a full scale incursion in response to the weekend Hamas onslaught that killed more than 1,300 Israelis IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said armored and infantry forces carried out searches and “thwarted anti-tank guided missile squads that intended to infiltrate into Israeli territory.”The forces

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October 13, 2023
For the second time this week, fractured Republicans have picked their nominee for speaker of the House. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, defeated Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., in Friday’s closed-door, secret-ballot speaker contest. Reynolds/Pool/Getty Image
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For the second time this week, fractured Republicans have picked their nominee for speaker of the House. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, defeated Rep. Austin Scott, in Friday’s closed-door, secret-ballot speaker contest. Republicans could hold a floor vote on Jordan’s nomination as soon as Friday, though there is no guarantee he can secure the 217 votes needed to win the speakership.It was Jordan’s second bid for speaker just this week. On Wednesday, Majority Leader Steve Scalise narrowly beat

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October 13, 2023
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Pro-Palestinian protesters chanted ‘resistance is justified’ as they gathered in Times Square today for a major anti-Israel protest on what Hamas is calling a ‘global day of jihad’. The crowds, many of them covering their faces, marched from Baruch College to Times Square for the protest. ‘Resistance is justified when people are occupied!’ they chanted, labeling Israelis ‘settlers’ and telling them to ‘go back home’. There is an enormous police presence at the scene, with National Guardsmen also on standby

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October 13, 2023
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Pharmacy staff from Walgreens are laying the groundwork for a nationwide walkout and multiple rallies at the end of October to protest unsatisfactory working conditions, and are in talks with employees from other retail pharmacies about joining them, CNBC has learned.Those efforts, which are still in the planning stages, reflect the growing discontent among retail pharmacy staff, who have complained for years about having to grapple with understaffed teams

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October 13, 2023
The U.S. and Qatar have reached an agreement that the Qataris will not act on any request from Tehran for the time being to access $6 billion in Iranian funds that were unblocked as part of a prisoner swap last month, a U.S. official said Thursday. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool
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The U.S. and Qatar have reached an agreement that the Qataris will not act on any request from Tehran for the time being to access $6 billion in Iranian funds that were unblocked as part of a prisoner swap last month, a U.S. official said Thursday. The move, which stops short of a full refreezing of Iranian funds in Qatar’s banking system, follows the deadly attacks by Hamas on Israel and continued Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s deal

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October 13, 2023
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain threatened to escalate the union’s strike actions on Friday as talks with the US’s biggest auto manufacturers appeared to have stalled. Pat Nabong/AP
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United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain threatened to escalate the union’s strike actions on Friday as talks with the US’s biggest auto manufacturers appeared to have stalled. The strike is in its fourth week and Fain has been updating members on progress and new strike actions each Friday. Fain said Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors have used that timetable to hold back negotiations until late in the week. From now on, strikes can be called at any

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October 13, 2023
Major US cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington DC have stepped up security for residents, especially around Jewish and Muslim places of worship, ahead of expected protests on Friday and any threats of violence over the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East. Derek French/Shutterstock
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Major US cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington DC have stepped up security for residents, especially around Jewish and Muslim places of worship, ahead of expected protests on Friday and any threats of violence over the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East. Leave has been canceled for police officers in several major cities, with security heightened around sites such as synagogues, schools,

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