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Accused CEO killer fights extradition; Kroger-Albertsons merger blocked
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ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The man charged with murder in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare has made it clear he isn't going to make things easy for authorities. Luigi Mangione shouted unintelligibly and writhed in the grip of sheriff’s deputies as he was led into court Tuesday. And he objected to being taken to New York to face trial. MALIBU, Ca…
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Suspect in CEO killing charged with murder; Heisman Trophy finalists revealed
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ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — Court records show New York prosecutors have charged a man with murder in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO. Luigi Nicholas Mangione is currently being held without bail in Pennsylvania after he was arrested and arraigned on gun, forgery and other charges on Monday. He’s expected to be extradited to New York eventuall…
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Biden addresses state of Syria, Trump talks tariffs and the Mets land Soto
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the sudden collapse of the Syrian government under Bashar Assad is a “fundamental act of justice” after decades of repression, but that it's “a moment of risk and uncertainty” for the Mideast. Speaking at the White House on Sunday, Biden credited action by the U.S. and its allies for weakening Syria's back…
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Effectiveness of obesity drugs, bracing for tariffs and 'AI Jesus'
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Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Even with access to blockbuster obesity drugs, some people don't lose weight. How to sum up 2024 The Oxford University Press word of the year is 'brain rot.' A list of mispronounced words provides a retrospective of 2024, f…
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Hunt continues for CEO's killer; Biden considering preemptive pardons
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NEW YORK (AP) — As the investigation into a masked gunman who stalked and killed the head of one of the largest U.S. health insurers moves into its third day, possible leads have emerged about his travel before the shooting and a message scrawled on ammunition. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is weighing whether to issue sweeping pardons for …
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UnitedHealthcare CEO killed in NYC; senators grill airlines over fees
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NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the US but was unknown to millions of people his decisions affected. The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk Wednesday became a mystery that riveted the nation. Police say it was a targeted killing. Thompson was 50. PALERMO, Cal…
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Great Lakes region braces for more snow; Trump transition updates
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Cleanup work is still taking place around parts of the Great Lakes region socked by lake-effect snowstorms that dropped several feet of snow over the weekend. Forecasters are warning that another storm system could add a few more inches and maybe even more later this week. Many school districts in western Pennsylvania remained closed Tuesday as the…
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Biden pardon frustrates Democrats; Notre Dame Cathedral set to reopen
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Some storm-weary residents of the Great Lakes region have seen continued snowfall and are facing the prospect of even more accumulations this week. Lake-effect snow continues to fall on parts of western New York that were already blanketed with a foot or more over the past four days. Lake-effect snow warnings are in effect through Tuesday night in …
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Biden pardons his son Hunter; Mormon church faces pushback
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter. That spares the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reverses the president's past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family. The Democratic president had previously said he would …
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Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to hold; Dodgers add another star
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TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah appears to be holding as residents in cars heaped with belongings streamed back toward southern Lebanon. Many are ignoring warnings from the Israeli and Lebanese military that they stay away. If it holds, the ceasefire would bring an end to nearly 14 months of…
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Thanksgiving travel heats up; egg prices on the rise
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Travelers are on their way toward Thanksgiving Day destinations, but weather could cause issues in parts of the country. WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of obese Americans would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning. DAKAR, S…
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AAA, TSA predict busy week for travel; big weekend for 'Wicked,' 'Gladiator'
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DALLAS (AP) — The Thanksgiving travel rush is expected to be bigger than ever this year. AAA predicts that nearly 80 million people in the U.S. will venture at least 50 miles from home between Tuesday and next Monday — most of them by car. Thanksgiving Day falling so late this year has altered traditional travel patterns. At airports, the Transport…
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Holiday travel season begins, a lost waltz and Trump's guitars
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Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Airports ready for holiday crowds. Starting a small business is hard. Exiting can be even harder, but planning early is the key. McDonald's to expand US value menu as fast food chains battle for bargain seekers. Has a waltz…
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Trump chooses Pam Bondi for AG; Ohtani, Judge win MVPs
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has named Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, to be U.S. attorney general just hours after his other choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name. Bondi is a longtime Trump ally and was one of his lawyers during his first impeachment trial. She’s been a vocal critic of the criminal cases agains…
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Warrants issued for Netanyahu, Hamas officials; Sale, Skubal Cy Young winners
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THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over actions taken during their 13-month war in Gaza and the October 2023 attack on Israel respectively. SANTA CRUZ, Cali…
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Western embassies in Kyiv; Trump continues filling key posts
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. and some other Western embassies in Kyiv are staying closed Wednesday for security reasons, with the American delegation saying it had received a warning of a potentially significant Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital. The precautionary step came after Russian officials promised a response to President Joe Bid…
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Putin signs new Russian nuclear doctrine; chains offer Thanksgiving meal deals
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The Russian Defense Ministry says that Ukraine fired six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at Russia’s Bryansk region. The statement on Tuesday came days after President Joe Biden eased restrictions on Ukrainian use of American-made weapons in the war. President Vladimir Putin has signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring that a conventional attack on Ru…
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Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy; Trump's latest picks
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Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel and a failed attempt to sell the airline to JetBlue. Spirit is the biggest U.S. budget airline. President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied missiles to strike deeper inside Russia. Bi…
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Small Business Saturday, preventing strokes and college athletes
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Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Small businesses can capitalize on Small Business Saturday with some planning. Here are new guidelines for preventing stroke, the nation's 4th biggest killer. Trump won more young voters, but many don't agree with him on is…
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Trump picks RFK Jr. as health secretary; Tyson, Paul set to fight
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NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump also announced Thursday that he has chosen Doug Collins, a former congressman from Georgia, to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, and said he was nominating N…
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Republicans win 218 US House seats as Trump returns to Washington
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump. A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the 218 House victories that make…
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Trump's makes unexpected defense choice; MLB's Rays need new home
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary. Trump has picked someone who's largely inexperienced and untested on the global stage to take over the world’s largest and most powerful military. Trump will meet with President Joe …
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Trump's team coming into focus; concerns over Honda engines
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President-elect Donald Trump is starting to fill key posts in his second administration, putting an emphasis so far on aides and allies who were his strongest backers during the 2024 campaign. Among his picks are Susie Wiles for chief of staff, Elise Stefanik for United Nations ambassador, and Tom Homan and Stephen Miller for a pair of roles that w…
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Fire crews on both coasts battle wildfires; Sunday's NFL highlights
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POMPTON LAKES, N.J. (AP) — Fire crews on both coasts of the U.S. are battling wildfires, including one in New York and New Jersey that killed a parks employee. In Southern California, crews northwest of Los Angeles made progress Sunday against a fire that prompted thousands of residents to flee and destroyed more than 130 structures. NEW YORK (AP) …
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Returnless refunds from retailers, reviewing the election and religion news
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Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Many retailers offer 'returnless refunds.' Just don't expect them to talk much about it. Don't wait for a holiday surge. Now is a good time to get your flu and COVID-19 vaccines. The story of how Trump went from diminished …
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Trump names chief of staff; Fed cuts key rate
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, the manager of his victorious campaign, as his White House chief of staff. She would be the first woman to hold the influential role. Wiles is widely credited within and outside Trump’s inner circle for running what was, by far, his most disciplined and well-executed campaign. AM…
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Trump looks ahead to White House return; Fed poised to reduce rates
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Donald Trump looks ahead to his second stint in the Oval Office with a potentially unified government behind him as the Senate has already returned to Republican control and and the House closes in on remaining in GOP hands. Federal Reserve officials are poised Thursday to reduce their key interest rate for a second straight time, responding to a s…
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Donald Trump will return to the White House following historic victory
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Get a recap of Tuesday's election results that are lead by former President Donald Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Republicans also captured the Senate and could make it a trifecta if they secure the House of Representatives. In other news: The FBI says there are disinformation videos impersonating the FBI. Economy ranked as a to…
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7 battleground states key as Election Day arrives; Chiefs remain undefeated
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Election Day is here. Voters are gearing up to head to the polls to cast their ballots for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in one of the nation’s most historic presidential races. They’ll also be determining which party will control the House and Senate. Seven states will likely determine the winner. SEATTLE (AP) — A strike by 33,000 Boeing fa…
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Final push before Election Day; music legend Quincy Jones dies
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day marks the final chapter in one of the most bewildering, unpredictable and consequential sagas in political history. Now, Americans will choose between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It may take days to know the final result, which could be just another surprise in a campaign that's been full of them. Quincy Jones has…
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AirPods as hearing aids, Google ad changes and Hollywood tackles the Pope
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Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Apple AirPods Pro's new hearing aid feature could help people face a problem they'd rather ignore. Google ad change could affect millions of small businesses. Business owners in disaster areas should be wary of possible sca…
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Employers added just 12K jobs in final days of election season
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WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls. The report provided a somewhat blurry view of the job market at the end of a presidential race that has pivoted heavily on voters’ feelings about…
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Americans anxious, frustrated about the election; Dodgers clinch World Series
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans are feeling a lot of emotions heading into Election Day, but excitement is not one of them. A new poll from The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that about 7 in 10 Americans report feeling anxious or frustrated about the 2024 presidential campaign, and a similar share say they’re interested. Only abo…
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Less than a week until Election Day; World Series beats MNF
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Vice President Kamala Harris has delivered her campaign’s “closing argument” from the same spot in Washington where former President Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Harris used her address from the grassy Ellipse near the White House on Tuesday to encourage Americans to visualize their alternate futu…
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Vance defends MSG rally; Dodgers take 3-0 lead over Yankees
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Sen. JD Vance defended the Trump campaign’s Madison Square Garden rally on Monday after critics condemned the racist remarks of some speakers and equated the event to the 1939 neo-Nazi rally that took place in the same venue. “It was a celebration of America,” Vance said during a political rally in Wausau, WI. He dismissed claims that the event was…
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Voters concerned about violence as Trump, Harris enter final stretch
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults at New York’s Madison Square Garden, turning what his campaign had dubbed as the event where he would deliver his closing message into an illustration of what turns off his critics. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kamala Harris is seeking to energize voters in Philadelphia, a cr…
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Harris, Trump campaign as Election Day nears; astronauts return
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Vice President Kamala Harris heads to Texas after stopping in Atlanta, while former President Donald Trump appeared at the Arizona border as well as in Las Vegas with less than two weeks until Election Day. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts are back on Earth after a space station mission that lasted almost eight months. A SpaceX capsule c…
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Harris says Trump is a fascist at CNN town hall; Chiefs land wide receiver
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ASTON, Pa. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris says she believes Donald Trump “is a fascist” after his longest-serving chief of staff said the former president praised Adolf Hitler while in office and put personal loyalty above the Constitution. In interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic, John Kelly warned that the Republican nominee me…
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US fines American Airlines $50M; Dodgers great Fernando Valenzuela dies
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DALLAS (AP) — The U.S. government is fining American Airlines $50 million for failing to provide wheelchair assistance to passengers with disabilities and damaging thousands of wheelchairs over a five-year period. The Transportation Department announced the civil penalty on Wednesday. American will only have to pay half of the fine because it is re…
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Blinken arrives in Israel; WNBA players opt out of CBA
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel on his 11th visit to the region since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. He is expected to meet with top officials as the United States looks to revive cease-fire efforts after the killing of top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but so far none of the warring parties …
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Harris, Trump head into final stretch; World Series matchup set
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With just over two weeks to go before the 2024 presidential election and the race in a dead heat, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are hitting the campaign trail in strategic battleground states. HOUSTON (AP) — Houston authorities are investigating a helicopter that might have crashed into a radio tower, killing four people on board, including a chil…
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Concerns about the economy and big tech turns to nuclear power
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Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Ahead of the presidential election, small biz owners are growing more uncertain about the economy. Missed out on the northern lights Scientists expect more solar storms to produce auroras. US retail trade group expects holi…
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Trump appears at charity dinner; Dodgers slam Mets
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump laced into Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York. Trump, in remarks that often felt more like a rally speech than a comedy bit, repeatedly criticized Harris over her decision to skip the eve…
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Executions scheduled in Texas, Alabama; Dodgers take 2-1 NLCS lead
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HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome is facing a lethal injection. Robert Roberson is scheduled to be put to death Thursday evening for his conviction in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter. Two U.S. states plan to execute convicted …
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Harris, Trump push to energize key voting blocs; hurricane recovery continues
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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both making pushes to energize key constituencies that their allies worry might be slipping away. The vice president is looking to reach Black men, and the former president is focusing on women. Harris appeared Tuesday at a town hall-style event in Detroit hosted by Charlamagne Tha God. Trump is attending a Fox Ne…
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Normalcy returning to Florida after Milton; equal pay icon Lilly Ledbetter dies
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ELLENTON, Fla. (AP) — Florida counties hard hit by Hurricane Milton are returning to a semblance of normalcy with power being restored to most areas, gas stations reopening and students returning to school this week. Still, some neighborhoods remained without power Monday, and neighborhoods with many severely damaged homes and business will take lo…
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Harris aims to energize Black men; ‘Terrifier 3’ slashes ‘Joker’ at box office
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing a series of proposals designed to give Black men more economic opportunities as she works to energize a key voting bloc that has Democrats concerned about a lack of enthusiasm. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump is also looking to increase his appeal to both Black and Hispanic voter…
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Limits of human life expectancy, election updates and NFL concussions down
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Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Don't expect human life expectancy to grow much more, researcher says. As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses. Rita Foley reports on the bickering presidential nominees in the continuing AP…
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Japanese organization wins Nobel Peace Prize; Milton cleanup begins
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said Friday the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressur…
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Milton leaves millions without power; Mets advance to NLCS
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Milton is barreling into the Atlantic Ocean after plowing into Florida as a Category 3 storm. It pounded cities with ferocious winds and rains, whipped up a barrage of tornadoes and caused at least four deaths. It compounded the misery wrought by Helene. But it spared Tampa a direct hit. The storm tracked to the south i…
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