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Subtropical Storm Nicole is gathering strength as a Hurricane watch is issued for Florida.
Florida has issued an emergency management plan for the state’s east coast after Hurricane Ian hit South Carolina on Thursday morning. The tropical storm, which is forecast to reach Florida’s east coast on Thursday morning, is expected to dump as much as 7 inches of rain in some areas. The storm surge could rise to…
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Three bullets were taken from Khan’s leg.
Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan said that he didn’t need “any reason to accuse this government for me to get back into power”. This comes after an official from Khan’s party said that he was shot in the foot at a rally on Thursday. “I condemn the incident of firing on PTI Chairman…will pray for the…
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The election is driven by the central tension.
US President Joe Biden has warned that the future of democracy in the country could depend on the results of next week’s midterm elections. “There are candidates…running for every level of office in America, for governor, for Congress, for attorney general, for secretary of state who won’t commit to accepting the results of the elections…
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The leader of the Oath Keepers asked Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
A man accused of plotting to attack the US Capitol in 2021 said that he didn’t mean anything to the Capitol that day, prosecutors said in their opening statement. In December 2020, Stewart Rhodes told others that January 6 presented a “hard constitutional deadline,” prosecutors said. He added, “My only regret is that they should…
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Musk is filling the void on his account that Trump left.
Two Twitter employees have said the company’s current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is “bullshit”. This comes after Twitter CEO Elon Musk said, “Twitter’s current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit.” Twitter’s former consumer teams lead said they…
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Biden and Trump are holding rallies on the final day of the campaign.
US election officials have said that they have found no evidence of voter fraud. This comes amid claims by Democrats that voter impersonation is a major problem in the US. Experts claim that there’s no evidence of ballot fraud in the 2020 election. They also said that it’s easy to identify a voter who hasn’t…
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Joe Biden is the Parable of the Raisin Bran.
The US has the highest inflation in the world at over 10%, according to data released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday. The US CPI has risen for nine straight months and has been above 5% during each of the last three years. The UK’s CPI rose to 9.6% in September from…
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How can we answer the questions about climate change?
Failure to spend the funds necessary to limit andprepare for the impact of climate change exposes the world to potential risks, said Duarte Duarte, Egypt’s Minister for Water Resources and Irrigation. He said the loss-and- damages finance can no longer be avoided by high-income countries due to the changes in climate impacts in vulnerable countries.
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As Musk’s takeover continues, employees at the social network are bracing for layoffs.
Several Twitter employees have said Elon Musk has brought over 50 Tesla employees into the company to help with the transition after he abruptly fired four top executives on Thursday. A former employee said the health team had been told to listen to Musk adviser David Sacks’ podcast for insights into why they had just…
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Russia is bruised as winter approaches.
Russia on Sunday blamed Ukraine for an explosion that damaged the Kerch Bridge, which connects Russian-occupied Crimea to mainland Russia. The attack comes hours after Russia blamed Ukraine for a weekend explosion that partially damaged the bridge. “Russia is doing what it takes to protect itself and its citizens from attacks on Ukraine’s Kerch Bridge,”…
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Live updates on Election Day, and the rest of the year.
US Senator Robert Ritter, the Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, has said that it could take days to complete the vote count in the state. On a right-wing show monitored by liberal organisation, Ritter said that it could take days to complete the vote count after the acting elections chief told NBC News it…
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After 26 years, the mystery of the blip near Titanic was solved.
The ‘North Sea Wrecks’ project aims to investigate wrecks located across the North Sea seabed. Researchers said that the data collected by the project will help policy makers decide the best steps in dealing with the wrecks and protecting its ecosystem. In the Belgian part of the North Sea, located just one of thousands of…
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A player on the NHL team was Bullyed by a black student with disabilities.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has apologised to the family of 14-year-old hockey player Mitchell Miller, who stabbed a black boy into eating candy as a 14-year-old. “Miller’s behaviour is reprehensible…and unacceptable,” Bettman said. Miller had stabbed the boy, identified as Jeremiah Meyer-Crothers, in a bathroom at their school in 2014 after the boy had made…
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The people who will make a decision in this election.
Republican registered voters nationwide and in competitive Congressional districts are a bit more likely to say they are deeply motivated to vote than are Democratic registered voters (52% extremely motivated among Republicans nationally, 46% among Democrats), a new survey said. Registered voters are more likely to see local Democratic candidates as caring about people like…
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The vaccine doesn’t work against the outbreak of the disease.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared a three-week lockdown in Mubende and Kassanda districts of the country after the discovery of a new strain of Ebola in Uganda. Museveni said that the country was seeing an “explosive rise” of the virus, and that there was a need to impose a lockdown in the areas. At…
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The climate talk was already nailed by tiny Vanuatu in 1991.
The United Nations said that it doesn’t amount to enough money to meet the needs of developing nations to prepare for climate risk. At the UN climate conference, developed countries were urged to double their funding for adaptation from 2019 levels by 2025. “There have been many promises,” Mahmoud Mohieldin, the UN’s climate change high-level…
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A Silk Road Hacker has a $3.36 Billion Bitcoins hiding in the IRS.
The US Justice Department on Thursday announced that it had seized $4.5 billion in cryptocurrencies from the Bitfinex exchange in New York. Two alleged money washers were indicted last year for allegedly pocketing $4.5 billion in cryptocurrencies from the Bitfinex exchange. They have been accused of taking the cryptocurrencies through the use of state-of-the-art coins…
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The Israel we know is gone.
A Jewish nationalist who met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said the US is likely to boycott him. “I think the US is likely to boycott him,” said Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is expected to become a senior Cabinet Minister. Ben-Gvir is a leader of the far-right Yisrael Beytenu party, which has an…
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This week, there are places in the world where abortion is on the ballot.
A US obstetrician-gynecologist has said that she was “worried about what will happen to patients like mine” since the Supreme Court upheld a state law that allowed abortions. “Literally, we’ve had to watch patients deteriorate in front of our eyes,” she added. In states where abortion is allowed, doctors offer to terminate the pregnancy since…
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At least 19 people are dead and millions without power in Florida after Hurricane Ian hit the state.
Hurricane Ian, which hit the southwest coast of Florida as a Category 4 storm, left at least six people dead. Homes on the coast were washed Out to sea, buildings were smashed throughout the state and floodwater ruined homes and businesses and trapped residents. Hundreds of rescues have taken place by land, air and sea,…
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The Oklahoma City Zoo has four lion pups.
The Oklahoma City Zoo in the US has announced that it has become the first zoo to deliver lion cubs. The cubs were born to a 15-year-old lioness named Dunia and a male lion named Hubert on September 26. The cubs will not be seen by visitors, but will be introduced to other members of…
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Russian soldiers were Rushed to the Eastern Front but gained little ground.
Russia said it would help evacuate residents from Ukraine’s Kherson city as the Ukrainian military continued its offensive against Russian-backed separatists. Saldo offered residents the option of relocation to cities “in any part of Russia” and said that the Russian government would provide housing vouchers for those who wished to move further from the fighting.
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There are live updates about Russia’s war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday blamed Ukrainian special services for the attack on the Kerch bridge linking Crimea to Russia. Putin added that a Russian military unit in Crimea has been piloting Iranian drones to conduct strikes across Ukraine, including strikes against Kyiv. Ukraine has accused Russia of carrying out air strikes on a…
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The opening statements of the Oath Keepers trial were dramatic.
US President Donald Trump’s former personal aide Kellye SoRelle, who is testifying in the trial of five members of Oath Keepers, has told the jury that she told them todelete text messages and other materials about their activities after the attack on the US Capitol. SoRelle said she acted on her own when she told…
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It isn’t ok for armed election deniers to intimidate voters.
Activists in US’ Georgia have sought a halt to early voting, urged to count votes by hand and sought to require voter ID at polling places. In Georgia, the courts enforce a law to protect voting rights, as they did with challenges during the last election. State statute requires boards of election to get equal…