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McDonald’s sues major beef producers for price-fixing

By Tim Carman
Oct 08, 2024 7:40 am - McDonald’s is just the latest plaintiff to accuse the big four meatpackers of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. Ranchers, cattle sellers, consumers and beef buyers have also sued Tyson, Cargill, JBS and National Beef over similar allegations. The complaints have been consolidated in Minnesota federal court.
Officials face antisemitic attacks over Hurricane Helene response

By Will Oremus, Maxine Joselow
Oct 08, 2024 7:36 am - Top officials in North Carolina and at the Federal Emergency Management Agency responding to Helene are being subjected to a flurry of antisemitic attacks, causing some o...
Biden sets a 10-year deadline for US cities to replace lead pipes and make drinking water safer

By MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLIS
Oct 08, 2024 7:00 am - A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to replace their lead pipes, finalizing an aggressive approach aimed at ensuring that drinking water is safe for all Americans.
American Water, the largest water utility in US, is targeted by a cyberattack

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI
Oct 08, 2024 6:56 am - The largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States announced Monday that it was the victim of a cyberattack, prompting the firm to pause billing to customers.
Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics

By DANIEL NIEMANN and MIKE CORDER
Oct 08, 2024 6:53 am - Two pioneers of artificial intelligence – John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton – won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats to humanity, one of the winners said.
Citing omelets and chili, justices seem poised to uphold ghost gun rules

By Justin Jouvenal
Oct 08, 2024 6:39 am - The Supreme Court will hear a challenge Tuesday to a Biden administration regulation on ghost guns, the difficult-to-trace weapons with an exponentially increased link to crime in recent years.
Hezbollah steps up rocket fire into Israel, which sends more troops into Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE and TIA GOLDENBERG
Oct 08, 2024 6:37 am - Hezbollah’s acting leader said Tuesday that even more Israelis will be displaced as the militant group extends its rocket fire deeper into Israel, in a defiant televised statement marking the anniversary of fighting that escalated into war last month.
Tampa Bay hasn’t been hit directly by a major hurricane since 1921. Milton may be the one

By TERRY SPENCER and HAVEN DALEY
Oct 08, 2024 6:31 am - Florida work crews hustled to remove lingering wreckage from one hurricane ahead of another Tuesday, while thousands of people fearing a once-in-century direct hit from Milton streamed out of the populous Tampa Bay region to seek safety inland.
Supreme Court declines Biden's appeal in Texas emergency abortion case

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and JAMIE STENGLE
Oct 07, 2024 7:11 pm - WASHINGTON — A court order that says hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a Texas abortion ban will stay for now, th...
Intelligence officials say US adversaries are targeting congressional races with disinformation

By DAVID KLEPPER
Oct 07, 2024 5:42 pm - WASHINGTON — It's not just the presidential election: Foreign governments are targeting House and Senate races around the country in their effort to meddle with American ...

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