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Chocolate is on its way out. Why Halloween is about gummy candy now.

By Jaclyn Peiser
Oct 17, 2024 12:00 pm - High cocoa prices, combined with a growing preference among Millennial and Gen Z consumers for chewy and sour treats, have prompted many confectionery giants to shift strategy this spooky season.
Trump says he is the ‘father of IVF’ at all-women town hall event

Andrew Jeong, Patrick Svitek
Oct 17, 2024 10:12 am - Former president Donald Trump described himself as the “father of IVF” during an all-female town hall event in Georgia, telling attendees that he would support in vitro f...
Zelenskyy says 10,000 North Koreans could join Russian forces in Ukraine as he pushes ‘Victory Plan’

By LORNE COOK, MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT
Oct 17, 2024 9:35 am - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has intelligence information that 10,000 troops from North Korea are being prepared to join Russian forces fighting against his country, warning that a third nation wading into the hostilities would turn the conflict into a “world war.”
Vance says ‘no’ when asked whether Trump lost 2020 election

By THOMAS BEAUMONT
Oct 17, 2024 8:07 am - The answer was the most specific Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance has been on the subject, and a departure from past answers he has offered about the election Trump continues to say without evidence was decided fraudulently in favor of Democrat Joe Biden.
Israel confirms Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in Gaza

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Oct 17, 2024 7:44 am - Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him unknowingly in a battle, only to discover afterward that a body in the rubble was Israel’s most wanted man.
US long-range B-2 stealth bombers target underground bunkers of Yemen’s Houthi rebels

By JON GAMBRELL
Oct 17, 2024 7:38 am - The U.S. military unleashed B-2 stealth bombers to target underground bunkers used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early Thursday, a major escalation in the American response to the rebels' attacks on Mideast shipping lanes that appeared to be a warning to Iran as well.
Panel looking into Trump assassination attempt says Secret Service needs ‘fundamental reform’

REBECCA SANTANA
Oct 17, 2024 7:09 am - An independent panel investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally faulted the Secret Service for poor communications that day and failing to secure the building where the gunman took his shots. The review also found more systemic issues at the agency such as a failure to understand the unique risks facing Trump and a culture of doing “more with less.”
Harris campaign calls plagiarism claims a partisan attack. Expert says it was ‘sloppy writing’

By RICHARD LARDNER
Oct 17, 2024 7:03 am - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' campaign is dismissing accusations that she and a co-author plagiarized parts of a 2009 book on the U.S. criminal justice system as a desperate attempt by “rightwing operatives” to distract voters.
Trump is consistently inconsistent on abortion and reproductive rights

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO
Oct 17, 2024 6:48 am - Donald Trump has had a tough time finding a consistent message to questions about abortion and reproductive rights.
Harris’ interview with Fox News is marked by testy exchanges over immigration and more

By ZEKE MILLER
Oct 17, 2024 6:45 am - Vice President Kamala Harris engaged in a combative interview with Fox News on Wednesday, sparring with anchor Bret Baier on immigration and shifting policy positions while asserting that if elected, she would not represent a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency.

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