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Monday, October 2, 2023

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Former President Donald Trump speaks Wednesday in Clinton Township, Michigan. Starting Monday, Judge Arthur Engoron will preside over a nonjury trial in Manhattan to resolve remaining claims in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, his company and top executives.

Donald Trump says he'll be in court for a New York trial scrutinizing his business practices

With control over some of his most prized real estate holdings in jeopardy, former President Donald Trump says he will make a rare, voluntary trip to court in New York on Monday for the start of a civil trial in a lawsuit that already has resulted in a judge ruling that he committed fraud in his business dealings.
The new Director General of the International Organization for Migration Amy Pope speaks Monday during a news conference at the European headquarters of the United Nation in Geneva, Switzerland. Pope is the first woman to hold this role.

New UN migration chief says private sector 'desperate' to take migrants despite negative narrative

The new head of the U.N.'s migration agency said Monday that the private sector is "desperate" for their countries to take in migrants to mop up labor shortages, especially in the West -- endeavoring to steer a narrative away from reticence and suspicion about migrants in many parts of the world.
Laphonza Butler, president of EMILY’s List, listens during a 2022 rally held by the Latino Victory Fund in Coral Gables, Florida. A spokesman in California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said on Sunday that he will name Butler to the Senate seat of the late Dianne Feinstein.

California governor names Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to Feinstein Senate seat

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris' 2020 presidential campaign, to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
A person holds a sign that links President Joe Biden to Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Brandon Presley, the Democratic nominee for Mississippi governor at the Neshoba County Fair near Philadelphia, Mississippi. As Republican Gov. Tate Reeves seeks a second term, he faces Presley and independent candidate Gwendolyn Gray in the Nov. 7 general election. Reeves often says a vote for Presley equates to a vote for Biden and Thompson.

Vote no on Joe: Southern Republicans look to nationalize 2023 governors' races by invoking Biden

President Joe Biden's name won't appear on the ballot anywhere in 2023, but you wouldn't know it from the campaigns that Republican candidates for governor are running in Kentucky and Mississippi.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, left, and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell shake hands at the opening of the informal EU Foreign Ministers meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine. Some of Europe’s top diplomats have gathered in Kyiv in a display of support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion as signs emerge of political strain in Europe and the United States about the war.
Top European diplomats meet in Kyiv to support Ukraine as signs of strain show among allies
Some of Europe's top diplomats gathered Monday in Kyiv in a display of support for Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion as signs emerge of political strain in Europe and the United States over the 19-month-old war.
Katalin Kariko, speaks after receiving, together with six other scientists, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research 2021 from Spain’s Princess of Asturias Leonor, at a ceremony in Oviedo, Spain. The Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for enabling development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines , it was announced on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.
Nobel in medicine goes to 2 scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and could be used in the future to create other shots.
Belgian Malinois puppies rest at the Mexican Army and Air Force Canine Production Center in San Miguel de los Jagueyes, Mexico. The puppies will one day become rescue dogs or drugs and explosives’ detectors after get basic training at the center.
Mexico's rescue and drug-sniffing dogs start out at the army's puppy kindergarten
Puppies that one day will become rescue dogs, or sniffer dogs for drugs or explosives, get their basic training at Mexico's Army and Air Force Canine Production Center. The puppies are born and spend their first four months at the facility, before being sent to military units around the country for more specialized training.
Sergey Astsetryan, an ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh, center, shows his belongings as Azerbaijani border guard servicemen check his Soviet-made vehicle Sunday at the Lachin checkpoint on the way from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. Astsetrayn was one of the last residents of Nagorno-Karabakh to drive out of the region in his own vehicle as part of a grueling weeklong exodus of over 100,000 people — more than 80% of the residents — after Azerbaijan reclaimed the area in a lightning military operation.
Armenian exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh ebbs as Azerbaijan moves to reaffirm control
The last bus carrying ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh left the region Monday, completing a grueling weeklong exodus of over 100,000 people -- more than 80% of its residents -- after Azerbaijan reclaimed the area in a lightning military operation.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., flanked by Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., left, and Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., holds a news conference just after the House approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open on Saturday.
Government shutdown averted with little time to spare
The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday, hours before a midnight deadline, as Congress approved a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open and sent the measure to President Joe Biden to sign.
Kyle Ellison stands in front of a fallen tree on Wednesday in Kula, Hawaii. As high winds whipped burning trees and grass, Ellison and his landlord struggled with plummeting water pressure. Ellison had to wait for pots to slowly fill in the sink before running them to the fire; his landlord wielded a garden hose with little more than a trickle.
When Kula needed water to stop wildfire, it got a trickle. Many other US cities are also vulnerable
The lack of backup power for critical pumps seriously hindered firefighting in Kula, county water director John Stufflebean told The Associated Press. Once the winds knocked out electricity, pumps were unable to push water up into tanks and reservoirs that were key to maintaining pressure.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, and a group of women senators gather at a 2014 news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Feinstein, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii.
The Dianne Feinstein they knew: Women of the Senate remember a tireless fighter and a true friend
When Washington Sen. Patty Murray received a call early Friday morning that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had died, she immediately started calling her fellow female senators.
FILE — Visitors tour the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. The new term of the high court begins next Monday, Oct. 2. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
The Supreme Court will take up abortion and gun cases in its new term while ethics concerns swirl
The Supreme Court is returning to a new term to take up some familiar topics -- guns and abortion -- and concerns about ethics swirling around the justices.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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