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Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says

By Isaac Stanley-Becker
Oct 08, 2024 1:41 pm - As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use.
Harris can’t point to anything she would have done differently than Biden in ‘The View’ appearance

By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Oct 08, 2024 11:57 am - Vice President Kamala Harris, in a Tuesday appearance on ABC's “The View," was unable to name a decision she would have made differently than President Joe Biden.
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.
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.
Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from Elon Musk’s X platform over warrant in Trump case

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Oct 07, 2024 4:22 pm - The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t hear an appeal from the social media platform X over a search warrant prosecutors obtained in the election-interference case against former President Donald Trump.
As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses

By JESSE BEDYAN and ARUSHI GUPTA
Oct 07, 2024 2:03 pm - For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles’ Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter who has autism.
Countries around the world commemorate the anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel

By JUSTIN SPIKE
Oct 07, 2024 8:47 am - Vigils, commemorations and acts of remembrance were planned across the world on Monday to mark one year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel as world leaders called for an end to antisemitism and the release of Israeli hostages.
New analysis suggests national debt could increase under Harris, but it would surge under Trump

By JOSH BOAK
Oct 07, 2024 8:31 am - No one is likely to be happy with the projected higher deficits laid out in a new analysis of Kamala Harris' and Donald Trump's economic plans.

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