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Jobs report on eve of election will be among the most distorted in years

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Oct 30, 2024 7:50 am - Four days before Election Day, the government will issue its final snapshot of hiring and unemployment in the United States after a presidential race in which voter perceptions of the economy have played a central role.
US economy grew at a solid 2.8% pace last quarter on strength of consumer spending

By PAUL WISEMAN
Oct 30, 2024 7:47 am - The U.S. economy grew at a healthy 2.8% annual rate from July through September, with consumers helping drive growth despite the weight of still-high interest rates.
North Korean troops sent to Russia may be pleased to be there, even as they face ferocious fighting

By HYUNG-JIN KIM
Oct 30, 2024 7:31 am - The thousands of young soldiers North Korea has sent to Russia, reportedly to help fight against Ukraine, include many elite special forces, but that hasn't stopped speculation they'll be slaughtered because they have no combat experience, no familiarity with the terrain and will likely be dropped onto the most ferocious battlefields.
The first presidential election since the Jan. 6 attack will test new guardrails from Congress

By LISA MASCARO
Oct 29, 2024 11:58 am - This presidential election, the first since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, will be a stress test of the new systems and guardrails that Congress put in place to ensure America’s long tradition of the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
Trump says his New York rally marked by crude and racist insults ‘was like a lovefest’

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and MICHELLE L. PRICE
Oct 29, 2024 11:54 am - Donald Trump on Tuesday called his rally at New York's Madison Square Garden, an event marked by crude and racist insults by several speakers, a “lovefest.”
Ballot drop box fires highlight concerns that election conspiracy theories are making them a target

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ALI SWENSON
Oct 29, 2024 9:53 am - Two ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest were damaged in a suspected arson attack just over a week before Election Day, destroying hundreds of ballots at one location in Vancouver, Washington.
Satellite photos show Israeli strike likely hit important Iran Revolutionary Guard missile base

By JON GAMBRELL
Oct 29, 2024 8:56 am - Israel’s attack on Iran likely damaged a base run by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that builds ballistic missiles and launches rockets as part of its own space program, satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press on Tuesday showed.
Harris reaches for a big moment in her closing argument for ‘turning the page’ on Trump

By ZEKE MILLER
Oct 29, 2024 8:08 am - Vice President Kamala Harris will pledge to Americans that she'll work to improve their lives while Republican Donald Trump is only in it for himself as she delivers her campaign's closing argument Tuesday from the same site where the former president fomented the Capitol insurrection in 2021.
Israeli strike in northern Gaza kills at least 60, officials say, as Hezbollah announces new leader

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and BASSEM MROUE
Oct 29, 2024 7:13 am - An Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 60 people early Tuesday, more than half of them women and children, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.
Trump ally Steve Bannon is released after serving 4 months in prison for contempt of Congress

Oct 29, 2024 7:10 am - Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon was released from prison early Tuesday, after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

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