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North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to fight in Ukraine, Pentagon says

By LORNE COOK and TARA COPP
Oct 28, 2024 10:41 am - North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and fight in Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Monday.
Israel to vote on severely restricting UN agency that is a lifeline for Gaza

By MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY
Oct 28, 2024 10:30 am - Israel's parliament is scheduled to vote Monday on a pair of bills that would effectively sever ties with the U.N. agency responsible for distributing aid in Gaza, strip it of legal immunities and restrict its ability to support Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Here’s what to watch in the final full week of the presidential campaign

By STEVE PEOPLES
Oct 28, 2024 8:07 am - Uncertainty reigns entering the final full week of the 2024 campaign with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump locked in a fiercely competitive presidential contest. What happens in the coming days will be pivotal in deciding the winner.
Trump rally speakers lob racist insults, call Puerto Rico ‘island of garbage’

Hannah Knowles
Oct 28, 2024 8:02 am - A comedian who warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally here Sunday described Puerto Rico as an “island of garbage,” attracting widespread criticism and triggering a Trump campaign statement disavowing the remark.
Daily Herald opinion: Many issues are being debated this election; one means more than all the others — decency

By Daily Herald Editorial Board
Oct 26, 2024 2:00 pm - We were thinking the other day, what is the mark of a leader? And certainly, there are many characteristics. Vision, drive, collaboration, perseverance, discipline, coura...
Biden visits Indian Country and apologizes for the ‘sin’ of a 150-year-old boarding school policy

By AAMER MADHANI
Oct 25, 2024 2:32 pm - President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history” in his first presidential visit to Indian Country.
Polarizing pipeline law is on the ballot in major corn state

Kim Chipman
Oct 25, 2024 8:25 am - A proposed $8.9-billion carbon-capture pipeline that has polarized the U.S. Corn Belt is facing one of its biggest obstacles yet: Election Day. When South Dakota voters c...
Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon kills 3 journalists as they sleep

By SARAH EL DEEB and ZEINA KARAM
Oct 25, 2024 8:07 am - An Israeli airstrike killed three journalists as they slept at a guesthouse in southeast Lebanon early Friday, a rare strike on an area that had so far been spared the hostilities in the rest of the region.
Harris, Beyoncé team up for a Texas rally on abortion rights and hope battleground states hear them

By COLLEEN LONG, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and NADIA LATHAN
Oct 25, 2024 6:50 am - Vice President Kamala Harris will team up with Beyoncé on Friday for a rally in solidly Republican Texas aimed at highlighting the perilous medical fallout from the state's strict abortion ban and putting the blame squarely on Donald Trump.
Allies hope a Trump win changes the system for mortgages. Some warn it will make them pricier

By R.J. RICO
Oct 25, 2024 6:44 am - If Donald Trump wins the presidential election, Republicans hope he will fulfill a longstanding GOP goal of privatizing the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have been under government control since the Great Recession.

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