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GOP effort to change how Nebraska allocates electoral votes hits roadblock

Patrick Svitek, Patrick Marley
Sep 24, 2024 7:44 am - A key Republican state lawmaker in Nebraska said Monday that he does not support changing how the state awards its electoral votes before the November election, foiling f...
US debt dynamics ‘inconsistent with a AAA rating,’ Moody’s says

Michael Mackenzie
Sep 24, 2024 7:06 am - The next U.S. administration “must grapple with widening budget deficits,” warned Moody’s Ratings in a report published Tuesday, nearly a year after it announced a negative outlook for the country’s sovereign credit profile.
Biden in farewell U.N. address says peace still possible in conflicts in Mideast and Ukraine

By AAMER MADHANI, MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER
Sep 24, 2024 6:34 am - NEW YORK — President Joe Biden declared in his final address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the U.S. must not retreat from the world, as Israel and Hezbolla...
Israel bombards Hezbollah and families flee southern Lebanon as conflict widens

By ABBY SEWELL
Sep 24, 2024 6:27 am - Israel and Hezbollah traded strikes again Tuesday as the death toll from a massive Israeli bombardment climbed to nearly 560 people and thousands fled from southern Lebanon with the two sides on the brink of all-out war.
FBI finds violent crime declined in 2023. Here’s what to know about the report

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Sep 23, 2024 1:09 pm - Violent crime in the U.S. dropped in 2023, according to FBI statistics that show a continued trend downward after a coronavirus pandemic-era crime spike.
The Fed sees its inflation fight as a success. Will the public eventually agree?

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Sep 23, 2024 9:44 am - WASHINGTON — With its larger-than-usual half-point cut to its key interest rate last week, the Federal Reserve underscored its belief that it's all but conquered inflatio...
Feds: Man accused in apparent assassination attempt wrote note indicating he intended to kill Trump

Associated Press
Sep 23, 2024 7:49 am - The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump wrote a note months earlier saying that he intended to kill the former president, the Justice Department disclosed Monday in arguing that he should remain locked up as the case moves forward.
Harris raises $27 million in New York fundraiser, promises economic speech this week

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and JONATHAN J. COOPER
Sep 23, 2024 7:32 am - NEW YORK — Vice President Kamala Harris raised $27 million at a packed New York City fundraiser on Sunday, her largest fundraising haul since she took over at the top of ...
Harris owns a gun? Trump wants to cap credit card rates? Party lines blur in campaign’s last stretch

By STEVE PEOPLES
Sep 23, 2024 7:30 am - NEW YORK — One presidential candidate is talking up gun ownership and promising tough border security measures. The other vows to cap credit card interest rates and force...
Lebanon sees deadliest day of conflict since 2006 as Israeli strikes kill more than 400

By MELANIE LIDMAN and BASSEM MROUE
Sep 23, 2024 7:28 am - Israeli strikes Monday on Lebanon killed more than 490 people, including more than 90 women and children, Lebanese authorities said, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of its widening air campaign against Hezbollah.

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