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Amazon, Target and other retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday shopping season

By HALELUYA HADERO
Oct 03, 2024 7:30 am - Retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday season, but fewer seasonal employees are expected to be taken on this year to help customers in stores and assemble online...
Thousands of shipping containers have been lost at sea. What happens when they burst open?

By CHRISTINA LARSON, HELEN WIEFFERING and MANUEL VALDES
Oct 03, 2024 6:45 am - Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, life-size plastic turkey decoys made for hunters, colorful squirt guns.
Rare Israeli strike in central Beirut kills 7 as troops battle Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

By FADI TAWIL and JACK JEFFERY
Oct 03, 2024 6:40 am - An Israeli airstrike on an apartment in central Beirut killed seven Hezbollah-affiliated civilian first responders. Israel has been pounding areas of the country where the militant group has a strong presence since late September, but has rarely struck in the heart of the capital.
Harris, Biden take in Helene’s destruction in separate visits to Carolinas, Georgia

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and COLLEEN LONG
Oct 02, 2024 3:45 pm - AUGUSTA, Ga. — President Joe Biden flew over toppled trees, twisted metal and towering piles of debris in the normally tourist friendly downtown of Asheville, North Carol...
Prosecutors: Trump ‘resorted to crimes’ after losing 2020 election in failed bid to cling to power

By ERIC TUCKER
Oct 02, 2024 3:35 pm - Donald Trump “resorted to crimes” after losing the 2020 election, federal prosecutors said in a court filing unsealed Wednesday that argues that the former president disregarded the advice of his vice president and other aides and is not entitled to immunity from prosecution over his failed bid to remain in power.
Fact-checking the vice-presidential debate between Vance and Walz

Glenn Kessler
Oct 02, 2024 12:32 pm - In the vice-presidential debate Tuesday night, Sen. JD Vance, an Ohio Republican, proved he could match his running mate on the falsehood meter, though with a bit more ve...
Ukraine’s military will pull out of Vuhledar in the east after 2 years of intense fighting

By HANNA ARHIROVA and SAMYA KULLAB
Oct 02, 2024 7:05 am - Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine, after more than two years of grinding battle, military officials said Wednesday.
Israel presses forward on two fronts and reports 8 combat deaths as fears of a wider war mount

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Oct 02, 2024 7:02 am - Israel pressed forward on two fronts Wednesday, pursuing a ground incursion into Lebanon against Hezbollah that left eight Israeli soldiers dead and conducting strikes in Gaza that killed dozens, including children. As Israel vowed to retaliate for Iran’s ballistic missile attack a day earlier, the region braced for further escalation.
Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phones

By ERIK VERDUZCO, JEFF AMY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI
Oct 02, 2024 6:59 am - Isolated and without electricity or phone service since Hurricane Helene inflicted devastation across the Southeast nearly a week ago, residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating.
5 takeaways from the 2024 vice-presidential debate

Aaron Blake
Oct 02, 2024 6:29 am - Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest moments in the 2024 election, including when politicians occasionally agree on some things. (Did a friend forwar...

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