Nation and World
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Efforts by Russia, Iran and China to sway US voters might escalate, new Microsoft report says
Oct 23, 2024 2:13 pm - Foreign adversaries have shown continued determination to influence the U.S. election – and there are signs their activity will intensify as Election Day nears, Microsoft said in a report Wednesday.
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Harris decries Trump after John Kelly says he wanted generals like Hitler’s
Oct 23, 2024 12:18 pm - Kamala Harris said Wednesday that recently reported comments Donald Trump made to his longest-serving chief of staff offer a window into who the former president “really is" and the kind of commander in chief he would be.
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Boeing reports $6 billion quarterly loss ahead of vote by union workers who have crippled production
Oct 23, 2024 7:59 am - Boeing reported a loss of more than $6 billion in the third quarter and immediately turned its attention to union workers who will vote Wednesday whether to accept a company contract offer or continue their crippling strike, which has dragged on for nearly six weeks.
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US confirms North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia for training and possible Ukraine combat
Oct 23, 2024 7:13 am - The U.S. said Wednesday that 3,000 North Korean troops have deployed to Russia and are training at several locations, calling the move very serious and warning that those forces will be “fair game” if they go into combat in Ukraine.
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Harris bets her policies can attract Latino voters while Trump touts his time as president to them
Oct 22, 2024 2:28 pm - Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump see economic policy as their best chance to win Latino voters. But their approaches are very different.
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Putin hosts Global South leaders at BRICS summit meant to counterbalance Western clout
Oct 22, 2024 11:11 am - China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders arrived Tuesday in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies that the Kremlin hopes to turn into a rallying point for defying Western influence in global affairs.
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Yellen says isolationism ‘made America and the world worse off’ in speech to global finance leaders
Oct 22, 2024 8:44 am - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is telling world financial leaders that the U.S. economy has grown stronger because the Biden administration rejected isolationism, offering a barely veiled criticism of former President Donald Trump’s policies two weeks before the U.S. election.
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Lower-priced new cars are gaining popularity, and not just for cash-poor buyers
Oct 22, 2024 7:41 am - Across the industry, auto analysts say, an “affordability shift” is taking root. The trend is being led by people who feel they can no longer afford a new vehicle that would cost them roughly today’s average selling price of more than $47,000 — a jump of more than 20% from the pre-pandemic average.
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How Project 2025’s rightward vision became a flashpoint in this year’s election
Oct 22, 2024 7:38 am - For the past year, Project 2025 has endured as a persistent force in the presidential election, its far-right proposals deployed by Democrats as shorthand for what Donald Trump would potentially do with a second term at the White House.
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Israeli strike destroys building near Beirut as Blinken presses for Gaza cease-fire
Oct 22, 2024 7:33 am - The Israeli military leveled a building in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday that it said housed Hezbollah “facilities,” sending smoke and debris into the air a few hundred yards from where a spokesperson for the militant group had just briefed journalists about a weekend drone attack that damaged the Israeli prime minister's house.