Nation and World
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Biden's hopes for establishing Israel-Saudi relations could become a casualty of the new Mideast war
Oct 09, 2023 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than three weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat beside President Joe Biden and marveled that a “historic peace between Israel ...
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Auto workers begin strike at GM plants in Canada, as talks continue
Oct 09, 2023 11:00 pm - TORONTO — Auto workers walked off the job at three General Motors facilities in Canada early Tuesday after failing to reach agreement with the automaker. Their union, Un...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will run for president as an independent and drop his Democratic primary bid
Oct 08, 2023 11:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA — Longtime environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he'll run for president as an independent and drop his Democrati...
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Workers at Mack Trucks go on strike after rejecting tentative contract dealOct 08, 2023 11:00 pm - DETROIT — Union workers at Mack Trucks went on strike Monday after voting down a tentative five-year contract agreement that negotiators had reached with the company. Th...
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Nobel economics prize goes to professor for research on the workplace gender gap
Oct 08, 2023 11:00 pm - STOCKHOLM — The Nobel economics prize was awarded Monday to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin for research that has advanced the understanding of the gender ga...
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Israel strikes and seals off Gaza after incursion by Hamas, which vows to execute hostages
Oct 08, 2023 11:00 pm - Israel increased airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel, and other supplies in retaliation for a bloody incursion by Hamas militants, as the war'...
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Senior Taliban officials visit villages struck by earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people
Oct 08, 2023 11:00 pm - ISLAMABAD (AP) — A senior Taliban delegation visited western Afghanistan's Herat province on Monday in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that killed at least 2,00...
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Earthquakes kill over 2,000 in Afghanistan. People are using bare hands to recover dead and injured
Oct 07, 2023 11:00 pm - ISLAMABAD — Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes t...
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Israel battles Hamas militants as country's death toll from mass incursion reaches 600
Oct 07, 2023 11:00 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli soldiers battled Hamas fighters in the streets of southern Israel on Sunday and launched retaliation strikes that leveled buildings in Ga...
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'It's just devastating': Suburban residents react to Israel-Gaza conflictOct 07, 2023 1:00 am - From thousands of miles away, Chicago-area Jewish and Palestinian community leaders expressed a mix of anger, grief and defiance after Hamas fighters launched a multipro...