Nation and World
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Exxon Mobil doubles down on fossil fuels with $59.5 billion deal for Pioneer Natural as prices surgeOct 10, 2023 11:00 pm - Exxon Mobil is buying Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion, its largest buyout since acquiring Mobil two decades ago, creating a coloss...
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Second biggest lottery prize ever is up for grabs in Powerball drawing
Oct 10, 2023 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS — After 35 straight drawings without a big winner, Powerball players will have a shot Wednesday at a near-record jackpot worth an estimated $1.73 billion. It w...
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Ukraine President Zelenskyy at NATO defense ministers meeting seeking more support to fight Russia
Oct 10, 2023 11:00 pm - BRUSSELS — For the first time, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined a meeting of more than 50 defense leaders from around the world Wednesday to make a personal ...
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As strikes devastate Gaza, Israel forms unity government to oversee war sparked by Hamas attack
Oct 10, 2023 11:00 pm - JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leading opposition figure on Wednesday created a war-time Cabinet to oversee the fight against Hamas militant...
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Unprecedented Israeli bombardment lays waste to upscale Rimal, the beating heart of Gaza City
Oct 09, 2023 11:00 pm - GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Collapsed buildings, mangled infrastructure, streets turned into fields of rubble. Scenes of violence and destruction in the long-blockaded Gaza ...
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Afghans still hope to find survivors from quake that killed over 2,000 in western Herat province
Oct 09, 2023 11:00 pm - ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan — Clinging to hope that finding survivors was still possible, Afghan rescuers and villagers kept digging through rubble in western Herat province ...
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Biden interviewed as part of special counsel investigation into handling of classified documents
Oct 09, 2023 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has been interviewed as part of an independent investigation into his handling of classified documents, the White House said late Monday...
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IMF outlook worsens for a 'limping' world economy. Mideast war poses new uncertainty
Oct 09, 2023 11:00 pm - The world economy has lost momentum from the impact of higher interest rates, the invasion of Ukraine and widening geopolitical rifts, and it now faces new uncertainty f...
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Trial document: Trump acknowledged penthouse size at 11,000 square feet, not 30,000 he later claimed
Oct 09, 2023 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Donald Trump signed a document 30 years ago that gave the true size of his New York penthouse that was later listed as far larger on his financial statements,...
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Israel pounds Gaza neighborhoods, as people scramble for safety in sealed-off territory
Oct 09, 2023 11:00 pm - JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood on Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety ...