Nation and World News
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Republicans face growing urgency to stop Trump as they enter the second presidential debate
Sep 27, 2023 9:36 AM - Republicans are meeting for their second presidential debate on Wednesday as Donald Trump's top rivals seek to blunt the momentum of the former president, who is so confident of cruising through the party's primary that he again won't share a stage with them.
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4 in 5 Black adults see racist depictions in the news either often or sometimes, says new study
Sep 27, 2023 9:34 AM - Three years after George Floyd's killing triggered a racial reckoning in the news media, Pew took its first broad-based look at Black attitudes toward the media with a survey of nearly 5,000 Black adults this past winter and follow-up focus groups.
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Congress says it wants to avoid a shutdown. But the House and Senate are moving even further apart.
Sep 27, 2023 7:29 AM - The Congress is starkly divided over very different paths to preventing a federal shutdown -- the Senate charging ahead with a bipartisan package to temporarily fund the government but the House slogging through a longshot effort with no real chance of finishing by Saturday's deadline.
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Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers as he built real estate empire
Sep 26, 2023 9:31 PM - A judge has ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House.
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Government shutdown crisis mode: Senate unveils bipartisan stopgap measure
Sep 26, 2023 4:37 PM - With just five days to go before Saturday's deadline, the Senate is trying to stave off a federal closure as the hard-right flank seizes control of the House. Senators unveiled a bipartisan stopgap measure to keep offices funded temporarily, through Nov. 17, to buy time for Congress to finish its work.
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1st Saudi envoy to the Palestinians in West Bank, Israeli minister in Riyadh amid normalization push
Sep 26, 2023 2:44 PM - Saudi Arabia's newly appointed envoy to the Palestinian Authority presented his credentials to President Mahmoud Abbas during his first visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a move linked to recent American efforts to normalize ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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At least 20 dead in gas station explosion as Nagorno-Karabakh residents flee to Armenia
Sep 26, 2023 2:44 PM - At least 20 people were killed and nearly 300 others were injured in an explosion at a crowded gas station in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region as thousands of ethnic Armenians rushed to flee into neighboring Armenia, the separatist territory's authorities said Tuesday.
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Cassidy Hutchinson's new book says Mark Meadows' suits smelled 'like a bonfire' from burning papers
Sep 26, 2023 2:43 PM - A former aide in Donald Trump's White House says chief of staff Mark Meadows burned papers so often after the 2020 election that it left his office smoky and even prompted his wife to complain that his suits smelled "like a bonfire."
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Biden urges striking auto workers to "stick with it" in picket line visit unparalleled in history
Sep 26, 2023 2:40 PM - Donning a union ballcap and exchanging fist bumps, President Joe Biden told United Auto Workers strikers that "you deserve the significant raise you need" as he stopped in the Detroit area just a day ahead of a planned visit by former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in next year's election.
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In Sweden, 2 explosions rip through dwellings and at least 1 is reportedly connected to a gang feud
Sep 26, 2023 11:35 AM - Two powerful explosions have ripped through dwellings in central Sweden, injuring at least three people and damaging buildings, with bricks and window sections left spread outside.
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