Author: chiara
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Congress funds the government but faces another shutdown threat before Christmas
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers averted a government shutdown 40 days before the election, but they’ll face another funding crunch right before the holidays and a new Congress and president take office. Bipartisan negotiators have been trying to make progress on the 12 bills needed to fund federal agencies for the 2025 fiscal year. Yet there’s little…
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Harris to meet with Zelenskyy; Trump campaign does outreach to Black voters
Share Biden announces new security assistance to Ukraine Ahead of his meeting with Zelenskyy, Biden is unrolling what he calls “a surge in security assistance for Ukraine and a series of additional actions to help Ukraine win this war.” The new steps include providing Ukraine with the Joint Standoff Weapon long-range munition, directing the Defense…
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Alabama prepares to put inmate to death in second U.S. nitrogen gas execution
Two years after an Alabama prisoner was spared when staff members struggled to execute him by lethal injection, officials plan to try again Thursday — using the rare method of nitrogen gas. Alan Eugene Miller, 59, would be the second person in the country executed via nitrogen hypoxia, in which a person breathes only nitrogen…
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New York City mayor expected to face federal charges
Share Who takes over as acting NYC mayor if Eric Adams leaves office? Adams has repeatedly said he is not going anywhere and has no plans to resign, despite mounting investigations and news last night that he was facing federal charges. Should the situation change and Adams resign or be suspended from office by the…
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Pro-Harris sticky notes pop up in women’s restrooms and gyms and on tampon boxes
In the weeks before Election Day, a loose-knit group of women are organizing online to blanket their communities with pro-Kamala Harris messages — not on yard signs or fliers, but on sticky notes. The idea is simple: Take a pad of sticky notes, write messages and post them wherever women may see them — bathroom…
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Two Hong Kong journalists to be sentenced in sedition case criticized by U.S.
Two journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong are being sentenced Thursday after being convicted of sedition last month in a verdict seen as a further blow to press freedom in the Chinese territory. Chung Pui-kuen, the former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Stand News, and Patrick Lam, the newspaper’s former acting editor-in-chief, had been…
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Storm set to intensify and cause ‘catastrophic’ damage across Florida
Share Florida’s Big Bend braces for major hurricane impact Patrick SmithPatrick Smith is a London-based editor and reporter for NBC News Digital. The Big Bend Coast is set for “catastrophic” wind damage, flash flooding from heavy rain, tornadoes and lethal storm surges, the National Weather Service office in Tallahassee warned early today. Damaging winds would…
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Zelenskyy’s meeting with Harris and spat with Trump reveal a growing partisan divide on Ukraine
Vice President Kamala Harris is meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a trip to the U.S., while former President Donald Trump isn’t, highlighting the growing partisan division over a key foreign policy issue. Harris is scheduled to meet Thursday with Zelenskyy at the White House. Trump won’t meet with him while he’s in the…
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New prescription drug price hikes hit Black patients hard
Prices for prescription pharmaceutical drugs have skyrocketed, disproportionately making them harder for people of color to afford, a new report finds. The advocacy organization Patients for Affordable Drugs released a report this month showing that pharmaceutical companies increased prices on at least 1,000 prescription drugs so far this year, with about half of the price…
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Huge ad spending pours into defining Harris in the ‘blue wall’ battlegrounds
Money talks. And right now, the presidential campaigns’ dollars are talking about the “blue wall” — and about defining Kamala Harris. More than half of every dollar spent on ads in the presidential race from Sept. 1 to 20 were spent in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — with Pennsylvania alone drawing 1 of every 4…