Category: news
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Everest gets taller and the harsh realities of Fat Bear Week: The weekly quiz
Everest gets taller and the harsh realities of Fat Bear Week: The weekly quiz
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Trump pitches watches, crypto and his wife’s book in the campaign’s final weeks
A new cryptocurrency platform. An upcoming memoir authored by his wife. A set of NFT trading cards. Watches that cost as much as $100,000. With just weeks left before the November election, former President Donald Trump has taken to promoting items and businesses that are not at all connected to his presidential campaign. “You’re going…
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After the storm, North Carolina faces daunting task of housing survivors left homeless
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The deluge came furiously — and shockingly fast. Speaking from a makeshift shelter at a local technical college here, James Yulon Ferguson recalled this week how he escaped with a friend on Sept. 27 shortly before the rising floodwaters reached the roof of his trailer along the Swannanoa River. After the storm,…
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As Trump returns to assassination attempt site, Secret Service is “at a breaking point,” officials say
As Donald Trump visits Butler, Pa., today for the first time since he narrowly survived an assassination attempt there, current and former Secret Service agents fear another security lapse. A dozen current and former US Secret Service agents told NBC News that an increased workload and a lack of sufficient staffing have brought the agency to “a…
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Israel launches more strikes on Beirut amid ongoing border clashes with Hezbollah
Share Lebanon hospital says nine staff injured in Israeli strike Freddie Clayton and Ammar Cheikh Omar A hospital in southern Lebanon says nine medical and nursing staff were injured, “most of them seriously,” during a “barbaric” Israeli strike yesterday after receiving a warning to evacuate. A statement issued by Martyr Salah Ghandour Hospital said the…
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Former New York Gov. Paterson and stepson attacked while on walk
Former New York Gov. David Paterson and his stepson were attacked Friday while on a walk in Manhattan by assailants who had “a previous interaction” with the stepson, a spokesperson for Paterson said. Paterson, 70, and his adult stepson both went to a hospital as precaution after the attack on 2nd Avenue in East Harlem,…
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A clearer picture of Helene’s fury begins to emerge as cut-off communities take stock of what remains
BAKERSVILLE, N.C. — In Mitchell County, a mountainous and remote North Carolina region made even more remote in the wake of Hurricane Helene, residents are trying to make sense of the unthinkable. “Where do we go?” asked Susan Allen Wroblewski, 70, who also calls Sarasota, Florida, home a few months out of the year. “We got…
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Ex-Virginia officer who killed shoplifting suspect acquitted of manslaughter, guilty of firearm charge
FAIRFAX, Va. — A jury on Friday acquitted a former police officer in Virginia of involuntary manslaughter after he fatally shot a shoplifting suspect outside a busy shopping mall. But the jury did convict the former police sergeant, Wesley Shifflett, of reckless handling of a firearm in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors argued that Shifflett,…
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Black bear killed while trying to get to pancakes along Tennessee highway
A black bear was hit by a car and killed on a Tennessee highway after it found a delicious snack on the side of the road while it was bulking up for winter, officials with the Appalachian Bear Rescue said on Facebook. The rescue group, or ABR, said it received a report of an adult…
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Kamala Harris meets with leaders from Muslim and Arab American communities
Vice President Kamala Harris met with leaders from the Muslim and Arab American community ahead of her campaign rally in Flint, Michigan, on Friday, according to a campaign official. During Friday’s meeting, Harris heard leaders’ perspectives on the election, as well as the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the campaign official said. The vice president…