Category: news
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Ex-New York prosecutor indicted in bribery case dies in apparent suicide as FBI arrive at his home to arrest him
A former Orange County, New York, prosecutor accused of accepting bribery payments died in an apparent suicide at his home as federal agents arrived to arrest him, sources familiar with the matter told NBC New York. The FBI had arrived at the home of Stewart Rosenwasser to take him into custody Tuesday morning, the same…
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China launches probe into Calvin Klein parent over Xinjiang supply chain ‘disruptions’
BEIJING — China’s Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday it was launching a probe into Calvin Klein-parent PVH Group over alleged business disruptions around its Xinjiang supply chain. The ministry said the investigation is part of its “unreliable entities” list mechanism. Launched in 2019 shortly after the U.S. blacklisted Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the list is China’s version of the U.S. Commerce…
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Activists protest U.S. support for Israel as risks rise of wider Middle East war
WASHINGTON — Protesters in some U.S. cities demonstrated on Tuesday against American military support for Israel as risks have risen of a full-fledged conflict in the Middle East, with anti-war activists demanding an arms embargo against the U.S. ally. Dozens of protesters gathered in Herald Square in New York City on Tuesday evening and carried…
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More than 90,000 displaced in Lebanon; IDF calls up reserve brigades
Share At least 90,530 ‘newly displaced’ people reported in Lebanon, U.N. migration agency says At least 90,530 “newly displaced” people have been reported in Lebanon, the International Organization for Migration has said. The U.N. agency said that nearly 40,000 people were being provided shelter across 283 shelters. Tens of thousands of people have been forced…
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Harris to flesh out her economic vision in Pittsburgh, pitching ‘pragmatic’ approach
PITTSBURGH — Kamala Harris plans to flesh out her economic vision Wednesday in what her campaign is billing as a “major speech” in battleground Pennsylvania, with the goal of chipping away at Donald Trump’s advantage among voters on the issue. The speech will tie together various themes of the Harris campaign, including her own biography…
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Are we at peak Kamala Harris?
Then there’s the issue of abortion rights. While it was an asset to Biden in polling against Trump, it appears to be a much bigger advantage for Harris. For instance, the NBC News poll showed her leading by more than 40 percentage points among white women with college degrees, a group of voters Biden won…
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Elise Stefanik pushes to expand House GOP majority with record number of women
Rep. Elise Stefanik, the highest-ranking GOP woman in the House, is leading a charge to break the record for Republican women serving in the chamber, just six years after a blue wave wiped out their ranks. Stefanik, R-N.Y., who chairs the GOP conference, has been focused on boosting the ranks of Republican women in the…
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U.S. Forest Service pauses seasonal employee hiring amid budget shortfall
The U.S. Forest Service says it will not hire seasonal employees in the next fiscal year because of expected cuts to its budget, just as fire seasons grow longer, hotter and deadlier. Rank-and-file employees and union representatives have warned for years that low pay is leading firefighters to find employment elsewhere, contributing to high attrition…
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Oklahoma man says he didn’t commit the crime he’s set to die for. Will the governor spare him?
Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, is set to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday — but nobody knows whether he’s truly guilty of the crime for which he was condemned. Littlejohn was convicted of murdering Kenneth Meers, 31, during a robbery at the Root-N-Scoot convenience store Meers owned in Oklahoma City in 1992. Meers was shot and…
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Trash balloons sent by North Korea cause regular disruptions at Seoul’s airports
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has been forced to repeatedly shut down runways at the two main airports for the capital, Seoul, since June due to disruption from trash-carrying balloons launched by North Korea, a South Korean lawmaker said Wednesday, citing aviation data. On 20 different days since June 1, all or some runways…