Category: news
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A Miami steakhouse server’s secret to making ends meet in one of America’s least affordable markets
This is part of NBC News’ Checkbook Chronicles, a series of profiles looking at the financial realities of everyday Americans and the challenges they face. Stefany Serna, 30s, Miami, Florida Working in Miami’s high-end restaurants where she has developed a strong reputation among patrons. Rents a home with her partner, with hopes of owning property…
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A summer marked by record-setting heat in U.S. comes to a close
On Tuesday, Phoenix finally snapped a record streak of 113 consecutive days of temperatures at or above 100 degrees — around 3.5 straight months. The previous record of 76 consecutive days was set in 1993, according to the weather service. In total, the city has endured 120 days at or above 100 degrees so far…
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Local Republicans reject Trump’s claims about Haitian immigrants in their towns
Camera Bartolotta knew she had to say something. The Republican state senator in Pennsylvania caught wind that former President Donald Trump was targeting a small town in her district as part of his new focus on recent Haitian immigration to red America. At a rally earlier this month, Trump mentioned that Charleroi, with a population…
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Israel and Hezbollah exchange heavy fire as fears of war mount
Israel and the Hezbollah militant group exchanged heavy fire across Lebanon’s border on Sunday, fueling fears of a wider conflict in the region as the monthslong war in Gaza continues to rage. “Dozens of rockets hit Israel which destroyed homes, cars and communities,” Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said on X. In a separate…
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Marxist lawmaker leads the vote count in Sri Lanka’s presidential election
Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake and opposition leader Sajith Premadasa headed to a run-off for Sri Lanka’s presidency on Sunday, the election body said, with a second round of counting to determine the winner using preferential votes. It is the first time in Sri Lanka’s history that the presidential race is to be decided by a…
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Far-right group that invokes Nazi past on track for more state election success in Germany
Polls opened on Sunday in the German state of Brandenburg, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is projected to finish first, aiming to build on recent successes in other eastern states and surpass Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats in this traditional stronghold. The AfD became the first far-right party to win a state election…
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Politicians are promising housing help. Homebuilders say the problems are many and the solutions scant.
In the suburbs of Wichita, Kansas, local homebuilder Carl Harris used to charge homebuyers around $330,000 for one of his new-construction homes aimed at growing families. Now, he’s selling that same house for $450,000 — putting it out of reach for the typical household there. “The payment on that home two and a half years…
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At least 51 killed in Iran coal mine blast
A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran’s South Khorasan Province killed at least 51 people and injured 20, state media in the country said on Sunday. The accident was caused by a methane gas explosion in two blocks, B and C, of the mine run by the Madanjoo company, state media said. “Seventy-six percent of the country’s coal is…
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At least 4 killed and dozens injured in Alabama
At least four people were killed and dozens more were injured in a shooting at in Birmingham, Alabama police said early Sunday. At least four of the wounded have “life-threatening injuries,” Birmingham Police Department Officer Truman Fitzgerald told a news conference, hours after the incident in what he called one of the city’s “most popular…
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Janet Jackson tells interviewer she’s heard Kamala Harris is not Black, echoing election disinformation
Echoing well-trodden disinformation that has infected the U.S. presidential election, pop icon Janet Jackson said she has heard Vice President Kamala Harris is not Black. The remarks were published Saturday by The Guardian, granted access and interview time as Jackson promotes her latest tour’s European stops. Jackson is also promoting a residency that starts in…