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US   POLITICS  
Shutdown proposal pits Democrats' moderates and progressives against centrist Senate dealmakers
- has refueled the party's tussle over strategy and identity just days after sweeping election victories had raised hopes that the left's disparate factions were pulling in the same direction heading into the 2026 midterms. Democrats' latest fault lines do not track perfectly along the familiar split between progressives and centrists. Instead, there's renewed rancor over how aggressively to fight President Donald ...

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US  
Trump threatens air traffic controllers who fail to return to work as flight cancellations jump
- WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday demanded air traffic controllers return to work as travelers endured another day of flight cancellations, which the administration ordered to manage staff shortages during the government shutdown. Trump's comment came after the U.S. aviation system has suffered serious disruptions in recent days as air traffic controller absences soared while they ...

Source: reuters.com
US   POLITICS  
Trump administration renews Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments frozen
- President Donald Trump's administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday in a push to keep full payments in the SNAP federal food aid program frozen while the government is shut down, even as some families struggled to put food on the table. The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how the program that helps 42 million Americans buy groceries should proceed during the historic U.S. ...

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US   POLITICS  
Trump threatens legal action, BBC apologizes for speech edit after top execs quit
- LONDON — President Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion, his legal team told NBC News on Monday, accusing the British public broadcaster of trying to "interfere in the presidential election" last year Trump was already performing a victory lap after the BBC's top official, Director General Tim Davie, and In doing so, the president has become a key voice on the future of the national ...

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US   POLITICS  
Trump Pardons Giuliani, Doesn't Actually Fix His Legal Problems
- Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. Between Republicans' big election losses, the Supreme Court's tariffs skepticism , and shutdown-related problems , last week was rough for Donald Trump . So apparently, he soothed himself on Friday by pardoning 77 people involved in his effort to subvert the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani . Practically, the ...

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US   POLITICS  
Trump's $2,000 rebate checks would cost $600 billion ‒ double the new revenue from tariffs
- WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump' s proposal to send Americans from money collected through his tariffs is projected to cost $600 billion a year ‒ about double what the United States is expected to generate from the new duties on imports. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan nonprofit that studies fiscal policy, released the projections on Nov. 10 after Trump over the weekend ...

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US  
MLB, sportsbooks agree to cap betting limits on individual pitches
- Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Guardians were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers. MLB said Monday the limits were agreed to by sportsbook operators representing more than 98 percent of the US betting market. The league said in a statement that pitch-level bets on ...

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US   MARKETS  
Fox star trashes Trump's 50-year mortgage plan: 'I do not like this idea'
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article 'It is just a gargantuan difference just to make people feel better. That's not the way to do this,' says Charles Payne Fox Business Network anchor Charles Payne gave a thumbs down to Donald Trump's plan of offering 50-year mortgages to prospective homeowners as a way of ...

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WORLD  
Trump's son-in-law and Netanyahu meet to discuss next stage of Gaza ceasefire | World News
- Jared Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, met the Israeli prime minister in Jerusalem on Monday. Donald Trump's son-in-law met Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the second phase of the fragile Gaza ceasefire. Jared Kushner, who is married to Mr Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, met the Israeli prime minister in Jerusalem on Monday to discuss the progress and future of the ceasefire, according to an Israeli ...

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US   POLITICS  
Ghislaine Maxwell 'wants Donald Trump to commute her prison sentence' | US News
- The 63-year-old co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein sent an email to her lawyer titled "commutation application", NBC News reported. Ghislaine Maxwell, the disgraced British socialite and co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, is planning to appeal to Donald Trump to commute her 20-year prison sentence, according to a whistleblower. Maxwell, a convicted sex offender, revealed her intentions in an email with the subject ...

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US   HEALTH  
Botulism outbreak linked to recalled infant formula
- Thirteen infants in 10 states have been hospitalized for botulism type A infections that the FDA and CDC linked to a brand of infant formula. According to an FDA alert, cases have been reported in Arizona, California, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Washington. All 13 infants were reported to have consumed ByHeart powdered infant formula between August and November of ...

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US   POLITICS  
Supreme Court won't hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling
- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a challenge to its landmark 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court's conservative majority to revisit the case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, one of the court's most significant decisions in recent years. Legal experts had said for months that there was little ...

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MEDICINE  
FDA moves to lift 'black box' warnings from hormone therapies for menopause symptoms
- You can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is initiating the removal of "black box" warning labels from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) products used to ease menopause symptoms , a move Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said is backed by decades of research on the therapy's benefits and clinical trials that do not support earlier fears linking it to higher breast ...

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Canada has lost its 'measles elimination status' — here's what that means
- It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Canada has officially lost its measles elimination status, meaning the highly contagious disease is once again spreading consistently there. The declaration was made by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), ...

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WORLD   POLITICS  
From jailed jihadist to the Oval Office: Syria's president caps unlikely rise with Trump meeting
- When he's greeted by President Donald Trump on Monday, will have completed his journey from jihadist leader to head of state receiving a warm White House welcome. Since toppling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, 's interim leader has spent the past year transforming his global image while tackling deep divisions at home. , who has thrown off his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, will make history as the ...

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US   POLITICS  
The government shutdown may last longer because of a fight over hemp
- , a vote on that agreement is being held up by an unexpected issue: hemp. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is objecting to speedy consideration of the bill that would end the longest shutdown in U.S. history over a hemp provision tucked into funding for the Agriculture Department, three people familiar with conversations but not authorized to discuss them publicly told NBC News. The provision would close the so-called hemp ...

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US   POLITICS  
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Mississippi's landmark mail-in ballot case
- Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The nation's high court will decide if mail-in ballots need to be submitted by Election Day in a ruling that could affect the 2026 midterm election. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to weigh in on whether individual states can accept mail-in ballots sent on Election Day, in a bid by Mississippi GOP leaders to overturn a similar state law. "The stakes are high: ballots cast by -- but ...

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Typhoon Fung-wong lashes Philippines, leaving 8 dead and 1.4 million displaced
- MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least eight people and displacing more than 1.4 million others. The typhoon was forecast to head northwest toward Taiwan. Fung-wong lashed the northern Philippines while the country was still dealing with the devastation ...

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POLITICS  
Hegseth says six people killed in two new US attacks on alleged drug boats
- US defense secretary says without providing evidence that dead from strikes in eastern Pacific were 'narco-terrorists' US forces struck two more alleged drug trafficking boats off the coast of South America, killing six people, the Trump administration's defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said. The US began carrying out such strikes – which some experts say amount to extrajudicial killings even if they ...

Source: theguardian.com
POLITICS  
Donald Trump becomes first president to attend regular-season NFL game since 1978
- President Donald Trump on Sunday became the first sitting president to attend a regular-season NFL game since Jimmy Carter in 1978, appearing at the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders matchup. In the third quarter, Trump appeared on the Fox broadcast, answering questions about his time as a football player at New York Military Academy, opining on quarterbacks and more. "Drew Brees, he threw a ball you could ...

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POLITICS  
Paris court is deciding whether to release former President Sarkozy from prison
- PARIS (AP) — A Paris court is deciding Monday whether to release former French President Nicolas Sarkozy from prison, less than three weeks after he began serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya. Sarkozy, 70, became the first former French head of state in modern times to be sent behind bars after his conviction on Sept. 25. ...

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US   POLITICS  
A Rastafarian goes to the Supreme Court after a prison shaved his dreadlocks
- By the time Damon Landor arrived at a Louisiana corrections center to serve out a sentence for drug possession in 2020, he had maintained his Rastafarian vow to let his hair grow for nearly two decades. Landor, whose dreadlocks almost reached his knees, revealed his faith to a guard and handed him a copy of a court decision that held that a federal law on religious freedom prevented Louisiana prisons from forcing ...

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WORLD   POLITICS  
COP30 opens in Brazil with calls for unity to tackle climate crisis
- The 30th annual United Nations climate change conference (COP30) has started in the Brazilian city of Belem, with leaders calling for countries to take a united approach against global warming. "In this arena of COP30, your job here is not to fight one another – your job here is to fight this climate crisis, together," the UN's climate chief, Simon Stiell, told delegates on Monday. Some 50,000 people from ...

Source: aljazeera.com
POLITICS  
Trump responds to criticism from Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'She's lost her way'
- President Donald Trump on Monday said that MAGA-aligned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , R-Ga., had "lost her way" with her criticism of the administration's focus on foreign policy. "I don't know what happened to Marjorie. She's a nice woman, but I don't know what happened. She's lost her way, I think," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "But I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally. ...

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TECHNOLOGY  
When is the Right Time to Deploy AI Agents?
- Matt Jones at EvaluAgent explores how businesses can avoid the pitfalls of rushing into AI by first understanding customer contact drivers, analysing intent, and choosing the right type of AI agent for the job. Many businesses are rushing to deploy AI – in fact, we've seen it already with Klarna and Duolingo missteps. The problem is, they're often in a race to be the first to make efficiency (and cost) gains, ...

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Visa, Mastercard take another crack at a fee settlement
- Visa and Mastercard have been fighting with merchants over payment fees for decades, and the card networks are offering new concessions in an effort to bring the fight to a close.  This new offer will need approval from a court that rejected an earlier payment fee settlement in 2024. Merchant groups and the card networks are in the midst of a legal battle that has raged for at least 20 years through a series ...

Source: americanbanker.com
Small plane carrying hurricane aid to Jamaica crashes into Florida pond minutes after takeoff; 'No victims found,' say authorities - The
- A small plane carrying hurricane relief supplies to Jamaica crashed into a pond in a residential area of Coral Springs, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, on Monday, minutes after taking off. Authorities said no victims were found during initial rescue efforts, which have now shifted to a recovery operation led by local police. It was not immediately known how many people were on board the aircraft. Coral ...

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
India: At least eight people killed in car explosion in New Delhi, police say | World News
- The blast happened at the gates of the metro station for the Red Fort, a former Mughal palace and a busy tourist spot. At least eight people have been killed and 19 others were injured after a car exploded in the Indian capital New Delhi, say police. The blast, which triggered a fire that damaged several parked vehicles, happened near the gates of the metro station for the Red Fort, a former imperial palace and ...

Source: news.sky.com
MEDICINE  
Drinking coffee can protect against atrial fibrillation
- Doctors typically recommend that people with heart issues like A-Fib avoid caffeine out of fear that it will trigger symptoms. But a study by UC San Francisco and the University of Adelaid has concluded that drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee a day reduced A-Fib by 39%. "Coffee increases physical activity which is known to reduce atrial fibrillation," said Gregory M. Marcus, MD, MAS, who holds the Endowed ...

Source: news-medical.net
Boston Globe football players of the week for Nov. 10
- Here are the notable performances from high school football players in Eastern Mass. conferences/leagues. Caden Chase , Central Catholic — The junior tailback and linebacker rushed 15 times for 136 yards and three touchdowns, and had an interception in a 39-7 win over Saint John's Shrewsbury. Collin Christiansen , Lowell — The 6-foot-3-inch junior receiver paced Lowell to a 14-0 halftime lead with five ...

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MEDICINE  
Acetaminophen in Pregnancy: No Clear Autism or ADHD Link Found
- No credible tie between Tylenol use and autism/ADHD, huge study finds Despite high-profile advice to avoid Tylenol when pregnant and a potential warning-label change to highlight risk, a comprehensive umbrella study of existing reviews has found no credible link between acetaminophen use and autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). University of Liverpool researchers have conducted an in-depth ...

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Riot at Ecuador prison leaves inmates dead, injured
- QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Deadly rioting that broke out at a prison in Ecuador where inmates were set to be transferred to a new maximum-security facility has left at least 31 inmates killed and 30 others injured, prisons officials said Monday. Authorities gave few details of the violence Sunday at the prison in Machala in southwest Ecuador, but the country's prison oversight agency said that 27 inmates died of ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
US  
Warren Buffett to 'step up' charitable giving with retirement
- Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Warren Buffett told Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, in a Thanksgiving letter Monday ahead of his retirement, that he plans to "step up" charitable giving from his $150 billion estate. Buffett, 95, said he wants to accelerate the disbursement of his Berkshire stock to his children's foundations to ensure they can "dispose of what will essentially be my entire estate before alternate trustees ...

Source: upi.com
There Are Thousands of Aligned Holes in Peru. Researchers Think They Finally Know Why
- Reading time 2 minutes In South America, a mysterious monument stretches almost a mile (1.5 kilometers) through the southern Peruvian Andes. Called Monte Sierpe, meaning serpent mountain, it consists of rows of around 5,200 aligned holes, and researchers have put forth a new theory for what they may have been. In a study published today in the journal Antiquity , an international team of researchers conducted ...

Source: gizmodo.com
Ukrainian strikes disrupt power and heating to 2 major cities in Russia
- KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian strikes disrupted power and heating to two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, local Russian officials reported Sunday. The report comes as Russia and Ukraine have traded almost daily assaults on each other's energy infrastructure and U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the nearly four-year war have not advanced. Elsewhere, Ukraine's top diplomat accused Moscow of ...

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Where the Miami Hurricanes rank in the AP poll after their win over Syracuse
- By The Miami Hurricanes took care of needed business on Saturday, beating the Syracuse Orange 38-10 at Hard Rock Stadium to rebound from an overtime loss to SMU the week prior. It helped Miami inch up in the AP top 25 poll, which they hope will be a precursor for what happens when the latest round of College Football Playoff rankings are unveiled on Tuesday. The Hurricanes checked at No. 16 in the latest AP poll, ...

Source: miamiherald.com