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Top News Stories for Tuesday, October 22nd 2024
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
The Israeli military apologized Monday for a strike that killed three Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon, saying it is not battling the country's military and its troops believed they were targeting a vehicle belonging to the Hezbollah militant group. Israeli strikes meanwhile hit nearly a dozen branches of a Hezbollah-run financial institution that Israel says is used to fund attacks but where many ordinary ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
R epublican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump's campaign stop at a McDonald's in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday has sparked bemusement and bewilderment from onlookers. But the Golden Arches photo op was far from random: it represents the culmination of a yearslong fascination Trump has had with the fast food chain. Trading in his suit jacket for a yellow-lined apron, Trump, in a branch in ...
Source: time.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Orange life jackets bobbed in the water , where bystanders rushed to form a human chain for passing survivors to safety. Others shouldered the task of wrapping bodies in blankets and carrying them to shore. The frantic scene after an aluminum gangway collapsed Saturday at a boat dock on a Georgia barrier island capped what was supposed to have been a day of celebration, an annual festival ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
A slim majority of 50.39% voted "yes" in Moldova's crunch referendum on European Union accession , preliminary results showed, after President Maia Sandu said that Sunday's twin votes had been marred by "unprecedented" outside interference. The knife-edge finish — with fewer than 1% of ballots still to be counted — is far from a resounding endorsement of the pro-EU path that Sandu has pursued over four ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
Dave Sherwood By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, raising fresh doubts about a quick fix on an island already suffering from severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine. The blackout, after weeks of rolling outages, sparked some small protests around the Caribbean island, where a tropical storm threatened to hamper efforts to ...
Source: yahoo.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani carried the injury-riddled Los Angeles Dodgers to baseball's best record during the regular season. Tommy Edman joined the team in late July and helped them reach the World Series. It's been that kind of year for the big-spending Dodgers. When Ohtani isn't amazing with his power at the plate and prowess on the basepaths, someone else is stepping up. Edman and Will Smith ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
Multiple people died as a helicopter struck a radio tower in Houston on Sunday night and sparked a large fire, authorities said. Police Chief J. Noe Diaz said at a news conference that four people were on board, including a child, and that there were multiple deaths when the private helicopter crashed. The Houston Fire Department initially reported the crash took place in the city's Second Ward neighborhood, where ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
The U.S. Navy said Sunday that two pilots who went missing after a fighter jet crash near Mount Rainier in Washington state last week have died. The pair were in a Navy EA-18G Growler on a routine training flight when it crashed, the Navy said in a statement . The wreckage of the plane was found Wednesday, but the two crew members remained missing and the search for the bodies was ongoing. "It is with a heavy heart ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
– Cubans took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their fourth day, their concerns heightened as Hurricane Oscar crossed the island's with winds and heavy rain. In Santo Suárez, part of a populous neighborhood in southwestern Havana, people went into the streets banging pots and pans in protest Sunday night. "We haven't had electricity for three nights, and our food is ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
The next evolution of business automation has arrived. Here's how companies are building agents to automate everything from fraud prevention to client proposals. Microsoft is conducting " AI tours " in 60 cities. These one-day events are designed to connect AI-curious business folk with Microsoft engineers and sales teams to help explore what Microsoft is calling the "AI-first company" and its enabling technology, ...
Source: zdnet.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
Reviewing your Medicare options could save you money (Family Features) If you're enrolled in Medicare, it's important to remember Medicare Open Enrollment runs from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7 each year. This is the time for people with Medicare to compare their prescription drug and health coverage options for the upcoming year. It is important to compare your options because plans can change every year – even ...
Source: tbnweekly.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
In the last two weeks, we have learned, pretty definitively, through a court filing in the Jan. 6 case, that the 2021 assault on the Capitol was exactly what Donald Trump intended. Mr. Trump called the mob to Washington. Inflamed them. And sent them to the Capitol. And when told that they might kill his loyal vice president, he said "so what?" Like so many things said by Mr. Trump over the last nine ...
Source: post-gazette.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
The challenges have come as former President Trump and his allies have built a roster of excuses for claiming fraud and rejecting the results of the 2024 election if he loses — much as he did in 2020. Driving the news: In Georgia , a Trump-aligned majority of the state's election board passed a flurry of rules last month that would have changed how the election would be run in the state — including a ...
Source: axios.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
Democrat Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over Republican Donald Trump − among voters who have already cast their ballots, that is. A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows the vice president leading the former president by 63%-34%, close to 2-1, among those who have already voted. That preference turns around among those who plan to wait until Election Day to vote, with Trump ahead 52%-35%. As some ...
Source: usatoday.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
As confetti fell and Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" blared through the arena, the New York Liberty celebrated the end of a 27-year odyssey. The team that always fell short, starting from their days in Madison Square Garden, through detours to Radio City Music Hall and Westchester County Center, finally found their way to the top. Video Above: Thousands pack TD Garden in Boston for first WNBA game ever Start ...
Source: wpbf.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
Week 7 of the high school football season is in the books and it was another week of outstanding performances. Read about the Top 15 here and cast your vote for who you think had the best week below. Voting will be open until Thursday morning. Rancocas Valley's Aiden Kitts was the top vote getter in last week's poll, garnering 44.2 percent of the over 19K votes recorded. Willingboro's Mekhi Cottle and Palmyra's ...
Source: thedailyjournal.com
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Egypt as malaria-free, marking a significant public health milestone for a country with more than 100 million inhabitants. The achievement follows a nearly 100-year effort by the Egyptian government and people to end a disease that has been present in the country since ancient times. Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued ...
Source: news-medical.net
Monday, Oct 21st, 2024 -
In a rare rebuke, the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes" denied charges by former President Trump that the program doctored an answer in Vice President Kamala Harris' recent interview to make her look better to viewers. CBS ran an excerpt of the Democratic presidential candidate's interview on "Face the Nation" the day before it ran in a special edition of "60 Minutes" that aired Oct. 7. The answer to a query about the ...
Source: latimes.com
Sunday, Oct 20th, 2024 -
Top secret U.S. intelligence outlining Israel's plans for an attack on Iran appear to have been leaked online in what would constitute a significant security breach if proved authentic. Axios reported on Saturday that two alleged U.S. intelligence documents with details of Israeli preparations to hit back at Iran appeared on a Tehran-affiliated channel on messaging app Telegram. The channel's administrators said in ...
Source: newsweek.com
Sunday, Oct 20th, 2024 -
As of Saturday evening, hurricane-force winds extended just 5 miles from the center. A hurricane so small that it could not be observed by satellite formed this weekend, surprising meteorologists and even forecasters at the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Oscar developed on Saturday near Turks and Caicos, and to the northeast of Cuba, in the extreme southwestern Atlantic Ocean. As of Saturday evening, ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Sunday, Oct 20th, 2024 -
There had already been warning signs — a 1-5 record the most glaring one of all — that the Patriots' season had already started to spiral in the first year of the post-Bill Belichick era. But after their latest loss, coach Jerod Mayo, who inherited the team from Belichick, didn't hesitate to call his team "soft" following their 32-16 defeat against the Jaguars in London on Sunday. "Look, disappointing ...
Source: nypost.com
Sunday, Oct 20th, 2024 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! The Republican nominee was campaigning in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where the golfing legend was born in 1929. LATROBE, Pa. — Donald Trump's campaign suggested he would begin ...
Source: pressherald.com
Sunday, Oct 20th, 2024 -
AUSTIN, Texas — Trevor Etienne ran for three touchdowns, the first two set up by cornerback Daylen Everette's takeaways, and fifth-ranked Georgia went on to beat Quinn Ewers and No. 1 Texas, 30-15, on Saturday night. Etienne's last score was a 1-yard plunge on fourth down with 12:04 left. That came right after an ugly sequence when Texas fans littered the field with water bottles and other trash after ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Oct 20th, 2024 -
While stumping for former President Donald Trump on Saturday, tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he will give away $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states, immediately drawing scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register. "We want to try to get over a million, maybe 2 million voters in the battleground ...
Source: cnn.com
Saturday, Oct 19th, 2024 -
Boeing and the union representing striking machinists have negotiated a new contract proposal that would provide bigger pay raises and bonuses in a bid to end a costly walkout that has crippled production of airplanes for more than a month. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said early Saturday that it plans to hold a ratification vote on Wednesday. The union said the Boeing offer ...
Source: bostonglobe.com