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• Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu says killing of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah will change balance of power in the region – as it happened

  28-09-2024 23:38 via theguardian.com
  
  This blog is now closedNumerous reports have said that Hezbollah’s long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah was the target of Israel’s strikes on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday evening. There has been no official confirmation of whether Nasrallah was killed in the strikes or not.The Israeli Defense Forces said the military carried out a “very accurate” strike on Hezbollah headquarters, but did not mention Nasrallah’s name. Media outlets quoted
  
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• Nine dead and 48 missing after migrant boat sinks off Canary Islands

  28-09-2024 21:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Rescue services say they saved 27 of the 84 people aboard the vessel believed to have come from MauritaniaNine people are confirmed drowned and at least 48 are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Spain’s Canary Islands overnight, rescue services said on Saturday, the latest in a series of such disasters off the west coast of Africa.Sea rescue teams said in a statement they had answered a distress call off El Hierro, one of the islands in the Atlantic archipelago, shortly af
  
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• At least 64 dead and millions without power after Helene devastates south-eastern US

  28-09-2024 21:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Flooding and landslides strike southern Appalachians after hurricane pummeled region and wreaked havocAt least 64 people have been confirmed dead and almost 3.5 million were without power on Saturday, after strong winds and torrential rain from Hurricane Helene wreaked unprecedented havoc across large swathes of the south-eastern United States.Historic flooding continued over parts of the southern Appalachians on Saturday, as first responders worked to reach stranded communities in trying condit
  
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• A far-right party is looking for a historic election win in Austria

  28-09-2024 21:36 via foxnews.com
  
  Austria's far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time when Austria votes on Sunday, tapping into voters' anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe.Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to become Austria's new chancellor. He has used the term "Volkskanzler," or chancellor of the people, which was us
  
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• Pope gets an earful from Belgian king and abuse victims over scandals and failures to respond

  28-09-2024 21:33 via foxnews.com
  
  On a brutal day for Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic university that invited him here all ripped into the institution he heads for a spectrum of sins: for covering up cases of clergy sex abuse and being far behind the times on embracing women and the LGBTQ+ community in the church.And that was all before Francis met with the people most harmed by the Catholic Church in Belgium — the men and women who were raped and molested by priests as
  
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• What might Hezbollah, Israel and Iran do next?

  28-09-2024 21:29 via bbc.com
  
  Israel has killed Hezbollah's leader - but this may bring the region one step closer to a much wider conflict.
  
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• ‘World of horrors’: families huddle on Beirut’s streets amid the bombs

  28-09-2024 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Residents of Lebanon’s capital flee their homes and seek shelter as the death toll from Israel’s airstrikes risesGunshots fired into the air, women wailing in the streets, the ever-present buzz of drones and the distant thud of Israeli airstrikes: this was the sound of mourning in Beirut on Saturday. Hassan Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for 32 years, was dead, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the day before.For many in Lebanon, his killing h
  
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• ‘Leave now’, Foreign Office urges Britons in Lebanon

  28-09-2024 21:20 via theguardian.com
  
  British government says it has been securing extra flights as it asks UK nationals to register their presenceThe British government has been securing extra flights for UK nationals to make their way out of Lebanon, as ministers continued to urge citizens still in the country to “leave now”.Official advice has been warning British nationals to leave the country for months. But with the escalation of tension following the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese militant gro
  
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• Top Russia diplomat warns west not to fight ‘nuclear power’ in UN speech

  28-09-2024 20:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Sergei Lavrov accuses west of using Ukraine ‘to defeat’ Russia days after Putin shifts Moscow’s nuclear postureRussia’s top diplomat warned on Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power”, delivering a UN general assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere – including inside the United Nations itself.Three days after Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, aired a
  
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• At least 22 reported dead as storm John weakens over Mexico

  28-09-2024 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Residents from Michoacán to Oaxaca evacuate after storm ravages Pacific coastline, bringing floods and landslides Residents in south-western Mexico on Saturday evacuated from homes flooded by the remnants of Hurricane John that ravaged the Pacific coastline for a week, bringing deadly floods and landslides that left 22 people reported dead.In Guerrero, the worst-hit state and one of Mexico’s poorest, 18 people were killed, according to local media, many due to mudslides that crushed
  
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• Iran vows vengeance after assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

  28-09-2024 19:35 via theguardian.com
  Iran’s supreme leader says Israel’s killing of Nasrallah will “not go unavenged”, as fears grow of spiralling conflictIran’s supreme leader has warned Israel that its assassination of Hezbollah’s veteran leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, will “not go unavenged”, as fears of a spiralling conflict in the Middle East grow.As the shockwaves from Friday evening’s airstrike that killed Nasrallah reverberated through the region, and Israel continued
  
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• The killing of Hassan Nasrallah leaves Iran with a fateful choice and the US humiliated

  28-09-2024 19:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Israel’s airstrike on Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon has far-reaching implications for Tehran and WashingtonWhen Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, told reporters in New York on Friday that the coming days will determine the future path of the Middle East, he could not have been more prescient, even if at the time he was hoping that Hezbollah and Israel could be persuaded to step back from the brink.Now, with the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah confirmed killed, the regi
  
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• Senior Tories cast doubt over Boris Johnson’s plan to ‘invade the Netherlands’

  28-09-2024 18:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Former prime minister’s claims about wanting to seize Covid vaccines being held in the EU ‘may have been a joke’Senior Tories have cast doubt on Boris Johnson’s claim that he seriously considered invading the Netherlands to seize vaccines during the pandemic, saying the story had obviously been overblown and reheated to boost sales of his memoirs.The former prime minister says in his new book, Unleashed, that he asked senior members of the armed forces about the possibili
  
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• German far-right politician accused of using political prisoners as cheap labour in Belarus

  28-09-2024 16:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Reports of dissenters working for £4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jörg DornauMidway through Nikolai’s shift sorting onions alongside other political prisoners in a warehouse in western Belarus, a tall and bald foreigner entered the building.“He arrived in a car with German license plates. Then he came over and greeted us warmly,” Nikolai*, recalled in an interview with the Observer. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘American Gothic’, famous piece by artist Grant Wood, is displayed to visitors at the Art Institute of Chicago

  28-09-2024 16:17 via foxnews.com
  
  "American Gothic" is a famous piece of artwork by Iowa-born Grant Wood.The painting by Wood depicts a man and a woman standing in front of a house. The man, a farmer, wears overalls, with a pitchfork in his hand, looking straight at the viewer, where the woman's head is turned slightly with a stern look on her face.  WHO WAS THE MONA LISA IN REAL LIFE? STORY BEHIND LEONARDO DA VINCI'S FAMOUS PAINTINGThough there is a clear age gap between the man and the woman in the painting, the rela
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskyy condemns Russian attack on hospital as death toll rises – as it happened

  28-09-2024 16:02 via theguardian.com
  This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our Ukraine war coverage hereRussia has filed “pre-trial claims” against Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland over the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, accusing the West of trying to “sweep the matter under the carpet”, Reuters is reporting.The multi-billion dollar pipeline that carried natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea was ruptured by a series of blasts in September 2022, seven months after Russ
  
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• Seventeen killed in two mass shootings in South African town

  28-09-2024 15:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Police hunting for suspects in attacks that took place in same neighbourhood in Eastern Cape provinceSeventeen people, including 15 women, have been killed in two mass shootings that took place close to each other in a rural town in South Africa, police said.A search was under way for the suspects, the national police spokesperson, Brig Athlenda Mathe, said in a statement on Saturday. One other person was in critical condition in the hospital, she added. Continue reading...
  
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• North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson treated for second-degree burns

  28-09-2024 15:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Embattled Republican lieutenant governor was expected to return to the campaign trail on SaturdayNorth Carolina’s lieutenant governor, Republican Mark Robinson, received burns on Friday night while attending a truck show as he was campaigning for governor, his campaign said.Robinson was making an appearance at the Mayberry truck show in Mount Airy when he was injured, campaign spokesperson Mike Lonergan said in a statement. Continue reading...
  
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• 2024 US presidential polls tracker: Trump v Harris latest national averages

  28-09-2024 14:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Find out who’s up and who’s down in the latest US presidential election opinion pollsOn 21 July, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris. This historic move changed the landscape of the election and how many felt about the race. As the election enters its final weeks, Guardian US is averaging national and state polls to see how the two candidates are faring. We will update our averages once a week, or more if there is major news. Continue reading...
  
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• Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right

  28-09-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a ‘proponent of scientific racism’New College of Florida (NCF) will host the extremist writer Steve Sailer, who has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”, at a college-branded public event next month.New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known f
  
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• North Korea expands list of crimes punishable by death: report

  28-09-2024 13:41 via foxnews.com
  
  North Korea is expanding its list of crimes punishable by death, according to reports.Supreme leader Kim Jong Un's regime expanded the list of offenses warranting the death penalty from 11 to 16 via revisions of criminal law, according to Yonhap News Agency.New offenses warranting execution as a punishment include: anti-state propaganda and agitation acts, illegal manufacturing, and the illicit use of weapons are included in the new codes. KIM JONG UN PROMISES TO 'STEADILY STRENGTHEN' NORTH
  
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• Harris stretches lead over Trump in what could be significant increase

  28-09-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While election almost certain to be decided by swing states, pollsters explain why growth in national polls is meaningfulKamala Harris has stretched her lead over Donald Trump in the US presidential election race, the latest polling averages show, even while the two candidates appear to be running neck-and-neck in most battleground states.The Guardian’s newest poll tracker, based on a range of surveys conducted across a 10-day period, shows the vice-president and Democratic nominee at 48.2
  
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• Woman caught smuggling more than 700 pounds of bologna at southern border: CBP

  28-09-2024 11:18 via foxnews.com
  
  A woman was busted in Presidio, Texas, for smuggling more than 700 pounds of prohibited Mexican bologna and more than 280 boxes of undeclared prescription medications through the Southern Border.The suspect, a 43-year-old U.S. citizen, was caught at about 4 p.m. on Monday at the Presidio Port of Entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.She was arriving from Mexico driving a 2023 GMC Yukon when she was stopped, and she declared only a cooked meal during the initial inspection, CBP s
  
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• Drinking alcohol is linked to six types of cancer, experts say: ‘It’s toxic’

  28-09-2024 10:30 via foxnews.com
  
  It's long been known that no amount of alcohol is good for the body — and now new research spotlights the potential harm it can cause.More than 5% of all cancer cases are caused by drinking alcohol, according to the Cancer Progress Report 2024 from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).Among the modifiable risk factors for cancer, alcohol is the third biggest, behind obesity (7.6% of cases) and cigarette smoking (19.3%).TO REDUCE CANCER RISK, SKIP THE ALCOHOL, REPORT SUGGESTS
  
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• Israeli military says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Beirut strike

  28-09-2024 10:23 via foxnews.com
  
  The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, Hassan Nasrallah, died in its strike Friday against the group’s headquarters in Lebanon."This is not the end of our toolbox. The message is simple, anyone who threatens the citizens of Israel - We will know how to reach them," the IDF's Chief of the General Staff, Ltf. Herzi Halevi said of the elimination of Nasrallah.The IDF attacked the Iran-backed terror proxy’s headquarters in sout
  
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• 'Not American': Rural and urban voters in crucial battleground state alarmed by violent political rhetoric

  28-09-2024 10:00 via foxnews.com
  
  During a swing through Central Pennsylvania, Fox News Digital spoke with several voters in urban and rural areas, and got their take on the effects of charged political rhetoric among other topics.In Wakefield, the rural community just north of the Maryland line, Marsha Peterson co-owns Peterson’s Grocery Outlet with her husband.Asked about the level of political rhetoric, Peterson said the left has spent years on a drumbeat of telling Americans former President Trump "is a danger and he m
  
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• Harris-Trump cash dash: Former president looks to flip script with fundraising swing in oil country

  28-09-2024 10:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 cash dash, former President Trump heads next week to Texas, a state that's long served as an ATM for Republican White House candidates.Aiming to narrow the fundraising gap with Harris, the former president will headline a luncheon Oct. 2 in Midland, Texas, as he courts donors in oil country. That luncheon will be followed by a cocktail reception in Houston, sources in Trump's political orbit confirmed to Fox News Digital.Trump will also headline
  
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• Diddy sex trafficking probe brings unwanted scrutiny to stars: 'Silence is the best option,' expert says

  28-09-2024 10:00 via foxnews.com
  
  As news of Sean "Diddy" Combs' arrest in New York City last week continues to grab headlines, some of Hollywood's elite are gaining unwanted attention and scrutiny due to their recent and past ties to the music mogul despite not being implicated in Diddy's criminal case.Diddy was arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution. He faces a minimum of 15 years behind bars and a maximum sentence of life in
  
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• Abandoned luxury hotel in Florida will reopen after 17 years

  28-09-2024 10:00 via foxnews.com
  
  A highly anticipated luxury hotel is finally reopening in the heart of Palm Beach, Florida, after closing in 2007.L+R Iconic Luxury Hotels purchased the property, which is situated in a prime location just steps from the coastline, in 2019. The company worked to get the property back to its original glory for three years.The Palm House opens in November.TRAVELERS ON TIKTOK ARE MAKING GROCERY STORES THE HOTTEST VACATION 'DESTINATION'General Manager Chris Jaycock told Fox News Digital via email th
  
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• Israeli forces say head of Hamas in southern Syria killed in strike

  28-09-2024 09:38 via foxnews.com
  
  The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced Saturday morning that it eliminated the head of the Hamas terrorist network in southern Syria.The Israeli Air Force struck Ahmad Muhammad Fahd following intelligence conducted by the IDF.Fahd was responsible for carrying out terror attacks against IDF troops and Israel from the area of southern Syria, including by firing projectiles toward the Golan Heights area, according to the IDF.ISRAEL TARGETS HEZBOLLAH LEADER NASRALLAH IN STRIKE ON BEIRUT HEADQUAR
  
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• College football team stranded in buses on flooded interstate amid Hurricane Helene destruction

  28-09-2024 09:15 via foxnews.com
  
  A college football team was stranded on buses in the middle of a flooded interstate in North Carolina on Friday night, as Hurricane Helene continued to bring flash flooding across multiple southeastern states. The team, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), was on its way to a game in Charlston to play The Citadel. But the team's buses only made it as far as Exit 44 on I-26 when they hit floodwaters and were forced to stop on the shoulder. "We have been stranded on our buses outside
  
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• Martinez banned for 'offensive behaviour'

  28-09-2024 09:13 via bbc.com
  
  Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez will miss two World Cup qualifiers for Argentina.
  
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• White Sox suffer record 121st defeat of season

  28-09-2024 08:46 via bbc.com
  
  The Chicago White Sox break the modern-day record for most losses in a Major League Baseball season.
  
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• Wales 'should get a lot more' of UK's rail cash

  28-09-2024 08:41 via bbc.com
  
  Westminster's control of rail investment means Wales loses out on money, a transport expert says.
  
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• 'Jury still out' on new UK government, Michelle O'Neill says

  28-09-2024 08:39 via bbc.com
  
  The Sinn Féin deputy leader was speaking at the party's annual conference in Athlone.
  
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• Flying wing with flying fists - meet England's electric new star

  28-09-2024 08:30 via bbc.com
  
  Bo Westcombe-Evans pulls on an England shirt for the first time on Sunday, less than three months after pulling off boxing gloves for the last time.
  
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• Arkansas couple allegedly tried to sell baby for $1K, beer because caring for baby, 3 dogs 'was not working'

  28-09-2024 06:43 via foxnews.com
  
  An Arkansas couple was arrested after allegedly attempting to sell their two-month-old baby to a man at a campground for $1,000 and a six-pack of beer.Darien Urban, 21, and Shalene Ehlers, 20, face felony charges of endangering the welfare of a minor and attempting to accept compensation for relinquishment of a minor.The Benton County Sheriff's Office said it received a call on Sept. 21 from the manager of the Hide Away Campground reporting that the couple "tried to give up the baby for a 6-pack
  
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• Virginia Tech’s walk-off Hail Mary touchdown reversed after review; No. 7 Miami avoids upset

  28-09-2024 06:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Virginia Tech thought they upset No. 7 Miami on the road, but victory was, almost quite literally, snatched from their hands.With three seconds left and down four points, Hokies quarterback Kyron Drones aired it out to the back of the end zone toward a swarm of both Hokies and Hurricanes. With the naked eye, it was tough to tell who initially came down with the ball, as seven players leaped for it. After some jostling, a Miami defensive back ran away with the pigskin, and celebrations
  
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• Fate of Hezbollah chief unknown after he was targeted in Israeli strike, 2 Hezbollah leaders killed

  28-09-2024 06:18 via foxnews.com
  
  The fate of Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah is unknown following the Israeli Defense Forces' "targeted attack" against the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, Lebanon. Fox News has learned the target of the attack was Nasrallah, but Hezbollah has since claimed that he is "fine and well" following the strike."His Eminence the Secretary-General is fine and well and was not in the targeted location," Hezbollah Media Relations Officer Hajj Muhammad Afif said on Iranian television.&
  
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• Mark Robinson treated for burns after campaign event incident, campaign confirms

  28-09-2024 05:54
  
  Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson "is currently being treated for burns," his communications director confirmed to NBC News on Friday night.
  
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• NC gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson hospitalized following 'incident' at campaign event

  28-09-2024 05:47 via foxnews.com
  
  North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was hospitalized following an "incident" at a campaign event on Friday evening, Fox News Digital has confirmed. It happened while Robinson was attending the Mayberry Truck Show in Mt. Airy, North Carolina. "Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was treated at Northern Regional Hospital for second-degree burns. He is in good spirits, appreciates the outpouring of well wishes, and is excited to return to the campaign trail as scheduled first thing to
  
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• The Papers: Maggie Smith mourned and Johnson's Covid 'war cry'

  28-09-2024 05:34 via bbc.com
  
  The passing of actress Dame Maggie Smith features prominently on Saturday's front pages.
  
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• At least 43 dead as Hurricane Helene pummels south-east US

  28-09-2024 05:19 via bbc.com
  
  Helene marked one of the largest storms to hit the US, causing widespread devastation across the southeast
  
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• Knicks, Timberwolves close to exchanging All-Stars in potential blockbuster trade: reports

  28-09-2024 05:14 via foxnews.com
  
  The New York Knicks are making one more big move before the season starts to capitalize on their championship window.According to multiple reports, the Knicks are on the verge of acquiring Karl-Anthony Towns from the Minnesota Timberwolves and will send Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo.Some reports say the Knicks are also adding a first-round selection.The Knicks made it to the second round of the playoffs last year without Randle, who dislocated his shoulder earlier in the year and missed the
  
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• Chicago White Sox lose 121st game this season, most in baseball history

  28-09-2024 05:04
  
  The Chicago White Sox fell 4-1 to the Detroit Tigers on Friday for their 121st loss of the season, the most in MLB history.
  
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• He mourned his missing fiancée for a decade. Then he was charged with her murder.

  28-09-2024 04:51
  
  Just before John Carter was to stand trial for his fiancée Katelyn Markham’s 2011 death, he pleaded guilty to the lesser crime of involuntary manslaughter.
  
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• Kamala Harris makes rare trip to US-Mexico border

  28-09-2024 04:50 via bbc.com
  
  In her first visit to the border since 2021, the Democratic nominee promised "common-sense solutions".
  
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• 3 hackers with ties to Iran indicted in plot against Trump campaign: DOJ

  28-09-2024 04:14 via foxnews.com
  
  Three men connected to Iran have been indicted in relation to a hacking plot against former President Donald Trump's campaign, the Department of Justice announced Friday.Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri and Yasar Balaghi are the three suspects named in the case, according to a federal indictment unsealed Friday afternoon.The indictment shows the trio are facing a long list of charges, including: Conspiracy to Obtain Information from a Protected Computer; Defraud and Obtain a Thing of Value; Co
  
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• Kamala Harris' tough-on-migration pitch at the border points to a shifting national mood

  28-09-2024 04:03
  
  Kamala Harris highlighted her tough-on-migration stance in a border visit, trying to rebut Donald Trump's message that Democrats are soft on immigration enforcement.
  
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• US warships come under attack in Red Sea as nearly two dozen incoming missiles and drones shot down

  28-09-2024 03:55 via foxnews.com
  
  Three U.S. warships came under attack Friday off the coast of Yemen by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have disrupted commercial shipping in the region, but no one was hurt, officials said. The warships shot down nearly two dozen incoming missiles and drones while transiting a narrow entrance into the Red Sea. None of the vessels was hit, and no sailors on board were hurt, a U.S. official told Fox News. The USS Stockdale and USS Spruance, along with a littoral combat ship, the USS India
  
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