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• Venezuelan opposition says detained activist has been murdered

  25-10-2024 23:52 via theguardian.com
  
  VP party holds Maduro regime responsible for death of Edwin Santos who had been picked up by security officialsA major Venezuelan opposition party has said that one of its activists was murdered this week after being detained by security officials in the western state of Apure.Edwin Santos “was murdered after being abducted by members of the state security forces” on Wednesday, Voluntad Popular (VP) party said, blaming the iron-fisted regime of the leftwing president, Nicolás
  
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• Students in Helene-ravaged Buncombe County return to school

  25-10-2024 23:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  ASHEVILLE, N.C. — One month after Hurricane Helene destroyed mountain towns, swept away homes and upended countless lives here, thousands of Buncombe County’s students returned to school Friday.
  
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• Aunt of 4-year-old boy whose parents are accused of starving him to death to sue city for $40M

  25-10-2024 23:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  The maternal aunt of a 4-year-old boy who prosecutors say was starved to death by his parents in their New York City apartment has filed a $40 million notice of claim alleging the city’s child welfare agency failed to protect his well-being and safety.
  
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• US reinforces Central Command with fresh supply of F-16s in 'ironclad' commitment to defend Israel

  25-10-2024 23:29 via foxnews.com
  
  American F-16 fighter jets have been deployed to the Middle East, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed on Friday, in a show of an "ironclad" commitment to Israel as tensions mount with Iran. CENTCOM did not detail how many F-16s had been sent to the "area of responsibility," but said they had been deployed from the 480th Fighter Squadron based at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany.When pressed by reporters about whether the move signaled Jerusalem was preparing to launch its promised
  
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• Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries pleads not guilty to sex trafficking charges

  25-10-2024 23:23 via nbcnews.com
  Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and an alleged accomplice pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York.
  
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• Transit workers who lost jobs when they didn't get Covid vaccines are awarded $1M

  25-10-2024 23:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Six former employees for the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency who lost their jobs when they did not get Covid vaccines for religious reasons have been awarded more than $1 million each, according to court documents related to a lawsuit the California workers filed.
  
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• Even if Harris isn't talking about gender, everyone else is

  25-10-2024 22:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Gender remains an inescapable part of the election, the topic underlying much of the race — even if Kamala Harris isn't leaning into how she would make history.
  
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• India, China begin implementing new border pact, ending Himalayan face-off

  25-10-2024 21:54 via foxnews.com
  
  India and China have begun implementing an agreement to end a military standoff on their disputed Himalayan border, the two sides said on Friday, in the biggest thaw between the Asian giants since deadly clashes between their armies four years ago.Troops who were eyeball-to-eyeball at two points on the frontier in India's Ladakh region in the western Himalayas had begun pulling back, an Indian government source said, heralding an end to the standoff.INDIA ACCUSES CHINA OF VIOLATING BORDER AGREEM
  
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• Ukraine, others furious at UN chief for meeting Putin at BRICS summit

  25-10-2024 21:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday clapped back at the decision by U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on United Nations Day — a day that officially solidified the body's dedication to the promotion of peace and to "uphold international law.""On this United Nations Day, it’s crucial to emphasize that the world must not forget the goals and principles of the U.N. Charter and the reason this organization was
  
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• Biden apologizes for Native American children forced into federal boarding schools

  25-10-2024 21:15
  
  His visit to Arizona's Gila River Indian Community was his first as president.
  
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• Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy

  25-10-2024 21:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden delivered an apology for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation.
  
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• Harris centers her closing argument on Trump by arguing he's dangerous

  25-10-2024 20:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  With just days until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is leaning into a closing argument centered on attacking former President Donald Trump as a danger, an approach campaign officials believe will help her both win over remaining undecided voters and motivate her base, according to four Harris aides familiar with the strategy.
  
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• Trump calls US 'garbage can for the world' in latest anti-immigrant rhetoric

  25-10-2024 20:55
  
  Former President Donald Trump escalated his anti-immigrant rhetoric at a rally in battleground Arizona on Thursday, calling the U.S. a "garbage can for the world."
  
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• Gov. Josh Shapiro weighs in on Elon Musk, misinformation and Harris' chances in Pennsylvania

  25-10-2024 20:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Josh Shapiro sits atop one of the most important states this election, and he said he’s doing everything he can to make sure Kamala Harris wins in Pennsylvania.
  
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• Alex Jones fighting attempt to sell his social media account rights in Infowars auction

  25-10-2024 20:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jones is seeking to protect his personal social media accounts from being sold in the upcoming auction of his Infowars media platform to pay more than $1 billion he owes relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
  
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• Former Gov. Larry Hogan unpacks his Maryland Senate race, refusing Trump endorsement

  25-10-2024 19:13
  
  ABC News’ Linsey Davis sits down with Maryland’s former Gov. Larry Hogan, who hopes to win a U.S. Senate seat as an anti-Trump Republican in a deep blue state.
  
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• More than 1,000 drone incidents at jails in England and Wales last year

  25-10-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: MoJ attempts to fight back against brazen deliveries that often include household items like ketchup alongside drugsThe number of drones seen carrying drugs into prisons soared to more than 1,000 last year as police waged a “constant battle” against gangs flying in cocaine and cannabis from miles away.Official figures reveal the number of drone incidents at prisons in England and Wales has risen almost tenfold since 2020, climbing to 1,063 incursions last year. Continue re
  
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• Every One Direction album returns to UK Top 40 as fans grieve Liam Payne

  25-10-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Boyband also have three songs in Top 40 singles chart, including two in the Top 10, after singer’s death last week• Liam Payne of One Direction – a life in picturesThe whole of One Direction’s five-album back catalogue has charted in this week’s Top 40, as fans revisit their songs in the wake of Liam Payne’s death.Midnight Memories from 2013 charted the highest at No 13, with Four at 22, Take Me Home at 25 and debut album Up All Night at 38. Continue reading...
  
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• US election live updates: Washington Post refuses to endorse a presidential candidate as Harris-Trump race deadlocked

  25-10-2024 18:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Washington Post will not endorse candidates in current or future presidential races, publisher says; latest poll shows Harris and Trump tied at 48%‘Fascist’, ‘conman’, ‘predator’, ‘cheat’: what 11 Trump staff say about himKamala Harris and Donald Trump are tied at 48%, according to a new poll by the New York Times and Siena College.Published on Friday, the poll, the poll also revealed that 31% of registered voters view Trump as very favorable while
  
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• Middle East crisis live: UN rights chief says ‘darkest moment’ of Israel’s war on Gaza is unfolding in the north

  25-10-2024 18:48 via theguardian.com
  Hundreds of patients and staff ‘detained’ in north Gaza’s last functioning hospital after Israeli raidLebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad, has told reporters that over 163 rescuers and health workers had been killed and 272 injured in Israeli airstrikes during more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.Hezbollah, the Iranian backed Lebanese militant group, began firing rockets into northern Israel in support of Palestinians on 7 October 2023, the day af
  
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• Army sergeant found dead on Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri hours after she's reported missing

  25-10-2024 18:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 23-year-old U.S. Army sergeant was found dead Monday evening on Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri hours after she was reported missing, officials said.
  
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• Cheesemakers in shock as £300,000 of produce stolen in sophisticated scam

  25-10-2024 18:21 via theguardian.com
  Neal’s Yard Dairy delivered 22 tonnes of artisan cheddar after scammer posed as distributor for French retailerArtisan cheesemakers have been dealt a blow by fraudsters who stole more than £300,000 worth of award-winning clothbound cheddar in a sophisticated scam.Neal’s Yard Dairy, a distributor and retailer of British artisan cheese, is working with UK and international law enforcement agencies to try to identify the scam’s perpetrators. Continue reading...
  
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• New poop statue displayed near US Capitol to ‘honor’ January 6 rioters

  25-10-2024 18:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Artwork satirically commemorates people who broke in to the Capitol and defecated on the House speaker’s deskA new temporary bronze installation depicting a pile of feces on Nancy Pelosi’s desk was erected in Washington DC this week across from the US Capitol, appearing to satirically “honor” the people behind the January 6 insurrection.The scatological statue, which was installed on Thursday, features a swirl somewhat resembling the common “poop” emoji sittin
  
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• Woman who killed sleeping daughter in West Midlands given hospital order

  25-10-2024 18:17 via theguardian.com
  Jaskirat Kaur stabbed 10-year-old Shay Kang 11 times because she believed they were targeted by ‘tech and lasers’A woman who stabbed her sleeping daughter 11 times in the chest because she believed they were being targeted by “tech and lasers” has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.Jaskirat Kaur, 33, called 999 hours after she had killed 10-year-old Shay Kang with a Swiss army knife at their home in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, in March. Continue reading...
  
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• Astronauts return from nearly eight months on ISS after Starliner problems

  25-10-2024 18:13 via theguardian.com
  
  SpaceX capsule touches down carrying three Americans and a Russian who were scheduled to return in AugustFour astronauts have returned to Earth after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton.A SpaceX capsule carrying the crew parachuted before dawn on Friday into the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Florida coast, after undocking from the International Space Station earlier this week. Continue reading...
  
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• Virginia must restore voter eligibility to more than 1,600 after US judge ruling

  25-10-2024 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Governor’s order on non-citizen voting led to many residents wrongly deemed ineligible due to errorsVirginia must restore more than 1,600 people to the voter rolls after a federal judge ruled on Friday that the state had illegally removed them.US district judge Patricia Giles granted an injunction request brought against Virginia election officials by the justice department, which claimed the voter registrations were wrongly canceled during a 90-day quiet period ahead of the November elect
  
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• Man jailed for missing pet scam blackmailed victim again days after release

  25-10-2024 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Brandon Woolveridge was let out of prison under the government’s early release schemeA man who was let out of prison under the government’s early release scheme, after being jailed for blackmailing people over their missing pets, went on to blackmail one of his previous victims within a fortnight of being freed.Brandon Woolveridge, 25, had been jailed for 42 months at Preston crown court in October last year. On Friday, he was jailed for 27 months at the same court for what judge Hea
  
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• Gisèle Pelicot lawyers: trial exposes ‘profound problem’ in attitudes to sexual violence

  25-10-2024 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Dozens of accused deny rape, despite video evidence showing unconscious Gisèle Pelicot snoring loudlyTaking the stand in France’s biggest ever rape trial, Patrice N, 55, an electrician from the southern town of Carpentras, said he was a “jovial” guy and a fun dad who once trained youth football teams and had a “great respect for women”.He denied the charges of rape, claiming rape had never been his intention. “To my mind, it was a game,” he told t
  
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• Tommy Robinson charged with phone offence under Terrorism Act – as it happened

  25-10-2024 17:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Far-right activist has been charged with failing to provide the pin to his mobile phone over an incident earlier this year in FolkestoneDowning Street is blocking moves to include a ban on smoking outdoors in the upcoming Tobacco and Vapes bill amid fierce opposition by the hospitality trade.No 10 officials privately believe that banning people from lighting up in pub gardens is “an unserious” policy and is not backed by good evidence showing that it harms non-smokers. Continue readi
  
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• Seventy-five infected as cases rise in US E coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s

  25-10-2024 17:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Update by Food and Drug Administration signals escalation in food poisoning outbreak affecting US west and midwestThe US Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that 75 people had now been infected by the E coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s quarter pounder hamburgers, as the number sickened by the bacterial illness continues to increase.And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Friday: “The true number of sick people in this outbreak is likely much highe
  
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• Doug Emhoff’s former girlfriend alleges he slapped her during argument in 2012

  25-10-2024 17:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Spokesperson for second gentleman denies claim from woman who says he struck her at the Cannes film festivalA woman has alleged that Doug Emhoff slapped her during an argument when they were a couple in 2012, before he married Kamala Harris, and the accusation has prompted a spokesperson for the second gentleman to issue a denial.The woman has not publicly identified herself. She first spoke to the Daily Mail anonymously and then again after Emhoff’s denial, on the condition that her name
  
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• Donald Trump's Gen Z son, Barron, is serving as his unofficial podcast adviser

  25-10-2024 17:20
  
  Barron Trump might not be appearing on the campaign trail with his father Donald Trump, but the 18-year-old has an unofficial role: podcast adviser.
  
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• Brexit has put £370m a year on price of power from EU since 2021, experts say

  25-10-2024 16:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Trade body Energy UK also estimates total energy cost of leaving bloc could reach £10bn by end of decadeBrexit has added up to £370m a year to the price of power supplies from Europe, according to industry representatives who calculate that the total energy costs of leaving the EU could amount to £10bn by the end of the decade.Energy UK, the sector’s trade body, has called on Keir Starmer to negotiate a closer trading relationship with the bloc as part of the “reset
  
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• Tiny house with erotic frescoes uncovered in Pompeii

  25-10-2024 16:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Paintings include one depicting a scantily clad Phaedra, mythological queen of Athens, and her stepson HippolytusA tiny house featuring erotic frescoes is the latest discovery in the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. Experts say the exquisitely decorated abode, called the House of Phaedra after the mythological queen of Athens, sheds light on the changing architectural styles in the first century AD but is also further proof that the residents of Pompeii had an appetite for sensual art
  
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• Popular Sydney beaches among quarter of NSW swimming spots polluted with faecal matter in past year

  25-10-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Shelly beach, Bronte, Coogee and Malabar among those rated ‘poor’ as swimmers urged to check water quality onlineGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than a quarter of New South Wales’ favourite swimming spots have been polluted by faecal matter over the past year including Sydney’s Coogee, Bronte and Malabar beaches.With the Bureau of Meteorology predicting a wet summer, the government has urged swimmers to check its online water quality monito
  
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• Albanese government pauses controversial debt recovery method until appeal resolved

  25-10-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Legality of income apportionment has been under question for years but social services says it is confident system is lawfulGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Department of Social Services will pause work on recovering debts using its income calculation method while it awaits the outcome of an appeal against an administrative appeals tribunal (AAT) decision in the federal court.The legality of income apportionment – where a recipient’s job income is divide
  
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• Israel must stop ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza, Jordan tells US

  25-10-2024 15:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Jordanian foreign secretary warns ‘we stand at brink of regional war’ as he meets Antony Blinken in LondonMiddle East crisis – live updatesJordan’s foreign minister has called for pressure on Israel to end what he called the “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza, as he met the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, in London.Blinken, who is still hoping Gaza peace talks can be revived, stopped over in the UK to brief leaders from Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Jor
  
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• Voters who sat out 2020 weigh whether to jump in for Trump or Harris this time

  25-10-2024 15:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  A new focus group of voters who plan to cast ballots this fall — but didn’t participate in the 2020 presidential election — illustrates how both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are leaning on a core message to try to expand the electorate in a close race.
  
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• Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator

  25-10-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Petition to Ecuador’s copyright office is first legal attempt to recognise an ecosystem’s moral authorshipA forest in Ecuador could be recognised as the co-creator of a song under a groundbreaking legal proposal.A petition is to be submitted to Ecuador’s copyright office to recognise the Los Cedros cloud forest as the co-creator of the composition Song of the Cedars. The action by the More Than Human Life (Moth) project is the first legal attempt to recognise an ecosystem&rsquo
  
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• Rapper Lil Durk arrested in murder-for-hire plot

  25-10-2024 14:49
  
  Rapper Lil Durk -- whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks -- has been arrested in a murder-for-hire plot, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Three journalists killed by Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon

  25-10-2024 14:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Reporters from Hezbollah-affiliated TV stations were staying in chalets being used by a number of media outletsMiddle East crisis – live updatesThree journalists from the Hezbollah-affiliated TV stations Al Mayadeen and Al-Manar were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on their press station in Hasbaya, southern Lebanon, early on Friday morning.The strikes hit a group of small chalets that 18 journalists from at least seven different media outlets – including Al
  
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• Putin looks to halt neighboring Georgia's Western ambitions in vital election

  25-10-2024 14:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Georgians go to the polls on Saturday in crucial parliamentary elections as the country struggles to move closer to the West, all while under the watchful eye of Russian President Vladimir Putin.The stakes could not be higher for the small nation that sits in the troubled Caucasus region. Georgia, once part of the Soviet Union, has been caught between heavy Russian influence since it declared independence in 1991 and trying to join the European Union and move closer to the West."It is within Rus
  
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• Trump's lawyers again ask to dismiss federal election interference case

  25-10-2024 14:27
  
  The filing argues that special counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed and that funding for his office should be cut off.
  
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• Trump to appear on Joe Rogan's podcast in play for young male voters

  25-10-2024 14:25
  
  "The Joe Rogan Experience" boasts approximately 15.7 million Spotify followers.
  
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• In 'The Price of Power,' McConnell says Trump's MAGA movement is 'completely wrong'

  25-10-2024 14:24
  
  New book chronicles McConnell's increasing dissatisfaction with Trump leading up to the 2020 election and in the days that followed.
  
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• WATCH: Astronauts return to Earth after being delayed by Boeing's capsule trouble

  25-10-2024 14:13
  
  Four astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton.
  
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• Protecting Your Vote: 1 in 5 Election Day polling places have closed over last decade

  25-10-2024 14:06
  
  As part of the monthlong series "Protecting Your Vote," ABC News examines the closing of thousands of polling sites following a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.
  
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• Rachel Reeves: The chess fanatic playing Labour's first big gambit

  25-10-2024 13:53 via bbc.com
  
  Profile of the UK's first female chancellor as she prepares to deliver first Labour Budget in 14 years.
  
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• Half of Americans see Donald Trump as a fascist: POLL

  25-10-2024 13:37
  
  Half the country sees Donald Trump as a fascist in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, amplifying concerns recently raised by Kamala Harris and past Trump administration members.
  
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• Harris, Obama campaign together for 1st time at star-studded Georgia rally

  25-10-2024 13:32
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned with former President Barack Obama for the first time Thursday night in must-win Georgia at a star-studded rally.
  
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