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• A constitutional clash with Congress

  22-02-2016 10:23 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It only took one man's death to give Congress an opening to spread its dysfunction to the rest of government.
  
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• At least 64 people killed in high-speed train collision in central Spain

  28-10-2026 14:03 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By David Latona, Guillermo Martinez and Michael Francis GoreURDA, Spain Oct 28 (Reuters) - Rescue workers in Spain on Wednesday were scouring the wreckage for more ‌bodies at the crash scene where at least 64 people were killed when ‌two high-speed trains collided, in the second deadly railway accident in the country this year.Evacuated passengers streamed along ​a road near the scene, some splattered with blood or with their wounds bandaged, others wheeling suitcases and being given water
  
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• Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz makes move to buy struggling Wendy's

  28-10-2026 13:55 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Wendy's (WEN) may be cooking up burgers for a billionaire soon. Longtime Wendy's investor and former chairman Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners has reportedly offered $1.4 billion to buy the struggling fast food giant, according to an SEC filing.Wendy's shares rose 15% in premarket trading. The company's market cap was $1.17 billion prior to the deal.A Wendy's spokesperson didn't return a request for comment. A spokesperson for Trian Partners didn't return a request for comment. Billionaire Peltz �
  
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• Flávio Bolsonaro's location a mystery as Argentina says he flew to Ecuador

  28-10-2026 13:34 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Flávio Bolsonaro has not conceded defeat and has called for the election to be annulled [Getty Images]
  There is confusion about the whereabouts of defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, after Brazil cancelled his passports and Argentine officials say he boarded a flight to Ecuador.Sources had told the BBC earlier on Tuesday that Bolsonaro had arrived in the US.But Argentine migration authorities later said he had crossed Brazil's land border with Argentina late on Tuesday
  
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• GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Democrat in Alaska governor's race

  28-10-2026 12:48 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for governor Tuesday, passing over three Republican candidates, including President Donald Trump's pick, Bernadette Wilson.
  Murkowski told Anchorage NBC affiliate KTUU that Alaska needs a governor who can work across party lines, according to NBC News.
  Her endorsement came one week before Election Day in the race to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Mike Dunleav
  
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• At least 30 people killed in high-speed train collision in central Spain

  28-10-2026 11:43 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Emma Pinedo and Victoria WalderseeMADRID, Oct 28 (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed when two high-speed trains ‌collided in Spain on Wednesday, the second deadly accident ‌in less than a year on the line connecting Madrid to the southern ​Andalusia region, regional authorities said.Footage from regional Castilla-La Mancha Television showed a derailed train with at least one carriage remaining on an elevated section of track while twisted metal, broken panels and wreckage could �
  
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• The stock market's best 6 months start Monday, with a 76-year streak on the line

  28-10-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  The stock market's favorite season starts Monday. For decades, November through April has beaten the rest of the year by a mile.That's the Halloween indicator, also called the “best six months” or "sell in May." Buy stocks at the end of October, hold them through April, then step aside for the summer.Yale Hirsch found the pattern in 1986. "You can divide the year into two sections and have practically all the gains in one six-month section and very little in the other," his son Jeffrey Hirsc
  
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• Jeffries weighs political risks as he tiptoes around Hegseth impeachment

  28-10-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is tiptoeing around the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, denouncing the Pentagon chief in the sharpest terms but without taking the further step of endorsing Hegseth’s forced removal. 
  Jeffries’s careful approach highlights the delicate dance Democratic leaders are attempting as they seek to balance the various interests in their diverse caucus, especially ahead of next week’s elections when the House is theirs to lose. 
  On on
  
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• Classified material missing from Epstein files, documents suggest

  28-10-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Attorney General Todd Blanche has long maintained that the so-called Epstein files, even those kept from the public, contain no secret information related to national security.When the document releases began last winter, Blanche noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act authorized withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy, but said, "no files are being withheld or redacted on that basis.""There's not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey E
  
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• Multiple deaths reported in high-speed train collision in Spain

  28-10-2026 10:43 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  MADRID, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Two high-speed trains have collided in Spain on the line connecting Madrid to Spain's southern Andalusia region, rail ‌operator Adif said on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people.The ‌collision comes nine months after an accident between high-speed trains belonging to the same operators on ​the same line that killed 46 people.That crash in January, which occurred after a train derailed and smashed into an oncoming train near Adamuz, in Cordoba province, triggered
  
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• As midterms loom, Justice Department keeps taking aim at Trump foes

  28-10-2026 10:06 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Attorney General Todd Blanche has been busy.In the run up to the Nov. 3 midterm elections, the nation's most powerful law enforcement official has hit the campaign trail, stumping at the Republican convention in Texas and at rallies for candidates aligned with President Donald Trump in New York and North Carolina.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.The Justice Department, under Blanche's leadership, has filed broad and con
  
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• Flávio Bolsonaro expected to land in Miami as U.S. grants him and his family visas

  28-10-2026 10:05 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate, fled his country to Argentina and then Ecuador alongside his wife and two daughters, Argentina's migration authority said Wednesday — a day after the 45-year-old senator and his family were granted United States visas by the Trump administration.Bolsonaro is under investigation by Brazil’s Supreme Court for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion in two cases. The court had ordered Bolsonaro to
  
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• Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and family land in Miami

  28-10-2026 10:05 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  MIAMI (AP) — Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami on Wednesday after fleeing Brazil. The stunning move came after 48 hours in which Bolsonaro refused to concede to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and then threatened to attempt to annul the election result. Bolsonaro’s father, Jair Bolsonaro, also fled to Florida after losing the 2022 presidential election to Lula before returning to Brazil three months later. On Monday, the
  
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• Bolsonaro and family to receive U.S. visas after leaving Brazil, State Department says

  28-10-2026 08:50 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Ricardo Brito, Gram Slattery and Luciana MagalhaesSAO PAULO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election, three sources said, with the US State Department due to grant him and his family entry visas.Bolsonaro, who has yet to concede to leftist ‌incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left Brazil after refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports.The ruling relates to a m
  
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• Israelis await final election results as Netanyahu remains far from defeated

  28-10-2026 07:09 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Anxious Israelis watched election results take shape Wednesday after the highest turnout in over a quarter-century, as no clear winner emerged and weeks of negotiating could lie ahead for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an array of opposition parties trying to unseat him.Arab-led parties made a historic showing, but it’s not clear if other opponents of Netanyahu's far-right government would form a coalition with them for a majority in the next parliament. Issues around
  
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• Judge appears skeptical of Trump's push to set aside 20,000 California ballots

  28-10-2026 05:05 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  The federal district judge overseeing the Justice Department's lawsuit asking California to segregate roughly 20,000 ballot belonging to individuals it claims are "likely" noncitizens appeared skeptical of the DOJ's efforts to seek emergency action just a week from the state's election. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said in court Tuesday he intends to appoint a special master to probe DOJ's process that led it to compile the list of alleged 20,000 likely non-citizens, dealing a setback to
  
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• Trump and Talarico draw competing crowds in an unlikely Texas battleground

  28-10-2026 04:12 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  President Trump and Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) shared their competing visions Tuesday as the two held dueling rallies in the Lone Star State one week before the midterm elections.
  Trump did two rallies in Texas — the first in Corpus Christi and another in Lubbock. It’s his fourth trip to Texas to support Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
  Talarico held his own rally in Lubbock on Tuesday. He was in Corpus Christi on Saturday.
  The Texas race is one of the most contested a
  
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• Some oil wells produce little energy but lots of pollution. The EPA wants to ease rules.

  28-10-2026 03:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  At a campaign rally on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said his administration is going to dismantle restrictions on methane, one of the most common and potent planet-warming greenhouse gases. 
  The new rule, proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency in response to complaints from the oil and gas industry, revises a Biden-era rule targeting methane leaks and would relax methane monitoring and emission-control requirements. 
  The agency has planned to repeal these rules for months, saying t
  
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• Thick fog to create dangerous driving conditions for UK commuters

  28-10-2026 02:09 via BBC News
  
  After storms across the UK, the weather is set to turn calmer with mist and fog at times over the coming week.
  
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• Judge rules a top federal prosecutor is 'unlawfully serving' and bars him from cases

  28-10-2026 02:08 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli in June 2025. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press)A federal judge on Tuesdayruled that Bill Essayli is unlawfully serving as Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor and ordered him disqualified from overseeing two criminal cases, rejecting the Justice Department’s latest effort to preserve his authority.Senior U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright, however, delayed the disqualifications from taking effect while he considers an anticipated government
  
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• Iran war costs rise to over $47 billion, according to Pentagon estimate

  28-10-2026 02:01 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Phil StewartWASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The US military has spent over $47 billion so far to prosecute the war in Iran, more than 25% higher than the Defense ‌Department's estimate in July, according to Pentagon data obtained by Reuters.The Pentagon did not ‌immediately respond to a request for comment on its estimate, which has not been shared publicly.The disclosure about the rising ​cost of the Iran war comes as Republicans wrestle with the political fallout of the unpopular confl
  
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• A bust-up between mathematicians is fuelling fears that AI could undermine science

  28-10-2026 02:01 via BBC News
  
  AI has made some awesome scientific discoveries. But now, questions are being raised about its accuracy
  
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• Trump announces plan to weaken methane rules for oil and gas companies

  28-10-2026 01:53 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  The Trump administration is moving to weaken a regulation that requires oil and gas companies to limit leaks of methane, a more potent driver of climate change than carbon dioxide.President Donald Trump announced the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed regulation at an event in Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday evening. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said earlier this month that the agency was “days not weeks” away from issuing the proposal, roughly outlining its contents.“We’ve been wor
  
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• Israeli exit polls show a deadlock and point to a setback for Netanyahu

  28-10-2026 01:48 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Maayan Lubell, Lili Bayer and TamarUriel-BeeriJERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Israel's wartime election appeared deadlocked on Tuesday, exit polls showed, with Gadi Eisenkot's opposition bloc running neck and neck with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's camp, leaving neither side with a clear path to power.The projections pointed to a setback for Netanyahu's coalition and potentially weeks of political wrangling to form a ‌government, though the deadlock could allow Israel's longest-serving
  
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• Flavio Bolsonaro reportedly lands in U.S. after fleeing Brazil following election loss

  28-10-2026 01:43 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Flavio Bolsonaro lost elections to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and refused to concede defeat (Evaristo Sa)Defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States despite a court order banning him from exiting the country, US media reported Tuesday.The son of jailed ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro lost the presidential election Sunday to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and refused to concede defeat.The right-wing senator on Monday said a Suprem
  
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• Flavio Bolsonaro lands in U.S. after fleeing Brazil following election loss

  28-10-2026 01:43 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Flavio Bolsonaro lost elections to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and refused to concede defeat (Evaristo Sa)Defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States despite a court order banning him from exiting the country, US media reported Tuesday.The son of jailed ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro lost the presidential election Sunday to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and refused to concede defeat.The right-wing senator on Monday said a Suprem
  
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• The Papers: 'Budget for a difficult moment' and Netanyahu's 'fate in balance'

  28-10-2026 01:42 via BBC News
  
  Most of the papers focus on the Budget, ahead of its delivery at lunchtime on Wednesday.
  
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• 'Biggest night in the club's history' for fearless Fleetwood

  28-10-2026 01:39 via BBC News
  
  A whopping 83 league places separated Fleetwood from Arsenal, yet the hosts booked their place in the Carabao Cup quarter-final thanks to their penalty shootout win over the Gunners.
  
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• Dowman sees red as Arsenal dumped out, but did Arteta go too far?

  28-10-2026 01:34 via BBC News
  
  A shocking defeat, a red card card, a penalty-shootout and a drone tell the story of Arsenal's dramatic loss to League Two Fleetwood Town in the last-16 of the Carabao Cup.
  
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• Alexander brothers each sentenced to 30 years in prison in sex trafficking case

  28-10-2026 00:41 via BBC News
  
  The trio - two of whom were high-profile US real estate moguls - were found guilty using their social status to lure women to parties and then raping them.
  
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