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• AAC tourney begins with UConn undefeated in league history

  05-03-2016 00:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — The American Athletic Conference's women's basketball tournament is being played this weekend at a resort casino in Connecticut and it is a good bet UConn will win its third straight conference championship.
  
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• 2 killed, including student, in ‘horrific’ school bus crash in Florida

  05-10-2026 16:54 via abcnews.com
  
  A school bus filled with children rolled over in a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning in central Florida, killing two and injuring multiple others, according to authorities.The bus was traveling to a high school and carrying 39 passengers, including 37 high schoolers, the bus driver and the driver's 9-year-old daughter, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press conference Monday morning.Two people died in the crash, including a tenth-grade girl on the bus and an individual in a Jeep involve
  
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• Former Republican House speaker Dennis Hastert dead at 84

  05-10-2026 15:59 via cbsnews.com
  
  Washington — Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was jailed for violating banking laws, has died, a coroner in Illinois said. He was 84.Both the longest-serving Republican House speaker and the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, Hastert's stunning fall from grace came in 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover
  
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• Leavitt's next career move after exit as Trump's press secretary: Fox News

  05-10-2026 15:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s next career move has been announced.Leavitt, who left her post in the Trump administration at the end of August, has kept mum about her career plans going forward.But now, Fox News has announced that the 29-year-old will be joining the network beginning November 1 as an on-air contributor. She is expected to appear on multiple shows on the network, providing commentary across opinion and news programs.Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott sa
  
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• Sailors are being offered up to $25,000 for risky oil runs through Hormuz

  05-10-2026 15:35 via newsmax.com
  (Getty Images)Persian Gulf oil producers are paying as much as $40 million per tanker trip to keep crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz as attacks on commercial vessels continue during the Iran war, The Wall Street Journal reported.
  Oil nevertheless is moving out of the Gulf at its fastest pace since the war began, according to the outlet. Producers increasingly are turning to journeys known as "shuttle runs," which allow customers to avoid sending their own tankers into the dangerous wate
  
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• U.S. and German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain

  05-10-2026 15:15 via yahoo.com
  By Johan Ahlander, Marie Mannes and Bhanvi SatijaSTOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.The Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute said Deisseroth, 54, Hegemann, 71, ‌and Nagel, 73, had been selected for their "discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and
  
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• Pentagon officials' heated debates foreshadowed problems in Iran

  05-10-2026 14:54 via washingtonpost.com
  As Houthi militants in Yemen attacked ships with missiles and drones in the Red Sea early last year, top U.S. officials gathered at the Pentagon to prepare military options for President Donald Trump. Their meetings repeatedly grew tense. On one side were Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, then overseeing U.S. operations in the Middle East, and other hawks ready for action. The general was keen on military action not only against the Houthis, but also against Iran, which had backed the Yem
  
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• Anger in Japan grows after U.S. Marine is arrested over the killing of a woman

  05-10-2026 14:42 via yahoo.com
  TOKYO (AP) — The arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman on Okinawa has drawn condemnation from Japan's leaders and renewed protests against the heavy American military presence on the southern island.The alleged killing could complicate Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to strengthen Japanese military defense on the island and to work more closely with the U.S. military to deter China in the region.Okinawa prefectural police said they arrested De
  
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• A tropical storm may be developing in the Gulf. Models don't rule out U.S. impacts.

  05-10-2026 14:13 via washingtonpost.com
  The Atlantic Ocean hasn’t seen a hurricane yet this year in a season that remains among the quietest on record, driven by a strong El Niño pattern that’s getting even stronger. But the Gulf of Mexico may be about to cook up a storm, and there’s at least some chance of U.S. impacts.The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a nascent disturbance in the Bay of Campeche, or southwestern Gulf of Mexico, west of the Yucatán Peninsula. The agency estimates development
  
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• Christa Pike's lawyers warned her veins could make execution 'difficult and perhaps cruel'

  05-10-2026 13:00 via yahoo.com
  Christa Pike in court in Nashville in 2012.Photograph: Dipti Vaidya/USA TODAY NETWORK/Imagn Images/Reuters Connect
  A former lawyer for Christa Pike says he was not surprised that Tennessee botched its attempt to execute her because attorneys had warned that problems accessing her veins could make the procedure dangerous and potentially cruel.
  James Crowson, who represented Pike during part of her post-conviction appeals, said he had followed the case from afar before the failed execution at Riv
  
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• Sam Altman: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for benefits of AI

  05-10-2026 12:56 via yahoo.com
  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits "something's clearly not working" with the artificial intelligence money that has flooded the midterm elections — and he doesn't expect President Donald Trump's rebrand of the technology to improve his industry's image with the American public, either."I get why AI has a really negative perception right now," Altman told Brendan Bordelon in an exclusive interview marking the launch of Decoded by POLITICO. "I don't think spending money on politics is what's goin
  
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• Supreme Court weighs bid by oil companies to avoid climate lawsuit

  05-10-2026 12:47 via yahoo.com
  By John Kruzel and Andrew ChungWASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The US Supreme Court is set on Monday to hear a bid by oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to thwart ‌a lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms caused by climate change, ‌as the justices open a new nine-month term.US-based Exxon and Canada-based Suncor appealed after the Colorado Supreme Court let Boulder's lawsuit accusing ​them of state law violations proceed. President Don
  
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• Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike

  05-10-2026 12:31 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — On a sunny, cloudless morning on March 1, the day after President Donald Trump started the war against Iran, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan was coordinating critical Army supplies out of Port Shuaiba in Kuwait.In an instant, a drone crashed through the ceiling and exploded, killing Marzan, who had served in the military for 36 years. The force flung soldiers into the air, fragments of sheet metal and glass shards impaling them. The tin roof was peeled back “l
  
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• A common blood pressure drug shows promise for ADHD, animal studies suggest

  05-10-2026 12:00 via sciencealert.com
  
  (Dani Serrano/Moment RF/Getty Images)
  Experts say we need more options for treatingADHD, and a 2025 study suggests one option might already be stocked at the chemist.
  Around a quarter of patients with ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) find that existing medications for the condition do not improve their symptoms.
  And for others, the benefits of the stimulants commonly prescribed for ADHD are outweighed by the side effects: raised blood pressure, loss of appetite, headaches, trouble
  
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• Former Prince Andrew takes legal action over warrants used in Epstein-related arrest

  05-10-2026 11:15 via bbc.com
  
  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor photographed leaving a police station in February [Reuters]
  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking legal action against Thames Valley Police over his arrest in February.The former Prince Andrew was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, in the wake of information that emerged from the Epstein files in the United States.Mountbatten-Windsor's lawyers are challenging the search warrants used in Sandringham and at Royal Lodge in Windsor relating to his arrest,
  
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• 4 ways the midterm elections could turn out, with a month to go

  05-10-2026 11:00 via yahoo.com
  Democrats are heading into the last month of the midterm elections campaign with ambitions going deeper and deeper into red territory, while Republicans are grim about their hopes of holding on to either chamber of Congress. Historically, the opposition party almost always makes gains in the midterms, and President Donald Trump is less popular than ever. His support has weakened especially with independents in high-quality polls and among swing demographics that propelled his 2024 majority.Subsc
  
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• Flydubai co-pilot planned attack before airline hired him, Israeli officials say

  05-10-2026 10:55 via yahoo.com
  By Alexander Cornwell and Maayan LubellJERUSALEM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The flydubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain in a suspected attempt to crash the plane has told UAE interrogators he planned the attack before he was hired by the Dubai state-owned airline, according to two Israeli ‌officials with knowledge of the probe.A third source briefed on the UAE probe said the co-pilot, an Omani national, had planned to crash ‌last Wednesday's flight into Ben-Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. He h
  
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• Tennessee prison chief had execution problems before Christa Pike, officials say

  05-10-2026 10:00 via cnn.com
  
  Christa Gail Pike, on death row for a slaying, appears in court on April 12, 2012, to fight a conviction in a 2001 attack on an inmate. - Dipti Vaidya/USA Today Network/Imagn Images/Reuters
  Before the botched execution of Christa Pike, Frank Strada reportedly had a history of overseeing execution missteps in two states.
  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Saturday announced Correction Commissioner Strada would step down later this month following the backlash after the attempted execution left Pike on a
  
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• Saudi-led coalition says its jets are bombing Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels

  05-10-2026 09:20 via yahoo.com
  ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Forces of Yemen’s internationally recognized government began a major offensive Monday against the Iranian-backed Houthis rebels on the country's Red Sea coast, under an intensified air campaign by the Saudi-led coalition.The offensive came just after the rebels said they had captured more territory in the southwestern part of Yemen, taking a key town in a blow to the Saudi-backed forces as they advanced toward a strategic provincial capital in the region. The Saud
  
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• Stanford scientist shares Nobel Prize in medicine for breakthrough in brain research

  05-10-2026 09:01 via yahoo.com
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells. Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have carried out research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. The Nobel Assembly lauded their work, writing on X that the method “is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries.”T
  
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• 2 victims identified after Georgia homecoming shooting as police appeal for help

  05-10-2026 08:53 via newsweek.com
  
  Two people killed after gunfire erupted at a neighborhood homecoming party in Georgia on Sunday have been identified.The shooting, which left another 35 injured, began at about 1:25 a.m. Sunday at a neighborhood party that spanned four blocks in the city of Vienna.Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy in a press conference described it as a “senseless act of violence” and said the investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been reported.The two victims killed have been named as Ja’Qu
  
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• Coast Guard personnel exchange gunfire with shooters across US-Mexico border

  05-10-2026 08:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Coast Guard personnel exchanged gunfire with people on the Mexican side of the border, an encounter the U.S. military later cited as an example of increased illegal activity as hundreds of U.S. troops and their equipment were repositioned to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and 500 Mexican Army and National Guard personnel were deployed to its side of the border.Coast Guard personnel were intercepting migrants crossing the Rio Grande River while working with other federal agencies when the initial
  
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• U.S. removes B-1 bombers from U.K. air base after new security threat

  05-10-2026 07:52 via cnn.com
  
  A Rockwell B1 Lancer heavy bomber takes off from RAF Fairford in Fairford, United Kingdom, on October 04. - David Bown/Getty Images
  The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.
  “We can acknowledge now that all U.S. bombers
  
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• Dramatic footage shows alleged narco boat erupt in fireball during US military strike

  05-10-2026 07:22 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. military on Sunday announced a lethal strike on another vessel in the Caribbean carrying alleged narco-traffickers, killing four people on board.The U.S. Southern Command said the vessel was traveling along "established narco-trafficking routes" in the Caribbean. The military shared a video that showed what appeared to be an explosion destroying a moving boat it described as a go-fast vessel."Under the direction of U.S. Southern Command, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a le
  
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• Student gave Cornell police leads in alleged rape and thought it was ‘in good hands’

  05-10-2026 06:04 via nbcnews.com
  Jane Doe’s lawsuit has sparked uproar and criticism of Cornell University and the DA’s handling of her allegations. (Heather Ainsworth for NBC News)A Cornell University student gave campus police leads in the alleged rape of Jane Doe in 2024 but expressed dismay over how the authorities handled the case.The student, who spoke to NBC News on Sunday on condition of anonymity over concerns about repercussions, said she first heard about allegations that Doe was raped as a rumor on campu
  
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• U.S. military says latest strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean kills 4

  05-10-2026 04:44 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, killing four people, as the Trump administration continues its yearlong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 235 in 70 strikes since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in Septem
  
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• Immigration, AR-15 bans and climate lawsuits land before the Supreme Court

  05-10-2026 03:18 via yahoo.com
  Immigration, gun rights and climate change are on the Supreme Court docket (Stefani Reynolds)The US Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, gun rights and the fate of climate change lawsuits on the docket.The session opens one month ahead of a crucial midterm vote that could see President Donald Trump's Republican Party lose its majority in the House of Representatives and possibly even the Senate.Losing control of Congress would force th
  
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• FBI Director Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins announce they're engaged

  05-10-2026 02:55 via yahoo.com
  FBI Director Kash Patel is engaged to his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, the pair announced in a post to X on Sunday evening. Wilkins, 27, posted a black-and-white photo of herself standing with Patel, 46, flashing her hand in front of them to show off her ring with the caption, “Went and got the law involved.” The two have been dating since before Patel took over as head of the FBI in 2025, when she attended his swearing in.The country singer and political commentator re
  
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• Bolsonaro wins first round of Brazilian presidential election, as Trump-backed candidates continue red wave

  05-10-2026 02:17 via foxnews.com
  
  Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, won the first round of the Brazilian presidential election tonight, turning in a surprisingly strong showing, and continuing a long run of wins for Latin American Trump-backed right-wing candidates.Although the race had tightened considerably in the weeks leading up to the election, the vast majority of the polls showed incumbent President Inacio Lula da Silva with a single digit lead.Bolsonaro will now face off against President
  
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• As he exits Senate, Tillis sounds alarm on 'outsized influence' of executive branch

  05-10-2026 02:06 via cbsnews.com
  
  As Sen. Thom Tillis exits the Senate, he's blasting many of the advisers President Trump has surrounded himself with as "sycophants, and calling on his colleagues to stand up to executive power like the co-equal branch of government they are."The 66-year-old senior senator from North Carolina unloads on what he calls the "WTF moments" of the second Trump Administration in a new book, "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents." Having served in the Senate during the Barack Obama, Joe Biden a
  
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