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• Belgium releases man charged over bombings

  28-03-2016 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian prosecutors on Monday released a man they charged in connection with last week's deadly Brussels bombings, saying they did not have enough information to justify holding him. The man, named only as Faycal C., had been charged with taking part in the activities of a terrorist group and actual and attempted terrorist murder after being detained on Thursday. "The evidence which led to the arrest of the man named as Faycal C has not been backed up by the
  
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• Vance casts doubt on Pentagon plan to livestream Fort Hood shooter's execution

  09-10-2026 19:33 via yahoo.com
  HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — Vice President JD Vance cast doubt on Friday whether the Pentagon will livestream the execution of of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in December but told reporters that if it is livestreamed, “I’m not going to be watching it.”The Republican vice president said, “I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen,” when asked about the plans that the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday. But Vance then tried to set aside the controv
  
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• What Hurricane Isaias looks like from space as the Gulf Coast braces for landfall

  09-10-2026 18:40 via yahoo.com
  Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is expected to bring damaging winds, heavy rain and potentially life-threatening storm surge to the northern Gulf Coast when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.The governors of Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared states of emergency, along with several Mississippi counties. Thousands of National Guard soldiers are being deployed.According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias is now Category 3 storm with maximum
  
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• U.S. targets International Criminal Court with new sanctions and an ultimatum

  09-10-2026 18:13 via yahoo.com
  The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on 23 September 2026.Photograph: Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP/Getty Images
  The United States was accused of launching “an assault” on the world’s legal order after imposing more sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC).
  Unveiling the Trump administration’s latest escalation against the court, which it has accused of politicization and unfairly targeting Americans for war crime charges, Marco Rubio, the US secretary
  
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• Iran-based campaign used ChatGPT to plant articles in news outlets, OpenAI says

  09-10-2026 18:02 via washingtonpost.com
  “The bill will follow Americans beyond the fighting itself,” an opinion piece in the Port St. Joe Star, a tiny Florida weekly newspaper, warned of the Iran war last month. The article ran under the byline Ervin Hoskins, which has also appeared on articles critical of the war in larger publications including Daily Kos and Middle East Monitor, which together have more than 3 million followers on Facebook.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stori
  
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• Hurricane Isaias strengthens to Category 3 as Gulf Coast braces for landfall

  09-10-2026 15:11 via yahoo.com
  Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is expected to bring damaging winds, heavy rain and potentially life-threatening storm surge to the northern Gulf Coast when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.The governors of Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared states of emergency, along with several Mississippi counties. Thousands of National Guard soldiers are being deployed.According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias is now Category 3 storm with maximum
  
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• 'It was quid pro quo': Businessman says Guilfoyle offered political access for $100,000

  09-10-2026 14:46 via cbsnews.com
  
  Businessman Eric Deters said he has "no doubt it was pay to play," claiming Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the U.S. ambassador to Greece and ex-fiancee of Donald Trump Jr., asked him to wire $100,000 to pay her American Express bill in exchange for her help with the Trump administration ahead of Guilfoyle's Senate confirmation hearing.   In an interview with CBS News, Deters said Guilfoyle should "lose her ambassadorship" over her alleged behavior, after texts between the two of them from las
  
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• The midterms could make or break these politicians' 2028 presidential ambitions

  09-10-2026 13:07 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — As most of the political world focuses on next month's midterm elections, the shadow primary for the 2028 presidential contest is quietly playing out in public view. Democratic and Republican presidential prospects have been crisscrossing the country, raising money and tapping their political connections to help boost their parties' candidates — and their own White House ambitions. Here's a closer look at some of the leading prospects and how their political futures m
  
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• Pentagon to livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter who killed 13 people

  09-10-2026 12:14 via yahoo.com
  The execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad will be livestreamed to the public, the Pentagon said Thursday.The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009.On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the conservative TV outlet Real America's Voice, "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be. We'll m
  
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• New Paxton recording exposes lingering GOP divisions in a tight Texas Senate race

  09-10-2026 11:01 via cnn.com
  
  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during a campaign event in Houston, on September 21. - Antranik Tavitian/Getty Images
  Ken Paxton has publicly said he would “love to have” John Cornyn’s support after their bruising Republican primary runoff in the Texas Senate race. But privately, Paxton has grown frustrated with the outgoing senator’s distance from his campaign.
  “He’s clearly not helping. He wants me to lose,” the Texas attorney general said at
  
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• Mamdani demands Trump end NYC ICE operations after agent shoots man with child in car

  09-10-2026 11:00 via time.com
  
  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference at the site where a man was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during an operation in the Bronx, on Oct. 8, 2026. —Ryan Murphy—Getty ImagesNew York Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants President Donald Trump to put an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s operations in the city after an agent-involved shooting injured one person on Thursday.“This is an unconscionable and incredibly seriou
  
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• Gas prices are at a record high for October. Iran isn't the only problem.

  09-10-2026 11:00 via cnn.com
  
  Gas prices are near the highest levels on record at this time of year. Diesel, the workhorse fuel powering trucks, tractors and trains, is also near all-time highs. - Mehmet Eser/Anadolu/Getty Images
  The Strait of Hormuz is no longer paralyzed and yet fuel prices remain painfully high. It’s a vexing problem with profound financial, political and economic consequences.
  Gasoline prices, averaging $4.36 a gallon nationally, have never been this high at this time of year, according to AAA data
  
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• After pledging swift results, Trump team prepares for long economic war with Iran

  09-10-2026 11:00 via washingtonpost.com
  As the Trump administration pivoted to economic pressure instead of military force to push Tehran back into talks, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pledged swift damage to Iran’s economy. All Iranian airlines would be grounded worldwide by the end of September, he said last month. The country would run out of oil to sell by the end of this week.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.Iran’s economy is suffering. Bu
  
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• Democrats unite around Hegseth impeachment push

  09-10-2026 10:55 via semafor.com
  
  The NewsCongressional Democrats aren’t eager to impeach Donald Trump. Pete Hegseth is a different story.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership circle remain reluctant to lean too far into talking about impeaching the president if they regain power next month, a move that would revive the bruising battles of Trump’s first term. But as the Iran war squeezes Republicans ahead of the midterms, Democrats are aligning to call for the defense secretary’s ouster or re
  
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• ICE agents shoot man in NYC car with a 5-year-old child inside, officials say.

  09-10-2026 07:01 via yahoo.com
  By Julia Harte and Kristina CookeNEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - US immigration agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a child present in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City, ‌according to the mayor, city police and eyewitnesses.Federal immigration agents have shot at least 21 people since Republican President ‌Donald Trump returned to office, 7 fatally, sparking protests across the US. Critics contend that Trump's push to ramp up deportations has led to an inc
  
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• Once near extinction, these giant tortoises now outnumber people in the Seychelles

  09-10-2026 06:05 via cnn.com
  
  The Aldabra giant tortoise is native to the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles. - Philippe Clément/Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
  Giant tortoises once pushed to the brink of extinction now outnumber humans in their home of the Seychelles, according to a new survey on one of the African nation’s most remote islands.
  The survey, led by the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) and the University of Exeter in the UK, estimated that about 180,000 Aldabra giant tor
  
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• Former U.N. human rights chief Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize

  09-10-2026 06:03 via yahoo.com
  OSLO, Norway (AP) — Former U.N. human rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a judge on the International Court of Justice, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in Oslo, Norway.The South Africa-born Pillay, 85 years old, was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law, said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.Pillay’s work “is a source of hope and inspiration to all those who seek to bring about a more peaceful wo
  
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• Public executions in the U.S. were once a community spectacle. Then they stopped.

  09-10-2026 05:40 via yahoo.com
  For about nine decades, executions in the U.S. have been private affairs, often shrouded in secrecy. The stunning Pentagon announcement Thursday that the first military execution in more than 65 years will be livestreamed could change that.Allowing the world to watch Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan face the firing squad in December would make it the first public execution since two hangings in the 1930s in Kentucky and Missouri drew crowds.In 1936, a man who reportedly confessed to the rape
  
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• Trump's memorial arch faces new lawsuit from Arlington County, Virginia

  09-10-2026 04:06 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Arlington County Board in Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday opposing the construction of the Triumphal Arch, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against President Donald Trump's planned monument.The lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, criticized the speed at which the project slated for Memorial Circle has moved without going through the full review process. “The National Park Service, the agency responsible for projects on
  
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• Hurricane Isaias strengthens to Category 2 as Gulf Coast braces for landfall

  09-10-2026 04:03 via yahoo.com
  The projected path of Hurricane Isaias.National Weather Service/NOAAHurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is expected to strengthen as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Friday, bringing damaging winds, drenching rain and the possibility of life-threatening storm surge, prompting mandatory evacuation orders in Alabama and Florida.According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias, now a Category 2 storm, is forecast to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday as
  
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• 'Trust fund kid' vs. 'bigot': Personal attacks dominate Georgia Senate debate

  09-10-2026 03:37 via thehill.com
  The first debate for Georgia Senate on Thursday evening quickly devolved into a string of personal attacks and campaign talking points as Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) and Rep. Mike Collins (R) wrestle for voters’ support in the closely-watched midterm race. 
  The incumbent Democrat has maintained a lead over his GOP challenger in recent polling, but Republicans are still holding out hope to flip this seat in November. 
  The candidates faced questions during the Atlanta News First debate in
  
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• Sparks fly as Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers face off in first Michigan Senate debate

  09-10-2026 02:42 via nbcnews.com
  Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in for an hourlong debate Thursday. (USA Today Network; Reuters; Getty Images)GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The two candidates battling for Michigan’s open Senate seat tangled here Thursday over the war in Iran, gas prices and tariffs in a debate that often veered into mean-spirited sniping. Democrat Abdul El-Sayed sought to portray his Republican rival, former Rep. Mike Rogers, as a weak-willed loyalist to President Donald Trump who has rec
  
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• Man hospitalized in New York shooting involving federal agents, NYPD says

  09-10-2026 01:56 via yahoo.com
  By Julia Harte and Kristina CookeNEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a child ‌present in the vehicle in the Bronx borough of New York City, according to ‌the mayor, city police and eyewitness accounts."Early reports indicate agents surrounded (the man) and a 5-year-old-child in his car before firing multiple ​rounds," New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.The mayor said the child
  
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• Fort Hood shooter's execution will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

  09-10-2026 01:56 via cbsnews.com
  
  The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public."He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be," Hegseth told Jack Posobiec on Real America's Voice. "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public
  
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• Arizona candidate says she felt like a 'hypocrite' for not speaking up about reported rape

  09-10-2026 01:05 via abcnews.com
  
  Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democratic candidate for Congress who said she was raped while fixing a campaign sign in August, told ABC News on Thursday that she was motivated to speak up because of the arguments she was making on the campaign trail. "I was talking to some seniors about fighting for reinstating and funding the [Veterans Administration] and fixing Social Security, actually addressing the issues" amid federal government cuts or healthcare changes that impacted them, Greene-P
  
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• DOJ trying to indict former White House aide who testified about Jan. 6

  09-10-2026 00:24 via cbsnews.com
  
  Federal prosecutors have been presenting evidence to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., on whether former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson may have lied to Congress in her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, drew the ire of President Trump's base when she testified in 2022 before the House committee tasked with investigating the 2021 Capitol at
  
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• Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

  08-10-2026 23:09 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be "public."Hegseth, speaking to the conservative TV outlet Real America's Voice News on Wednesday, said the execution of Hasan will take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3. Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009."We'll make sure that people are a
  
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• Obama marvels at Democrats' Senate chances

  08-10-2026 22:57 via yahoo.com
  Former president Barack Obama expressed surprise at Democrats' expanding midterm map at a private fundraiser Wednesday night, but warned donors not to get complacent about the party's chances, according to excerpts provided to The Washington Post."There are states right now in play that I would not have imagined being in play," Obama told donors in a fireside chat in Great Falls, Virginia, with Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Delaware), a vice chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
  
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• NASA is hunting for a hidden cave on the moon that could shelter future astronauts

  08-10-2026 22:00 via space.com
  
  When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Marius Hills Pit on the lunar surface.| Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
  Are there secret underground caves on the moon? NASA has a new program that aims to find out. Though we see it in the sky most nights, the moon still holds an incredible amount of mystery. One such mystery is a large underground cave, or a cavernous tube carved out by ancient lava, that scientists think exten
  
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• The flu sidelines James Talarico at a crucial moment in the Texas Senate race

  08-10-2026 21:53 via nbcnews.com
  Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico has been off the campaign trail, sick with the flu. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call via Getty)The bitter fight over a Texas Senate seat that Democrats believe is within reach for the first time in decades should be ramping up right now.But in the final push, when campaigns believe most voters are finally tuning in, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico has been off the trail for in-person events in the state for 12 days. His campaign says he has the flu
  
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