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• Clinton: More disappointed than I could ever express

  17-11-2016 03:24 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  Hillary Clinton, in her first public speech since last week's crushing presidential loss, admitted making an appearance at the Children's Defense Fund gala "wasn't the easiest."
  
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• Google loses $482 billion in market value, the biggest drop in its history by far

  29-10-2026 21:29 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Alphabet (GOOGL) had its worst day ever on Thursday. The stock fell nearly 13% after its third quarter results, steeper than any session since it went public in 2004, including its drops of more than 10% in March 2020 and September 2008.Alphabet lost $482 billion in stock market value, the second-biggest one-day loss ever for a US-listed company, by Yahoo Finance calculations. Only Nvidia (NVDA) has lost more, about $593 billion on Jan. 27, 2025, the day China's DeepSeek rattled AI investors.Blo
  
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• Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' captain and 'X-Men' star, dies at 86

  29-10-2026 21:09 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Sir Patrick Stewart, a revered actor best known for his work on Star Trek, has died. He was 86.According to a post on his X account, Stewart died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles following “a brief and poignant journey” with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.“He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all,” the
  
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• DOJ reportedly issues new wave of subpoenas in criminal probe of Alaska Senate race

  29-10-2026 19:08 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  It was, for a while, considered one of those colorful quirks that crop up in the course of an election: the fact that not one but two candidates named Dan Sullivan will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot for U.S. senator from Alaska. One Dan Sullivan — Dan S. Sullivan — is the state's incumbent Republican senator. He is trying to fend off a fierce challenge from former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola and secure a third term. The other Dan Sullivan — Dan J. Sullivan — is a retired teacher from a t
  
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• GOP poll suggests Ramaswamy's ad with rival's estranged mom is backfiring

  29-10-2026 18:10 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Acampaign ad in which the estranged mother of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton argues that her daughter should not be elected as the Buckeye State's next governor has added a new level of controversy to what was already one of the most closely watched races of the midterms — and potentially shifted the course of the race in its final weeks.Acton, a Democrat, is running to replace outgoing Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. She's facing Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire who ran an unsuc
  
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• Abdul El-Sayed leads in polls, but Michigan's pivotal Senate race remains a toss-up

  29-10-2026 18:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate in Michigan’s critical Senate race, responded to President Trump’s frequent mockery of his name in a style that’s become a signature of his campaign. “I don’t care how he pronounces my name,” he said during a rally in Grand Rapids on Sunday. “Because he can just go on and call me ‘senator’ after November. I will be Senator Mohamed to you, bro.”El-Sayed, whose middle name is Mohamed, has emerged as one of the biggest names of the 2026
  
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• 'Operation Ghostbusters': DOJ unveils crackdown on student aid fraud scheme

  29-10-2026 17:42 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  The Department of Justice announced a sprawling operation seeking to end an elaborate student aid fraud scheme that authorities say has bilked hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers.
  The effort, dubbed “Operation Ghostbusters,” aims to crack down on an international fraud scam that has funneled stolen federal student aid dollars into offshore accounts since at least 2021.
  At an Oct. 29 news conference, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald described the scheme, detailing how sus
  
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• Obama-era investigation found evidence against Ilhan Omar's marriage, report says

  29-10-2026 15:32 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (Joshua Lott/Getty Images)Federal investigators found evidence during the Obama administration suggesting that Rep. Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage to a man suspected of being her brother was intended to help him obtain a green card, but the case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded the suspected offense fell outside a five-year statute of limitations, according to a new report.
  The FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in the summer of 20
  
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• Obama-era investigation finds evidence against Ilhan Omar's marriage, report says

  29-10-2026 15:32 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (Joshua Lott/Getty Images)Federal investigators found evidence during the Obama administration suggesting that Rep. Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage to a man suspected of being her brother was intended to help him obtain a green card, but the case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded the suspected offense fell outside a five-year statute of limitations, according to a new report.
  The FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in the summer of 20
  
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• Partial Israeli election results indicate possible deadlock as Netanyahu alleges fraud

  29-10-2026 14:53 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Israeli election authorities were still counting votes from Tuesday's parliamentary election on Thursday morning.But even with the vast majority of ballots counted, it remained unclear who will form the country's new government. Neither the bloc led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor that of his prime challenger Gadi Eisenkot has an obvious course to secure a majority of seats in the Knesset, according to exit polls and partial results released by electoral authorities.As of Thursday, Isra
  
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• Google is on track for its worst day ever — with $500 billion in market value at stake

  29-10-2026 14:48 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Alphabet (GOOGL) is on track for its worst day ever. The stock fell about 13% Thursday after its third quarter results, steeper than any session since it went public in 2004.That puts nearly $500 billion of stock market value on the line, the second-biggest one-day loss ever for a US-listed company. Only Nvidia (NVDA) has lost more, about $593 billion on Jan. 27, 2025, the day China's DeepSeek rattled AI investors.Biggest one-day drops in market value for US-listed stocks, US dollarsBloomberg, Y
  
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• Man accused in Cornell rape lawsuit says Letitia James is biased over her posts

  29-10-2026 14:47 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Should social media posts disqualify New York’s attorney general from leading a criminal investigation into gang rape allegations at Cornell University?That's the question before a state judge on Thursday as one of the accused men seeks to remove Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor overseeing the renewed criminal probe.One of at least two cases against James contends she is biased because she posted messages expressing support for the accuser just days before she was appoint
  
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• Alaska's GOP governor orders investigation into Peltola campaign after report

  29-10-2026 14:03 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  It was, for a while, considered one of those colorful quirks that crop up in the course of an election: the fact that not one but two candidates named Dan Sullivan will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot for U.S. senator from Alaska. One Dan Sullivan — Dan S. Sullivan — is the state's incumbent Republican senator. He is trying to fend off a fierce challenge from former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola and secure a third term. The other Dan Sullivan — Dan J. Sullivan — is a retired teacher from a t
  
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• Alaska governor orders probe into alleged effort to confuse Senate voters

  29-10-2026 14:03 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  It was, for a while, considered one of those colorful quirks that crop up in the course of an election: the fact that not one but two candidates named Dan Sullivan will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot for U.S. senator from Alaska. One Dan Sullivan — Dan S. Sullivan — is the state's incumbent Republican senator. He is trying to fend off a fierce challenge from former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola and secure a third term. The other Dan Sullivan — Dan J. Sullivan — is a retired teacher from a t
  
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• A suspected Chinese spy had access to Nvidia's CEO. Trump found out and didn't act.

  29-10-2026 13:31 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)A Chinese executive suspected of helping Beijing obtain restricted American artificial intelligence chips also developed a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, raising concerns that China could gain sensitive information through her access to the technology leader.
  U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that the executive, Alice Huang, was gathering information for Beijing, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
  President Donald T
  
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• DoorDash acquires Instacart for $17 billion, doubling down on hyper-local delivery

  29-10-2026 13:01 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  DoorDash (DASH) announced plans to acquire hyper-local grocery delivery provider Instacart (CART) on Thursday morning in a deal valued at $17 billion. DoorDash, which is primarily known for its restaurant food delivery business, will pay $65 per Instacart share, a 26% premium over the stock’s Oct. 22 closing price. The transaction includes 75% cash, with Instacart stockholders able to elect cash, DoorDash stock, or a combination of both. Instacart's board of directors unanimously approved the
  
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• Scientists may have found a new dwarf planet in a distant world beyond Pluto

  29-10-2026 12:20 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Scientists from the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory have announced that they have spotted a possible new dwarf planet known (for now) as 2026 ED138 orbiting the sun, located just beyond Pluto.Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138!Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier in 2026. Early analysis suggests it's 600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!🔗 https://t.co/wTOg898zBu pic.twitter.com/hEgnk
  
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• Scientists may have found a new dwarf planet beyond Pluto

  29-10-2026 12:20 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Scientists from the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory have announced that they have spotted a possible new dwarf planet known (for now) as 2026 ED138 orbiting the sun, located just beyond Pluto.Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138!Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier in 2026. Early analysis suggests it's 600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!🔗 https://t.co/wTOg898zBu pic.twitter.com/hEgnk
  
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• Speaker Johnson signals he will keep leading Republicans even if they lose the House

  29-10-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) recent hints that he intends to remain GOP leader even if Republicans lose the House have rattled the party’s leadership outlook and raised fresh new questions about the GOP’s future heading into the next Congress.
  Most House Speakers in recent decades have stepped out of Congress after losing the gavel. And Reps. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the majority leader, and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a conservative icon, are both expected to launch bids to lead House Republica
  
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• Google and Microsoft are on both sides of the AI boom's biggest bills

  29-10-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Wall Street bought Microsoft and sold Alphabet after the two reported quarterly earnings Wednesday night. Both rent computing power to the AI labs and own stakes in them, but this quarter Microsoft cashed in while Alphabet's bets cost it.Microsoft (MSFT) stock rose about 2% after hours, while Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) fell over 9%, on track for its worst day since October 2023, after its sales came up short.For Microsoft, the labs show up as sales. OpenAI paid it $10 billion in the quarter that end
  
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• The Fed held rates steady, but your savings and debt could still feel the impact

  29-10-2026 10:56 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  The Federal Reserve left short-term interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, following September's first hike in more than three years. Based on 30-day fed funds futures prices, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh and the Federal Open Market Committee are likely to raise the benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point in December. "The Federal Reserve's interest rate decision takes center stage this week after a hotter-than-expected September CPI report showed price pressures broadening," Ehsan Khoman, econo
  
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• Israel piles pressure on Arab parties as Netanyahu seeks government

  29-10-2026 10:43 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Israeli left-wing activists in Tel Aviv hold placards during a protest calling for a formation of a government together with Arab parties (Ilia YEFIMOVICH)Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc on Thursday piled pressure on Israeli Arab leaders over unproven accusations of foreign funding, in a push to neuter parties that made strong gains after an otherwise indecisive election.National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a far-right firebrand with a history of attacks on Palestinians, went so
  
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• Alaska election officials oppose DOJ's involvement in Senate race

  29-10-2026 10:09 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  From left: Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., Mary Peltola and incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan. - AP/Getty Images/Reuters
  Alaska officials said new revelations in The New York Times about efforts by Democrats to recruit a Senate candidate with the same name as GOP incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan do not change the state’s opposition to a Trump administration lawsuit seeking to potentially delay certification of the election.
  The Times story, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Law told CNN in an ema
  
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• The data center boom is facing a voter backlash as health concerns take hold

  29-10-2026 10:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Page, Arizona — Doug Herrera still lives in the house his father built, though his dad died some time ago from cancer. Herrera wonders if that illness could have been linked to pollutants from nearby uranium mining. Now, he worries that a possible new neighbor — a proposed $10 billion mega data center — could imperil his health."I'm a patriot, but I'm highly against the data center," Herrera, 64, said from his front porch near a yard sign that reads "No Data Centers.""There is light pollu
  
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• Hegseth's treatment of lawmakers threatens Trump's $1.5 trillion defense plan

  29-10-2026 10:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  This summer, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked a Republican lawmaker what he thought the odds were that Congress would pass the Trump administration’s record $1.5 trillion defense budget request.The chances, the lawmaker responded, were about the same as Hegseth getting confirmed again by the Senate. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.“You have a problem, and you need to increase the amount and the quality of the c
  
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• Trump and Obama trade personal jabs as their midterm rivalry heats up

  29-10-2026 04:09 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Bo Erickson and Nandita BoseCHILLICOTHE, Ohio/MORROW, Georgia, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Neither man is on the ballot but Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama took prominent roles on the campaign trail on Wednesday, with less than a week to go before congressional races that could shift the balance of power in Washington.While Trump has been on a weeks-long campaign blitz that ‌has underlined Republican concerns about losing control of Congress for the fin
  
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• Trump and Obama aren't on the ballot, but they're taking center stage on the campaign trail

  29-10-2026 04:09 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Bo Erickson and Nandita BoseCHILLICOTHE, Ohio/MORROW, Georgia, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Neither man is on the ballot but Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama took prominent roles on the campaign trail on Wednesday, with less than a week to go before congressional races that could shift the balance of power in Washington.While Trump has been on a weeks-long campaign blitz that ‌has underlined Republican concerns about losing control of Congress for the fin
  
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• Hegseth ousts another top general as Pentagon leadership shake-up grows

  29-10-2026 03:45 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s top military planner, a defense official said Wednesday, the latest in a series of generals to be ousted and one that comes even as President Donald Trump is weighing renewed strikes on Iran in the eight-month-long war.Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was removed as head of strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is the second general to be ousted from the post, known in military circles as the “J5,”
  
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• Hegseth fires Pentagon's top military planner as Trump weighs new strikes on Iran

  29-10-2026 03:45 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s top military planner, a defense official said Wednesday, the latest in a series of generals to be ousted and one that comes even as President Donald Trump is weighing renewed strikes on Iran in the eight-month-long war.Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was removed as head of strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is the second general to be ousted from the post, known in military circles as the “J5,”
  
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• 'Nobody Wants This' creator shares footage of 'psychotically romantic' engagement

  29-10-2026 02:52 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Photos of Noah’s proposal to Joanne in ‘Nobody Wants This’ and Simon Tikhman’s proposal to Erin Foster.
  Credit: Katrina Marcinowski/Netflix; erin foster/instagramNEED TO KNOWErin Foster revealed on Instagram on Oct. 28 how her own engagement to Simon Tikhman inspired the one on Nobody Wants This season 3The Netflix series’ writer said Tikhman staged a fake Napa Valley vow renewal before proposing in 2019, and that was the basis for Noah and Joanne’s proposalFoster previously shared t
  
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