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• Libya's NOC warns of more Islamic State attacks on oil facilities

  22-02-2016 14:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Aidan Lewis TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's oil facilities are likely to suffer further attacks unless a United Nations-backed unity government is approved, the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) told Reuters in an interview on Monday. Mustafa Sanalla also said suspected Islamic State militants had staged their latest attack against Libya's oil infrastructure last Thursday or Friday, setting fire to one production tank and damaging another at the Fida oil field. Fida lies south-west of th
  
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• Trump-appointed judge extends order blocking White House press ban

  14-10-2026 05:09 via yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from banning reporters for three news outlets from the White House, a pivotal operational development for the news organizations as the extraordinary case pitting the president against the media that cover him makes its way through the legal system.In a victory for media organizations at a time when tension between the White House and journalists is high, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that CNN, MS NOW and Po
  
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• Jon Ossoff shuts down 2028 presidential speculation in heated Georgia Senate debate

  14-10-2026 03:08 via nbcnews.com
  Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaking in September. (Elijah Nouvelage / Getty)Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., said Tuesday night during a debate that he will not run for president in 2028.Ossoff made the statement in response to a question as he faced off with his Republican challenger, Rep. Mike Collins. Ossoff is seeking a second six-year term in Georgia and said he would serve the full term.“I have zero interest in running for president,” Ossoff said when he was asked directly by one of the mo
  
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• Iran shifting tactics to step up attacks on shipping before U.S. vote, officials say

  14-10-2026 02:11 via yahoo.com
  By Parisa Hafezi, Jonathan Saul and Phil StewartDUBAI/LONDON/WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Iran is deploying new tactics to target ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz as it seeks to keep oil prices high and influence the US midterm elections, two senior Iranian officials told Reuters.Tehran has tried to exert control over the Strait of Hormuz since the US and Israel ‌launched strikes against Iran on February 28. It has restricted passage through the waterway, which carried about a f
  
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• Texas DA says ICE officer intentionally ran over immigrant and may face charges

  14-10-2026 02:02 via nbcnews.com
  HOUSTON — Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday.“This was an intentional striking and running over of the person by the vehicle, and in that case, that is an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Texas,” Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare told NBC Ne
  
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• DOJ subpoenas Rep. Ilhan Omar's relatives in immigration probe

  14-10-2026 01:54 via newsmax.com
  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (AP)The Justice Department, in an apparent escalation of a long-running investigation involving the immigration history of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has issued subpoenas to members of her family, The New York Times reported Tuesday, as the congresswoman accuses the Trump administration of political retribution for her outspoken criticism of the president.
  The subpoenas mark a new development in a probe that has drawn scrutiny after federal agents searched Omar's Washingt
  
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• Trump officials reportedly rethinking plans to livestream execution

  14-10-2026 01:44 via cbsnews.com
  
  Trump administration officials are leaning against livestreaming the execution of the ex-Army major convicted of the killing of 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, sources familiar with the discussions said. Last week, the Pentagon had said that the public would be able to view the execution live.President Trump had not yet made a final decision on Tuesday, two of the sources told CBS News. White House and Pentagon spokespeople didn't immediately comment. There has been pressure from Congr
  
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• Trump officials now leaning against execution livestream, sources say

  14-10-2026 01:44 via cbsnews.com
  
  Trump administration officials are leaning against livestreaming the execution of the ex-Army major convicted of the killing of 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, sources familiar with the discussions said. Last week, the Pentagon had said that the public would be able to view the execution live.President Trump had not yet made a final decision on Tuesday, two of the sources told CBS News. White House and Pentagon spokespeople didn't immediately comment. There has been pressure from Congr
  
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• Trump says U.S. still sharing intel, even as Ukraine reports attacks with no warnings

  14-10-2026 01:06 via yahoo.com
  By Olena Harmash and Daniel FlynnKYIV, Oct 13 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington was still sharing intelligence with Ukraine, even as Kyiv reported new Russian missile attacks that came without usual warnings and accused Russia of violating an energy truce the US president announced at the weekend.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces attacked Kyiv ‌on Tuesday with ballistic missiles, targeting a thermal power plant, and Kyiv Mayor Vi
  
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• Pope Leo's brother is also battling cancer, his wife says

  14-10-2026 00:46 via cbsnews.com
  
  Louis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV's older brother who lives in Florida, has multiple myeloma, his wife told CBS News on Tuesday. The news comes amid the Vatican's earlier announcement that the pope has been diagnosed with lung cancer after undergoing surgery to remove a nodular lesion from his right lung. Deborah Prevost did not share what stage Louis' cancer is in but said he's currently in a clinical trial at a local hospital where he's being treated.Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer th
  
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• Engineer arrested after listening device found in OpenAI conference room

  13-10-2026 23:10 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology.The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday, a week after the ChatGPT maker discovered an audio recording device hidden in the conference room, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal co
  
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• Bank of America hit with $1.2 billion penalty over money laundering failures

  13-10-2026 22:29 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  Regulators fined Bank of America (BAC) more than $1.2 billion on Tuesday over widespread failures in the banking giant's safeguards against money laundering and other illicit financial activity.The Treasury Department said the nation's second-largest bank failed to properly monitor trillions of dollars in transactions and to report more than $5 billion in suspicious activity, including transactions potentially tied to Chinese money-laundering networks, narcotics trafficking, and fraud.The enforc
  
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• Witnesses recall moments before man's fatal fall from Six Flags roller coaster in Georgia

  13-10-2026 22:24 via yahoo.com
  Georgia police have identified the man who died Monday after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in an incident that also injured several others. The Cobb County Police Department identified the 42-year-old Atlanta man as Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem. "Preliminary information gathered through witness and employee interview indicates Kariem was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling beneath the attraction," according to a Tuesday statement from
  
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• CVS agrees to pay $315 million over claims it filled improper opioid prescriptions

  13-10-2026 21:57 via thehill.com
  The Justice Department (DOJ) announced Tuesday that CVS Health has agreed to pay $315 million to settle lawsuits alleging the company illegally filled prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances.
  The settlement resolves a lawsuit first filed in 2019 by former CVS employee Hillary Estright in 2019 under the whistleblower provision of the False Claims Act, which allows private parties to sue on behalf of the U.S. It also settles the ensuing 2024 complaint that the federal government
  
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• Duane 'Keffe D' Davis gets 40 years to life for orchestrating Tupac Shakur’s killing

  13-10-2026 21:15 via yahoo.com
  (Removes reference to Davis being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in paragraph 7)By Jack Queen and Steve GormanLAS VEGAS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A former gang leader was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Tuesday for ‌orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, capping the prosecution of a long-unsolved murder that shaped ‌the golden age of rap music.Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, found guilty of first-degree m
  
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• White House press secretary's debut draws criticism but Trump says she was 'very good'

  13-10-2026 20:58 via newsweek.com
  
  Katie Zacharia responded after criticism of her first White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling Newsweek via email that “I am grateful to serve President Trump as Press Secretary, and I will diligently and effectively amplify his successful agenda.”During her debut at the podium, Zacharia announced that the White House had asked U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign.Yet much of the reaction to Zacharia’s debut centered on its brevity. She spent just 14 min
  
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• Trump downplays Russian diesel plan in the face of GOP criticism

  13-10-2026 20:20 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump has begun to downplay his new deal with Russia after a plan to allow imports of Russian diesel into the US came under withering criticism, even from members of his own party."It's a deal for the world ... It's not a deal with me," Trump told reporters on Tuesday morning, repeating that it was "not a USA deal.""They're releasing it to the entire world," Trump added, after making similar comments on Monday that the deal would help US farmers, but said, "It's not really a deal with
  
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• Will Republicans or Democrats win the Senate? These key midterm races will decide.

  13-10-2026 20:19 via yahoo.com
  Control of both chambers of Congress is up for grabs in November's election. But as important as the House of Representatives is, all signs point to the true drama of the midterms being in the battle for the Senate. There are 35 Senate seats on the ballot this year. Most of those races won't be competitive. The balance of power in the Senate will be decided by the dozen or so states where the outcome truly is uncertain. Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority, which means they can lose
  
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• Pope Leo has lung nodule removed after doctors found it during routine checks

  13-10-2026 20:06 via yahoo.com
  Leo XIV is having a pulmonary nodule removed in his first hospitalisation since he became head of the Catholic Church last year.  (Filippo MONTEFORTE)Pope Leo XIV's underwent an operation at a Rome hospital Tuesday to remove a nodule from his lung that was "successfully completed", the Vatican said.Pope Leo XIV entered the hospital smiling and waving on Tuesday morning hours before the surgery to remove the growth that looks like a coin on the lung."The procedure was successfully completed,
  
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• Mamdani and city council speaker strike deal to ban NYC horse carriage industry

  13-10-2026 20:00 via politico.com
  NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish the city’s horse carriage industry — a critical breakthrough in a decadeslong, politically fraught effort to ban the tourist attraction.Since 2010, mayors and local legislative leaders have tried to outlaw horse-drawn carriages from operating in Central Park, citing concerns about the safety of the animals as several have died in accidents and from exhaustion. But despit
  
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• Cornell suspends fraternity parties for the academic year amid rape allegation controversy

  13-10-2026 19:22 via yahoo.com
  Cornell University is suspending parties and other social events at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year and will give the New York State Police a role in investigating sex crimes on campus, university officials announced Tuesday, amid mounting outrage over its handling of allegations that a female student was sexually assaulted at a fraternity house in 2024.The measures announced by Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff include a suspension of all parties and social events at Inter
  
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• 'The baby boomers have arrived': Americans over 75 got richer than other age groups

  13-10-2026 19:14 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  For millions of families in the US, wealth has inched up modestly in the last few years, but for older Americans, it's surged. People 75 and older are now the richest group in the US, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. The survey, published every three years, found that the median family net worth in the US, adjusted for inflation, rose 2% to $215,900 between 2022 and 2025.But among the 75 and older cohort, their median net worth rose 37% to $505,000, compared w
  
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• Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns as U.S. ambassador to Greece over alleged misconduct

  13-10-2026 19:10 via yahoo.com
  Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, resigned on Tuesday amid allegations of improper conduct while denying the claims and vowing to "vigorously defend" herself.In a lengthy post on her personal X account on Tuesday morning, Guilfoyle thanked President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for "entrusting me with the extraordinary privilege of representing the greatest country in the history of the world."Guilfoyle also denied the "recent allegations" against her. The Wall Stree
  
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• Judge orders Trump admin. to halt work on historic D.C. golf course until Oct. 26

  13-10-2026 19:07 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Tuesday ordered a halt to tree-cutting at the East Potomac Golf Course until Oct. 26, putting a further pause on work at the historic D.C. course that has been part of President Donald Trump’s plans to remake the city.Reyes issued the order one day after a tense three-hour hearing in which she harshly criticized the government for having deceived her with its actions over the holiday weekend.At the Monday hearing, Reyes ordered a 24-
  
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• Abortion, voter ID and more: These ballot measures could reshape state laws

  13-10-2026 19:05 via yahoo.com
  The battle for control of Congress is getting the lion's share of the attention in the lead-up to the midterms, but there are a lot of other consequential measures that'll appear on ballots this November that could have a direct impact on voters' lives.Ballot measures often don't receive much national attention, but every two years, voters across the country decide whether to adopt policies that have major implications for their states. This year is no different.There are more than 140 total mea
  
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• Trump faces a tough choice after Houthi attacks kill an American in Saudi Arabia

  13-10-2026 18:39 via cbsnews.com
  
  London — Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have dramatically upped the stakes in the complex Middle East war, killing at least 20 people — including an American — and wounding hundreds more with strikes on Saudi Arabia's airports over the last week.The question is whether President Trump will order U.S. military action in support of Saudi Arabia, which has been at war with the rebels in Yemen for more than a decade.Mr. Trump campaigned on ending wars, a
  
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• U.S. ambassador to Greece Guilfoyle resigns after alleged misconduct

  13-10-2026 17:47 via yahoo.com
  The White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, to resign amid allegations of improper conduct, Katie Zacharia, President Trump's new press secretary, announced on Tuesday."We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign," Zacharia said when asked about the status of her employment in Athens. "She has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well."In a lengthy post on her personal X account on Tuesday morning, Guilfoyle acknowledged that "my time as Ambassador
  
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• House speaker's wife ministers to Hill staffers, but nonprofit funding is a mystery

  13-10-2026 17:30 via washingtonpost.com
  After House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) ascended to one of the most powerful offices in Washington three years ago, his wife, a faith-based counselor, turned her focus to the nation’s capital.Kelly Johnson reoriented a religious nonprofit she was running back home in the Shreveport area into a ministry focused on female congressional staffers. Its new purpose, according to an IRS filing, was to help “the hundreds of unreached young women” working around Capitol Hill &ldq
  
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• U.S. ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle asked to resign after alleged misconduct

  13-10-2026 17:07 via yahoo.com
  The White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, to resign amid allegations of improper conduct, Katie Zacharia, President Trump's new press secretary, announced on Tuesday."We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign," Zacharia said when asked about the status of her employment in Athens. "She has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well."The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Guilfoyle asked a Trump donor to pay off a $100,000 American Expre
  
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• Police identify 42-year-old man who died in Six Flags Over Georgia coaster incident

  13-10-2026 16:38 via abcnews.com
  
  A 42-year-old man died after being ejected from a roller coaster at a Six Flags amusement park in Georgia, police said.The man -- Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, of Atlanta -- was found dead beneath the ride at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, according to the Cobb County Police Department."Preliminary information gathered through witness and employee interviews indicates Kariem was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling beneath the attraction," the Cobb County Police Department
  
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