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• Passenger train derails in Spain, killing at least 4

  09-09-2016 14:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — A passenger train derailed Friday in Spain's northwestern Galicia region, killing at least four people and injuring 47 others who were taken to hospitals, authorities said.
  
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• ICE reviewed tens of millions of voter records in search for noncitizen voters

  07-10-2026 17:00 via cnn.com
  
  The badges of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are seen as they patrol the halls of an immigration court in New York in May. - Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/File
  The Department of Homeland Security’s sweeping election-fraud operation has drawn on tens of millions of records, scrutinized dozens of nonprofit voter-registration groups and considered deploying undercover agents to investigate organizations suspected of helping noncitizens register to vote, according to newly obtai
  
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• FCC considers easing political robocall rules in the final stretch before midterms

  07-10-2026 16:45 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November’s midterm elections.Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller gets consent beforehand. The petition calls for a waiver that would allow political groups to use artificial or prerecorded voices in unsolicited wireless calls.The Repub
  
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• GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers breaks with Trump and calls to end Canada tariffs

  07-10-2026 16:38 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers appears to be breaking with President Donald Trump on another key issue less than a month before Election Day."Drinking a Labatt and watching the Red Wings, man, it just doesn't get any more Michigan than that," Rogers said in a new video ad released on Oct. 7. "Here in Michigan, we know that Canada is not our enemy. We need to end this tariff war now."The statement marks the second time in recent weeks that Rogers spoke out —
  
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• GOP spends big to rescue Paxton as his complaints strain ties with party allies

  07-10-2026 16:37 via yahoo.com
  National Republicans have spent months trying to rescue Ken Paxton. He's complicating that effort.Tensions are brewing with some Republicans after POLITICO published Paxton's closed-door comments that "D.C." Republicans were largely controlling his race."He is welcome to raise his own money and say whatever he wants," said one Republican involved in the Paxton rescue effort, who like others in this article was granted anonymity to speak candidly. "In fact, if he did that, he'd probably be winnin
  
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• Christa Pike's condition 'bodes well for a good recovery.' What happens to her next?

  07-10-2026 16:35 via yahoo.com
  Christa Pike is conscious and speaking in the hospital after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her last week, an outcome her legal team described as "unprecedented," and one that has raised questions about what happens next in her case.Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, and spent 30 years on death row. Her execution was scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 30, but two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital failed to kill her. She
  
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• Tropical Storm Isaias: 1st Atlantic hurricane of season expected to hit U.S. Gulf Coast

  07-10-2026 16:13 via yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf on Wednesday and is expected to become the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, forecasters say.According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the storm will strengthen as it moves toward the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week, becoming a hurricane by Thursday.The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June to November, has not gone this late in the year without a hurricane since 1905, according to the Associated Press. A typical Atlantic hurric
  
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• Cornell police pressed frat members on how they knew alleged rape was 'consensual'

  07-10-2026 14:12 via abcnews.com
  
  Two investigations are underway into a former Cornell University student's allegations that she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024 -- one to determine whether criminal charges should be brought and another to examine how the university handled her case.Newly obtained videos reviewed by ABC News show members of Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity being questioned by university police in the weeks after the alleged assault.One of the video shows Chi Phi members who were allegedly in the house that n
  
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• Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election

  07-10-2026 13:56 via abcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump announced a $6.6 billion investment with AI defense company Anduril Industries on Tuesday -- the most recent government funding agreement into a company with investment ties to the president's sons. The Trump administration announced the Navy will support $2.9 billion of the total cost to help create a new facility in Baltimore County, Maryland, that will manufacture critical parts for the Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine. "In a tremendous vic
  
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• Woman's killing reignites Okinawa anger over U.S. military presence

  07-10-2026 12:58 via yahoo.com
  TOKYO - Mounting anger over a U.S. Marine arrested on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman in Okinawa has once again inflamed long-simmering tensions over the U.S. military presence in the prefecture, as Tokyo seeks to enact the most sweeping change in its security strategy in Okinawa in decades.Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, was taken into custody on suspicion of killing Anna Yagi, 39, who died of suffocation in a hotel Saturday, local police said. Ballard is also suspected of stealing Ya
  
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• Tropical Storm Isaias tracker

  07-10-2026 12:50 via yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf on Wednesday and is expected to strengthen into the first Atlantic hurricane of the season.Forecasters said Isaias will get rapidly more powerful as it moves toward the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week and is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday.It was not immediately known where the storm might make landfall on the Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center's (NHC) initial projections said the center of Isaias could come onshore somewhere between eas
  
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• Isaias forecast to become 1st Atlantic hurricane of season as it threatens Gulf Coast

  07-10-2026 12:50 via yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf on Wednesday and is expected to strengthen into the first Atlantic hurricane of the season.Forecasters said Isaias will get rapidly more powerful as it moves toward the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week and is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday.It was not immediately known where the storm might make landfall on the Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center's (NHC) initial projections said the center of Isaias could come onshore somewhere between eas
  
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• Tropical Storm Isaias forms and could become Atlantic's 1st hurricane of 2026

  07-10-2026 12:19 via cbsnews.com
  
  Tropical Storm Isaias has formed in the Gulf and is expected to approach the U.S. northern Gulf Coast on Friday after becoming a hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.Isaias would be the Atlantic Basin's first hurricane of the season and is its ninth named storm. El Niño continues to bring a more active season in the Pacific. The storm formed with less than two months remaining in the 2026 hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30.Maps show possible pathTropical Storm Isaias, w
  
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• More than 20 million people are getting a $90 Social Security check, while 40 million aren't

  07-10-2026 12:13 via yahoo.com
  Millions of Medicare beneficiaries will receive a $90 payment from the Social Security Administration this week as part of an effort to lower health care costs for older Americans.President Trump announced on Oct. 2 that the administration would send a one-time payment to around one-third of people enrolled in Medicare Part B, which covers doctors' visits, outpatient care and preventive screenings.In a White House statement, the Trump administration said the "premium rebates" were intended to he
  
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• Weeks before Election Day, the FEC can't enforce campaign finance law

  07-10-2026 12:00 via cbsnews.com
  
  In July, Reps. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, and Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat, had a request for the Federal Election Commission: help make sure artificial intelligence chatbots do not feed voters false information about the 2026 midterm elections. The lawmakers, writing to the FEC as well as the Justice and Homeland Security departments, urged the agencies to coordinate on "AI-driven threats to election integrity" and to press AI companies on their safeguards. Their concern
  
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• Russia hits Ukraine with drones and missiles, killing at least 15 people

  07-10-2026 11:56 via yahoo.com
  By Olena Harmash and Vladyslav SmilianetsKYIV, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Russia pounded Ukraine with waves of missiles and drones on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and hitting residential buildings, industrial facilities and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.One Russian missile slammed into an apartment block in the northern ‌city of Pryluky, killing at least nine people including three children, regional governor Vyacheslav Chaus said.Dozens of rescuers picked through the rubble at t
  
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• Democrats allege Trump allies benefited from a $1.7 billion Balkan gas deal

  07-10-2026 11:42 via cbsnews.com
  
  London — The involvement of a small American firm linked to associates of President Trump in an energy project in Bosnia and Herzegovina worth more than $1.5 billion has raised questions about how the White House could be using its leverage in the fragile Balkan state.U.S. lawmakers accuse the Trump administration of lifting sanctions on Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik in an effort to enrich and empower allies of Mr. Trump, and of undermining longstanding U.S. foreign pol
  
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• Congress ended production of the penny. Now it's coming for the nickel.

  07-10-2026 11:30 via foxnews.com
  
  It's common sense that common cents are getting less use in Americans' daily lives. Congress has already taken action to eliminate the lowest rung — the penny — and now another coin collecting dust in people's wallets could be on the chopping block next.The House and Senate both passed bills earlier this year aimed at eliminating the penny once and for all. The bipartisan Common Cents Act was unanimously approved in each chamber, but has yet to get President Donald Trump's signature
  
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• Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf course into the new Camp David

  07-10-2026 11:00 via yahoo.com
  Much of President Donald Trump's second term has focused on changes to the nation's capital.But his ambitions to remake the physical architecture of the presidency transcend Washington: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.The plan calls for a parcel of the private club to be designated a permanent, official sanctuary
  
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• Bessent says inflation and bond yields will drop after the Iran war. Others aren't so sure.

  07-10-2026 10:34 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the economy is "accelerating" and inflation, along with bond yields, will come back down once the conflict in Iran ends. "Right now, we have this energy shock that's generated by the Iran conflict, and headline inflation is about 3.5%. But my message is underlying inflation — core inflation — is down to about 2.3%," Bessent said at the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce on Monday night. He asserted that median wage growth is in line with headline i
  
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• U.S. pushes Russia for information on suspected plague death

  07-10-2026 09:07 via yahoo.com
  Health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor says no special measures have been ordered regarding a reported plague death in Russia (Igor IVANKO)The United States made a formal request pressing Russia for information on the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, a source close to the matter said Tuesday, as calls grew for transparency from Moscow.Russian authorities have denied that they are imposing anti-plague measures and played down the reports of an incident at a plague research institute in
  
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• Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to 2 scientists who solved a century-old molecular problem

  07-10-2026 08:43 via yahoo.com
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their efforts to resolve mysterious mirror images in chemical molecules.Many molecules of life come in versions that look alike but aren’t exactly identical, like right and left hands. One mirror-image of the chemical carvone smells like mint, for example, while the other has a whiff of caraway.When designing drugs to treat diseases, scientists want to be choosy about which mirror-image they
  
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• Israelis mark 3 years since Oct. 7 attack as Palestinians struggle amid Gaza’s ruins

  07-10-2026 06:03 via yahoo.com
  NETANYA, Israel (AP) — Israelis gathered Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage, and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has devastated the territory and left its 2 million people living in dire conditions.In southern Israel, families mourned at intersections, bomb shelters, and the site of a music festival that Hamas-led militants overran three years ago in the deadliest attack against Israel. It is the first anniversary that a
  
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• Some Republicans fear $1 billion may not be enough to overcome midterm challenges

  07-10-2026 06:01 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump's unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from the war in Iran.The cash advantage, spread out across a half-dozen groups, is driven largely by the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc., which had nearly $416 million in cash on hand at the end of August and
  
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• Army sets date for Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan to face firing squad

  07-10-2026 05:02 via abcnews.com
  
  Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad on Dec. 3, according to a memo from the acting Army secretary.The execution, the first carried out by the U.S. military in more than 60 years, is scheduled for 1 p.m. CT, according to the memo issued Tuesday by acting Army Secretary Adam Telle.The Pentagon announced Monday that Hasan would be executed by firing squad after President Donald Trump approved the decision Friday.Ha
  
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• Fuel industry warns truck stops not to sell red dye diesel after Trump lifts restrictions

  07-10-2026 03:52 via nbcnews.com
  Truck stops nationwide were warned to “proceed with caution” Tuesday by a major industry group after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to promote the use of “red dye” diesel fuel.Red dye diesel is exempt from federal excise taxes because it is intended for farm equipment and other off-road uses.The order, signed before farmers in Nebraska on Monday night, aims to bring down fuel prices by “temporarily” allowing highway use of red dye diesel fuel
  
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• Christa Pike survived her execution. A 1947 case could shape what comes next.

  07-10-2026 03:45 via usatoday.com
  With the astonishing news that Christa Pike is conscious, talking and making a "medically unprecedented" recovery following her botched execution, Tennessee is now facing a critical question: Will the state try to kill her again?
  "Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care," her attorneys said in a statement on Oct. 6. "Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery."
  So far, Tennessee Gov.
  
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• Trump looms over Susan Collins and Troy Jackson's first Maine Senate debate

  07-10-2026 02:35 via nbcnews.com
  Susan Collins; Troy Jackson. (Getty)Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Troy Jackson debated for the first time Tuesday in Maine, trading attacks over President Donald Trump, the cost of living and abortion in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.Maine is central to Democrats’ path to the Senate majority as they try to capitalize on Trump’s unpopularity. Jackson tried to do just that Tuesday by tying Collins to Trump, name-checking him at le
  
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• How a protest over missing teachers spread to 1,800 schools across France

  07-10-2026 02:31 via deseret.com
  
  Students chant slogans during a demonstration against under-resourced schools, in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026.|Teresa SuarezWhat began as protests over missing teachers, overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating schools has grown into a nationwide crisis in France, drawing hundreds of thousands into the streets and triggering violent clashes between demonstrators and police.
  Students say years of underinvestment have left them with teacher shortages, long school days and deteriorating facilities
  
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• Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution, her lawyers say

  07-10-2026 00:34 via yahoo.com
  Christa Pike is conscious and speaking in the hospital after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her last week, her lawyers said Tuesday.“Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care. Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed. Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery,” her legal team wrote in
  
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