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• The Latest: Florida county asks thousands to leave homes

  05-10-2016 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Matthew and Tropical Storm Nicole (all times local):
  
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• Michael Dell defends Trump Accounts' shift to individual company stocks

  07-10-2026 23:34 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Dell, philanthropist and founder of Dell Technologies, pushed back against critics who argue that allowing wealthy investors to donate individual company stocks to Trump Accounts could have a nefarious impact.Under new rules that took effect last week, charities can put individual stocks into kids' accounts as a donation. Trump Accounts are tax-advantaged investment vehicles that can be used for education expenses, starting a business, or saving for retirement. They were authorized in la
  
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• Maduro and his wife expected to face new charges over alleged torture of Americans

  07-10-2026 23:33 via cnn.com
  
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, on October 15, 2021. - Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images
  Prosecutors in New York are expected to bring new charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores over the alleged torture of Americans who were held in Venezuelan government custody in recent years, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation.
  An announcement could come as soon as Thursday, the p
  
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• Hegseth awards USS Lincoln crew top unit honor after grueling Iran war deployment

  07-10-2026 22:19 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln a high-level award during a visit to the aircraft carrier Wednesday, a day before the ship returns home to San Diego after a record-long deployment in support of the Iran war.The Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor a unit can receive that is typically reserved for significant achievement in combat, was bestowed upon the Lincoln and accompanying ships for "40 days of combat operations an
  
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• Cornell students stage 7-hour sit-in as pressure mounts over rape allegations

  07-10-2026 22:00 via yahoo.com
  Students at Cornell University began what was billed as a seven-hour sit-in on Wednesday in solidarity with "Jane Doe," the former student who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a fraternity on its Ithaca, N.Y., campus in October 2024.“Seven hours for the seven hours she endured,” a coalition of Cornell student groups said in an Instagram post announcing the demonstration. “Seven hours of solidarity. Seven hours demanding change.” About 80 stude
  
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• The Fed was unanimous about raising rates in September. Things have since changed.

  07-10-2026 20:48 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  Minutes from the Federal Reserve's September policy meeting reflect unanimous agreement among officials that interest rates needed to be higher to combat persistent inflation."Participants generally emphasized that inflation remained elevated while the labor market appeared to be near full employment, with some signs of strengthening, and that economic activity was expanding at a solid pace. Furthermore, almost all participants assessed that, while inflation risks were tilted to the upside, risk
  
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• Christa Pike is 'angry and confused' and can't move her arms after failed execution

  07-10-2026 19:07 via usatoday.com
  NASHVILLE – Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is still suffering "a lot of cognitive confusion" after regaining consciousness following her botched execution, her attorney said Oct. 7.
  Attorney Randy Spivey said Pike was considered "brain dead" on Monday and the medical team was planning to remove life support the following day. But on Tuesday she woke up and began speaking.
  Spivey was not in the room when Pike regained consciousness, but said he believes the first words she uttered
  
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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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• The sleeper House races Democrats and Republicans think they can flip

  07-10-2026 16:00 via politico.com
  The 2026 House map continues to move further onto GOP terrain. But while Democrats are dreaming big, the GOP insists they can hold the majority.Score talked to the DCCC's Deputy Executive Director Will Van Nuys and the NRCC's Communications Director Will Kiley.The two operatives chose four under-the-radar races where they’re feeling good about their underdog candidates pulling off an upset. If these races flip, they know they’re having a good night.“We're not saying that this w
  
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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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