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• This city is building treehouses

  16-10-2015 15:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Whether it's paving, construction or big-time infrastructure projects, Addis Ababa is growing fast.
  
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• Multiple countries consider restrictions on smart glasses amid privacy concerns

  06-10-2026 11:29 via yahoo.com
  Oct 6 (Reuters) - Governments, courts and companies are considering restrictions and examining existing rules on smart glasses amid worries that the technology, ‌brought to mainstream by Meta's Ray-Bans, could be used to photograph, film or ‌audio-record confidential materials or people without their knowledge.Here is a summary of what countries and regions ​are doing to protect people's privacy, in alphabetical order.AUSTRALIAThe federal government said in September it was&
  
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• Jim Bakker, televangelist who built a massive empire before scandal, dies at 86

  06-10-2026 06:15 via yahoo.com
  Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.Bakker died Monday, his second wife, Lori Bakker, said in a statement. His cause of death was not immediately clear.The pair lived near the Missouri entertainment town of Branson and filmed their TV show “The Jim Bakker Show” there since it launched in 2003. Ba
  
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• Trump says his super PAC will now pay for ads after taxpayer-funded blitz

  06-10-2026 05:48 via abcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Monday night that he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for a multimillion-dollar pro-Trump ad blitz ahead of the midterm elections, saying his super PAC will now pay for them. While he dismissed criticism of the ads as "a rather standard thing to do," he said he had decided to run them on his own dime rather than that of the U.S. government in a post on his social media platform."I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself
  
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• Thune sees no 'clear path forward' for permanent daylight saving time

  06-10-2026 05:37 via usatoday.com
  Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in an Oct. 5 interview that "there’s no clear path forward" for legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent.
  Thune's comments, made to Politico, come days after President Donald Trump appeared to give out Sen. Tom Cotton's phone number amid the senator's objections to the bill.
  "The president feels strongly on it like he does a lot of issues," Thune told Politico. "It’s something we’re having conversations about, but there&r
  
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• ‘Ban the frats’: Protests erupt at Cornell over handling of rape allegation

  06-10-2026 03:30 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of students and faculty gathered for a demonstration at Cornell.Photograph: Olga Fedorova/EPA
  Mass protests erupted at Cornell University on Monday, with students criticizing officials’ handling of gang-rape allegations, demanding the president’s resignation and painting “SMASH THE PATRIARCHY” on an administration building.
  Thousands of students and faculty gathered for a demonstration, sparked by the high-profile case of a former student known as Jane Doe, who
  
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• Trump expands access to tax-exempt diesel fuel with an executive order

  06-10-2026 03:26 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  By Jarrett Renshaw and Kanishka SinghGRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, Oct 5 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to expand access to tax-exempt diesel that ‌he unveiled from a rally stage in Nebraska.High diesel prices, which shot to a ‌record of about $6.50 a gallon last month, are a risk to Trump ahead of the November 3 midterm US elections ​in which control of Congress is at stake. Trump's Republican Party currently holds a narrow majority in the Se
  
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• Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina

  06-10-2026 03:07 via nbcnews.com
  Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews speaks at the Spratt Issues Conference in Florence, S.C., on Aug. 22. (Sean Rayford / Getty)President Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur Monday to attack the Democratic nominee for the Senate in South Carolina as he urged voters to back Republican Sen. Darline Graham.In a Truth Social post, Trump referred to Democratic candidate Annie Andrews three times as “trannie.” He said Andrews, who is not transgender, is “not for South Car
  
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• Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan

  06-10-2026 03:01 via yahoo.com
  Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army officer and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday. “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009,&rd
  
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• Fort Hood shooter to face Army firing squad in 1st such execution since 1945

  06-10-2026 03:01 via yahoo.com
  Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army officer and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday. “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009,&rd
  
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• Christa Pike remains on ventilator as lawyers seek commuted death sentence

  06-10-2026 01:40 via cbsnews.com
  
  Christa Pike, the death row inmate who last week survived Tennessee's attempt to execute her, remained hospitalized on a ventilator Monday, according to her attorney.He said it was still unclear whether Pike would regain consciousness but urged the state to "take death off the table" by commuting her sentence, renewing an earlier request that the governor denied before her botched lethal injection."The least that could happen now is that we at least take death off the table and start lookin
  
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• Trump says he'll start paying for ads after bipartisan pushback over taxpayer funding

  06-10-2026 01:29 via cbsnews.com
  
  President Trump said Monday he will start paying for the pro-Trump ads that have blanketed the airwaves in recent weeks with money raised by his super PAC, after his administration drew intense pushback for using public funds on the ads.  "The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money," the president wrote on Truth Social. "This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather
  
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• Chicago woman shot 5 times by Border Patrol agent files federal lawsuit

  06-10-2026 01:06 via wgntv.com
  CHICAGO (WGN) — A Chicago woman who was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent during Operation Midway Blitz filed a lawsuit against the federal government Monday, calling for more action against the agent who shot her.
  Marimar Martinez said the encounter with Border Patrol agents happened in Oct. 2025. She was allegedly heading to church to drop off clothing donations when she noticed immigration officers on her street.
  “For the next 15 to 20 minutes, I followed these Border Patr
  
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• Russia disputes plague report as Trump offers U.S. help

  05-10-2026 22:44 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said the US was ready to help Russia with the reported plague case (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)Russia on Monday sought to downplay reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, even as President Donald Trump said Washington was closely monitoring the situation and offered US help.Reports on Friday that pneumonic plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, sparked alarm."We'r
  
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• Iran-linked threat prompted U.S. to move bombers from U.K., Trump says

  05-10-2026 22:42 via yahoo.com
  By Kate Holton and Steve HollandLONDON/WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Monday that a threat linked to Iran had prompted the removal of American B-1 bombers from a British airbase.The planes had been stationed at RAF Fairford, the preferred European base for US bombers, and had recently been used in US strikes on Iran. Last week, five British ‌men were arrested near the base — which Iran's Revolutionary Guards previously said was a legitimate target &mda
  
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• Trump plans another oil stockpile sell-off with global reserves already 'scarily thin'

  05-10-2026 22:37 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped by almost 800,000 barrels last week, and the Trump administration moved forward with plans to sell another 40 million barrels in the coming months.New data released on Monday by the US Department of Energy showed the US energy backstop sitting at 283 million barrels, down from 283.77 million the week prior.That leaves about two weeks of US oil consumption in the reserve amid widespread worries about global stockpiles, which the head of Saudi Arabi
  
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• Ex-'American Idol' contestant Caleb Flynn sentenced to life without parole for wife's murder

  05-10-2026 22:34 via abcnews.com
  
  An Ohio man who was found guilty of murdering his wife and staging the crime scene to make it seem as if an intruder had broken into their home and fatally shot the mother of two was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Caleb Flynn, 40, a former pastor who once appeared as a contestant on "American Idol" in 2013, was found guilty of aggravated murder and multiple counts of murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of his wife, 37-
  
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• Who is Michele Tafoya? Ex-sideline reporter aims to turn Minnesota red in Senate race.

  05-10-2026 21:27 via yahoo.com
  When it comes to the battle for control of the U.S. Senate, Republicans are mostly playing defense. The lion’s share of the races that will decide which party secures a majority in November are in red states — including Texas, Iowa and Ohio — where the GOP is hoping to hold on against ascendant Democratic challengers. Minnesota is one of the few states in the country where the party is in a position to go on offense and potentially turn a blue seat red. In pursuit of
  
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• Sen. Tillis calls deciding vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret' of his career

  05-10-2026 20:46 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from becoming Health and Human Services secretary in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term. In “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents,” to be published Tuesday, the North Carolina
  
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• Is it her plane? New expedition sets off to solve the Amelia Earhart mystery.

  05-10-2026 20:42 via usatoday.com
  An expedition began on Oct. 2 as researchers left Purdue University on a mission that hopes to find the lost plane of aviator Amelia Earhart, who went missing along with her navigator Fred Noonan in 1937.
  Three members of the Taraia Object expedition, a joint effort among the Indiana-based university, Purdue's Archaeological Legacy Institute and the Purdue Research Foundation, then traveled from Los Angeles to meet others in the 17-person team. Next, they'll travel to Fiji and Kiribati in the So
  
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• Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of oil companies’ bid to stop climate suit

  05-10-2026 19:42 via thehill.com
  Several Supreme Court Justices appeared skeptical Monday of a request from oil companies to preemptively block a climate change lawsuit that could hold them liable for climate damages.
  Many of the justices raised questions about the court’s ability to even take up the case at this time. 
  "A number of the discussions that you've had with my colleagues make me think that we're really early in this case – that this is sort of premature from the standpoint of this court exercising
  
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• Phone call and records suggest some Cornell students tried to contain rape allegations

  05-10-2026 19:19 via yahoo.com
  The woman who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a Cornell University fraternity in October 2024 told one of the accused men in a recorded phone call weeks later that she was “10 shots deep” when she arrived at the Chi Phi house and was now struggling to remember what had caused “so much damage on my body and brain.”"The only way for me to heal is to know what happened," the woman, identified as “Jane Doe” in a civil lawsuit, said during
  
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• Chicago-bound British Airways flight drops 28,000 feet in 7 minutes and returns to London

  05-10-2026 18:09 via nbcnews.com
  A British Airways Boeing 777 similar to the one used for the Chicago flight.  (John Keeble / Getty)LONDON — A British Airways passenger jet flying from London to Chicago descended 28,000 feet in just seven minutes after declaring an emergency due to an unspecified “technical issue,” the airline said Monday.The Boeing 777 took off at 12:15 p.m. local time (7:15 a.m. ET) but started descending just 30 minutes later while flying over Ireland, according to flight-tracking webs
  
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• Ex-Army secretary who quit Pentagon confirms clashes with Hegseth in interview

  05-10-2026 17:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former Army secretary Dan Driscoll has given his first interview since resigning from the Pentagon in September after clashing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Driscoll is just one of a series of high profile departures since Hegseth took over, with the secretary carrying out a purge so substantial it reportedly even raised President Donald Trump’s concerns. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Driscoll acknowledged the pair had disagreements on a number of issues, without going into specifics.
  
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• Guns, voting, immigration and more: The biggest cases the Supreme Court will take up in its new term

  05-10-2026 17:24 via yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court began its latest term on Monday with a docket full of high-stakes cases that touch on some of the most contentious issues in American politics, including guns, voting and transgender rights.  This will be the second full term for the nation's highest court since President Trump returned to the White House. The previous term, which wrapped up in June, was packed with landmark rulings in a long list of major cases, including Trump's tariffs, birthright citizenship and a slat
  
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• Guns, voting, immigration and more: The biggest cases for Supreme Court in new term

  05-10-2026 17:24 via yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court began its latest term on Monday with a docket full of high-stakes cases that touch on some of the most contentious issues in American politics, including guns, voting and transgender rights.  This will be the second full term for the nation's highest court since President Trump returned to the White House. The previous term, which wrapped up in June, was packed with landmark rulings in a long list of major cases, including Trump's tariffs, birthright citizenship and a slat
  
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• 2 killed, including student, in ‘horrific’ school bus crash in Florida

  05-10-2026 16:54 via abcnews.com
  
  A school bus filled with children rolled over in a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning in central Florida, killing two and injuring multiple others, according to authorities.The bus was traveling to a high school and carrying 39 passengers, including 37 high schoolers, the bus driver and the driver's 9-year-old daughter, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press conference Monday morning.Two people died in the crash, including a tenth-grade girl on the bus and an individual in a Jeep involve
  
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• Former Republican House speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84

  05-10-2026 15:59 via cbsnews.com
  
  Washington — Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was jailed for violating banking laws, has died, a coroner in Illinois said. He was 84.Both the longest-serving Republican House speaker and the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, Hastert's stunning fall from grace came in 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover
  
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• Former Republican House speaker Dennis Hastert dead at 84

  05-10-2026 15:59 via cbsnews.com
  
  Washington — Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was jailed for violating banking laws, has died, a coroner in Illinois said. He was 84.Both the longest-serving Republican House speaker and the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, Hastert's stunning fall from grace came in 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover
  
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• Karoline Leavitt heads to Fox News after exit as Trump's press secretary

  05-10-2026 15:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will provide commentary across the Fox News lineup.Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is joining Fox News Channel as an on-air contributor, FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott announced on Monday.Leavitt, 29, who will provide commentary across the Fox News lineup, starts on Nov. 1. She most recently served as the 36th White House press secretary during President Donald Trump’s second administration, from January 2025 until A
  
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