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• Beijing blasts U.S. sanctions on 5 Chinese firms tied to ex-Google engineer

  20-10-2026 23:52 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Beijing on Tuesday expressed "firm opposition" to the Trump administration's sanctions on five Chinese companies connected to a former Google engineer accused of intellectual property theft.
  
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• Driver charged with intentionally injuring Australian federal lawmaker

  20-10-2026 23:51 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A driver accused of intentionally causing serious injury to Australian federal lawmaker Helen Haines by hitting her with his car was due to face court for the first time on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Haines remained in critical condition after an apparent escalation in political violence that has shocked a nation where such crimes are rare.
  
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• Brazilian tourist killed in accident at Frank Lloyd Wright landmark in Arizona

  20-10-2026 23:50 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A Brazilian tourist was killed in an accident at Taliesin West, a building designed by famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Scottsdale, Arizona.
  
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• FAA clears the way for airlines to put Boeing's long-delayed 737 Max 10 into service

  20-10-2026 23:44 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Boeing's 737 Max 10 airliner has been approved for passenger service after years of delays, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday.
  
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• Debris in farmer's field in Minnesota came from Chinese commercial space launch rocket

  20-10-2026 23:34 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Metal debris that fell in a field in Scott Township, Minnesota, roughly 158 miles northwest of Minneapolis, came from a Chinese commercial rocket, according to reports.
  
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• Libya approves contentious Turkey deal over Mediterranean waters

  20-10-2026 23:08 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Libya's parliament unanimously approved a contested maritime agreement with Turkey on Tuesday, reversing years of opposition and reviving a dispute with Egypt, Greece and Cyprus over rights in the eastern Mediterranean.
  
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• France braces for new round of protests as officials blame far-left agitators

  20-10-2026 23:07 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Left-wing groups backing the huge protests that devolved into chaotic riots in France are regrouping after a period of relative calm and plan to fill the nation's streets again on Saturday.
  
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• Funds from sale of former Gambian ruler's U.S. property to be used to compensate victims

  20-10-2026 22:52 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Gambian authorities said Tuesday that they had received funds recovered from the forfeiture of a United States property owned by former longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh and that they would be used to pay reparations to victims.
  
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• SpaceX turns a profit after a string of losses as its satellite and computer leasing businesses soar

  20-10-2026 22:49 via The Washington Times stories: News
  SpaceX reported a bigger quarterly profit than expected Tuesday as its satellite communications operations and its business of leasing computing power to other companies boomed.
  
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• Some 'Young Sheldon' cast members tried 'religious excuse' to get out of COVID vaccine

  20-10-2026 22:43 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Chuck Lorre, the creator of "The Big Bang Theory" and its prequel series "Young Sheldon," says that during the COVID era, some of the cast of "Young Sheldon" tried to excuse themselves from getting the vaccine due to personal and religious reasons.
  
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• Indigenous voters in Brazil's Amazon fear missing runoff after court denies transportation

  20-10-2026 22:29 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon fear a lack of transportation will prevent them from voting in Sunday's election runoff. The Amazonas state electoral court on Tuesday rejected a petition for transportation assistance filed by Univaja, an association representing Indigenous peoples of the Javari Valley in northern Brazil.
  
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• Polymarket removes contract allowing users to wager on fate of Cornell students accused of rape

  20-10-2026 22:25 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Polymarket has removed a contract from its prediction market platform that allowed users to wager on whether any of the seven men accused of raping a Cornell student in 2024 will be charged with a felony sex crime.
  
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• U2's Bono questions how voters of faith could support DOGE

  20-10-2026 22:22 via The Washington Times stories: News
  U2 frontman Bono is questioning how people of faith could have supported Elon Musk's Department of Governmental Efficiency during its tenure.
  
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• Trump hints at possible breakthrough for American held in Russia since his capture in Ukraine

  20-10-2026 22:05 via The Washington Times stories: News
  President Trump hinted Tuesday at a possible breakthrough in the case of Stephen Hubbard, the American teacher held in Russia.
  
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• How to steal a billion dollars from Uncle Sam

  20-10-2026 21:51 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Brett Blackman sits behind bars in the federal prison in Miami, fresh off getting a 19-year prison sentence from U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz. His crime? He aimed to steal a billion dollars from the government -- and succeeded in getting Medicare and other insurers to actually pony up more than $450 million.
  
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• D.C.'s anti-truancy program to cover all schools in Wards 7 and 8 after initial success

  20-10-2026 21:46 via The Washington Times stories: News
  D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Tuesday she's expanding an anti-truancy program to all public and charter schools in Wards 7 and 8 after the pilot program resulted in a 64% drop in children skipping school.
  
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• Trump urges Zelenskyy to make a deal or it's 'just going to get worse'

  20-10-2026 21:39 via The Washington Times stories: News
  President Trump on Tuesday urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to make a deal and end the brutal four-year war with Russia, saying Kyiv doesn't have the manpower to defeat Russia and the world's patience is growing thin.
  
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• Trump says Rep. Ilhan Omar could 'go to jail,' disparages Somalia

  20-10-2026 21:30 via The Washington Times stories: News
  President Trump said Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar could "go to jail" as a result of an ongoing investigation into her immigration history.
  
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• CNN threatens new legal action, saying it's still being denied access to Air Force One

  20-10-2026 21:29 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Already embroiled in a tense legal standoff with the White House, CNN is threatening further action in the courts if its journalists continue to be denied access to Air Force One and the "pool" of journalists who accompany President Donald Trump when he travels.
  
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• Meta tells Brazil's electoral court it treats Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro equally ahead of Sunday vote

  20-10-2026 21:19 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Tech giant Meta said on Tuesday it has complied with an order of Brazil's electoral court for it to give equal treatment in its platforms to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of the Oct. 25 runoff for the nation's top job.
  
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• Italy's Meloni approves tougher measures to crack down on protests after Milan riots

  20-10-2026 21:15 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Italy announced new security measures on Tuesday aimed at tackling the kind of violent protests that caused damage to Milan's central shopping district when weekend rioters, many of them minors, looted stores and set fire to property.
  
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• Salem's witch trial history charms Halloween tourists as town marks 400th anniversary

  20-10-2026 21:14 via The Washington Times stories: News
  An orange glow emanates from a smoke-enveloped alleyway on Derby Street in Salem, Massachusetts.
  
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• Nigeria confirms Ebola case in Abuja as woman who arrived from Uganda tests positive

  20-10-2026 21:06 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Nigeria confirmed an Ebola case in its capital, Abuja, on Tuesday after a woman who arrived from Uganda tested positive for the virus, the Health Ministry said.
  
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• Trump calls French riots 'a full-on revolution'

  20-10-2026 21:04 via The Washington Times stories: News
  President Trump said the massive rioting in France is "a full-on revolution" born out of overzealous immigration that risks destabilizing all of Europe.
  
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• Jumping jaws! Great white shark photobombs California beachgoers

  20-10-2026 20:59 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Visitors to Marina State Beach, 100 miles south of San Francisco, had an unusual cameo in their photos and videos Saturday: a breaching great white shark.
  
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• Trump's rally show rolls out the economic development plans

  20-10-2026 20:54 via The Washington Times stories: News
  President Trump's rallies across the U.S. include more than just pleas for his supporters to get to the polls on Nov. 3. He's also announcing new factories and economic ventures in the states he visits.
  
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• The Chicks bring Texas Senate nominee James Talarico out onstage during concert

  20-10-2026 20:37 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Country band The Chicks brought out Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico onstage during a Saturday concert in San Antonio, Texas.
  
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• N.H.'s Sununu distances himself from Trump: 'Never even met the man'

  20-10-2026 20:37 via The Washington Times stories: News
  New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate John E. Sununu is denying any personal ties to President Trump as he faces an uphill battle in the Granite State.
  
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• Woman who accused Cornell students of rape says president's response made her feel 'disbelieved'

  20-10-2026 20:35 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The woman who has accused seven students of raping her at a Cornell University fraternity house has weighed in on a looming faculty vote of no confidence in the school's leadership, saying the university's president questioned why she waited to report being assaulted - an alleged remark she said left her feeling "unsupported and disbelieved."
  
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• British police rearrest two in suspected terror attack at air base

  20-10-2026 20:04 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Two men who were arrested and later released during an investigation into a suspected terror plot near a British air base used by U.S. bombers are back in custody on suspicion of working for Iran's intelligence service.
  
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• Air Force identifies airman who died during rappelling demonstration at UTSA/Navy game

  20-10-2026 20:00 via The Washington Times stories: News
  An Air Force service member who died after falling from the rafters during a rappelling demonstration ahead of a Saturday football game between the University of Texas at San Antonio and Navy has been identified as Tech Sgt. Ian Patterson, assigned to the 6th Combat Training Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio in Texas.
  
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• Restaurants charge for a feeling that used to be free

  20-10-2026 19:56 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Somewhere in America right now, a restaurant is charging you $30 to feel something your grandmother gave away for free.
  
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• Doubts abound about midterm polls. Could a 'silver wave' upend predictions of a Democratic takeover?

  20-10-2026 19:52 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The polls say Democrats are headed for a wave in the midterms. But pollsters have been wrong before, and it wouldn't take much of a miss to flip that script.
  
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• How the U.S. organ transplant system works and what to ask to improve your chances

  20-10-2026 19:43 via The Washington Times stories: News
  It's not always patience and luck that get patients off the organ transplant waiting list and into the operating room.
  
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• AI reversing increases in higher education administration for the first time in decades

  20-10-2026 19:40 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Artificial intelligence apparently is helping reverse decades of bureaucratic bloat at universities, whose nonteaching staff have increased faster than their faculty and student bodies, analysts say.
  
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• Salem's witch trial history continues to charm Halloween tourists as town marks 400th anniversary

  20-10-2026 19:39 via The Washington Times stories: News
  An orange glow emanates from a smoke-enveloped alleyway on Derby Street in Salem, Massachusetts.
  
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• Democrats spend to oust Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi

  20-10-2026 19:32 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The leading Democratic Senate super PAC is releasing its first ad in Mississippi in this election cycle on Tuesday -- a $1.2 million campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, the super PAC announced Tuesday.
  
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• Kansas man arrested for threatening on Facebook to shoot Trump at rally

  20-10-2026 19:14 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A Kansas man is in federal custody after commenting on Facebook that he wanted to kill President Trump.
  
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• Ex-Sen. Manchin, AOC head to Maine for dueling roles in deadlocked Senate race

  20-10-2026 19:02 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Former Sen. Joe Manchin III, a longtime Democrat who left his party to become an independent, will campaign for Republican Sen. Susan Collins this week in Maine's deadlocked Senate race.
  
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• Kyle Francis Kennedy, granddaughter of RFK, dies

  20-10-2026 18:31 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Kyle Francis Kennedy, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, died at the age of 42 on Sept. 21, 2026, at her home in Westwood, Massachusetts, according to her obituary.
  
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• Guatemalan man gets 30-year prison sentence for role in deaths of 53 migrants

  20-10-2026 18:27 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A Guatemalan man who helped some illegal immigrants sneak into the U.S., only to die from "cooking to death" in the overheated back of a semi-truck, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.
  
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• Prince Harry says he wants to work out relationship with brother and father

  20-10-2026 18:25 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Prince Harry has said he wants his disagreements with his brother Prince William and his father King Charles III to "work out."
  
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• Candidate admits to warm-up drinks before televised interview

  20-10-2026 18:11 via The Washington Times stories: News
  An Indiana Democrat running for county council said she had a three-beer pregame before her televised candidate forum last week.
  
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• Oregon high school football player tackles opponent carrying American flag

  20-10-2026 18:02 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A football player from Jefferson High School tackled a Grant High School opponent who was carrying a U.S. flag during an opening ceremony for a football game Friday in Portland, Oregon.
  
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• 40 days to arrive, 40 days to leave: How Armenian culture honors life's most important moments

  20-10-2026 18:02 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The number 40 - "karasun," in Armenian - is everywhere in Christian sacred time.
  
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• Divine intervention at the polls? Interfaith clergy deploy to nine states ahead of Nov. 3

  20-10-2026 17:53 via The Washington Times stories: News
  In battleground states across the country, faith leaders and hundreds of their colleagues will assume the role of poll chaplains for one day. They will deploy to nine states -- Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Virginia and Texas -- where contentious races are expected to raise political tensions.
  
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• Alberta rejects a move toward independence from Canada in a victory for Carney

  20-10-2026 17:37 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Voters in oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, according to referendum results released Tuesday, delivering a boost to Prime Minister Mark Carney's push for national unity as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war and annexation threats rally Canadians around their country.
  
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• Drone strike on a market in disputed African region of Abyei kills at least 153

  20-10-2026 17:31 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A drone strike on a market in Abyei, a border region disputed by Sudan and South Sudan, hit a nearby fuel depot, killing at least 153 people and igniting a fire that was still burning Tuesday, a local official said.
  
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• Russian aerial blitz kills 9 in Ukraine as Zelenskyy meets U.S. and European officials in Norway

  20-10-2026 17:25 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Russia unleashed another missile and drone blitz of civilian areas in Ukraine, killing at least nine people, officials said Tuesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought more American and European help during a visit to Norway.
  
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• Pentagon official says future military bases will be designed for mission

  20-10-2026 17:22 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The Pentagon's concept of "the next great American base" is significantly different from how military installations were once built, a senior defense official said Tuesday.
  
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