Ukraine’s recent battlefield wins in the east and south of the country are a “significant operational accomplishment,” a top Pentagon official said Tuesday, the same day the Biden administration announced it would transfer another $625 million of weapons to Kyiv. The gains come as Vladimir Putin moved on Tuesday to […]
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Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago case
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump filed an emergency request Tuesday with the Supreme Court asking that the justices intervene in the case involving classified records that he kept at Mar-a-Lago after leaving office. In its filing, Trump’s legal team asked the high court to allow the special master to […]
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UPDATE 1-U.S. to impose costs on Iran for crackdown on protests, Biden says
(Adds Biden comments) WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – The United States this week will impose further costs on Iranian officials responsible for violence against demonstrators who protested against Iran’s government after the death of Mahsa Amini, President Joe Biden said on Monday. Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan, was arrested […]
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Justice Jackson wades into questioning on murky wetlands dispute as Supreme Court opens new term
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened its nine-month term Monday by hearing a conservative challenge to the federal government’s authority to regulate wetlands under a landmark environmental protection law, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asking multiple questions on her first day on the bench. Jackson, the first Black woman to […]
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Burkina Faso coup: Gunshots in capital and roads blocked
Roads have been blocked and shops closed in the capital, Ouagadougou, as Burkina Faso’s power struggle continues Burkina Faso’s self-declared leader says the man he ousted a day ago in a coup is plotting a counter-attack. Col Ibrahim Traoré also accused the French army of harbouring Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba […]
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Nevada Democrats see signs of nightmare scenario: Latino voters staying home
LAS VEGAS — Nevada Democrats have held up their state as a national testing ground for how to win Latino voters in 2024. But with only 37 days until the midterm elections, there are warning signs: At the doors, on the phones and on the streets, Latinos are threatening to […]
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‘Woman. Life. Freedom.’ Boise rally targets Iranian regime in wake of worldwide protests
Nearly 100 members of Boise’s Iranian-American community and supporters rallied on the Idaho Capitol steps Saturday afternoon, one in a series of protests in major cities across the world sparked by the death of a young woman in the Iranian capital last month for allegedly defying the regime’s rules governing […]
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Ian slows down as death toll from hurricane grows in Florida
In Florida, nearly 1.3 million homes and businesses were still without power early Saturday, three days after Ian hit the state. The lack of power and water is why Meah Fields, 16, and her family had to leave their Cape Coral home, where they rode out the storm, for Sarasota. […]
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Burkina Faso unrest: Military officers remove leader Damiba
An army captain in Burkina Faso has announced on national television that he has ousted military leader Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba. Ibrahim Traore cited Lt Col Damiba’s inability to deal with an Islamist insurgency as the reason. He also announced that borders were closed indefinitely and all political activities were […]
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Hurricane Ian makes landfall in South Carolina after devastating Florida
Hurricane Ian came ashore near Georgetown, South Carolina, on Friday afternoon, knocking out power to more than 180,000 customers 20 minutes after landfall. Ian reached land at 2:05 p.m. as a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. In a Twitter post […]