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Giuliani's son says dad gifted him World Series rings sought by election workers

October 9, 2024, 2:09 PM Rudy Giuliani's son is trying to stop two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against his father from taking the elder Giuliani's New York Yankees World Series rings, saying in new court filings that he is actually the rightful owner because they were gifted to him years ago. Andrew Giuliani, who was unsuccessful in a 2022 Republican bid for New York governor, said in papers filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan that his father ga ...

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Taylor Swift Donates $5 Million to Hurricane Helene and Milton Relief Efforts

Taylor Swift has donated $5 million in relief efforts for communities struggling in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. On their social media, the non-profit organization Feeding America released a statement from CEO Babineaux-Fontenot confirming Swift’s “generous donation.” “We’re incredibly grateful to Taylor Swift for her generous $5 million donation to Hurricanes Helene and Milton relief efforts,” the post reads. “This contribution will help communities rebuild and recover, providin ...

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Biden shoots down Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'beyond ridiculous' conspiracy theory about controlling the weather

Oct. 9, 2024, 1:55 PM EDT WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden delivered a stark warning Wednesday about the dangerous hurricane barreling toward Florida, he shot down misinformation about the storm, including one particular conspiracy theory propagated by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. "The claims are getting even more bizarre. Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congressman with Georgia, is now saying the federal government is literally controlling the weather — we're controll ...

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Donald Trump Claims to Have Been to Gaza Despite No Evidence of Visit

Donald Trump’s truthfulness as well as his knowledge of Middle East geography has come under fresh scrutiny after the former president claimed to have been to Gaza – although there is no evidence of him ever visiting the war-torn Palestinian territory. Trump raised eyebrows after the Republican nominee in November’s presidential election told Hugh Hewitt, a rightwing radio host, that he had been in the tiny coastal strip where more than 41,000 people have been killed and the majority of buildin ...

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Republicans are challenging all aspects of mail-in voting in battleground states

Updated 1:53 PM EDT, Wed October 9, 2024 CNN — After mail-in and absentee voting reached new levels in the 2020 election during the Covid-19 pandemic, a wave of lawsuits over the popular vote-casting methods this year is laying the groundwork for potential challenges to the outcome of the November presidential election. Key swing states like North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Michigan are still experiencing a high volume of mail-in and absentee voting. That has prompted multiple lawsu ...

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Trump has long blasted China's trade practices. His 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed there.

(AP) Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices — China. Global trade records reviewed by The Associated Press show a printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States between early February and late March.

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Vance Says Trump Will Defund Planned Parenthood

(Meidas News) Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance announced in a press conference over the weekend that Donald Trump is still intent on defunding Planned Parenthood, a policy from his first presidential term. "On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood, look, I mean our view is we don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions," Vance said after Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. According to Planned Parenthood, abortion accounts for only 3% of its services, while the non-profit organization also provides low cost cancer screenings, pregnancy and STI testing, contraception, and annual exams, among other comprehensive care needs. Trump's plan would defund all of Planned Parenthood's services that low income women and women without health insurance count on.

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Kremlin Confirms Trump Sent Putin COVID-19 Tests While President

(Time) The Kremlin confirmed that former U.S. President Donald Trump while in office sent Russian President Vladimir Putin COVID-19 testing devices during the height of the pandemic, as recounted in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the tests had been sent.

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Ocasio-Cortez, Raskin demand answers from Chief Justice Roberts following NYT report

(MNSBC) The Supreme Court’s new term starts Monday, with plenty of open questions about whether and how the justices will be involved in deciding the 2024 presidential election, as well as how they’ll resolve a host of disputes over guns, transgender rights and much more. But a letter sent Friday from House Democrats to Chief Justice John Roberts underscores open questions that still linger from last term about how the Roberts Court operates in deciding its biggest cases while under an ethical cloud.

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Marriott agrees to pay $52 million, beef up data security to resolve probes over data breaches

17 min ago - Updated 7:34 PM EDT, October 9, 2024 Marriott International has agreed to pay $52 million and make changes to bolster its data security to resolve state and federal claims related to major data breaches that affected more than 300 million of its cust ... (AP)

Iowa, Nebraska, 18 other states sue feds to block staffing mandates for nursing homes

21 min ago - By: Clark Kauffman - October 9, 2024 6:44 pm The state of Iowa, where nursing homes have compiled one of the nation’s worst records for staffing-level violations, has joined 19 other states in suing the Biden administration to block the implemen ... (Nebraska Examiner)

Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in literature for 'intense poetic prose' confronting human fragility

38 min ago - Updated 7:20 AM EDT, Thu October 10, 2024 CNN -- The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Han, ... (CNN Style)

Hurricane Milton: nearly 3 million without power in Florida as category 3 storm makes landfall

56 min ago - Thu 10 Oct 2024 03.46 EDT A weakening but still tremendously powerful Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida’s west coast on Wednesday night as a category 3, leaving more than 2 million homes without power, while bringing “catastrophic” ... (The Guardian)

Biden held 'direct,' 30-minute call with Netanyahu, White House says

1 hr ago - Updated 6:43 PM EDT, Wed October 9, 2024 CNN — President Joe Biden held a “direct,” 30-minute phone call with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, their first conversation in almost two months and a chance to conf ... (CNN Politics)

'Another Apparent Trump Crime': Susan Rice Argues Trump's Reported Calls With Putin Could Be Illegal

1 hr ago - Oct 9th, 2024, 6:05 pm Susan Rice, the former UN ambassador under President Barack Obama and aide to President Joe Biden, argued that former President Donald Trump may have broken the law with his reported phone calls to Vladimir Putin as a private c ... (MEDIAite)

A federal judge will hear more evidence on whether to reopen voter registration in Georgia

2 hrs ago - October 9, 2024, 6:02 PM ATLANTA -- At least for now, a federal judge won’t order the state of Georgia to reopen voter registration for November’s elections. U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross ruled after a Wednesday hearing that three voting ... (ABC News/AP)

The Trump Organization wants to open a luxury hotel in the heart of Israel

2 hrs ago - 12 hours ago Donald Trump’s family business tried to open a luxury hotel in Jerusalem, Israel, according to a report. The Trump Organization sought a deal last year to open a Trump-branded hotel on the former site of Israel’s Ministry of F ... (The Independent)

GSK agrees to settle about 80,000 Zantac lawsuits for up to $2.2 bln

3 hrs ago - October 9, 2024 4:27 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago Oct 9 (Reuters) - GSK (GSK.L) has agreed to pay up to $2.2 billion to settle most lawsuits in U.S. state courts claiming that a discontinued version of the heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, the comp ... (Reuters)

Vice President Harris warns businesses against price-gouging as Hurricane Milton hits Florida

3 hrs ago - Posted 4:53 PM, Oct 09, 2024 and last updated 4:56 PM, Oct 09, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris has issued a stark warning to businesses as people across Florida prepare for Hurricane Milton to make landfall. "Let us all be clear: Americans impac ... (Scripps News)

Ohio Militant Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges for Attacking US Capitol on 6 Jan

4 hrs ago - Dustin Martin (30) of Grove City, OH, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of civil disorder and a misdemeanor charge of disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds before US District Judge Loren L. AliKhan. Judge AliKhan will ... (Justice Department)

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

9 hrs ago - Lorena O'Neil Wed, October 9, 2024 at 4:40 PM CDT As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, meteorologists are staying awake for days at a time trying to get vital, life-saving information out to the folks who will be affected. That’s their job. ... (yahoo.com)

U.S. Issues Solar Storm Watch After Large Outburst From the Sun

10 hrs ago - U.S. Issues Solar Storm Watch After Large Outburst From the Sun An explosion of particles is expected to reach Earth on Thursday, and could lead to visible Northern Lights in much of the country while also raising power grid concerns. By Kenneth Chan ... (New York Times)

Hurricane Milton makes landfall near Sarasota. Half-million already without power

11 hrs ago - Updated October 09, 2024 8:41 PM Hurricane Milton made landfall on Siesta Key just before 8:30 pm Wednesday evening as the Category 3 storm continued lashing the Gulf Coast with heavy rains, whipping winds while spinning off a string of tornadoes acr ... (Miami Herald)

Elite colleges accused of price-fixing to make divorced parents pay more

11 hrs ago - HIGHER EDUCATION Elite colleges accused of price-fixing to make divorced parents pay more Forty colleges are accused of conspiring with the College Board over a span of 18 years Cornell University viewed from McGraw Tower. (kickstand/iStock) By Danie ... (Washington Post)

Biden gives update on Hurricane Milton, assures Florida residents, "We've got your back

11 hrs ago - Updated on: October 9, 2024 / 6:15 PM EDT Washington — President Biden spoke about Hurricane Milton ahead of its expected landfall Wednesday night and assured Florida residents and others who have been impacted by the recent storms, "We've got y ... (CBS News)

FEC to consider clarifying what joint fundraising committees can pay for in political ads

12 hrs ago - Posted October 9, 2024 at 2:40pm The Federal Election Commission on Thursday will consider whether joint fundraising committees can fully finance campaign-style television advertisements, which Democrats argue could reshape funding for political adve ... (Roll Call)

Giuliani's son says dad gifted him World Series rings sought by election workers

13 hrs ago - October 9, 2024, 2:09 PM Rudy Giuliani's son is trying to stop two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against his father from taking the elder Giuliani's New York Yankees World Series rings, saying in new court filing ... (ABC News/AP)

Taylor Swift Donates $5 Million to Hurricane Helene and Milton Relief Efforts

14 hrs ago - Taylor Swift has donated $5 million in relief efforts for communities struggling in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. On their social media, the non-profit organization Feeding America released a statement from CEO Babineaux-Fontenot confirmi ... (Variety)

U.S. hits former Ecuador leaders with visa bans over corruption

14 hrs ago - The Biden administration on Wednesday imposed visa bans on former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, his vice president and their immediate families for corruption. The State Department announced that Correa and his onetime deputy Jorge Glas would n ... (LA Times)

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