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Pieces of Halley's comet will be visible in all 50 states — if the moon doesn't get in the way
An annual meteor spectacle is peaking this week as Earth sweeps through a trail of cosmic crumbs left behind by Halley’s comet.The Orionid, one of the two major meteor showers left by Halley, the most...
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Elon Musk wants to combine Tesla and SpaceX. But would investors benefit?
By Joe Brock Oct 21 (Reuters) - Elon Musk believes a merger between Tesla and SpaceX is a good idea, he said on Tuesday, publicly backing an idea that would create one of the most valuable companies i...
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Russia releases imprisoned American as U.S. envoy meets with Putin
Russia has released a retired American teacher who had been imprisoned on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Wednesday at a meeting with Russian President Vla...
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At least 9 more lawmakers say they were targets of suspicious mail
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that one of her district offices was mailed a suspicious envelope. Pool Photo by Adam Gray/UPI Oct. 21 (UPI) -- At least nine U.S. lawmakers an...
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Childcare costs weigh on some voters before the midterm elections
Like so many Americans, Jenny Escolastico has watched wearily as the cost of living has risen, straining her household budget. But as a mother of two children under 5, she faces added pressure that co...
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Vivek Ramaswamy faces criticism over ad featuring Ohio rival's estranged mom
A chorus of condemnation from some Ohio politicians is growing against Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy over an attack ad produced by his campaign that featured his opponent's e...
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Supreme Court rulings have been 'destructive to our democracy,' Justice Kagan says
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday said the court's conservative majority has undermined democracy and "created a race to the bottom" in how co...
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Elon Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, sources say
A decision by Elon Musk led to restrictions on Ukraine's use of SpaceX's satellite communications network, people familiar with the matter told CBS News.The satellite service, which is used for drone ...
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The AI doom scenario you may never have heard of may be hardest to stop
It seems that almost daily, a big tech company releases a new AI-driven digital assistant. Muse by Meta, Gemini by Google, dots by OpenAI. By the time this article is published, a new one from [insert...
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Trump unveils fraud whistleblower rewards, but he gets to decide who gets paid
Washington — President Trump on Tuesday announced the federal government will compensate whistleblowers who report people defrauding the U.S. government and taxpayers, but said he will decide who gets...
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Musk opens the door to a SpaceX-Tesla merger as shareholders weigh a deal
Elon Musk's rocket and AI company posted net income of $4.4 billion for the July-September period (Kent NISHIMURA)Elon Musk said Tuesday he would back a merger of SpaceX and Tesla, as his rocket and A...
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Trump says Russia 'has been fine on Ukraine' as he makes deals with Putin
A series of Trump administration moves over the last two weeks — including decisions to lift sanctions on Russian diesel and delay other measures targeting the Russian economy — have led both Republic...
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U.S. is reportedly nearing a deal with Russia to free multiple jailed Americans
The Trump administration is closing in on a deal with Moscow that would see multiple Americans released from detention in Russia, two U.S. officials and another source familiar with the matter tell AB...
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Ohio governor candidate hits back after estranged mother appears in attack ad
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dr. Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, pushed back forcefully Tuesday against an unattributed ad circulating online in which her long-estranged mother calls h...
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Trump uses antisemitic term in defending a senator at a Kansas rally
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Park City, Kansas, a suburb of Wichita, on October 19. - Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday used an antisemitic t...
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2 men re-arrested in U.K. airbase investigation with possible ties to Iran
Police officers were deployed to the area of the airbase in the days after the incident [Getty Images] Two men have been re-arrested after an incident near RAF Fairford last month, counter-terrorism p...
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Trump says the U.S. military is winning the war with Iran. Tehran leaders disagree.
Talks between the U.S. and Iran have stalled despite the two countries signing a memorandum of understanding in June, aimed at ending the war.The two sides have since exchanged strikes. The U.S. says ...
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Prince Harry calls reconciliation 'the most important thing' amid royal family rift
Prince Harry has said he “wants it to work out” with his family – but claimed that others “don’t want to” have the same intention.The Duke of Sussex said in a wide-ranging interview that the “scars st...
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Hegseth discusses Iran with Netanyahu in unannounced visit to Israel, officials say
JERUSALEM, Oct 20 (Reuters) - US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed Iran with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday, three Israeli officials ...
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States are preparing for an unusual election threat from the federal government
A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will at...
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Trump announces $8 billion for farmers to offset soaring diesel costs
President Trump announced an $8 billion aid package on Monday to help US farmers pay for diesel this harvest season. The relief program, announced at a campaign rally in Kansas and on social media, ai...
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United Airlines CEO defends its fees in wide-ranging interview: 'It's expensive to fly'
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby gave a wide-ranging, often provocative interview to the New York Times, defending fees for aisle and window seats and countering the rise in airfares by asserting "it's...
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Protests cool after overnight curfews across Paris and major French cities
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu credited localized overnight curfews in Paris and other major cities for providing a measure of calm after intense nationwide protests that have seen thousands ...
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Alberta voters reject independence from Canada in decisive vote
Alberta separatists rallied ahead of the vote in the provincial capital of Edmonton (Megan Albu)Canada's province of Alberta rejected a plan to hold a binding independence referendum, results showed T...
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Zelensky accuses U.S. of holding up transfer of Patriot missiles
Russia's latest strikes on Ukraine on Monday killed six people and knocked out power to more than haf a million (Sergei SUPINSKY)Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the United States of delib...
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Gun used in Bend school shooting was birthday gift from shooter's mom, sources say
The gun used by a 16-year-old who shot and killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, last week was a birthday gift from the shooter's mom, sources told CBS ...
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Tensions flare at court hearing on Trump's D.C. golf course renovation
Golfers play past felled trees at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington D.C., US, on Sunday. - Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg/Getty Images One of the tensest showdowns between the Trump administration and t...
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Women favor Democrats by 18 points as Trump's approval falls to a new low
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish his Republican...
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Mission set to blast off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon
The spacecraft will head to Mars's larger moon, Phobos [JAXA] A spacecraft has launched from Japan headed for Mars' moon Phobos, where it will attept to grab some moondust and bring it back to Earth.I...
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France imposes curfews after violent protests lead to thousands of arrests
By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS, Oct 19 (Reuters) - French authorities set curfews in parts of several cities on Monday, including Paris, Lille and Nice, as they faced pressure over secu...
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West Virginia officials offered to store nuclear waste. Then residents found out.
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - The jagged limestone rocks of Old Standard Quarry have weathered many eras of history. The property was the site of a Civil War battle, then a quarry and is now a popular destin...
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Supreme Court agrees to review Reconstruction-era ban on distilling spirits in private homes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a ban on distilling spirits in private homes more than 150 years ago. Plain...
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Falling crucifix kills Ecuador priest during livestreamed church service
A Catholic priest in Ecuador has died after he was fatally crushed by a falling crucifix while live-streaming evening mass.The shocking accident occurred on Saturday at the Nuestra Senora del Perpetuo...
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Elon Musk says he plans to give SpaceX stock away to 'every kid in America'
Kids will soon have a financial interest in the future of space."Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX (SPCX) shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many," SpaceX founder and CEO ...
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Trump says Zelensky 'doesn't want to end this war' after Ukraine hits Russian terminal
US President Donald Trump has excoriated Ukraine’s leader after the country launched one of its biggest drone attacks on Russia this year, hitting a key oil terminal in defiance of his demand it stop ...
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11 missing after boat capsizes off Mexico, with survivors showing signs of shark bites
A search is ongoing to find the 11 people missing after a boat carrying 27 people capsized early Friday in the Pacific Ocean. Several of the 16 survivors pulled from the water were treated for injurie...
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France's unrest reaches the Louvre after weekend of violence and mass arrests
Protests such as this one in Lyon rocked France over the weekend (Jeff PACHOUD)Protesters blocked the entrance to the Louvre in Paris on Monday, as French authorities scrambled to stem public disconte...
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Australian lawmaker critically injured after being deliberately hit by car
By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Australian lawmaker Helen Haines was in a critical condition on Monday after being deliberately struck by a car outside her office in Wangaratta, police a...
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Rubio denies U.S. paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine
By Gram Slattery SAMARKAND, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied on Monday that the United States had paused some intelligence sharing with Ukraine, contradicting Ukrainian Presid...
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Emergency crews in deadly fire at Canada military base faced 'worst conditions imaginable'
Carney: 'Canada must now serve' service members killed in fire Four members of the Canadian military have died and dozens were injured at a base in the province of Alberta after a fire broke out in a ...
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Putin reportedly proposes summit with Trump and Xi to discuss Ukraine peace deal
Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the four-year-old Ukraine conf...
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Search for Amelia Earhart's plane hits another dead end after 89 years
A mysterious object discovered near a remote Pacific island is not the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's missing plane, researchers said after an expedition to the site, dealing another setback to efforts ...
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Obama condemns comments by 'border czar' that Ilhan Omar could be denaturalized
Homeland security officers carry boxes from the Washington DC residence of Ilhan Omar, on 12 October.Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP Former US president Barack Obama condemned comments by Donald Tru...
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Driver whose truck drove into Kansas soccer game released, pending toxicology tests
Clipped From Video What began as a soccer game on a sunny Saturday in Wichita, Kansas, for children whose loved ones watched on the sidelines ended in tragedy when a pickup truck sped onto the field, ...
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U.S. resumes intelligence-sharing with Ukraine after pause, Zelensky says
Oct 18 (Reuters) - The United States has resumed providing Ukraine critical intelligence to help it defend against Russian missile strikes, after a brief pause, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski...
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Rubio says Trump will take up to 60 days to weigh Russia sanctions
By Nandita Bose and Gram Slattery Oct 17 (Reuters) - The day after waiving sanctions and tariffs related to Russian exports, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he has yet to announce a final d...
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Jackson doesn't regret telling Collins to 'shut up' after protester interrupted debate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maine Democrat Troy Jackson says he does not regret telling Sen. Susan Collins that she should “shut up” after the Republican suggested a protester who interrupted their recent debat...
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'It's like a war zone': Fresh clashes break out in Paris after historic day of unrest
By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Fresh clashes broke out in Paris on Sunday a day after France suffered one of its worst days of unrest in years, with protests over high prices leavi...
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Trump's D.C. golf course overhaul will close popular links for 15 months
ToplineEast Potomac Golf Links, a highly popular municipal golf course in Washington, D.C., and the target of one of President Donald Trump’s contentious renovation projects, will close for 15 months ...
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A dramatic El Niño effect is headed for the West Coast
One of El Niño’s most dramatic effects is waiting in the wings and could soon cause chaos along the West Coast, especially in California, forecasters warned. A historic El Niño is expected to up the i...
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