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Counter-terrorism police investigating UK warehouse fire over possible links to Russia
Police say they are liaising with European law enforcement partners to investigate a spate of suspected Russian attacks
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Sydney Sweeney shows off muscles while revealing transformation for trailblazing female boxer role
The ‘Euphoria’ star is set to play Christy Martin, America’s most successful female boxer of the 1990s
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Helene and Milton are both likely to be $50 billion disasters, joining ranks of most costly storms
Monstrous hurricanes Helene and Milton caused so much complex havoc that damages are still being added up, but experts in economics, insurance and risk say they are likely to be in the pantheon of super-costly $50 billion disasters
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Clark first rookie to make All-WNBA 1st team since 2008, joined by unanimous choices Wilson, Collier
Rookie guard Caitlin Clark added another accolade to her outstanding first season, earning All-WNBA honors Wednesday
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Trump-appointed judge blocks Alabama’s mass voter purge just weeks before Election Day
Legal battles over threats to voter eligibility are playing out across the US as Trump baselessly alleges noncitizens are illegally voting
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Kamala Harris’s two-word response after Trump calls himself ‘father of IVF’
Kamala Harris issued a two-word response after Donald Trump called himself the “father of IVF”.
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Supreme Court allows a rule limiting pollution from coal-fired power plants to remain in effect
The Supreme Court has allowed a federal rule aimed at limiting planet-warming pollution from coal-fired power plants to remain in place as legal challenges play out
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Kansas City Chiefs owner backs kicker Harrison Butker's new PAC supporting 'traditional values'
Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt says he has no issue with kicker Harrison Butker forming a political action committee designed to encourage Christians to vote for “traditional values.”
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Blow for family of missing Yellowstone hiker as helicopter mission refused for being ‘too risky’
A volunteer coordinator was given a ‘hard ‘no’’ by authorities on the planned mission
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‘Morning Joe’ warns that ‘exhausted’ Trump is slurring his words and ‘becoming more erratic by the day’
‘I know people get exhausted in a long campaign and I think that we are really seeing signs of a 78-year-old man who obviously has been through a trial, been through an attempted assassination, going through the rigors of this campaign’
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Minnesota school district bans officer from teaching after he reenacted George Floyd's murder
A Minnesota school district has banned a police officer from working as a substitute teacher after what it describes as a series of “racially harmful” actions
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Phoenix police under investigation for punching and tasering deaf Black man with cerebral palsy during arrest
The two officers involved are still actively working with the police force
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Cynthia Erivo hits out at ‘offensive’ fan edit of Wicked poster: ‘It degrades me’
Some fans of the musical had complained online that the movie’s poster differs from the original artwork
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Debt paid on historic hotel owned by family of West Virginia governor, a US Senate candidate
The family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, says it has paid off debts to avoid the foreclosure of their iconic hotel, The Greenbrier
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Idaho issues execution warrant for inmate who survived a botched attempt
Idaho prison officials will attempt to execute the state’s longest-serving death row inmate next month using new protocols after botching the first attempt in February
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Kidney transplants are safe between people with HIV, new US study shows
A new study found people with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus
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JD Vance claims his mother obtained health insurance under Trump. She used Obamacare
Trump unsuccessfully attempted to repeal Obamacare during his presidency
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Prosecutors say father of Georgia shooting suspect knew son was obsessed with school shooters
Prosecutors say the father of a teenager accused of a deadly high school shooting in Georgia was aware that his son was obsessed with school shooters
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3 states renew their effort to reduce access to the abortion drug mifepristone
Three states are asking a judge to let them try a new approach with a lawsuit to force the federal government to reduce access to the abortion pill mifepristone
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Watch live: Family of Menendez brothers hold press conference to discuss pending review of life sentences
Watch live as the family of the Menendez brothers holds a press conference on Wednesday (16 October) to discuss the pending review of their life sentences.
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Trudeau says police went public with Indian diplomat allegations to prevent further violence
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada’s national police force went public with its allegations against Indian diplomats this week because it had to disrupt drive-by-shootings, violent extortions and even murder
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Federal judge to halt Alabama program that purged thousands of legal voters
A federal judge is halting an Alabama program that made thousands of legal voters inactive ahead of the November elections
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Execution of Texas father in ‘shaken baby syndrome’ case set to go ahead after parole board votes against clemency
Robert Roberson is scheduled to be put to death on Thursday
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Jimmy Carter, at age 100, casts his 2024 ballot by mail
Jimmy Carter has cast his ballot in the 2024 election
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Short ‘micro-walks’ could improve health, study suggests
Walking in stints of 10 to 30 seconds could burn more calories than continuously walking the same distance
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Italy expands its ban on surrogacy to overseas as critics say it targets same-sex couples
Italy on Wednesday criminalized citizens who go abroad to have children through surrogacy, while opponents slam it as “medieval” and discriminatory to same-sex couples
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Short ‘micro-walks’ could improve health, study suggests
Walking in stints of 10 to 30 seconds could burn more calories than continuously walking the same distance
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Killer's escape from Pennsylvania jail costs him his right to appeal life sentence
A Pennsylvania appeals court has ruled that a convicted killer’s jail escape last year cost him his right to appeal his original life sentence
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A Palestinian student was asleep in his tent at a hospital when an Israeli strike brought an inferno
Shaban al-Dalu, a 19-year-old Palestinian university student, had survived an Israeli strike on a mosque when, only a week later, he was killed in a new strike on the courtyard of the central Gaza hospital where his family was sheltering
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Man accused of making threat says he believed social media reports of FEMA refusing to help
A man accused of making a threat that sparked a temporary shift in some western North Carolina disaster recovery operations said he believed social media reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was refusing to help people