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Vice President Harris warns businesses against price-gouging as Hurricane Milton hits Florida
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 impacted by a crisis should never be ripped off," Harris said in a statement. "I have seen firsthand the devastating impact of price gouging during an emergency." "Those evacuating before Hurricane Milton or recovering from H ...
The Trump Organization wants to open a luxury hotel in the heart of Israel
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 Foreign Affairs, The New York Times reported. The former president’s company also looked into transforming a developing skyscraper — near the Israel Defense Forces headquarters — in Tel Aviv into another hotel. Once completed, that building will house the mo ...
'Another Apparent Trump Crime': Susan Rice Argues Trump's Reported Calls With Putin Could Be Illegal
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 citizen. Former United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman wrote on X that the new reporting from Bob Woodward on Tuesday about Trump’s continued ties to Putin shows that “Clearly @realDonaldTrump works for Vladimir Putin; not for the Am ...
Trump ends speculation on another debate: 'There will be no rematch'
10/09/2024 09:33 PM EDT Donald Trump is making it clear: He doesn’t want a second debate, regardless of which network is hosting. The former president ruled out another debate with Kamala Harris in a Wednesday post on his social media network. “THERE WILL BE NO REMATCH!” he said in all capital letters. Trump gave several reasons for his decision, including that voting has already begun in some states and that he is “LEADING IN THE POLLS,” though polling shows a close race with Harris in the ...
Social Security's COLA will be 2.5% in 2025, down from 3.2% in 2024
Published: Oct. 10, 2024 at 8:32 a.m. ET Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment will be 2.5% in 2025, down from the 3.2% seen in 2024, the Social Security Administration said on Thursday. The average COLA over the last 20 years has been 2.6%, according to the Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan advocacy group. The consumer-price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, known as CPI-W, is the index used to determine the annual COLA. That index more heavily weights costs for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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Milton shreds roof of Tropicana Field, home of baseball's Tampa Bay Rays
22 min ago - Hurricane Milton's powerful winds overnight Wednesday severely damaged the roof of the Tampa Bay Rays' home ballpark, Tropicana Field, which had been set for use by workers responding to the storm. Overhead television and still images of the domed st ... (NBC News)
Harris Campaign Hires Gamer to Play 'World of Warcraft' Next to Tim Walz Rally on Twitch
34 min ago - Oct 9th, 2024, 9:46 pm Kamala Harris/Twitch Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign hired a gamer to play World of Warcraft next to a speech by Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on Wednesday. On Harris’s official Twitch page, p ... (MEDIAite)
Social Security's COLA will be 2.5% in 2025, down from 3.2% in 2024
50 min ago - Published: Oct. 10, 2024 at 8:32 a.m. ET Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment will be 2.5% in 2025, down from the 3.2% seen in 2024, the Social Security Administration said on Thursday. The average COLA over the last 20 years has been 2. ... (MarketWatch)
Inflation rate at 2.4% in September, topping expectations; jobless claims highest since August 2023
1 hr ago - Published Thu, Oct 10 2024 8:32 AM EDT Updated 11 Min Ago The pace of price increases over the past year took was higher than forecast in September while jobless claims posted an unexpected jump, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The consumer ... (CNBC)
Trump ends speculation on another debate: 'There will be no rematch'
1 hr ago - 10/09/2024 09:33 PM EDT Donald Trump is making it clear: He doesn’t want a second debate, regardless of which network is hosting. The former president ruled out another debate with Kamala Harris in a Wednesday post on his social media network. ... (Politico)
Afghan accused of plotting terror attack worked as CIA guard, officials say
1 hr ago - Oct. 9, 2024, 7:53 PM EDT An Afghan man arrested on charges of planning a terrorist attack on Election Day worked as a security guard in Afghanistan for the CIA, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was arr ... (NBC News)
Marriott agrees to pay $52 million, beef up data security to resolve probes over data breaches
2 hrs 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
2 hrs 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
2 hrs ago - Updated 7:56 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
2 hrs 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
3 hrs 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
3 hrs 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
4 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
4 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
5 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
5 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
6 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
11 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
12 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
12 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)
