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Do You Really Own Your Home? A Tax Revolt Says No.

The argument that property taxes make Americans renters in their own houses has fueled the biggest anti-tax uprising in half a century, and local governments are scrambling.

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Flames, explosions reported amid large Ukrainian drone attack on St. Petersburg

Eyewitness footage taken by St. Petersburg residents show what appears to be Ukrainian drones flying through the air and the city's air defense systems at work.

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America Has a Police Shortage

Many Americans have decided that their country’s problem is that it has too many police officers. In fact, it has too few.

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Abdul El-Sayed flipped the script on a bigoted gotcha attempt

The Senate candidate made quick work of a town hall attendee's insistence that he disavow the Muslim Brotherhood.

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US resumes intel sharing on Russian missile launches with Ukraine, Zelensky says

"We are very thankful for this... Now it works," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests

Warm homes plan would create 50,000 jobs, compared with about 1,100 for Rosebank oilfield, thinktank finds

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Hungary ready to allow Ukrainian grain transit to Western Europe, prime minister says

"If it just passes through the country, then obviously there is no obstacle to it," Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said.

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Canada's prime minister says 'serious incident' caused a major fire at a military base in Alberta

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that a "serious incident" has caused a major fire at a military base in Alberta.

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Smiling pope returns to Vatican after cancer surgery

Pope Leo XIV's discharge on Saturday, four days after undergoing lung cancer surgery, ended a stretch of uncertainty that shook the Vatican and the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, less than two years into the Chicago-born pope's papacy.

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Trump plows forward with plan to build the golf course of his dreams in DC

Regardless of how much it costs or how much is lost.

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On the campaign trail with Gabriel Zucman, the economist who wants to tax California's billionaires

The 39-year-old French-American Berkeley professor is campaigning to have voters approve, in a November 3 referendum, a measure that would temporarily impose a 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires living in the state. Some of his colleagues consider that his activism has begun to overshadow his scientific approach.

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Ukraine and the U.S. are at odds over Starshield. Here's what to know

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he believes the U.S. government is behind his military's loss of normal access to the key satellite communications service used by the Ukrainian military.

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Photographer attacked by settlers in the West Bank feels insulted by Netanyahu

The attack on Heidi Levine and Palestinians during the sensitive olive harvest again highlights the rampant settler violence that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed on a small number of trou...

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Why we just can’t quit the site formerly known as Twitter

By some measures Elon Musk’s $44bn purchase of the platform now called X has already paid for itself

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Jackson doesn't regret telling Collins to 'shut up' after protester interrupted Maine Senate debate

"She said that it was a Troy supporter. She accused me of setting that up. I had no idea who it was,” Jackson said.

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Trump Endorses Netanyahu as Best U.S. Partner in Tight Israeli Election

The president praised the embattled prime minister for his endurance, saying any other candidate would be the “wrong Leader.”

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Zelenskyy Says Trump Is Pushing Ukraine to Capitulate to Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of trying to pressure Kyiv into surrendering to Russia, escalating a week-long row with the US president.

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Zelenskyy says Starlink restrictions for Ukraine came from US government

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated on NBC's Meet the Press that the signal to impose speed limits on Starlink terminals came from the US government.

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US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions

Ambassador Andrew Puzder warns about ‘devastating’ retaliation if Brussels goes ahead with plans to limit spectrum access for non-EU companies

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US treasury secretary tells Zelenskyy to be very careful what he says about Starlink

Scott Bessent has called President Zelenskyy's assertion that the US government signalled Starlink restrictions "very reckless" during an interview with NBC News.

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JD Vance’s Biggest Problem

Republican voters want Donald Trump. The vice president’s attempts at mimicking him always fail.

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Macron says nothing justifies 'unbridled' violence in France protests

'Tonight, we all feel anger and shame,' said the French president in an address to the nation, adding that there must be a distinction between protesters with 'legitimate demands' and 'those who destroyed, smashed and looted.'

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95% of MAGA Republicans approve of Trump. For non-MAGA Republicans, it's 47%.

That split is complicating the GOP's midterm strategy.

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America Is Now an Ally of Russia

Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order.

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Trump says he will close historic DC golf course for 15 months of renovations

President Donald Trump says he plans to close a historic golf course in the nation's capital for 15 months and redevelop it despite an ongoing court challenge to his renovation plans.

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Gavin Newsom Breaks Silence Over Ex-Wife Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Resignation

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Somalia’s piracy crackdown leaves coastal fishermen struggling to survive.

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Kenyan health authorities say latest patient was likely exposed to the country's first Ebola case.

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Leaders of India’s Cockroach party jailed for violating ban on protest site

Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das will spend spend five days in prison for entering Delhi’s Jantar Mantar – a historic protest site that has been closed by authorities Why Indian voters are on the streets Two leaders of India’s youth-led Cockroach movement have been sent to jail for five days for violating a ban on protests at a site in central Delhi. A court ordered that Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, leaders of the Cockroach Janata party (CJP) movement, spend five days in Delhi’s Tihar prison for jumping over police barricades, holding up slogans and waving the Indian flag at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. Continue reading...

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India’s cockroach protesters defy Modi’s crackdown – The Latest

A fresh wave of protests by India’s youth-led Cockroach movement has been met with a brutal crackdown by Narendra Modi’s government and the closure of a historic protest site in Delhi. Two of the movement’s leaders have been imprisoned for five days for violating suppression measures. The protests, which began over frustration about education and unemployment, are now focused on voting rights. Modi’s government denies claims it is seeking to disenfranchise millions of voters. But its treatment of protesters has been criticised by the UN and Amnesty International and raised concerns that India is sliding further into autocracy. Lucy Hough speaks to South Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen – watch on YouTube Continue reading...

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El Niño-powered drought leaves Indonesian palm farmers high and dry as river recedes

Supendi, a 33-year-old palm fruit farmer, cooled his heels at a mill in Indonesia's West Kalimantan for four frustrating days earlier this month trying ‌to unload his harvest of fresh fruit bunches before being told to leave as the site was full.

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What gets in the way of prisoners’ rehabilitation | Letters

Letters: Anthony Goodman argues that probation officers have increasingly lost their autonomy, while Joe Sim says rehabilitation will not work in a society divided by brutal social divisions. Plus letters from Chris Parsons and Tracey Burley

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Letter: If I ever receive any of the (bribe) payments Trump has promised, I know just what to do with them

Letter: Republicans have enabled Donald Trump to get us into the messes we are in today — a lost war in Iran, subservience to Russia, rising inflation, corruption and subversion of the rule of law.

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Kenyan Ebola cases rise to eight in two weeks

A person who had contact with Kenya's first Ebola victim in early October becomes the country's eighth case of the deadly virus.

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France protests: "There's a whole range of grievances at play"

Is the anger in France driven more by declining living standards or by the perception that the economic burden is being distributed unfairly? We discuss this with our guest, Joseph Downing, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at Aston University.

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'Like we had a war': France counts cost of violent protests

France was reeling on Sunday from widespread damage caused by violent protests the day before that saw 1,800 people arrested, a historic town hall torched and widespread looting.

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Flight from Tel Aviv diverted after ‘threat’

Austrian Airlines says Vienna-bound flight from Tel Aviv made an emergency stop in Sofia

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Jesse Eisenberg, Julianne Moore bring curtain down on London Film Festival with 'The Debut'

Actor-filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg said he wrote the lead role in his musical comedy "The Debut" with Julianne Moore in mind, praising the Oscar-winning star as "the ‌greatest actress in the world" as the film closed the London Film Festival on Sunday.

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Looming Medicaid cuts mean that US hospitals must prepare for a perfect storm | Letters

Letter: Eugene Litvak says hospitals could rearrange scheduled admissions as part of efforts to prepare operationally for changes on 1 January

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Small-scale florists hope to fill gap for romantics in Kununurra

Small businesses see an opportunity in a flower market side hustle in a remote WA town after its florist of 30 years retires.

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See Taylor Swift cheer on Travis Kelce at Chiefs game with Caitlin Clark

Taylor Swift traveled halfway across the country to be in the stands for Travis Kelce as the Kansas City Chiefs played the Los Angeles Chargers.

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More tornadoes are popping up in Eastern cities. Here’s how to stay safe.

A basement, safe room or designated storm shelter is the best place to go, if available, one expert said.

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Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms ‘strong-arm’ Australian government, music body warns

Of the dozens of countries approached to water down their laws, Australia appears to be the only one considering it, publishers’ group says * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast AI has already been trained on the works of Australian artists including Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave without compensation, the peak global body for music rights has claimed, as the Australian government has been warned against giving in to “strong-arming” from tech companies seeking to weaken copyright law. The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) – which represents Sony, Warner and Universal as well as thousands of independent publishers on six continents – has warned that of the dozens of countries approached to water down copyright laws, Australia appears to be the only to consider doing so. Continue reading...

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India’s Cockroach Janta party leader arrested amid crackdown on protests

Abhijeet Dipke was detained before planned anti-government demonstrations in Delhi The leader of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) youth movement, Abhijeet Dipke, was detained by police on Friday and then later formally arrested as authorities cracked down on fresh anti-government protests in the Indian capital. Dipke was detained before a planned Friday evening demonstration he had called in central Delhi, urging supporters of the movement to come out and hold up the Indian flag. Continue reading...

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Asian stocks skid, Wall Street and bonds aided by oil slip

Asian share markets slipped on Monday as unease over AI's enormous funding needs undermined confidence ahead of a week packed with earnings, while the euro eased in the wake of rioting across France.

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How Trump’s justice department is shattering practice of political neutrality as midterms loom

From the attorney general stumping for Republican candidates to federal agents raiding the home of a Democratic congresswoman up for re-election, the department is violating longstanding norms

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Gavin Newsom Breaks Silence Over Ex-Wife Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Resignation

Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece amid a misconduct scandal.

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Cool runnings

Sunday marked the 14th year of the annual WFPS Run in support of the Heart & Stroke Foundation in Winnipeg.

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This week from Bagley: Nuclear energy in Utah, Biden’s shadow, self-regulated AI, Pamela Atkinson

This week's cartoons from The Salt Lake Tribune's Pat Bagley.

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Cindy Crawford 'beyond heartbroken' to lose son Presley Gerber

American supermodel Cindy Crawford has posted a tribute on social media to her son Presley Gerber, who recently died aged 27.

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Ben Simmons’ NBA comeback derailed after tearing achilles tendon in practice

* Kings guard to undergo surgery and miss start of NBA season * Former No 1 draft pick has been attempting to revive his career Ben Simmons’ comeback attempt is over before the start of the NBA regular season after he suffered a devastating injury at practice. The Australian tore his right achilles tendon during a live drill just three days out from Sacramento’s season opener against the Los Angeles Clippers and will undergo surgery. The 30-year-old had signed a one-year deal with the Kings in an attempt to revive a career ravaged by a series of significant injury setbacks and had shown promising flashes in pre-season, including a productive 26 minutes in a loss to San Antonio. Continue reading...

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