The nor’easter has caused widespread power cuts. More than 100,000 households, nearly all in the northeast US, have lost electricity, according to tracker PowerOutage. The Federal Aviation Administration recommended air passengers check with airlines about their flight status. More than 2,400 flights have been delayed and another 1,199 grounded, according to FlightAware. Saturday’s full moon […]
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Earlier this week Trump announced that the proposed “Triumphal Arch” would double as a complex to store military equipment, complete with the ability to deploy snipers and drones from the roof and plaza. In a letter to the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Duckworth said they “must reject this foolhardy plan and instead focus […]
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Warning: This story contains distressing details Police in the US state of Mississippi have said they believe a black woman was already dead before her body was “staged” by being placed hanging in a tree. The disclosure was made in court by a detective on Friday, who also said they believed Tasia Fortune, a mother […]
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Ed Sheeran’s concerts in Massachusetts on Friday and Saturday have been cancelled because of severe weather warnings in the area. The singer had been scheduled to perform two shows at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, near Boston, as part of his current US tour. The tour has been in the headlines because of a row […]
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TikTok and its parent company ByteDance will pay the US state of Alabama $100m (£75.45m) and make a series of changes to restrict children’s usage in the state as part of a lawsuit settlement. The deal was reached just before a jury trial was set to begin on Monday. It ends a lawsuit alleging TikTok […]
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The US Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on the Trump administration using a controversial federal database that relies on citizenship information and other sensitive data to identify voters suspected of being non-citizens. Critics have questioned the reliability of the data, warning it could result in US citizens being wrongly removed from electoral rolls. In June, […]
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The uncomfortable truth for Xi is that his domestic economy is in trouble. While the country sells a record number of goods around the world, consumers at home are holding back. Youth unemployment remains stubbornly high and property prices have slumped in a country where 80% of people own their own homes. Trade is helping […]
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“They’re going to discuss all of these complicated issues,” Daniel Kritenbrink, partner at The Asia Group says. “But at the end of the day, these are still two human beings. “So that personal relationship means something,” he says. “I think the gift exchange is one key part of that.” Kritenbrink, who spent over 30 years […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his country’s military campaigns in Iran, Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East in a speech to the UN General Assembly on 24 September. His speech occurred while an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes is in effect. The BBC’s Nada Tawfik explains why […]
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An Iowa judge has dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and its former pollster over a poll that showed the president trailing former Vice-President Kamala Harris in the 2024 race. The judge ruled that the poll was protected by the US Constitution, and dismissed the president’s argument that pollster J Ann […]
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