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Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica as powerful Category 5 storm
Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa made landfall along the southwestern coast of Jamaica on Tuesday with dangerous wind speeds of 185 mph and life-threatening storm surge, preparing to leave a wake of destruction across the island before focusing its ferocity on southeastern Cuba. The Category 5 cyclone slammed into the coast near...
Microsoft, OpenAI reach new deal valuing OpenAI at $500 billion
Microsoft and OpenAI on Tuesday said they had reached a deal to allow the ChatGPT maker to restructure itself into a public benefit corporation, valuing OpenAI at $500 billion and clearing the way for it to become a publicly traded company. Microsoft would hold a stake of about $135 billion...
Netanyahu says Israel will respond after Hamas hands over remains not belonging to missing hostages
JERUSALEM/CAIRO — Israel will respond after Hamas handed over human remains that did not belong to missing Israeli hostages, which Israel considers a violation of the Gaza ceasefire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. Hamas said it was complying with the ceasefire and doing its best to locate hostage...
Man wearing Nazi uniform accused of assaulting Georgia student in viral incident
A man accused of striking a University of Georgia student while wearing a Nazi uniform outside a bar now faces an assault charge, according to information from police and school officials. Athens-Clarke County Sheriff’s Office records show local police arrested Kenneth Leland Morgan, 33, on Friday. He was booked into...
Judge allows accused Charlie Kirk shooter to wear street clothes, restraints in court
A Utah judge has decided that the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk can wear civilian clothes but must be restrained in court. Kirk, 31, an influential ally of President Donald Trump and cofounder of Turning Point USA, was gunned down Sept. 10 while speaking to students at...
Taxpayers will pay plenty over the years for Trump’s massive ballroom, experts say
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s plan to erect a massive ballroom where the White House’s historic East Wing once stood has reignited old questions about the power of the purse and new ones about an unchecked executive branch. Trump asserts that the $300 million project for a 90,000-square-foot structure with...
‘CBS Evening News’ co-anchor John Dickerson will leave the network later this year
John Dickerson, co-anchor of “CBS Evening News,” said Monday he will exit the network at the end of the year. Dickerson will be the first major talent departure since the arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News last month. The veteran political journalist who joined CBS News in...
Hurricane Melissa begins lashing Jamaica as ‘catastrophic’ Category 5 stormVideo
Hurricane Melissa was packing sustained wind of up to 175 mph on Monday afternoon, as the slow-moving Category 5 storm was on course to barrel into Jamaica, in what could be the largest on record for the Caribbean island. As of 2 p.m., Melissa was a “catastrophic” storm, the strongest...
Cameroon’s Biya re-elected at 92, opposition reports gunfire
YAOUNDE — Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest serving ruler, secured an eighth term in office on Monday, vote results showed, as the main opposition challenger who has also claimed victory reported gunfire near his home. Biya, 92, won 53.66% of the vote, against 35.19% for his former ally,...
U.S. Department of Energy forms $1 billion supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. has formed a $1 billion partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to construct two supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from nuclear power to cancer treatments to national security, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and AMD CEO Lisa Su told Reuters. The U.S. is building...
Is the federal government still shut down? Here’s what to know
Monday marks the beginning of the work week and Day 27 of the federal government shutdown, which affects all but the most essential services, as President Donald Trump remains in Asia until Thursday, Oct. 30, for trade negotiations. But all eyes are on Saturday, Nov. 1, when government funding for...
Trump gets royal welcome in Japan, China as trade truce hopes rise
TOKYO — President Donald Trump received a royal welcome on Monday in Japan, the latest leg of a five-day Asia trip which he hopes to cap with an agreement on a trade war truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump, making his longest journey abroad since taking office in January,...
Trump says Putin should end the Ukraine war, not test missiles
AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump said on Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin should end the war in Ukraine instead of testing a nuclear-powered missile, and that the United States had a nuclear submarine positioned off Russia’s coast. Putin said on Sunday Russia had successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik...
Trump dismisses 2028 VP run as ‘too cute,’ leaves door open to 3rd term
AIR FORCE ONE/TOKYO — President Donald Trump on Monday ruled out running for vice president in the 2028 election but declined to definitively say he would not seek a third term, keeping alive speculation about how he might seek to extend his time in office. Trump has repeatedly flirted with...
Shootings at a party in North Carolina kill 2 and injure several others
MAXTON, N.C. — Shootings at a large outdoor Halloween party in southeastern North Carolina early Saturday killed two people — one of them 16 years old — and wounded several others, a sheriff said. Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins’ office said that 13 people were shot at the party held...
The food you toss costs you plenty and emits tons of pollution. We’ve got tips on how to cut down
Wasted food is a financial and environmental bummer. It costs U.S. consumers $728 every year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and emits the annual equivalent planet-warming greenhouse gases of 42 coal-fired power plants. Carleigh Bodrug, a cookbook author who emphasizes cooking with plants and low-waste recipes, said she was...
Air traffic controller shortages to drag on, U.S. transportation secretary says
WASHINGTON — U.S. airports reported 22 incidents of air traffic controller shortages on Saturday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, with more shortages expected to bring more flight delays and cancellations in the days ahead as the government shutdown drags on. According to FlightAware, a flight tracking website, there were more...
Venezuela condemns ‘military provocation’ by CIA, Trinidad and Tobago
Venezuela on Sunday condemned what it said was a military provocation by neighboring Trinidad and Tobago in coordination with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, aimed at spurring a full military confrontation with the Latin American nation. Joint military exercises between the U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago are currently underway in...
Russia tested a new nuclear-capable missile, Putin and top general sayVideo
MOSCOW — Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defenses, inching closer to deploying it to its military, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks released on Sunday. The announcement, which followed years of tests of the Burevestnik missile, comes as part of nuclear messaging...
Transportation secretary says he’ll pull $160M from California over noncitizen truck licenses
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Sunday that he’s about make good on a threat to revoke millions in federal funds for California because he says the state is illegally issuing commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens. In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” Duffy said California Gov....
Melissa strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane, threatening catastrophic flooding in Jamaica, HaitiVideo
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a major Category 4 hurricane, with the possibility of intensifying to a Category 5 storm Sunday night, unleashing torrential rain and threatening to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The weather agency...
U.S. government shutdown threatens the spending power of Congress
WASHINGTON - As Republican and Democratic lawmakers trade blame for the U.S. government shutdown, some have begun to worry that the impasse is ceding their authority over federal spending to an increasingly assertive President Donald Trump. The White House during the shutdown has frozen billions of dollars in funds meant...
U.S., China talks sketch out rare earths, tariff pause for Trump and Xi to consider
KUALA LUMPUR - Top Chinese and U.S. economic officials on Sunday hashed out the framework of a trade deal for President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to decide on later this week that would pause steeper American tariffs and Chinese rare earths export controls, U.S. officials said. Treasury...
Workers reject Boeing’s latest offer after nearly 3 months on strike
Striking workers at Boeing Defense in the St. Louis area rejected the company’s latest contract proposal on Sunday, sending a strike that has already delayed delivery of fighter jets and other programs into its 13th week. In a statement after the vote, union leadership said the company had failed to...
Suspects in Louvre jewel heist arrested near Paris, prosecutor says
PARIS - Suspects have been arrested over the brazen jewelery heist at the Louvre, just as one of them was about to fly out of France, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. Two men in their 30s and originally from the capital’s Seine-Saint-Denis suburb - which includes some of the...
