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Trump, Harris on the trail but transition teams are hard at work

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WASHINGTON — Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’ teams are quietly preparing their governments-in-waiting, even as the two nominees remain focused on actually winning the presidency in the final days of an incredibly close election on Tuesday.

Not surprisingly, their approaches are as different as their campaigns.

Already Harris’ lean ...Read more

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs loses Key to the City of Miami amid sex trafficking case

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NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is currently sitting in lockup at Brooklyn MDC on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, has been stripped of his Key to the City of Miami — months after losing the same honor in his native New York.

The 54-year-old embattled Harlem-born mogul’s key to Magic City was rescinded this week, ...Read more

Subtropical Storm Patty forms; odds increase for tropical depression to form in Caribbean

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A tropical depression is likely to form in the Caribbean Sea as soon as this weekend, while Subtropical Storm Patty formed in the Atlantic Saturday.

A broad area of low pressure is forming in the southwestern Caribbean Sea is increasingly likely to become a tropical depression this weekend or early next week as it ...Read more

Badenoch beats Jenrick to succeed Sunak at helm of UK Tories

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Kemi Badenoch beat Robert Jenrick in the Conservative Party’s leadership contest to become the first Black leader of a major U.K. political party.

Badenoch, 44, received 53,806 votes to Jenrick’s 41,388 in a ballot of party members, Bob Blackman, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, which runs Tory leadership contests, said on Saturday...Read more

Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people and not just for rich white men

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If elected, Donald Trump has vowed to demolish what he calls the “deep state” – a conspiratorial term for the American federal bureaucracy. A second Trump administration, running mate JD Vance has said, should fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with MAGA loyalists.

Trump has said he would tap the billionare Elon ...Read more

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In Montana, conservative groups see chance to kill Medicaid expansion

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Conservative groups are working to undermine support for Montana’s Medicaid expansion in hopes the state will abandon the program. The rollback would be the first in the decade since the Affordable Care Act began allowing states to cover more people with low incomes.

Montana’s expansion, which insures roughly 78,800 people, is set to expire...Read more

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Procrastinator's guide to California's 2024 election: What you need to know before you vote

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Election Day is next week. Have you voted yet?

If you’re reading this, chances are the answer to that is “no.” No worries, we're here to help you do your civic duty in fashionably late time.

Here’s everything you need to know before you vote:

What am I voting on?

The big race that everyone will be watching, of ...Read more

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Banned rainbows and 'forced outing.' Will elections reshape this relentless school board?

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LOS ANGELES — At Senator Ruben S. Ayala Senior High School in Chino Hills, students this semester complained of broken air conditioners and bathroom sinks, faulty Chromebooks and Wi-Fi and, in one classroom, a ceiling leak that dripped into a bucket by a teacher's desk as rats scurried across the floor.

But recently, school administrators ...Read more

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As marijuana arrests become less common in Miami-Dade, one city's approach stands out

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MIAMI -- Arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana have become less common in Miami-Dade County ever since State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced in August 2019 that her office would no longer prosecute such cases due to the legalization of hemp.

But a Miami Herald analysis of data from the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts ...Read more

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Why has North Korea sent troops to help Russia fight Ukraine?

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WASHINGTON — Nearly three years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought no shortage of complicated twists and turns. But one bizarre new element particularly stands out: North Korean troops in the battlefield mix.

South Korean intelligence first raised the alarm last month about their presence inside Russia, and ...Read more

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Judge sets NYC Mayor Eric Adams' corruption trial for next April

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NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams’ historic corruption trial will start in late April 2025 — just over two months before he’s set to face off against multiple challengers in next summer’s Democratic mayoral primary.

The mayor, who is also gunning to get the bribery count on his indictment tossed, is now scheduled to begin his trial...Read more

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2 major reports slam UCLA over policing, violence at pro-Palestinian protest

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LOS ANGELES — Two high-profile, back-to-back reports slam UCLA leaders for a confusing breakdown in its police response leading to violence at a pro-Palestinian encampment in April, with one investigation also calling out the university’s “dramatic failures in confronting antisemitism.”

A draft report to the Los Angeles Police ...Read more

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Biden will skip COP29 climate summit after election

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will not attend a major U.N. climate change summit opening just days after the U.S. election and set to shape the country’s approach to the issue for years to come.

Biden’s absence at the high-level COP29 negotiations was confirmed by a person familiar with the matter who wasn’t authorized to speak ...Read more

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Boeing dismantles DEI team as pressure builds on new CEO

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Boeing Co. has dismantled its global diversity, equity and inclusion department, making it the latest high-profile corporation to make changes to its DEI policy as its new top leader oversees a broader revamp of the company’s workforce.

Staff from Boeing’s DEI office will be combined with another human resources team focused on talent and ...Read more

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Trump advocates ‘9 barrels shooting at’ Liz Cheney

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump directed violent rhetoric at former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, criticizing her past support for military action and saying she should face “nine barrels shooting at her” as a result, his latest advocacy of violence against his rivals.

“She’s a...Read more

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Bolivia military bases overrun by supporters of ex-president

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Supporters of former President Evo Morales stormed three Bolivian military bases and took soldiers hostage on Friday as the nation descends further into chaos.

President Luis Arce said in a statement that groups fired weapons and threw dynamite in the Cochabamba region in the nation’s tropical lowlands. Armed Forces chiefs said the attackers...Read more

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Over pleas for mercy, South Carolina executes Richard Moore by lethal injection

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Richard Moore was executed Friday by lethal injection for the murder of James Mahoney, a Spartanburg County store clerk. Moore, 59, is the second person executed in South Carolina in just more than a month after a 13-year pause.

Moore’s death sentence was carried out at 6:24 p.m. Eastern time Friday over pleas for mercy ...Read more

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Over pleas for mercy, South Carolina executes Richard Moore by lethal injection

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Richard Moore was executed Friday by lethal injection for the murder of James Mahoney, a Spartanburg County store clerk. Moore, 59, is the second person executed in South Carolina in just more than a month after a 13-year pause.

Moore’s death sentence was carried out at 6:24 p.m. EDT Friday over pleas for mercy from three ...Read more

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2 men convicted on 4 felonies each in Kansas City mall shooting

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two men accused in a mass shooting that occurred at Crown Center were each convicted on four felony charges by a Jackson County judge Friday.

Joel Olivas, 24, and Brian Favela, 23, were both found guilty of two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, two counts of armed criminal action and three misdemeanor counts of second-...Read more

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After deputies took her pet goat to be butchered, girl wins $300,000 from California's Shasta County

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A 9-year-old girl who fell in love with the goat she raised for the Shasta District Fair was heartbroken when deputies, wielding a search warrant, confiscated the furry livestock, taking him away to be butchered.

Two years after the scandal erupted, Shasta County has agreed to pay $300,000 to the girl’s family to settle the legal dispute over...Read more