Takeaways from the third 2024 Republican presidential debate ( www.reuters.com )
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US House Oversight panel will issue subpoenas to president's son, brother to appear ( www.reuters.com )
Yet more kabuki theater
Democrats' dilemma: Biden's agenda is popular, but he is not ( www.reuters.com )
US plans precision bombs transfer to Israel ( www.reuters.com )
White House suggests 'pauses' in Israel-Hamas conflict to get people out ( www.reuters.com )
The White House on Thursday said it was exploring a series of pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict to help people safely exit Gaza and allow humanitarian aid to get in, but reiterated its opposition to a full ceasefire....
Brazil child cancer deaths linked to soy farming, study finds ( www.reuters.com )
China agrees to nuclear arms-control talks with US -WSJ ( www.reuters.com )
BBC World Service to launch emergency radio service for Gaza ( www.reuters.com )
Moscow will confiscate EU assets if Brussels 'steals' frozen Russian funds, Putin ally says ( www.reuters.com )
Archived version: https://archive.ph/2XIDN...
Russia hikes rates to higher-than-expected 15% as budget pressure tells ( www.reuters.com )
Clarence Thomas loan report spurs new ethics criticism of US Supreme Court ( www.reuters.com )
New findings that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas apparently failed to repay at least a "significant portion" of a $267,230 loan he received from a wealthy benefactor prompted Senate Democrats on Thursday to step up their criticism of the court's lack of an ethics code....
Donald Trump fined $10,000 for second gag order violation in civil fraud case ( www.reuters.com )
TIL - J and J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder and failed to disclose it to regulators or the public. ( www.reuters.com )
Argentina's Peronists soar in election to seal run-off with radical Milei ( www.reuters.com )
US intelligence report alleging Russia election interference shared with 100 countries ( www.reuters.com )
The United States on Friday released a U.S. intelligence assessment sent to more than 100 countries that found Moscow is using spies, social media and Russian state-run media to erode public faith in the integrity of democratic elections worldwide....
Alex Jones must pay $1.1 billion of Sandy Hook damages despite bankruptcy - court ( www.reuters.com )
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.
Microsoft in talks to sign on Amazon as customer in $1 bln cloud tools deal ( www.reuters.com )
Oct 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) is preparing to bring Amazon.com (AMZN.O) as a customer for its 365 cloud productivity tools in a deal worth over $1 billion, news site Insider reported on Tuesday, citing an internal document and a person familiar with the matter....
Scientists propose sweeping new law of nature, expanding on evolution ( www.reuters.com )
"The authors proposed three universal concepts of selection: the basic ability to endure; the enduring nature of active processes that may enable evolution; and the emergence of novel characteristics as an adaptation to an environment."
US House Republicans nominate hardliner Jim Jordan for speaker ( www.reuters.com )
This guy is a real glutton for punishment
Novelist Salman Rushdie's memoir on 2022 stabbing to be published next year ( www.reuters.com )
US prisons rife with human rights abuses, especially against Black people, UN says ( www.reuters.com )
Hamas official says group is open to discussions over truce with Israel ( www.reuters.com )
Scores dead in Israel and Gaza after Hamas shock attack on Israeli towns ( www.reuters.com )
This seems far more serious than the typical lobbing explosives at each other in which Hamas and Israel habitually partake.
Tests of footprints in New Mexico confirm earlier human arrival in North America than believed ( www.reuters.com )
Humans trod the landscape of North America thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to new research that confirms the antiquity of fossilized footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico using two further dating approaches.
Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News ( www.reuters.com )
