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Sen. Murphy 'awake and alert' after stroke
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy was hospitalized after having a stroke on Saturday, the Connecticut Democrat’s office said in a statement.
The 53-year-old started experiencing “numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game” and was “was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke,” Allison Herwitt...Read more
Salmonella causes recall of Whole Foods store brand anti-anxiety capsules
One lot of a vegan supplement sold under the 365 Whole Foods Market brand has been recalled because the capsules might have salmonella.
Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Vitality Works’ recall notice says it made the move with 365 Whole Foods Market Standardized + Full Spectrum Blend Ashwagandha Capsules 120 count after “potential contamination ...Read more
Mayoral candidates Bass and Raman crisscross L.A. on final weekend before the election
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger Nithya Raman darted across the city over the weekend, foraging for votes as the clock ticks down before Tuesday's election.
The former allies, and now competitors, took veiled shots at each other as they each hit multiple campaign stops Sunday morning, with both attending church services and other...Read more
Minnesota children detained, businesses lost millions during ICE surge, state report finds
More than 70 Minnesota children were detained by federal immigration officers last winter, while workers and businesses lost hundreds of millions of dollars during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, according to a preliminary report released Saturday by a state council.
The report, issued by the Minnesota Truth Council, ...Read more
Some TV campaign ads are misleading. Why are they still allowed to air?
Every two years heading into November, as state and federal elections draw nearer, voters are inundated with campaign advertisements on TV, websites and social media — some of which deliver misleading messages about candidates.
If an ad is misleading, why are television stations still allowed to run them?
For a station to censor a TV ...Read more
American Airlines returns to Haiti, launches daily service from MIA
Six years after suspending service to Cap-Haïtien, American Airlines returned to the northern Haitian city on Sunday, restoring daily flights and marking a milestone in the carrier’s decades-long relationship with the Caribbean nation.
The flight from Miami International Airlines marked American’s 100th destination in Latin American and ...Read more
Russia agrees to halt recruitment of Ghanaians for Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to halt the recruitment of Ghanaians to fight in Ukraine after President John Mahama raised concerns about the practice, according to Ghana’s foreign minister.
Putin said Ghanaians will no longer be allowed to participate in the war, whether through irregular recruitment or as volunteers, Foreign ...Read more
DOJ lawsuit to probe Alaska Senate vote thrown out by judge
A federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that sought to preemptively stop Alaska election officials from certifying the results of the state’s U.S. Senate contest if the Republican candidate loses by a small margin.
U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason sided with Alaska two days before midterm elections in which Republicans ...Read more
More than 6,400 oil spills occurred in the Great Lakes over a decade, study shows. But the impact is largely unknown
A pipeline that spilled at least 1.3 million gallons of hazardous natural gas liquids in Wisconsin two months ago garnered national attention and more calls for scrutiny. But thousands of small oil spills in the Great Lakes over the past decade have gone largely unnoticed, and little is known about their effects on the ecosystem, a new study ...Read more
Conn. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy suffers stroke. Doctors optimistic he will make full recovery
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy was hospitalized with a stroke on Saturday and, according to a statement from his chief of staff, doctors said he is expected to make a full recovery.
“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was ...Read more
Canada, US to outline trade plan in weeks ahead, Carney says
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke with President Donald Trump and both sides would work on a “mutually beneficial” U.S.-Canadian trade deal in the weeks ahead.
Carney’s update in a social post came two days before Election Day in U.S. midterms, where most polls suggest Democrats are likely to win control of the House of ...Read more
DOJ lawsuit to constrain Alaska Senate vote thrown out by judge
A federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that sought to preemptively stop Alaska election officials from certifying the results of the state’s U.S. Senate contest if the Republican candidate loses by a small margin.
U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason sided with Alaska two days before U.S. midterm elections in which ...Read more
Canada and US to outline trade plan in coming weeks, Carney says
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke with President Donald Trump and both sides would work on a “mutually beneficial” U.S.-Canadian trade deal in the weeks ahead.
Carney’s update in a social post came two days before Election Day in U.S. midterms, where most polls suggest Democrats are likely to win control of the House of ...Read more
German protests turn violent as activists clash with police
Mass demonstrations in Germany that passed largely peacefully on Saturday erupted in violence as night fell and rioters faced off against police in Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.
Authorities blocked off Frankfurt’s main shopping street Die Zeil and arrested more than 30 people after demonstrators smashed shop windows and made off ...Read more
India's protest movements Uunite in fresh headache for Modi
Protesters began gathering in New Delhi for a major opposition rally over voter rolls that has drawn increasingly sharp criticism from India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Supporters of the INDIA bloc headed toward Ramlila Maidan — a sprawling ground in the heart of the capital that has hosted some of the nation’s biggest political ...Read more
Colorado votes on right to buy natural gas in US climate fight
Colorado has spent years pursuing policies aimed at reducing its reliance on natural gas. Despite that, voters are now being asked to make it a right to buy the fossil fuel under the state’s constitution, a status no other such commodity has.
Natural gas heats more than two-thirds of homes in Colorado, which holds the eighth-largest reserves...Read more
India's protest movements unite in fresh headache for Modi
Protesters began gathering in New Delhi for a major opposition rally over voter rolls that has drawn increasingly sharp criticism from India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Supporters of the INDIA bloc headed toward Ramlila Maidan — a sprawling ground in the heart of the capital that has hosted some of the nation’s biggest political ...Read more
Gulf states fear fiercer Iran retaliation if US strikes again
Gulf states fear that another U.S.-Israeli attack on a better-prepared Iran could unleash an even more destructive war across the region, leaving them to pick up the pieces.
“We find ourselves drawn within a crisis that we worked diplomatically very hard to try to avert,” Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to UAE’s president, told the ...Read more
High diesel prices could push 4 Maryland school systems $6 million over bus budgets
BALTIMORE — Four Maryland school systems expect to blow past their bus fuel budgets by a combined $6 million or more this school year if diesel prices stay high, with Anne Arundel County alone projecting at least $2.6 million in overspending.
Carroll County Public Schools estimates it will spend $1.8 million more than planned, Harford County ...Read more
Video showing federal agent pointing handgun in face of bystander sparks outrage
LOS ANGELES — A video showing a federal officer pointing a gun inches from the face of a bystander during an immigration operation Friday in North Hollywood has sparked new outrage about the tactics being used in the Trump administration's ongoing crackdown.
The video, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, shows the masked federal agent shoving ...Read more
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