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The US Supreme Court will open its term with the Boulder climate lawsuit. Here's how it could affect other similar complaints

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The U.S. Supreme Court will open its latest term Monday morning by hearing arguments over whether Boulder can sue two oil and gas companies for their roles in climate change in a case that is garnering national attention because the decision could affect the outcome of other climate cases pending in the United States.

Suncor Energy and ...Read more

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Jeffries says Democrats are poised to win the House majority

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed confidence Sunday that Democrats would gain the majority by winning key swing districts in places such as Iowa, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York and Arizona.

But with just 30 days until the election, he also predicted the party would pad its margins by picking up seats in Republican terrain.

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KY minister charged with sex offenses of minors once employed by child agency

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A Kentucky organization that helps vulnerable children acknowledged that a minister, who was charged recently with multiple sex offenses involving minors, had also worked for their group.

Sunrise Children’s Services serves children and families through therapeutic foster care, residential treatment, family services, independent living, and ...Read more

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Invasive stinging wasps force trail closure on North Carolina island

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A popular trail on North Carolina’s Bald Head Island has been closed due to “invasive yellow wasp” attacks on hikers, officials say.

The north side of the Bald Head Woods Reserve Trail will remain blocked at both ends until the nest can be eradicated, Bald Head Island officials said in an Oct. 2 news release. The south side of the trail ...Read more

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Woman charged in 'unprovoked' stabbing death of 7-year-old girl

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CHICAGO — On Saturday morning, 7-year-old Eddimar Hernandez-Chacon was walking down the street holding hands with her older sister when a woman walking the other way lunged at the girls.

Shavon Gayden, 48, first hurtled toward Hernandez-Chacon’s 17-year-old sister before she grabbed the younger child and stabbed her to death in an ...Read more

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NASA, SpaceX target Wednesday departure for Crew-12 from space station

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With nearly eight months in space under their belt, the four members of Crew-12 are set to depart the International Space Station as early as Wednesday.

The quartet of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...Read more

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Man accused of dressing as ICE agent at Miami Dade College Brazilian voting site

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MIAMI — A man was arrested Sunday after he dressed as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent while aggressively walking around a polling site for Brazil’s general election at Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said.

Danilo Silva, 46, was wearing an ICE hat, ICE jacket, sunglasses and a mask ...Read more

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Sánchez targets toughest comeback yet with early Spain election

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has a history of proving his critics wrong. But his decision Monday to call a snap election in the midst of a housing affordability crisis may be his most precarious political move to date.

The 54-year-old Socialist premier is seeking to tap into the anger sweeping the nation over the real estate issue and...Read more

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Ivanka Trump just made a big announcement about relative in Billionaire Bunker

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MIAMI — Major milestone alert in Billionaire Bunker.

Ivanka Trump, 44, announced that her maternal grandmother has turned the century mark.

Born Marie Zelnickova, the Prague native lives with Ivanka, along with her husband, Jared Kushner, and their three kids in the mega-affluent community of Indian Creek Village near Miami Beach.

On ...Read more

Alligator stuck on school property gets expelled during recess, NC officials say

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If there’s anything that can bring recess to a halt, it’s the sight of a man carrying an alligator past the school’s playground with its mouth taped shut.

That happened Friday at Mattamuskeet School in Hyde County, and photos show students dropped whatever they were doing to gawk at the 5-foot, 5-inch predator.

The alligator was ...Read more

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Vance Boelter's state murder trial is delayed for 6 months

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MINNEAPOLIS — The state murder trial for convicted political assassin Vance Boelter has been delayed until May due to the “exorbitant amount” of investigative materials that have been turned over to his defense attorneys in addition to the availability of key victim witnesses for testimony.

Assistant Hennepin County Public Defender Raissa...Read more

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ER visits from foreign-born patients fell drastically during ICE raids, study finds

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LOS ANGELES — Last summer's Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations left many foreign-born residents of Los Angeles afraid to venture outdoors, even when their health depended on it.

A new study from USC finds that emergency room visits from patients born outside of the U.S. fell by more than 20% in the first four weeks after arrests ...Read more

Dennis Hastert, speaker disgraced by sex abuse, dies at 84

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Dennis Hastert, whose rise to U.S. House speaker in 1999 was as unexpected as the criminal conviction that sullied his reputation and sent him to prison years later, has died. He was 84.

He died at his home in Illinois over the weekend of natural causes, CBS News reported, citing Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell.

Once among America’s ...Read more

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Hurricane center gives high chance Gulf system could become tropical depression or storm

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Monday increased the odds a system that formed in the Gulf could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, a surface trough of low pressure had formed along the coast of Mexico in the southwestern Gulf producing disorganized ...Read more

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Backlash to Trump hasn't bolstered Florida Democrats' voter registrations

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MIAMI — Florida Democrats grew their party more than Republicans last month, but data show they’re facing their worst voter registration gap in decades ahead of the November midterms.

Even amid sinking approval ratings for President Donald Trump, backlash in Miami to his mass deportation agenda and Democratic establishment investment in ...Read more

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Employee question could stall Senate college sports bill at midfield in House

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WASHINGTON — A key player in crafting and pushing bipartisan legislation aimed at building guardrails around college sports through the Senate said last week outreach to House members had begun. But it is unclear whether President Donald Trump will help reconcile differences as he focuses on the midterms and other priorities.

The Senate on ...Read more

After states sue, Trump administration walks away from disability rights enforcement

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A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities — a result disability advocates have feared for months.

At the end of August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services joined the handful of conservative-led states...Read more

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Analysis: Trump calls it a war, then a 'military conflict.' Why the Iran fighting keeps changing names

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WASHINGTON — Late September in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump declared, "Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. We're gonna win that war very soon."

It wasn't the first time he's described the hostilities as "war."

On Feb. 28, the day U.S. and Israeli began bombarding Iran, he warned that "the lives of courageous American heroes ...Read more

California adoptees continue push in Legislature for original birth certificates

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s been a little over a month since the bill he’s longed to see pass suffered a stinging defeat. But Paul Kimball was back in California’s legislative office building Wednesday hoping 2027 will be the year it is finally signed into law.

In the office of Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, D-Santa Cruz, Kimball made a ...Read more

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Spain's Sánchez calls snap election after housing plan fails

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called an early election for Nov. 29 after parliament rejected a housing plan last week that his government had hoped would quell mounting social protests.

“It’s time you, the Spanish people, decide which future you want for yourselves and for the country.” Sánchez, 54, said in an address Monday in ...Read more