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2024 Election

Vance says Trump won the 2020 election - then doubles down on the lie in new interview

During the vice presidential debate, Vance similarly refused to answer if he would contest this year’s election if Trump loses

Trump rages over 2020 election filing, Harris visits GOP birthplace

<p>Melania Trump providing Fox News’s Sean Hannity with a rare interview on October 3, 2024, less than a week before her memoir ‘Melania’ releases on October 8</p>

Melania’s Fox News interviews never addressed her pro-choice stance

<p>Garth Brooks is accused of rape in a new lawsuit brought by his former makeup artist, where she accused him of rape in a hotel room </p>

Garth Brooks sued and accused of rape by former makeup artist

<p>Three former Memphis police officers charged over the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols following a traffic stop in 2023 have been found guilty</p>

Crime

Split verdict reached in case of Memphis cops accused in Tyre Nichols beating case

<p>Donald Trump speaks at a press conference on October 1. Trump has refused to release his medical records since his arrival in US politics in 2015 </p>

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Trump refuses to release medical records as concerns about him being the oldest possible president grow

<p>Pro-Trump rioters storming the Capitol in January 2021</p>

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How an ‘October surprise’ could change everything in the presidental election

<p>RFK Jr. is now being accused by more women of having affairs </p>

Politics

Three more women claim they had affairs in past year with RFK Jr.

<p>President Joe Biden, right, is greeted by Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, during a tour to visit areas damaged by Hurricane Helene. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)</p>

Hurricane Helene

‘People need help now’: Biden on working with GOP for Helene relief

Hurricane Helene death toll passes 200 as cleanup operations continue

<p>Robert Jarvis’s GMC truck is stuck in the mud after Hurricane Helene brought widespread flooding to northeastern Tennessee last Friday. </p>

Hurricane Helene

Factory workers say company told them not to evacuate from Hurricane Helene. 11 were swept away in floodwaters

California Menendez Brothers Case

Crime

LA District Attorney considers resentencing, possible release for Menendez brothers

<p>Fuel tanks sit at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from Britain in 1966</p>

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A tiny ocean island is home to a restricted US-UK military base. The secret just got out

<p>Edwin Castro, 31, was finally declared the lawful winner of the $2bn jackpot by a LA County judge </p>

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Powerball winner declared rightful owner of $2 billion prize amid lawsuit

<p>Melania Trump’s book publisher reportedly asked CNN to pay $250k and sign an NDA to interview the former First Lady ahead of her memoir release</p>

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Melania Trump’s publisher demanded $250,000 for interview about her memoir

<p>Melania Trump waves next to JD Vance at the Republican National Convention. Melania came out in support of abortion rights in her forthcoming memoir, sparking anger from anti-abortion advocates</p>

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Anti-abortion activists turn on Melania Trump after memoir revelation

<p>First Lady Melania Trump pictured in 2018 in the jacket emblazoned with the words ‘I Really Don't Care, Do u?’ </p>

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Melania Trump addresses ‘I don’t care’ jacket scandal in new memoir – and blames media for ‘irresponsible’ coverage

<p>Waterfowl at Peanut Pond in Snyder Park, Springfield. The welfare of the Ohio town’s geese has become an unexpected hot button issue in the 2024 presidential election </p>

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Someone really has been killing geese in Springfield, Ohio – but it wasn’t Haitian immigrants

<p>Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris on Instagram</p>

Bruce Springsteen endorses Harris, says Trump should be disqualified

Electiojn Security Colorado Clerk

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County clerk who pushed Trump’s lies sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars for election data scheme

<p>Harris now has a 2.8-point lead over Trump in the latest average of national polls</p>

2024 Election

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates

Top stories

<p>Brawl breaks out at a chicken shop in Michigan where Shaquille O’Neal was making a guest appearance</p>

Crime

Shaq appearance at Big Chicken restaurant leads to brawl between fans and cops

<p>Colt Gray, 14, was charged with four counts of murder for the killings of fellow students at Apalachee High School in Winder Georgia last month </p>

Crime

‘I’m committing a mass shooting’: Inside the upbringing that helped mold school shooting suspect

<p>Cops are searching for a thief dubbed the ‘Bare-Chested-Bandit’ are a string of bank robberies in Chicago </p>

Crime

FBI hunting ‘Bare Chested Bandit’ bank robber who changed disguises for every heist

<p>Amanda Hovanec held the victim around the neck until his body went limp, prosecutors said </p>

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Dashcam records mom injecting ex-husband with fatal dose of poison

<p>Natividad Talia Matarrita Fonseca, 93, at home in the supposed ‘Blue Zone’ of Nicoya, Costa Rica</p>

Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data

<p>Dockworker Meikysha Wright and others strike outside the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. </p>

Dockworkers’ union suspends strike until 2025 to negotiate new contract

<p>A Florida school bus driver was fired after leaving a 15-year-old four miles from their home stop </p>

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School bus driver loses job for leaving student 4 miles from home after youngster fell asleep

News

NYC gallery says $1m worth of art destroyed by water leak at CubeSmart storage facility

<p>Pinnacles at Nambung National Park</p>

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Mystery behind 100,000 year-old ‘warrior pillars’ solved

<p>NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash in the center – on Oct. 3, 2024. The image shows subsets of extreme ultraviolet light that highlight the extremely hot material in flares and which are colorized in red and gold</p>

Powerful solar flare is headed towards Earth, NASA says

News

Mark Cuban reveals $125k purchase he made after drunk call

<p>Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk stands in front of the shattered windows of the newly unveiled all-electric battery-powered Tesla’s Cybertruck at Tesla Design Center in Hawthorne, California on November 21, 2019</p>

Tesla forced to issue fifth Cybertruck update within a year

<p>Smoke rises from a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut as journalists and local residents visit during a press tour on October 2. </p>

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American killed by Israeli air raid in Lebanon, friends and family say

<p>There are thought to be between 20,000 and 40,000 mountain lions, like this one in Yosemite National Park, in the US </p>

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A man killed a mountain lion with a shovel. He says it was to protect his dog

<p>Car headlights shine on a male tarantula looking for a mate on the plains near La Junta, Colo</p>

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Hairy legs and vintage cars: The spider lovers festival celebrating tarantula mating season

<p>School officials are installing windows in the gender-inclusive bathrooms at Emory H. Markle Middle School in Parkville, Pennsylvania, sparking concern from community members and LGBTQ+ advocates</p>

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School under fire for installing windows in gender-inclusive bathrooms so teachers and classmates can watch

<p>Princess Kate embraces a teenager with cancer as she is pictured for the first time returning to work after chemotherapy</p>

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Kate’s conversation with teen who has weeks left to live revealed

<p>The Google search engine is further integrating AI </p>

Google launches one of its ‘most significant updates’ to add more AI

Alec Baldwin’s Rust set to premiere three years after Halyna Hutchins’ death – but he won’t be there

<p>Former Pink Floyd bandmates David Gilmour and Roger Waters</p>

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour rejects Roger Waters reunion over support for ‘genocidal dictators’

Race For The White House

<p>Smith is using Trump’s interactions with Powell (pictured) as evidence he was acting ‘as a candidate’ and ‘not as President’ </p>

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Trump laughed at Sidney Powell conspiracy, compared to Star Trek: docs

<p>Rudy Giuliani’s latest apparent gaffe is detailed in special counsel Jack Smith’s legal document </p>

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Rudy Giuliani allegedly sent a text begging Michigan to overturn 2020 election. But he got the wrong number

<p>Vice President Mike Pence listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House on 26 March 2020. Trump reportedly replied ‘so what’ when he learned Pence was in potential danger during the Capitol riot in 2021 </p>

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‘So what’: Trump’s alleged reaction when Mike Pence was in danger

<p>‘I don’t apologize anymore,’ Zuckerberg said at a recent event, seemingly only half-joking </p>

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From liberal darling to phone calls with Trump: Mark Zuckerberg’s political transformation

<p>Republican Virginia Senate candidate Hung Cao went on a wild rant during his debate against Democrat Tim Kaine on October 2 2024</p>

Politics

GOP hopeful sends debate off the rails when he says military needs ‘alpha’ recruits who will ‘eat their own guts’

<p>The MAGA movement on social media was not impressed with Vance’s debate performance, according to a former Republican strategist </p>

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JD Vance’s debate performance was ‘hated by hardcore MAGA social media,’ ex-Republican strategist says

<p>RFK Jr moved the dial more than any other endorsement of the presidential candidates, Nate Silver says </p>

2024 Election

RFK Jr’s endorsement of Trump moved the needle more than Taylor Swift backing Harris, top pollster says

<p>Despite being a billionaire himself, former president Trump doesn’t enjoy the support of most wealthy Americans </p>

2024 Election

Poll shows America’s millionaires back Harris over Trump — even the over-60s

<p>Karl Bohnak speaks to voters in Michigan’s 109th district about his campaign for state representative.</p>

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In Michigan, a QAnon-adjacent fired weatherman rebrands as a ‘moderate’ Republican

The vice-presidential debate between JD Vance (left) and Tim Walz threw up a clear but surprising winner: Donald Trump’s running mate

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Vance-Walz debate attracts 20 million fewer viewers than 2020 face-off between Harris and Pence

<p>Betting on which party will win the House and Senate is now legal after an appeals court declined to block a financial exchange platform’s predicitions market </p>

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Betting on the election will soon be legal in US after massive ruling

<p>Donald Trump described the traumatic brain injuries suffered by 109 US service members following an Iranian ballistic missile attack as ‘headaches’ at a press conference on October 1 </p>

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Trump downplays severity of brain injuries suffered by 109 US soldiers

<p>Caroline Giuliani with Kamala Harris, who she endorsed despite her father Rudy Giuliani’s ties to Donald Trump</p>

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Rudy Giuliani’s daughter says she ‘lost her dad’ to Trump and begs people to vote for Harris

<p>Vice President Kamala Harris has spent the day in meetings as Iran attacks Israel</p>

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I was traveling with Kamala Harris as the Iran-Israel news broke. This is what happened next

<p>Arizona Republican candidate for Senate, Kari Lake, with Donald Trump at a rally in Mesa on October 9, 2022. She is among the MAGA-backed candidates trailing him in polls across the country. </p>

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Kari Lake and Trump’s MAGA Senate candidates are trailing him in key battles

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<p>Black smokes rise over the Dahieh area after the Israeli army carried out airstrikes in the south of the Lebanese capital Beirut</p>

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Multiple blasts across Beirut as nine killed in airstrike on capital’

<p>Aniston opened up about which rumors about herself are true on <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!</em></p>

Jennifer Aniston responds to Barack Obama secret romance rumors

<p>Augusta National was hit by Hurricane Helene last week </p>

Augusta provides update on 2025 Masters after hurricane damage

<p>Leola Etta Bryant was reported missing in 1974 and her remains were found in 1977</p>

Crime

Human remains that were a mystery for 47 years now identified as victim of America’s worst serial killer

<p>The Chicken Big Mac will be built with two tempura battered chicken patties stacked between cheese, lettuce, and pickles topped with the signature Big Mac sauce on a sesame seed bun</p>

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McDonald’s finally launching a chicken version of its beloved Big Mac

<p>Chelsea Heugel, 23, and one of her children. Huegel died by suicide while in custody last month awaiting a court appearance in Detroit, Michigan</p>

Crime

Mom-of-three dies by suicide waiting for arraignment. Now her family wants answers

<p>A screenshot from a Starship rocket test on 3 March, 2021, in Boca Chica, Texas. The next-generation rocket is currently grounded until November 2024 while it awaits regulatory approval</p>

Charted: How SpaceX hit the world record for rocket launches

<p>Gordon Staron, 35, has pleaded guilty to the 2022 first-degree murder of his Baltimore jail cellmate, Javarick Gantt. Staron was being held on murder charges when he was placed in a cell with Gantt, who was a deaf man being held on relatively minor criminal charges</p>

crime

Man pleads guilty to murdering deaf cell mate jailed on minor charges

<p>LA teens who allegedly raided 7-Eleven stores 14 times turned into police by angry parents </p>

Crime

Teenagers turned in by the parents after the youths ransacked a 7-Eleven causing $30,000 in damage

<p>Jesse Michael Johnson, 28, has been arrested after allegedly hiding under women’s cars in August in an attempt to touch their feet</p>

Crime

Voyeur charged with hiding under cars at car wash to stare at feet

<p>The same-sex couple in the San Diego zoo have been feeding their hatchling with ‘crop milk’ said the zoo </p>

News

First-time flamingo foster dads raise chick at San Diego zoo

<p>An aerial view of Vuhledar, the site of heavy battles with the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine</p>

US reacts as Zelensky accuses West of ‘dragging out’ weapons delivery

<p>180 people fell sick with a gastrointestinal illness on a Royal Caribbean cruise last month </p>

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Illness leave 180 sick on Royal Caribbean cruise boat

Amazon to add more ads to Prime Video

<p>A container with frozen embryos and sperm stored in liquid nitrogen is removed at a fertility clinic in Fort Myers (stock image) </p>

Crime

IVF clinic mix up reveals father isn’t related to daughter after wrong embryo implanted

<p>The moment the Bayesian superyacht launched a distress signal was caught on CCTV</p>

LiveCrime

Ship captain describes terrifying moment boat sunk ahead of Mike Lynch’s inquest

<p>The DEA is under fire by its internal watchdog</p>

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DEA ignored waterboarding, torture by Latin American police partners, says watchdog

<p>Mickey Replogle, the principal of an Oklahoma high school has been arrested following a school dance where he allegedly got drunk and proceeded to touch teenage girls. </p>

Crime

Principal arrested for ‘being drunk’ at a student dance and inappropriately touching girls on the dance floor

Lifestyle

NCIS star Pauley Perrette reveals why she will ‘never’ return to acting in rare interview

<p>Eminem reveals he’s a ‘grandpa’ in music video announcing daughter’s first pregnancy</p>

Eminem announces daughter’s first pregnancy in new music video

<p>Sebastian Stan in ‘The Apprentice’ and Donald Trump</p>

Sebastian Stan ate ramen and soy sauce to 'puff up' his face to play Trump

<p>Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello and Sabrina Carpenter</p>

Shawn Mendes alludes to messy Sabrina Carpenter and Camila Cabello love triangle in tweet spree

<p>Brady’s custom watch is expected to sell anywhere between $400,000 and $800,000 </p>

Tom Brady to auction off memorabilia worth millions - including custom watch with his name etched

<p>Kristen Bell as Joanne, Adam Brody as Noah in ‘Nobody Wants This’</p>

Nobody Wants This sparks rabid fan reactions over Adam Brody’s ‘intense’ kiss with Kristen Bell

<p>Elton John </p>

Elton John jokes ‘there’s not much of me left’ after various surgeries and health issues

Culture

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<p>Florida police drive through neighborhoods to warn about evacuation orders.</p>

Hurricane Helene: Police order residents to evacuate homes in Florida

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Travel

<p>Plenty of countries are basking in sunshine in the lead up to Christmas </p>

Where is hot in December? Best destinations for winter sun

<p>The slow-cooked beef tacos at Barbacoa Gonzalitos, Mexico City</p>

How Mexico City’s humble taco went from market stall to Michelin star

<p>Weave your way through the channels surrounded by peaceful mangroves</p>

Meet the Thai locals taking tourists on peaceful mangrove boat rides

<p>Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship</p>

14 weird and wonderful things you can do on a cruise

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