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Month: October 2023

US developing contingency plans to evacuate Americans from Mideast in case Israel-Hamas war spreads

By AAMER MADHANI, LOLITA C. BALDOR, and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is developing “prudent contingency planning” to evacuate Americans from the Middle East in case the Israel-Hamas war spreads into a broad regional conflict. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday stressed there are currently

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North Carolina Republicans close in on new districts seeking to fortify GOP in Congress, legislature

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans have closed in on enacting new boundaries for the state’s congressional and legislative districts that aim to fortify GOP prospects for Capitol Hill and in Raleigh. The full Senate voted Tuesday along party lines for maps for the state’s

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Funeral services planned for Philadelphia police officer killed in airport garage shooting

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Funeral services are planned Tuesday for a Philadelphia police officer killed in an airport parking garage shooting that also wounded another officer earlier this month. A funeral Mass for Officer Richard Mendez is slated for noon Tuesday. Fifty-year-old Mendez and Officer Raul Ortiz saw several people breaking into a car in the

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Israeli airstrikes surge in Gaza, killing dozens at a time in destroyed homes, witnesses say

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel escalated airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, crushing families in the rubble of residential buildings, as health officials said hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the past day and medical facilities were shut down because of bomb damage

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ABC News: Mark Meadows received immunity to testify to special counsel in federal election subversion probe

Originally Published: 24 OCT 23 17:35 ET Updated: 24 OCT 23 17:53 ET By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was granted immunity by special counsel Jack Smith and has met with federal prosecutors multiple times in their investigation into the efforts to overturn the

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Jenna Ellis, exabogada de campaña de Trump, se declara culpable en el caso de interferencia electoral de Georgia

Valeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Jenna Ellis, exabogada de la campaña de Trump, se declaró culpable este martes en el caso de subversión electoral de Georgia y colaborará con los fiscales del condado de Fulton. Esta es la tercera declaración de culpabilidad en el caso en una semana. En una audiencia no programada en Atlanta, Ellis

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Venezuelan government escalates attacks on opposition’s primary election as turnout tops forecast

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government escalated attacks Tuesday on the past weekend’s opposition primary to choose a challenger for President Nicolás Maduro next year. It says the voter turnout claimed by organizers was fraudulently inflated and amounts to a crime. Maduro’s government and its allies have spent months

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