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Month: October 2024

Nigeria’s president reshuffles his cabinet during the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation

Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president has fired five ministers and appointed seven new ones in a major cabinet reshuffle. His office says it’s aimed at making his administration more efficient. The shake-up comes during worsening economic hardship and frustration with the administration in Africa’s most populous country. Tinubu took office last year

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Thousands of North Korean troops in Russia. What does that mean for the war with Ukraine?

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — American and South Korean officials say there’s evidence that thousands of North Korean troops are now in Russia near Ukraine’s border. At a press conference Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the North Korean soldiers are preparing to join the fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming

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‘It was heartbreaking’: Chatham County cop recalls finding part of Quinton Simon’s skull at landfill

By Graham Cawthon Click here for updates on this story     SAVANNAH, Georgia (WJCL) — On Tuesday, the Chatham County Police officer who discovered part of a missing toddler’s remains at a landfill testified at the murder trial of Leilani Simon. Simon is accused of killing her 20-month-old son Quinton Simon and disposing of his body

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23 Nobel Prize-winning economists call Harris’ economic plan ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s

By Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — More than half of the living US recipients of the Nobel Prize for economics signed a letter that called Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic agenda “vastly superior” to the plans laid out by former President Donald Trump. Twenty-three Nobel Prize-winning economists signed onto the letter, including two of the

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Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Voting machines reversing votes. More voters registered than people eligible. Large numbers of noncitizens voting. With less than two weeks before Election Day, a resurgence in conspiracy theories and misinformation about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are

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Walmart, Prosecutors Settle Suit over Improper Hazardous Waste Disposal

Mega retailer Walmart Inc. has agreed to a $7.5 million payout and to improve waste disposal practices under a settlement stemming from a lawsuit filed by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office and other agencies after the corporation was caught dumping hazardous products into landfills, it was announced today.   The stipulated judgment between Walmart, the

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