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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the world’s leaders Wednesday to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts, telling the U.N. General Assembly that “Russia’s revenues must remain a target.” “When someone gives Russia more money through trade, they give this war more time. And that is exactly why we insist on limiting trade with the aggressor, and why we are burning Russia’s revenues ourselves,” he said in English, a language he often uses at the world body. Russia gets its turn Saturday to address the assembly. Presiden

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Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees ahead of annual harvest

Palestinian villagers wailed over the mangled remains of their olive trees on Wednesday after Israel's military uprooted them with bulldozers, days ahead of the annual olive harvest, normally a source of joy for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.Abd Alfattah Tamimi, who owns an olive grove on village land near Ramallah city, watched as a military bulldozer smashed the top of one of his trees and then tore its roots from the ground. "All our olive trees, including the newly planted ones, were uprooted. Also our neighbours', they uprooted them all," Tamimi said, adding that he and his neig

US drafted memo condemning UK over West Bank sanctions. It was never released

Maine Dems hammer Collins over report of pay-to-play probe. GOP senator calls it 'completely false'

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Conagra shareholders vote for proposed changes to executive pay

Conagra Brands shareholders voted on Wednesday in favour of proposed changes to the US packaged food maker's executive compensation program.Proxy adviser ISS had urged shareholders to vote against the changes, citing concerns about declining financial performance and a lack of clarity around targets. Here are more details:• The proposal was approved on an advisory basis at Conagra's AGM.• CEO John Brase's compensation package includes a $1.15 million base salary, an annual incentive target opportunity equal to 150% of his eligible base salary and $7.3 million in annual long-term i

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Republican former state lawmaker vows he’ll ‘never’ support Paxton in new ad as Texas Senate race heats up

As Republicans ramp up spending for Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton, a top group supporting his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, is pushing back with a new surrogate: a Republican former state lawmaker who voted to impeach Paxton in 2023.“I’ll never trust Ken Paxton, I’ll never support Ken Paxton and the last place he should be is the United States Senate,” former state Rep. Glenn Rogers says in a new 30-second ad for the pro-Talarico Lone Star Rising PAC.The ad will run statewide on digital and streaming platforms as part of the group’s eight-figure effort in the general ele

What Trump’s Greenland deal could realistically change

The Greenland deal signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday after months of threats appears to make small changes to a 1951 treaty that frames the US military’s footprint on the self-governing territory, according to experts, keeping non-NATO countries out and permitting a small uptick in US forces.Trump had threatened to forcibly take Greenland if he did not find a deal to his liking, with European nations sending troops to the territory as tensions simmered.The agreement between the US, Denmark, and Greenland serves as a supplement to the 70-year-old defense treaty that gave the US perm

Judge orders Texas to have air conditioning at all prisons by end of 2029

Missouri’s embattled, Trump-backed congressional map returns to Supreme Court for a third time

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President Trump’s money managers made more than 1,100 trades in July

President Donald Trump’s money managers made 1,152 trades on his behalf in July alone, according to his latest financial disclosure Tuesday — an astronomical number relative to his predecessors, and still high by the standard of active traders.The transactions included many companies such as SpaceX and RTX (formerly known as Raytheon) that do business with the federal government, in industries his administration helps regulate.The financial transactions amount to roughly 50 trades a day, a heavy volume for a typical investor but consistent with Trump’s portfolio activity in his second te

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Fact check: Trump’s false claims to the United Nations

President Donald Trump made multiple false claims in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, though he largely stuck to a prepared text.Here is a fact check of some of his assertions.Trump and warsTrump, repeating a frequent false claim, said, “Since I took office, it has been my great honor to settle eight wars.”He specified that he was talking about conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand; Kosovo and Serbia; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo; India and Pakistan; Armenia and Azerbaijan; and the war in Gaza. And he has previously claimed that the other two

Trump signs US-Denmark-Greenland agreement to bolster Arctic security after prolonged tensions

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Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees in 2027

The Trump administration plans to limit the number of refugees admitted to the country in 2027 to 17,500 mostly white South Africans, the administration told Congress Tuesday, as it continues to transform a program that at one point served as a pathway to safety for people fleeing war and strife from countries around the world. In a notice to Congress obtained by The Associated Press, the administration said the white South Africans faced seizures of their land and other forms of persecution and would be likely to assimilate when they come to America. The South African governmen

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Iran, US still far apart in peace talks, Iranian official says; Pezeshkian vows no surrender

Iran and the United States remain far apart on how to end their war but diplomacy must continue, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, after Iran's president told the UN General Assembly that Tehran would never surrender to US pressure.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in his speech in New York, condemned what he called "signs of a bullying mentality" from US President Donald Trump, who had used the same forum on Tuesday to threaten to "annihilate" Iran.The duelling speeches at the annual UN gathering bookended the first shuttle talks between the US and Iran for months, thou

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Trump at UN: Threats, diplomacy and 'super intelligence'

President Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to defend the US-Israeli campaign against Iran while laying out his foreign policy priorities. Here are the major issues he addressed in a 37-minute speech:* IRAN. He warned he could annihilate Iran without a peace deal and predicted one would be reached after US midterm elections on November 3 when the makeup of Congress will be decided.* UKRAINE. About Russia's war in Ukraine, he said, "We're working very closely with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, and we will get that one done," adding, "It's going to happen,

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Suspect in Canada’s Yom Kippur shooting has died, authorities say

A police officer was shot and wounded near a synagogue in Ontario, Canada, on Sunday evening during an exchange of gunfire with a 29-year-old man armed with a shotgun as congregants gathered for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, officials said.The alleged shooter later died in the hospital after being admitted “in life threatening condition,” authorities announced on Tuesday.Asked whether the incident could be considered a “terrorist attack” Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) spokesperson Kristy Denette said Monday that “common sense would say that probab

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls