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Loui Ridi began building a home in his native town of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, for his two daughters. The girls grew up in Ohio, but family trips made them fall in love with their father’s Palestinian roots.“Can we have a home where grandmother lives, where you were born and raised?” his daughters had asked him, Ridi told CNN.That dream is now on hold as a group of Israeli settlers lay siege to the hilltop where Ridi’s and two other homes sit in a bid to kick out the Palestinian residents.The settlers pitched a tent, cut off water and electricity lines and blocked roads, preve

Trapped and cut off: Palestinian families under settler siege in the West Bank

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‘They don’t trust him anymore’: How VA Secretary Doug Collins drew the ire of the White House and Republicans

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Poland says it thwarted a Russian plot to kill an American citizen in Warsaw

A Russian plot to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister said Thursday, marking the first time in decades that a Western leader has publicly accused Moscow of plotting to kill a U.S. citizen. Western officials have previously warned that Russia has stepped up a campaign of targeted killings since President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, saying they have disrupted several plots across Europe. But Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said this incident was unprecedented.

S&P 500 CEO pay jumps to record as Musk-inspired compensation plans spread

After US criticism, Israel ties Lebanon withdrawal to Hezbollah disarmament

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Fed should raise rates to restrain growth and inflation, Hammack says

Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Beth Hammack on Thursday reiterated her view that the U.S. central bank should raise rates immediately to bring down too-high inflation and restrain business growth and investment."When I'm talking to businesses, I hear that businesses are excited to raise funds, they're excited to borrow so they can continue to invest. They see the growth opportunities, which is great; I want them to continue to see growth opportunities, but if we have too much of that growth.... it could mean that that's putting additional pressure on price increases and that puts mo

Robinhood's second venture fund debuts, drawing retail money into private markets

Leader of Russia's sidelined anti-war party says he will not be silenced

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Oklahoma carries out first of 3 executions scheduled for the same day in the US

Oklahoma put a man to death Thursday for killing his girlfriend in 2003 in the first of three executions scheduled for the same day in the U.S. In the other executions, a Tennessee man faces death for killing a motel maid and an Alabama man will be executed after dropping all his appeals in the killing of a 5-year-old girl he paid her mother to abuse. Eleven states carried out executions in 2025 in the U.S. If the Tennessee and Alabama deaths take place, six states will have had executions in 2026. The last time three executions were hel

Deaths and damage reported as severe weather in the Midwest spawns tornadoes and flash flooding

First responders rescued more people from floodwaters Wednesday as utility crews cleared trees and wires downed by severe storms in the Midwest that unleashed tornadoes, heavy rains and flash flooding, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity. A 4-year-old boy was killed when a tree fell on a home in Geneva, Indiana, during Tuesday's storms, the Jennings County Sheriff's Office said. In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine said a resident of Roseville died during a health emergency when first responders, faced with flooded roads, couldn’t reach them. Officials in Porta

Bulldozers rip into Big Bend National Park, driving anger and heartbreak

Rep. Max Miller sued by ex-wife over release of ‘sensitive’ photo of child

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Ex-officer accused of plotting New Orleans attack is released after grand jury declines to indict

A former law enforcement officer accused of planning to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival was quietly released from custody over the summer after a grand jury found there was not enough evidence to charge him with a crime. A Louisiana grand jury in June declined to indict Christopher Gillum on a state terrorism charge that could have carried up to a 15-year sentence, court records show. Gillum, who had been held without bond, was released shortly after the grand jury’s decision and is not facing charges in any other jurisdictions, acc

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ICE agent points gun at Virginia woman who shouted at them in video that conflicts with government’s narrative

A confrontation captured on video between a woman who shouted insults at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducting immigration enforcement action in Northern Virginia escalated when one of the officers pointed a gun at her on Monday.A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson described the woman in a statement as “an anti-ICE agitator” who drove her car “in circles around our ICE officers and then attempted to harm officers by weaponizing her vehicle against them—all in an attempt to help illegal aliens get away.”The office of Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney S

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving the Trump administration

Two US Army soldiers killed in Texas helicopter crash

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What does Trump mean when he says the US is ‘low-keying’ negotiations with Iran?

After Iran intensified its demands over the weekend before it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump didn’t threaten new strikes but instead indicated that he planned to choke Iran economically. “We are low-keying it,” he told Axios over the weekend. “We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.”This broke with Trump’s usual rhetorical pattern in talking about Iran, in which the president generally declares that a conclusive deal with Iran is imminent, threatens to annihilate Iran if it

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A passenger jet that came too close to Trump’s Marine One helicopter highlights continuing air traffic control problems

A year and a half after a deadly midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people, dozens of safety recommendations have been issued, and some changes were implemented, but problems with aircraft getting too close together persist.Last Tuesday, planes continued to take off as Marine One lifted off from the Ellipse, just south of the White House, with President Donald Trump onboard. At least one American Airlines regional jet got within the protective bubble around the helicopter. Flights are typically halted from the nearby airport when the President is taking off

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El Niño is headed for record-shattering intensity, NOAA says

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Taiwan briefly slows its mobile internet to text-only speed as part of defense drill

For 30 minutes, the internet in parts of Taiwan crawled. The slowdown Thursday for people in the capital, Taipei, and six other cities and localities was part of the last phase of the island's annual Han Kuang exercises, military drills that began last week and aim to model a response to a possible Chinese military invasion. Telecommunication operators slowed mobile web traffic to 256 Kbps, making it difficult to exchange anything other than texts. Usually, residents can access 5G in major cities. Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te apologized to the pub

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Sailor went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln last month as conditions on the ship prompt lawmakers’ demand for answers

A sailor went overboard last month off of the USS Abraham Lincoln, a US official told CNN, amid reports of worsening mental health for crew members on the ship during an extended deployment for the Iran war.The sailor was quickly rescued, according to the official, and was medically evaluated. The circumstances under which the sailor went overboard were not immediately clear nor whether the sailor returned to duty or was evacuated from the ship.The incident of the sailor going overboard, which has not been previously reported, adds to a growing list of concerns about the crew on the ship. Seve

Hackers used autonomous AI agents to attack Taiwan. Is this the future of cyberwarfare?

ICE's plan to give officers electric shock gloves draws outrage and fears of misuse

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving the Trump administration

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month to spend time with her young family

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Someone in Illinois just won $1 billion in Powerball — and we may never know who

US consumer inflation mild in July, economy still not out of the woods

U.S. consumer prices barely increased in July as the cost of gasoline declined for a second straight month, while underlying inflation was benign,

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US annual inflation cooled to 3.4% in July as gas prices ease

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Security concerns prompted Trump to secretly change planes in Turkey, official says

While in Turkey for the NATO Summit in July, President Donald Trump flew out of the country on an alternate military plane which he boarded by hiding in a catering truck

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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