CARTHAGE, NC (AP) – Two electrical substations in a North Carolina county were damaged by gunfire in what is being investigated as a criminal act, causing damage that could take days to repair and leave dozens of thousands of people without power, authorities said Sunday. . In response to the ongoing outages, which began shortly …
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Donald Trump’s suggestion this weekend that the US Constitution should be scrapped in response to his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen prompted a largely muted response from Republicans , the latest sign that many Republican officials are reluctant to take on the former president even as he defies the country’s founding precepts. …
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A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, September 6, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters US stock futures were little changed on Sunday night as investors awaited more economic data ahead of the Federal Reserve’s December policy meeting. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 57 points, …
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A marathon election campaign will enter its final sprint on Tuesday when Georgia voters decide the last seat in the United States Senate and shape the next phase of Joe Biden’s presidency. Opinion polls suggest a narrow lead for incumbent Democratic senator Raphael Warnock over his Republican rival, former American football star Herschel Walker. Warnock’s …
CNN – Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said on Thursday that Iran’s parliament and judiciary are reviewing the country’s mandatory hijab law, according to pro-reform channel Entekhab. Montazeri also said Iran’s feared morality police had been “abolished,” but Iranian state media strongly rejected those comments, saying the interior ministry oversees the force, not the …
Protesters are angry with Assad’s government over rising prices, power outages, food and fuel shortages. At least two people have been killed, including a policeman, when protesters in the southern Syrian city of Sweida stormed a provincial government building in a rare anti-government protest over rising prices and other economic hardship. The activist media group …
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There are no discussions about the Russian price limit – delegates Oil prices have come under pressure from the weak economy The next meetings will take place on February 1 and from June 3 to 4 LONDON/DUBAI, Dec 4 (Reuters) – OPEC+ agreed to meet its oil production targets at a meeting on Sunday as …
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CNN – Former President Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to nullify the 2020 election and restore him to power on Saturday in a continuation of his election denialism and push of fringe conspiracy theories. “Do you throw out the results of the 2020 presidential election and declare the WINNER READ, or …
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JAKARTA, Dec 4 (Reuters) – A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday, sending an ash cloud 15 km into the sky and forcing the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people, authorities said, as they issued their warning highest for the area east of Java Island. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the Semeru volcano …
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At 39, Stephen Thompson is still beating younger fighters, as Kevin Holland can attest after going four rounds with the two-time welterweight challenger at UFC Orlando. Holland held on as long as he could after landing dozens of acrobatic kicks to the body and dome. Eventually, physics intervened and he was unable to continue as …