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Blinken arrives in Israel as US looks to renew cease-fire efforts after the killing of Hamas leader TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel on his 11th visit to the region since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
He is expected to meet with top officials as the United States looks to revive cease-fire efforts after the killing of top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but so far none of the warring parties appear to be backing down on longstanding demands. Israel is still at war with Hamas more than a year after the militant group’s Oct. 7 attack, and with Hezbollah in Lebanon, where it launched a ground invasion earlier this month.
Israel is also expected to strike Iran after its ballistic missile attack on Oct. 1. Mideast conflict looms over US presidential race as Harris and Trump jostle for an edge WASHINGTON (AP) — The crisis in the Middle East is looming over the race for the White House as the campaign enters its final weeks.
Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to find just the right words to navigate its difficult cross-currents and Republican Donald Trump is making bold pronouncements that the age-old conflict can quickly be set right if he is elected. Both of them are bidding for the votes of Arab and Muslim American voters and Jewish voters, particularly in extremely tight races in the battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania. Harris bets her policies can attract Latino voters while Trump touts his time as president to them WASHINGTON (AP) — Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are highlighting their economic policies in their outreach to Latino voters with Election Day just two weeks away.
In an interview with Telemundo on Tuesday, Vice President Harris intends to show off her plans to double the number of registered apprenticeships and stress how she would remove college degree requirements for certain federal government jobs. Former President Trump plans to hold a roundtable with Latino men in the Miami suburb of Doral on Tuesday. His campaign says he will make the case that employment, wages and home ownership increased for Latinos during his time in office.
In battleground Georgia, some poor people see no reason to vote. That decision could sway election MACON, Ga. (AP) — There are more than 47,000 people in Bibb County, Georgia, about 80 miles south of Atlanta, who are eligible to vote but don't.
That's four times the number of votes that President Joe Biden carried the state by in 2020. But most of those voters are Black and poor, and not even the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris' historic candidacy is likely to get them to the polls. Nonvoters are the most complicated piece of the electoral puzzle in a state that could decide the presidency.
Putin hosts Global South leaders at BRICS summit meant to counterbalance Western clout KAZAN, Russia (AP) — China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other global leaders have arrived in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies. The Kremlin hopes to turn into it a rallying point for defying what some see as the Western liberal order. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, the three-day meeting also offers a way to demonstrate the failure of U.
S.-led efforts to isolate Russia over its actions in Ukraine. A Kremlin adviser calls the summit “the largest foreign policy event ever held” by Russia, with 36 countries attending.
More than 20 are represented by heads of state. Storm causes at least 6 deaths in Cuba, where a long power outage is raising tempers HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s capital was largely paralyzed on Monday and the rest of the island was bracing for the fourth night of a massive blackout. That has generated both a handful of small protests and a stern government warning that any unrest will be punished.
Hurricane Oscar was crossing the island’s eastern coast with winds and heavy rain, leaving at least six dead after a night that saw protests of several dozen people each in urban neighborhoods. The Cuban government has a low tolerance for civil disobedience and President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned on national television Sunday that ‘we’re not going to allow any vandalism, or let anyone disturb people’s tranquility.’ New campus protest rules spur an outcry from college faculty Some of the most visible demonstrations on college campuses this fall have involved professors speaking up for the right to protest itself.
After the pro-Palestinian tent encampments swept campuses last spring, colleges rolled out new restrictions on when and how demonstrations are allowed. To faculty, new protest rules threaten freedom of speech — and the freedom to think, both central to university life. Faculty members at colleges around the country have pushed back on the new rules with protests, vigils and demands for explanation.
King Charles III ends first Australian visit by a reigning British monarch in 13 years MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — King Charles III is ending the first visit to Australia by a reigning British monarch in 13 years with anti-monarchists hoping the debate surrounding his journey is a step toward an Australian citizen becoming head of state. Esther Anatolitis, co-chair of the Australian Republic Movement, said while thousands turned out to see the king and Queen Camilla at their public engagements, the numbers were larger when his mother Queen Elizabeth II first visited Australia 70 years ago. Controversy interrupted the visit on Monday when Indigenous independent senator Lidia Thorpe yelled at Charles during a reception that he was not her king and Australia was not his land.
An Indigenous activist was arrested outside Sydney Opera House on Tuesday. Lower-priced new cars are gaining popularity, and not just for cash-poor buyers DETROIT (AP) — An “affordability shift” is taking root in the U.S.
auto industry. The trend is being led by people who feel they can no longer afford a new vehicle that would cost them roughly today’s average selling price of more than $47,000 — a jump of more than 20% from the pre-pandemic average. Yet there are other buyers who could manage the financial burden but have decided it just isn’t worth the cost.
And the trend is forcing automakers to reassess their sales and production strategies. If the trend toward lower-priced vehicles proves a lasting one, more generous discounts could lead to lower average auto prices and slowing industry profits. In hard-fought Pennsylvania, fast-growing Hispanic communities present a test for Harris and Trump ALLENTOWN, Pa.
(AP) — In a stretch of what once was Pennsylvania steel country, Democrats and Republicans are looking to test their strength with Latino voters. Pennsylvania is arguably the hardest fought of the battleground states and happens to have one of the fastest-growing Hispanic communities in the country. It is what they call the 222 Corridor, after the highway that connects small cities and towns west and north of Philadelphia.
It’s a place where Democratic nominee Kamala Harris can prove that her party still commands a large share of the demographic’s support, and where Trump’s campaign has been working to gain ground..
