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Hospitals’ financial worries risk holding back essential reforms

Nearly half of hospitals are in poor financial health, putting reforms to care for the ageing population and replace out...

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How Bad Do You Want It, Ladies?

Opinion by Maureen Dowd on Oct. 26, 2024. WASHINGTON — Usually, I get political wisdom from Rahm Emanuel, not his brot...

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Kent Pekel: Is education a public good or a private commodity?

As superintendent of Rochester Public Schools, I have had hundreds of conversations about the referendum to increase loc...

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Government to raise bus fare cap by 50 per cent

The current £2 bus fare cap will be replaced by a new £3 cap until the end of 2025 at this week’s Budget, the Prime ...

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Letter to the editor: Does honesty matter anymore?

As an octogenarian, I have acquired some wisdom over my long years. But I don’t know when it became acceptable to lie ...

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Look it up: Check candidates and elected officials for campaign law violations

Use our tool to search through investigations opened by the state’s campaign law watchdog. The data updates weekly....

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Letter to the editor: What is Nov. 5 really about?

The Democrats beat the airways that the Republicans are going to destroy democracy....

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Donald Trump’s ‘Opposite Of A Nazi’ Claim Triggers Scathingly Awkward Flashback

The former president also recalled two words his father told him he should never say....

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Woman in life-threatening condition after crash

A woman sustained life threatening injuries in a crash in Arundel....

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Reader's View: Dishonesty has no place in Congress

Like other Republicans representing Minnesota in Congress, Stauber has to know full well that Trump, who acts reprehensi...

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Steve Bannon released from prison after 4-month sentence

Firebrand rightwing influencer Steve Bannon served a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from a congressional com...

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What's being done to beef up security at polling sites coast-to-coast

Election workers across the United States are facing an increasing number of threats from violent domestic extremists as...

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Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves risk laying waste to Britain within matter of hours

The Labour Party is unleashing truly ghastly economic devastation....

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Trump ally Steve Bannon is released after serving 4 months for contempt of Congress, federal prisons spokesperson says

Trump ally Steve Bannon is released after serving 4 months for contempt of Congress, federal prisons spokesperson says...

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Brian Williams And Amazon Are Asking Election Night News-Seekers To Take A Leap Of Faith

The former NBC News anchor is certainly well known, but the streaming service has no track record in the election space....

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Who is Narendra Mehta? Meet BJP candidate from Mira Bhayandar who lost to Geeta Jain in 2019 Maharashtra polls

The BJP on Tuesday nominated Narendra Mehta as the party candidate from Mira Bhayandar's seat, disregarding other aspira...

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Former Tory MP ‘groped woman at Parliament in abuse of power’

Aaron Bell would have been suspended from the Commons if he had remained an MP...

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Musk Denies Allegations He Worked Illegally in America

In a Washington Post report, it's alleged Musk began his career working illegally in the United States for a period in 1...

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Kamala Harris’ Israel smear is a gamble that could cost her an all-important swing state

Kamala Harris has tried to hard to placate anti-Israel, Arab American voters in Michigan, but that has a cost. Jewish vo...

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Mathew Townsley: Worst thing for country's future would be impulsivity from president

The path to expanding the middle class will not be a product of strict free-market capitalism; it takes direction and fo...

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Missouri governor quietly rescinds minority, women-owned hiring goals

One of the rescinded orders, issued in 2015 by former Gov. Jay Nixon, set goals for state agencies to purchase 10% of go...

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Lincoln council approves resolution clarifying process for hiring aides to help them

The City Council passed a resolution clarifying that council members can hire aides either as part-time employees or ind...

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Bellefontaine Neighbors city hall closes indefinitely after employees walk off job

The walkout is the latest sign of turmoil in Bellefontaine Neighbors, a suburb of about about 10,450 residents, amid a l...

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The power of eye contact has changed my life

Meeting someone’s eyes brought out something different in people – and in me...

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Return of lantern trail sees sheep, mushrooms and mystical creatures all aglow

Goats, sheep, mushrooms and flowers were all aglow for the return of Jack on the Green in Worthing....

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David Dietrich, Lincoln Ryan compete for open Woodbury County supervisor seat

Republican David Dietrich will face Democrat Lincoln Ryan for the Woodbury County Supervisors District 5 seat, currently...

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Calming Public Fears: Rethink the National Service Training Programme 3.0 launch strategy and timing

From MIKE CHONG YEW CHUAN MCA National Youth Deputy Chairman. Read full story...

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Govt orders transfer, posting of two JKAS officers

Narinder Khajuria, JKAS, Special Secretary to the Government, Housing and Urban Development Department, is transferred a...

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ANF seizes 21.5 kg of drugs in nationwide Anti-Narcotics operations

In a series of successful anti-drug operations, the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) apprehended four suspects and seized over...

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‘We are failing our children’: Somerset Council faces £7.5 million overspend

SOMERSET Council faces a £7.512 million overspend on Children’s Services in 2024/25, as an increased number of childr...

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Harris Pitches Herself to Michigan Workers in 3-city Swing

Vice President Harris visited Michigan's Saginaw and Macomb counties ahead of an evening rally in Ann Arbor....

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Laura Meloy: Harris only candidate realizing threat of climate change

The environment and climate change are my foremost concerns. We’re witnessing profound shifts in our climate, locally,...

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Nearly 50 Million Americans Have Already Cast Ballots in 2024 Election

One week before Nov. 5 Election Day, Republicans continue to turn out in higher numbers than in past cycles with early v...

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James Carville Drops ‘One Little Factoid’ That Could Sink Donald Trump’s Campaign

The veteran strategist also made a 2024 election prediction about Florida....

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5-day session of J&K Assembly to begin on Nov 4

The 5-day session will begin with the election of the Speaker and the Lieutenant Governor’s address to the HouseThe po...

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Türkiye marks Republic Day with unity in tumultuous times

Republic Day is being marked across Türkiye on Tuesday as people took to the streets adorned with huge flags and watch...

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Editorial cartoon for Oct. 29, 2024

Editorial cartoonist Monte Wolverton draws on the end of the 2024 election....

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Maharashtra Elections: Ajit Pawar's NCP fields Nawab Malik from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar seat despite BJP's opposition

Maharashtra Elections: Ajit Pawa's NCP candidate Nawab Malik on Tuesday filed the nomination paper from the Mankhurd Shi...

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Ministry Holds Performance Contracting Retreat To Strengthen National Security

The Ministry of Interior has commenced a two-day Performance Contracting Retreat on Monday to strengthen national securi...

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John Legend's epic takedown of Trump as he blasts him for 'serving dictators'

John Legend didn't hold back at Kamala Harris' Philadelphia rally, where he listed all the things Donald Trump "failed m...

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Kamala Harris to deliver closing argument at site of Trump's pre-insurrection rally

Harris chose to deliver her speech from the same spot on the National Mall where Trump spoke before his allies cited his...

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Trump is using his racism to regain power. Silence will let him ride bigotry to another term

Trump is hoping to ride racism and xenophobia into office again. Americans must show him how wrong he is....

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Elon Musk is the October surprise of the 2024 election

The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO, and owner of X, has interjected himself into a presidential race like no other tit...

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Voters are seeing more deepfakes — and worrying more about their influence. How to spot them

A survey shows that most Americans have seen a deepfake in recent months, and most worry about AI-generated misinformati...

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Stormi “Dooda Skoota” Knox Rideaux

Visitation for Stormi Knox “Dooda Skoota” Rideaux, daughter of Steven and Da’Sha Rideaux, will be Tuesday, Oct. 29...

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The U.S. alone is saddled with an electoral college. How did that happen?

The American founders are justifiably famous for their political wisdom. So why did they build the strange contraption c...

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Don't pave over the majestic Eastern Sierra for housing. Do this instead

People flock to the Eastern Sierra because of the open space. The solution to the housing shortage is to increase densit...

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Vietnamese voters in Orange County trace clout to a homespun election tradition

A practice borne out of a desire to participate in the democratic process at a time when ballots weren't printed in Viet...

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Varcoe: New $750M data centre to be built in Calgary area, the largest in Alberta

Data centres have become a topic of intense interest in Alberta and around the world because of the boom in generative A...

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Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? Here's how I'm going to vote in this election and why

I'm a critic of the former president, but I'm also a conservative who believes the vice president is an underwhelming ca...

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Charles Richard Hebert

Surrounded by his family, Dr. Charles Richard Hebert passed away peacefully on the morning of Oct. 25, 2024, at the age ...

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U.S. importation programs would overwhelm Canada's drug supply; Canadian distributors would capture expected savings

TORONTO, Oct. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Research published by the Canadian Health Policy Institute (CHPI) suggests that th...

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Safe city streets mean accommodating bike lanes

More and more people are relying on bikes for transportation, and reducing the existing bike lanes would create a more i...

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Makinde Commiserates With Aide Over Wife’s Death

IBADAN: Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has expressed his condolences to his Senior Executive Assistant on General ...