By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The monthly jobs report — the final piece of major economic data to land before a consequential, contentious and too-close-to-call election — was clear as mud. The US economy added just 12,000* jobs in October, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If the initial
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By Betsy Klein, Lauren Fox, Ella Nilsen and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — On the day President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection, he convened his senior team at the White House, asking for a plan to “run through the tape” in his final six months in office, implementing key laws and cementing foreign policy, chief of
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TODAY: We’ll have more sunshine Friday, and with the addition of some southerly influence in our light winds, we’ll have temperatures back in the low 60s. TONIGHT: We remain clear, with only a chance for a few clouds late tonight. Temperatures fall into the low 50s and upper 40s just after sunset. EXTENDED: Starting chilly,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Colm McLoughlin, an Irishman who landed in the deserts of the United Arab Emirates and helped lead Dubai Duty Free into becoming an airport retail behemoth generating billions of dollars a year, has died. He was 81. McLoughlin ran Dubai Duty Free from 1983 until he retired
Continue ReadingBy Karina Tsui and Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — A Republican-led investigation into antisemitism on college campuses found that administrators “overwhelmingly failed” to clamp down on students and faculty who engaged in antisemitic behavior following Hamas’ attack on Israel last year. The 325-page report released by the US House Education Committee Thursday states that college
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s new deputy president has been sworn into office, two weeks after his predecessor was overwhelmingly voted out in an impeachment motion in parliament over allegations of corruption and inciting ethnic division. Kindiki Kithure took office on Friday after a colorful event in the capital, Nairobi attended by government
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Donald Trump dice que si Dios fuera el que contara los votos, ganaría de manera aplastante. El candidato republicano sugirió este jueves que la intervención divina en las elecciones de la próxima semana le revelaría como el legítimo ganador incluso de bastiones demócratas como California. Por un lado, el comentario de
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria has pardoned a journalist who emerged as a key voice during the country’s 2019 pro-democracy protests and was later imprisoned for taking foreign funding for his media outlets and threatening state security. Ihsane El Kadi was released from prison on Thursday evening along with eight others who were imprisoned after
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent (CNN) — “Everybody complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it,” Mark Twain used to quip, back when humans had only just begun digging fossil fuel out of the ground and burning it for energy. It was a borrowed joke — and good thing
Continue Reading By Majlie de Puy Kamp, Tierney Sneed and Danny Freeman, CNN Pittsburgh (CNN) — A cumbersome pre-election voting option in the largest battleground state caused frustration, long lines and claims of voter suppression earlier this week. As former President Donald Trump and his proxies urged voters to cast their ballots early this election – an abrupt change
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — The United States that Donald Trump describes in his rally speeches would be pretty bad if it actually existed. Schools secretly sending children for gender-affirming surgeries without parental consent. Towns and even cities conquered by illegal immigrants. Pervasive election fraud. The highest inflation of all time. Presiding over
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi faces new felony terrorism and hate crime charges following a shooting near a Chicago synagogue, in a troubling incident that underscores the alarming rise of antisemitism and hate crimes across the US. The shooting occurred amid growing fears for the safety of Jewish communities, with Abdallahi
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia’s far-eastern city of Vladivostok has convicted a former U.S. consulate worker charged with cooperating with a foreign state and sentenced him to four years and 10 months in prison. Robert Shonov, a Russian citizen and former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok, was arrested in May 2023.
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Heidi Klum phone home. The most hotly anticipated costume of the spooky season is here — and the “Queen of Halloween” didn’t disappoint. Continuing her tradition of wearing wildly elaborate outfits to her own star-studded annual bash, Klum arrived at this year’s party dressed as E.T. The 51-year-old model
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The United States, Germany and France have called for the release of a Chinese human rights lawyer and his wife who were sentenced to prison this week. On Tuesday, a court in Suzhou sentenced lawyer Yu Wensheng to three years’ detention and his wife, Xu Yan, to one year and nine months
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle has exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers in restive southwest Pakistan, killing eight people including five nearby children. A police official says the attack occurred Friday in Mastung in Balochistan province. He says a motorized rickshaw carrying schoolchildren was nearby when
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A British businessman will be kept in custody after being charged with murder over the death of an Indonesian woman at a Hong Kong park. Jamie Tzewee Chapman did not enter a plea Friday and the judge adjourned the case to January. Police said Chapman and the Indonesian woman
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has conceded defeat in the general election, in a seismic moment of change for the country that ended the ruling party’s 58 years in power since independence from Britain in the 1960s. Masisi’s concession came before final results were announced on Friday, with his Botswana
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children. The Bray School operated in Williamsburg from 1760 to 1774. Hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a curriculum that justified slavery. The former schoolhouse was identified on the campus of
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