Heating your home will cost more again this winter
By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Get ready to bundle up this winter — inside your home. Home heating expenses in the US are expected to jump 10.5%,…
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A new Louisiana law requires abortion meds to be locked in a cabinet, even if needed for emergency care
By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Louisiana’s first-in-the-nation law listing the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol as…
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Hundreds of firefighters battle a deadly forest fire raging in southern Greece for the third day
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters and volunteers in southern Greece are battling for a third day a large wildfire that has killed two…
Continue Reading Gunmen kill 6 people, including a local chief of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, in Iran towns
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says gunmen have killed six people in two separate attacks in the same province in southern Iran, including a…
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Dockworkers may have the negotiating advantage in their strike against US ports
Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The 45,000 dockworkers who went on strike Tuesday for the first time in decades at 36 U.S. ports from Maine to…
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Dockworkers may have the negotiating advantage in their strike against US ports
Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The 45,000 dockworkers who went on strike Tuesday for the first time in decades at 36 U.S. ports from Maine to…
Continue Reading Black-colored plastic used for kitchen utensils and toys linked to banned toxic flame retardants
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Black-colored plastic used in children’s toys, takeout containers, kitchen utensils and grocery meat and…
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Las tropas israelÃes iniciaron una guerra terrestre en el sur del LÃbano. Esto es lo que sabemos
Julia Hernández (CNN) — Israel lanzó lo que denominó “una operación terrestre limitada” a través de su frontera septentrional…
Continue Reading Quién es Octavio Romero Oropeza, titular del INFONAVIT
SofÃa Barruti (CNN Español) — Octavio Romero Oropeza asumirá el cargo de director general del Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda…
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Motorsport is trying to reach Net Zero. Could fuels like this, made from air and water, help accelerate the journey?
By Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — As the climate crisis worsens, Formula One is looking for ways to pollute less planet-heating carbon and become more…
Continue Reading Australia’s online dating industry adopts code of conduct to keep users safer
Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users…
Continue Reading A cruise ship bound on a round-the-world voyage leaves Belfast after a 4-month delay
Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A cruise ship taking passengers on a 3 ½-year around-the-world voyage finally sailed from Belfast’s dockside,…
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Democrats aim to show a judge how pro-Trump Georgia election board could spark certification ‘chaos’
By Hannah Rabinowitz and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Four years after certification of the presidential election led to rioting at the US Capitol,…
Continue Reading Five weeks to Election Day, pre-election voting looks set to decline from pandemic-era highs
By Ethan Cohen, Molly English and Matt Holt, CNN (CNN) — While there are still five weeks until Election Day, voting is already underway across…
Continue Reading Barry Bonds is enjoying watching the new generation of baseball sluggers put up record-setting stats
AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It used to be that hardcore baseball fans counted the home runs Barry Bonds hit during batting practice for…
Continue Reading Germany arrests woman who allegedly passed airport details to suspected spy for China
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Chinese national accused of passing information on a major air freight hub to a man who is…
Continue Reading MLB’s season turns to October competition, where legacies and fortunes can be made
AP Baseball Writer Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani has put up some of the best regular-season numbers in baseball history over the past six months.…
Continue Reading Australian national broadcaster finds ‘systemic’ racism in workplace
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australia’s national broadcaster has released an internal review that found…
Continue Reading Iran fires at least 180 missiles into Israel as regionwide conflict grows
Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday, the latest in a series of rapidly escalating attacks…
Continue Reading Sony’s PlayStation Network suffers hourslong outage, irking videogamers
LONDON (AP) — Sony’s PlayStation Network went down, frustrating gamers around the world who complain they weren’t able to sign in to their…
Continue Reading Mysteries of universe revealed? Hardly. But CERN still fascinates, discovers on its 70th anniversary
Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The scientific center that is home to the world’s largest particle accelerator and is billed as the world’s…
Continue Reading Tibetan group in India protests against China and human rights situation in homeland
NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of Tibetans living in India protested outside China’s embassy against the human rights situation in their homeland, which…
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Lions QB Jared Goff makes history in Detroit victory over Seahawks, Titans get 1st win: NFL Week 4 Monday review
By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Week 4 of the NFL season came to a close on Monday night with another double-header, with one encounter between teams…
Continue Reading Inflation in Europe falls below 2% and opens the way for faster rate cuts
AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro fell to 1.8% in September, below the European Central…
Continue Reading Biden celebrates Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday: ‘I admire you so darn much’
By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden offered a 100th birthday greeting to former President Jimmy Carter, celebrating a…
Continue Reading Xi promete la “reunificación” con Taiwán en vÃsperas del 75º aniversario de la China comunista
Julia Hernández (CNN) — El lÃder de China, Xi Jinping, reiteró su promesa de lograr la “reunificación” con Taiwán en la…
Continue Reading A likely Russian artillery strike kills at least 6 at a Ukrainian market
Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An apparent Russian artillery strike has hit a market in the southern Ukraine city of Kherson, killing at…
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How Fed rate cuts may impact consumers
Experian examines the potential effects of Federal Reserve lending rate…
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How is capital gains tax calculated?
Wealth Enhancement Group examines the inner workings of the capital gains tax and shares strategies to avoid, reduce, or minimize…
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What do standardized tests say about college achievement?
Numerade analyzed academic research to see what standardized test scores from exams like the SAT and ACT say about academic…
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