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Collective Soul's Ed Roland checks in and reminisces with his road family.
Collective Soul's Ed Roland checks in and reminisces with his road family.
"Voters still feel that day-to-day costs are expensive and thus there is a limit to how much improvement this news will bring for her,” said Democratic pollster Carly Cooperman.
Many Jews worldwide will mark Yom Kippur in fasting and prayer at their synagogues this weekend. Across the storm-threatened areas, rabbis and their congregants spent part of the Days of Awe — the span between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur — protecting their homes and synagogues as Milton churned off the coast, spiraling into a Category 5 storm.
Lithuanians are expected to punish the centre-right government of Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte in Sunday's national election over soaring living costs while reaffirming their support for high defence spending to counter potential threats from Russia. Opinion polls show the main opposition Social Democrats led by Vilija Blinkeviciute ahead in the race with about 18% support, while Simonyte's Homeland Union is placed third with 9%, behind the anti-establishment Nemunas Dawn party on 12%. A former finance minister and fiscal hawk, Simonyte has built a broad consensus in the Baltic nation of 2.9 million over the need to raise military spending following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, doubling the size of the defence budget.
US consumer inflation cooled last month -- though slightly less than expected -- according to government data published Thursday, providing further evidence that price pressures are easing ahead of November's presidential election. "Today's new Consumer Price Index, the final inflation report before the election, shows year-over-year prices increased by 2.4% in September -- far higher than the 1.4% inflation rate when President Trump left office," the Trump campaign said in a statement.
The state is now conducting damage assessments after the hurricane made landfall late Wednesday, but early indications are that the damage could have been worse.
Water in Tampa Bay was returning to normal levels Thursday. The area experienced 'reverse storm surge' that drove water away from the shoreline.
Turkey’s president traveled Thursday to Albania’s capital to inaugurate a Turkish-funded mosque with 50-meter-high (160-foot-high) minarets as part of a trip to boost ties and discuss regional issues. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said that his country would give an unspecified number of drones to boost military capabilities in Albania, whose population is slightly more than 50% Muslim. The new Namazgah mosque in Tirana is one of the largest in the Balkans.
Without more funding, the agency may be forced to suspend rebuilding projects and focus on life-saving operations.
Germany will supply more weapons to Israel soon, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday, after a significant drop in deliveries this year prompted opposition accusations that Berlin deliberately delayed the exports. Merz, leader of Germany’s conservative opposition, accused the government of delaying arms exports to Israel, including ammunition and tank spare parts. "For weeks and months, the federal government has refused to grant export permits for ammunition and even spare parts for tanks," Merz said at the parliamentary session.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced hope Thursday for cooperation with Thailand and Malaysia after recent turbulence as he met their prime ministers at an Asia summit.- 'Confidence' in Malaysia - Blinken, wearing a dark-blue traditional Laotian jacket, later met separately with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who has been a vocal critic of US support for Israel.
The BBC on Thursday apologised after a graphic incorrectly forecast winds of more than 13,000 miles (20,000 kilometres) per hour in London, as Hurricane Milton battered the US state of Florida.A BBC Weather statement apologised for "some data issues on our app and website.
The rate is determined by averaging together third-quarter inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The Federal Reserve targets a 2% inflation rate. The same 2.5 percent increase will be applied to those receiving Supplemental Security Income benefits, which is designed for the elderly and people with disabilities.
Former US president Barack Obama will bring his star power to Kamala Harris's election campaign Thursday in a bid to get out the vote in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania.Obama's trip to Pennsylvania is the first stop in what will be a month of campaigning for Harris in the seven swing states where the 2024 election is likely to be decided.
A manufacturer of IV fluids critical to hospitals nationwide said Thursday that its Florida factory and distribution center were left intact after Hurricane Milton tore through the state. B. Braun Medical Inc. said it would provide more details later Thursday about the Daytona Beach factory. The company had said earlier this week that it was shutting down the plant on Wednesday and planned to restart production Friday morning.
Healgen Scientific's combined COVID-19 and flu test gives people a new way to check what's causing their symptoms, FDA says.
Shelter cost increases cooled on a monthly basis in September, an indication the most stubborn contributor of inflation may finally be giving ground.
Brown University's governing body rejected a proposal to divest from 10 companies criticized by pro-Palestinian students for their ties to Israel.
Fans gathered to check on Lt. Dan, real name Joe Malinowski, to see if he weathered Hurricane Milton on his 22-foot sailboat.
Elon Musk has been promising a car that can drive itself for years, pledging a series of reveals that never materialized.As many car makers have found, self-driving is tricky.
An overhaul of Egypt's high school curriculum has left teachers and pupils scrambling to adjust, laying bare strains on state education provision that many families spend heavily to supplement with private tuition. The move to reduce the number of subjects that count towards final exams and determine access to university attests to the government's challenge of reducing debt while protecting public services for a surging population under its latest IMF reform programme. It also reflects the plight of Egypt's struggling middle classes, where millions of students are caught up in the fierce competition for university places and tens of thousands of teachers try to boost meagre pay by offering private classes.