Pilot Flying for UPS Who 'Brightened the Room' Dies at 30 After Plane Crashes Into Potato Processing Plant

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Alpacas, hecklers and climate warnings: King Charles visits Australia's capital
King Charles visited Australia's capital Canberra on Monday, where he was sneezed on by a suit-wearing alpaca, heckled by an Indigenous senator, and applauded for a speech on the country's climate perils. The alpaca -- named "Hephner" -- sneezed on the king after he reached out to rub his nose.
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Tropical Storm Oscar brings winds and heavy rains to eastern Cuba
Tropical Storm Oscar advanced across eastern Cuba early Monday after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage. Its maximum sustained winds were blowing at 60 mph (95 kph) early Monday as Oscar moved west-southwest at 5 mph (8 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Oscar made landfall in the eastern province of Guantanamo, near the city of Baracoa, on Sunday evening with winds of 75 mph (120 kph).
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Pakistan passes constitutional amendments aimed at courts
Pakistan's government on Monday narrowly passed constitutional amendments giving lawmakers more power appointing top judges, who have issued a series of recent decisions favouring opposition chief Imran Khan.New benches will be also formed of senior judges from across the country to weigh exclusively on constitutional issues, which have been at the core of recent disputes between the government and PTI in the Supreme Court.
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Cuban power grid collapses for fourth time as hurricane arrives
The majority of Cubans remain without power for the third day in a row after fresh attempts to restore electricity failed overnight
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Deaths reported after helicopter carrying 4 hits radio tower in fiery Houston crash
Multiple people died as a helicopter struck a radio tower in Houston on Sunday night and sparked a large fire, authorities said.
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Polio is rising in Pakistan ahead of a new vaccination campaign
Polio cases are rising ahead of a new vaccination campaign in Pakistan, where violence targeting health workers and the police protecting them has hampered years of efforts toward making the country polio-free. Since January, health officials have confirmed 39 new polio cases in Pakistan, compared to only six last year, said Anwarul Haq of the National Emergency Operation Center for Polio Eradication. “The whole purpose of these campaigns is to achieve the target of making Pakistan a polio-free state,” he said.
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Indonesia's new Cabinet is 109 strong
“I want to create a strong government that would unite our multicultural society and diverse political interests,” President Prabowo Subianto said.
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Gulen, the powerful cleric accused of orchestrating a Turkish coup, dies
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, has died. Herkul, a website which publishes Gulen's sermons, said on its X account that Gulen had died on Sunday evening in the U.S. hospital where he was being treated. Gulen was a one-time ally of Erdogan but they fell out spectacularly, and Erdogan held him responsible for the 2016 attempted coup in which rogue soldiers commandeered warplanes, tanks and helicopters.
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Texas man whose execution was halted by subpoena set to testify to lawmakers
A Texas man whose execution was halted after a last-ditch maneuver by lawmakers who believe Robert Roberson did not kill his 2-year-old daughter was expected to testify before a state House panel on Monday, four days after he had been scheduled to die by lethal injection. Roberson had been set to become the first person in the U.S. executed over a murder conviction connected to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. Once Roberson testifies to lawmakers, prosecutors could seek a new execution date at any time, according to Gretchen Sween, one of his attorneys.
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In a first, France welcomes Russian army deserters
Six Russian soldiers who fled the fighting in Ukraine have found refuge in France and hope to receive asylum, in a landmark case of Russian deserters being welcomed in an EU country as a group.Since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, Western countries including France have welcomed thousands of anti-Kremlin Russians.
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Defense Secretary Austin arrives in Ukraine amid Russian gains and imminent US election
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Kyiv early Monday morning, as the future of US aid to Ukraine hangs in the balance of the imminent US presidential election and as Russia continues to make small but steady gains on the battlefield.
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Harris entered October with big cash edge over Trump
Vice President Kamala Harris’ political operation entered the final full month of the election with a substantial cash advantage over former President Donald Trump’s network, campaign reports filed Sunday night show.
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IMF, World Bank meetings clouded by wars, slow economic growth, US election
Global finance chiefs will gather in Washington this week amid intense uncertainty over wars in the Middle East and Europe, a flagging Chinese economy and worries that a coin-toss U.S. presidential election could ignite new trade battles and erode multilateral cooperation. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings are scheduled to draw more than 10,000 people from finance ministries, central banks and civil society groups to discuss efforts to boost patchy global growth, deal with debt distress and finance the green energy transition. But the elephant in the meeting rooms will be the potential for a Nov. 5 election victory by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to upend the international economic system with massive new U.S. tariffs and borrowing and a shift away from climate cooperation.
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Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm
Many Cubans waited in anguish and some took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their third day. Oscar later weakened to a tropical storm but its effects were forecast to linger in the island through Monday.
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How does abortion translate? Ballot measures are a challenge for interpreters
Reproductive rights measures are on the ballots in 10 states after heated debates over how to describe their impact on abortion — and that's just in English. In 388 places across the U.S. where English isn't the primary language among communities of voters, the federal Voting Rights Act requires that all elections information be made available in each community's native language. Such translations are meant to help non-native English speakers understand what they’re voting for.
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Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decide
Mel Nichols, a 37-year-old bartender in Phoenix, Arizona, takes home anywhere from $30 to $50 an hour with tips included. “For every good day, there's three bad days,” said Nichols, who has been in the service industry since she was a teenager. Voters in Arizona and Massachusetts will decide in November whether it's good policy to continue to let employers pass some of their labor costs to consumers.
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Israel's war against militants is expensive. Paying the bill could force tough choices
On top of the grievous toll in human life and misery, Israel's war against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups has been expensive, and the painfully high financial costs are raising concerns about the long-term effect of the fighting on the country's economy. Military spending has ballooned, and growth has stalled, especially in dangerous border areas that were evacuated. Economists say the country could face declining investment and higher taxes as the war strains government budgets and forces tough choices between social programs and the military.
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Some Jewish voters in presidential swing states reconsider their longtime devotion to Democrats
For Rona Kaufman, the signs are everywhere that more Jews feel abandoned by the Democratic Party and may vote for Republican Donald Trump. It's in the discomfort she observed during a question-and-answer at a recent Democratic Party campaign event in Pittsburgh. “The family that is my generation and older generations, I don’t think anybody is voting for Harris, and we’ve never voted Republican, ever," Kaufman, 49, said, referring to Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
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At least 2 dead and hundreds rescued in severe New Mexico flash flooding
At least two people have died and hundreds have been rescued in Roswell, New Mexico, after extreme overnight rainfall brought severe flooding, stranding motorists and sweeping away cars.
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Jury selection to begin for trial of man charged in NYC subway chokehold death
Jury selection was set to begin Monday in the criminal trial of the U.S. Marine Corps veteran charged with manslaughter for placing a man in a deadly chokehold on a New York City subway train last year. Daniel Penny, now 25, is accused of “recklessly causing the death” of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old former street performer who witnesses say was acting erratically on the train on May 1, 2023, when Penny moved to restrain him. Protesters took to the streets to demand that authorities arrest Penny — who is white; Neely was Black — while others rallied in support outside the courthouse once he was charged.

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