TSWA releases Tennessee high school cross country all-state teams for 2021 season

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Indonesia's Prabowo targets growth spurt with big projects
Indonesian President Joko Widodo leaves office Sunday with high approval ratings thanks to strong economic growth, but his successor Prabowo Subianto has bigger ambitions, including an eye-catching $28 billion free meal plan for students.His big campaign pledge is a $28 billion plan to supply tens of millions of schoolchildren and pregnant women nationwide with free meals.
AFP
Harris targets Trump's age after report of exhaustion
Kamala Harris questioned Donald Trump's fitness for office Friday as the oldest major-party White House candidate in history faced speculation that he is "exhausted" after backing out of a spate of interviews.But he was back on home turf Friday morning for a soft Fox News interview, before heading to Michigan for counterprogramming against Harris.
Time
In Detroit, Trump Almost Apologizes For Dissing the City
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AFP
Pyongyang says recovered remains of South Korean drone
North Korea claimed Saturday it had discovered the remains of at least one crashed South Korean military drone in the capital Pyongyang, releasing images of the device that some analysts confirmed was South Korean.Hong Min, a senior analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, said that based on the images released by the North, the drone was "clearly a long-range reconnaissance small drone used by ... the South Korean military".
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'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Earlier in the week, he received in the mail his voting ticket for Oct. 27 parliamentary elections, a verification his civil rights are being restored.
AFP
Japan shifting back to nuclear to ditch coal, power AI
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Fire burns hillside homes in Oakland amid day of high winds; residents evacuated
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Delphi murders trial: Richard Allen used power and fear to kill teen victims, prosecutors say
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AFP
Power plant failure triggers blackout across cash-strapped Cuba
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CNN
Fast-moving brush fires damages at least 7 homes in Oakland neighborhood, fire official says
A fast-moving fire fed by strong winds damaged at least seven homes Friday in a hillside neighborhood in the city of Oakland where more than 500 people were ordered to evacuate, officials said.
NBC News
Power goes out on entire island of Cuba, leaving 10 million people without electricity
Cubans expressed alarm at the situation and one resident said they felt the country had reached the “bottom of the barrel.”
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Wisconsin US Senate candidates trade accusations of lying during testy debate
Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde repeatedly accused each other of lying over the course of their closely watched Senate race during an often-testy and confrontational debate Friday. “The one thing you’ve perfected in Washington is your ability to lie,” Hovde said during an exchange about Social Security. “He supports spending, just not for you,” Baldwin said.
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Judge blocks Florida surgeon general from threatening TV stations over abortion rights ad
A judge issued a restraining order against Florida’s surgeon general, after tv stations that ran an abortion-rights ad received cease-and-desist letters.
AFP
Google wins delay in opening Android app store to rivals
A US judge on Friday let Google delay opening Android-powered smartphones to rival app shops, suspending a November 1 deadline ordered in an antitrust case brought by Fortnite-maker Epic Games.Epic mostly lost a similar case against Apple, where a US judge largely ruled in favor of the iPhone-maker.
USA TODAY
Microphone malfunction: Trump waits on stage for 18 minutes during 'technical difficulties'
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TODAY
What to do with pumpkin seeds after pumpkin carving
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Family of Karen Read’s boyfriend says she put them ‘through hell,’ but they’re ready for a second trial
Karen Read, who allegedly ran boyfriend John O’Keefe down in her SUV, will face retrial after her widely publicized murder trial ended with a hung jury earlier this year.
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North Korea claims it discovered the remains of a South Korean drone in its capital
North Korea said Saturday it found the remains of a South Korean drone during a search in its capital, Pyongyang, claiming the drone proved the South’s military was behind the alleged drone infiltrations over the city’s skies earlier in the month. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency released photos showing a seemingly damaged aircraft with wide, V-shaped wings and winglets. It said a joint investigation by North Korea’s military and state security agencies concluded that the aircraft, which it said was found on Oct. 13, was the same type of drone that appeared in a South Korean military parade earlier in October.
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Surging floodwater and panicked prayers: How a workday at a Tennessee plastics factory turned deadly
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A failed mic leaves Donald Trump pacing the stage in silence for nearly 20 minutes
Donald Trump paced his rally stage in silence for nearly 20 minutes Friday night in Detroit after his microphone cut out. It was the second time in a week that one of his events was interrupted — though the last time, on Monday, Trump cut off a town hall and instead played music after multiple people in the audience needed medical attention. This time, Trump appeared to have little control over the matter, standing silently while the screens in the room displayed the messages “Technical Difficulties" and "Complicated Business.”

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