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Sensing voters’ economic anxieties, Biden takes action to protect consumers from surprise fees

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, unwelcome in many battleground states over the final two weeks of the midterm election, spoke from the White House on Thursday about his latest attempt to ease the economic burdens many Americans are facing.

Los Angeles Times

Fire crews prevent 'disastrous explosion' as they extinguish blaze at petrol station in Washington

Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service prevented a potentially dangerous blaze after a motorcycle caught fire at a petrol station in Concord

Chronicle Live

US President Joe Biden mispronounces British PM Rishi Sunak's name, triggers memes and reactions on social media

WASHINGTON: Social media was abuzz with memes and reactions after septuagenarian US President Joe Biden mis-pronounced the name of newly-appointed British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a Diwali reception he hosted at the White House.

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North Korea planning nuclear test amid chilling warning of 'unparalleled' response

Washington and its allies are becoming concerned that North Korea could be close to resuming its nuclear testing program for the first time since 2017 - threatening Pyongyang with an "unparalleled" response should they push ahead with its test

Daily Mirror

Chip makers offer big investments as they jockey for federal aid

WASHINGTON — The world’s top semiconductor makers have announced in recent months long-term U.S. investments that could rise to more than $400 billion, citing support from a new federal aid program for which the rules have yet to be written.

Tribune News Service

Kremlin: Any talks about Brittney Griner swap must be confidential

The Kremlin has reiterated that any discussions about a possible swap involving U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner who is serving a nine-year prison sentence in Russia for drug possession must be strictly confidential

The Independent UK

As temporary protected status settlement talks stall, more than 250,000 risk deportation

WASHINGTON — After more than a year of negotiation, settlement talks between the Biden administration and plaintiffs in a lawsuit over temporary protected status fell through on Tuesday, leaving more than 250,000 people at risk of deportation.

Los Angeles Times

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House Republicans scrutinize Biden with restored oversight tool

WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom McClintock wanted to learn more about President Joe Biden’s response to known or suspected terrorists trying to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. So, the California Republican introduced a resolution to ask the Homeland Security Department for any document relating to encounters like those since Biden’s inauguration.

Tribune News Service

Kremlin: any talks about Griner swap must be confidential

The Independent UK

Reema bint Bandar: Revision of Saudi-US Ties Is a Positive Thing

Saudi Ambassador to the United States Princess Reema bint Bandar underscored the strength of the ties between Riyadh and Washington, describing them as strategic and dating back 80 years. In an interview to CNN aired on Tuesday, she said the United States’ revision of bilateral relations between Riyadh and Washington…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be honored on US stamp as cultural ‘icon’

WASHINGTON — The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s national celebrity status will be further cemented with a U.S. postal stamp in her honor coming next year.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court’s Alito says abortion opinion leak made justices murder targets

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said the leak of his draft opinion eliminating the constitutional right to abortion made members of the majority “targets for assassination.”

Tribune News Service

OLD Who won the Pennsylvania Senate debate? Top takeaways from John Fetterman and Dr Oz midterm face-off

The two major candidates for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat stepped onto the stage in Harrisburg having something to prove. Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman needed to prove that he could do the job after he suffered a stroke back in May. Retired surgeon and television host Mehmet Oz, a political…

The Independent UK

Who won the Pennsylvania Senate debate? Top takeaways from John Fetterman and Dr Oz midterm face-off

John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz had a lot to prove on the debate stage ahead of crucial Pennsylvania Senate election

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Tribune News Service

Hyundai presses US government for flexibility with EV tax credits

SAVANNAH, Georgia ― Korean and Hyundai Motor Group officials on Tuesday celebrated the groundbreaking for a $5.54 billion Georgia electric vehicle factory — and used the occasion to urge Washington to restore tax credits for plug-in vehicles that Hyundai currently makes in Korea until it can start production in the…

Tribune News Service

DC court sets expedited schedule for Trump defamation question in E. Jean Carroll case

WASHINGTON — An appellate court set an expedited schedule to consider whether Donald Trump was acting in his official duties as president in 2019 when he denied a claim by a woman that he sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room decades ago.

Tribune News Service

Biden faces winter COVID surge as funds, public interest dry up

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is urging a vaccination push as he braces for a winter wave of COVID-19 cases that could again drive up hospitalizations and deaths, but this time without a blank check to fight the surge.

Tribune News Service

Administration eyes national hepatitis C treatment plan

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is preparing a comprehensive initiative to fight hepatitis C that would streamline testing and treatment and secure an agreement with drugmakers to bring down the cost of treatment of the disease, which has spiked during the pandemic.

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McClatchy Washington Bureau

No debate: Why Kentucky Republicans are ignoring their Democratic challengers

WASHINGTON — Rand Paul has largely ignored Charles Booker this year – except for a moment when his Democratic challenger for U.S. Senate had the chance to command statewide attention.

Chronicle Live

Esso petrol station emergency as motorbike bursts into flames on forecourt in Washington

Emergency crews attended the scene of a motorbike fire at the Esso petrol station on Heworth Road

Tribune News Service

WA reaches $10M settlement with Tyson Foods in chicken price fixing

Tyson Foods, the nation's largest chicken producer, will pay Washington $10.5 million to settle a lawsuit that accused it of a long-running scheme to fix prices and rig contracts in coordination with its major competitors.

Reuters

Exclusive-U.N. could administer over $3 billion in funds to aid Venezuela - sources

Venezuelan politicians are discussing proposals for a fund that could release over $3 billion to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuela through the United Nations, in a process that also involves officials from the U.S. State and Treasury Departments, according to nine people close to the talks.

Al Jazeera

Russian court upholds Brittney Griner’s nine-year sentence

US basketball star’s appeal rejected by Moscow court in what the White House calls ‘another sham judicial proceeding’.

Tribune News Service

Lawmakers trip over privacy and security of digital dollar

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both parties say the Federal Reserve needs legislative authority to issue a digital dollar, but the two sides have so far been unable to find a balance between privacy and security that could overcome the partisan divide.

Tribune News Service

Democratic super PAC ads focus on Social Security in final stretch

WASHINGTON — In the closing weeks of an election increasingly dominated by economic issues, the Senate Democrats’ top super PAC is focusing on Social Security in new ad buys worth at least $1 million each aimed at Republicans in Arizona and North Carolina.

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