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Oct 5, 2024 - Technology

States target social media companies over kids' health, safety as Congress hesitates

Illustration of a child's hands holding a smart phone surrounded by graphic checker shapes and exclamation points.

Trump keeps calling Venezuelan and Congolese migrants criminals

Mapped: Nearly 60% of Gaza damaged or destroyed in one year of war

Gaza war defines a generation's perspective on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Photo illustration of a collage featuring smoke rising from buildings in Rafah, and protests in the U.S.
Oct 5, 2024 - World

Where to get your Moo Deng fix in the U.S.

Ruka, a pygmy hippo calf

How the shooting changed Trump — and how it didn't

Illustration of Donald Trump casting a shadow shaped like a large bullet.
Oct 4, 2024 - Business

Scoop: VC titan Ben Horowitz plans "significant" donation to Kamala Harris

Felicia and Ben Horowitz at the WACO Theater Center's 3rd Annual Wearable Art Gala at The Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport on June 1, 2019.

Why U.S. jobs numbers get revised (no, it's not a conspiracy)

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Updated Oct 4, 2024 - Politics & Policy

FBI warns of possible threats ahead of Oct. 7 anniversary

Police respond after a bomb threat to a Brooklyn synagogue on June 13, 2024, in New York. (Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Harris campaign signals effort to cast Trump as a threat in final stretch

- US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and former US Representative Liz Cheney (R) arrive for a campaign event at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, October 3, 2024

Biden signals opposition to possible Israeli strikes on Iran's oil facilities

US President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024.

Biden makes first White House press briefing appearance of presidency

President Joe Biden speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2024.

America's one-two punch of good economic news

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Oct 4, 2024 - Business

Private equity's role in America's ports

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Oct 4, 2024 - Economy

Strong jobs report puts aggressive rate cuts by the Fed on ice

A line chart that displays the daily yield on the 2-year Treasury note from January 2 to October 4, 2024. The yield peaked at 5.03% on April 30, then declined to 3.56% by September 27. Notable fluctuations occurred in early February and late July, indicating market volatility.
Oct 4, 2024 - Economy

The U.S. job market is strikingly robust

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Oct 4, 2024 - Business

Why a potential CVS breakup matters

Illustration of a pill bottle falling down from a stack of pill bottles.
Oct 4, 2024 - World

Scoop: U.S. wants to use Hezbollah's weakness to elect new Lebanese president

People riding motorcycles drive past portraits of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 4, 2024.
Updated Oct 4, 2024 - Business

Musk to attend Trump rally in Butler, scene of July shooting

President Donald Trump acknowledges Spacex founder Elon Musk (R) after the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Oct 4, 2024 - Technology

Meta unveils advanced video-creation AI

Video still of a Koala on a surfboard in the ocean

Job growth surged in September as unemployment rate edged down

Oct 4, 2024 - Business

Why YIMBYs like Kamala Harris

Illustration of a pen filling in a ballot checkbox in the shape of a house.

The disappearing Bidens: A quiet end to a presidency

Photo illustration of President Biden and First Lady Dr Jill Biden disappearing offscreen out of view of a stage light with a curtain behind them
Updated Oct 4, 2024 - Energy & Climate

Hurricane Helene now one of the deadliest storms to hit the U.S. this century

Search and rescue teams hike along the Broad River where North Carolina Route 9 used to be, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on October 2, 2024 near Chimney Rock, North Carolina.
Updated Oct 4, 2024 - Business

Port workers reach tentative deal to end strike

Dockworkers gather at the Bayport Container Terminal in Seabrook, Texas, on October 1, 2024.

Liz Cheney says at GOP birthplace it's "our duty" to reject Trump

Vice President and Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris walks out with former US representative Liz Cheney during a rally at Ripon College on October 3, 2024 in Ripon, Wisconsin.
Updated Oct 3, 2024 - Energy & Climate

Thousands without water, 1 week on from hurricane hitting Florida

An aerial view of volunteers (LOWER L) making their way on foot past a mudslide caused by flooding wrought by Hurricane Helene, on their way to deliver supplies to residents, on October 3, 2024 near Bat Cave, North Carolina.

Democratic fears emerge on Wisconsin Senate race

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) departs after speaking on stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

GOP badly outspent in most expensive House races

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