Former Palestine Liberation Organization official Xavier Abu Eid says Israel’s election outcome remains uncertain, with polls divided between Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot. He says the rivals could form a national unity government despite their political differences.
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Xavier Abu Eid is a former PLO official.
Abu Eid says polls are divided between Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot.
He says Israel’s election outcome remains uncertain.
Abu Eid says Netanyahu and Eisenkot could potentially form a national unity government.
The article does not provide election dates, polling figures, or details about the parties’ positions.
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After weeks of student unrest in France, the government announced new measures for schools. Student union leaders called the announcement a first step and said they would continue mobilising as they awaited further proposals.
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The protests have continued for weeks.
The French government announced new school measures.
Student union leaders described the measures as a first step.
The union leaders vowed to keep mobilising.
They said they expected further proposals.
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An Iraqi court sentenced six French nationals to life in prison and a seventh to 15 years for membership in the Islamic State group. The defendants were among 47 French suspects transferred from detention facilities in northeast Syria to Iraq last year, and their lawyer said they would appeal.
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A Reuters witness in the courtroom reported the sentences on Tuesday.
The judge said the court chose life sentences instead of the death penalty because the six defendants were young.
The court imposed the sentences under Iraq’s counterterrorism law for joining the Islamic State group and spreading fear.
The seventh defendant, aged 23, received a 15-year sentence.
The seven men were among 47 French suspects transferred to Iraq from detention facilities in northeast Syria last year.
Defense lawyer Abbas al-Maliki said the group would appeal to Iraq’s Court of Cassation.
Iraq opened the trial of the French nationals last month.
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With one week until the Nov. 3 midterm elections, Republicans are defending narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress. Democrats need a net gain of three House seats to win control; Republicans can lose up to three Senate seats and retain their majority if Vice President JD Vance breaks a tie.
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All 435 House seats are on the ballot for two-year terms.
The House has 218 Republicans, 214 Democrats, one independent who generally supports Speaker Mike Johnson, and two vacancies.
Democrats need a net gain of three seats to reach a 218-seat House majority.
Thirty-five Senate seats are on the ballot: 13 held by Democrats and 22 by Republicans.
Republicans hold 53 Senate seats; Democrats and the two independents who caucus with them hold 47.
Republicans can lose three Senate seats and keep control if the chamber ties and Vice President JD Vance casts the deciding vote.
The election is scheduled for Nov. 3, 2026.
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A Russian attack on Kyiv on October 26 killed at least one person and injured 15, according to Ukrainian officials. The strike damaged a university campus and nearby buildings; Russia said it targeted Ukrainian defense and transport infrastructure.
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Ukraine said the attack included 16 ballistic missiles, and its forces shot down two.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces reported at least 255 drones in the attack.
Five injured people were students or university staff, Zelenskyy said.
A 20-year-old woman was hospitalized, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The strike damaged part of the campus, a nearby park and metro station, and residential buildings.
Ukrainian officials said rescue operations were underway and people might be trapped under rubble.
Russia's Defense Ministry said it targeted a facility producing and storing long- and medium-range drones, as well as transport infrastructure.
Zelenskyy reported strikes on multiple other Ukrainian cities, including Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Odesa.
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As Israelis voted on October 27, 2026, the report focused on Palestinian citizens of Israel who live in mixed Jewish-Arab towns. Lod has long been associated with Jewish-Arab coexistence, but violent clashes there in 2021 continue to affect the town, the report said.
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Israel held elections on October 27, 2026.
About 2 million Palestinian citizens of Israel were among those voting.
Some Palestinian citizens of Israel live in towns with both Jewish and Arab residents.
Lod is described as a town long seen as a symbol of Jewish-Arab coexistence.
Lod experienced violent clashes in 2021.
The report said the effects of the 2021 clashes are still felt in Lod.
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Sudan’s war has spread into neighboring Chad, where a drone strike killed at least four people in the border town of Bamina last week. Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have crossed into Chad seeking safety, including survivors of the massacre in El Fasher, many of whom remain traumatized.
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A drone strike killed at least four people in Bamina, a town on Chad’s border with Sudan.
The strike occurred last week, according to the article.
Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have crossed into Chad.
Refugees are seeking safety from Sudan’s war.
Many survivors of the massacre in El Fasher remain deeply traumatized.
France 24 correspondent Harold Girard reported on the situation.
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A Florida youth soccer organizer called police over a dispute involving the parents of a 3-year-old player. The organizer said the parents were disruptive and asked officers to remove them; the incident went viral.
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The incident took place in Florida.
The child involved was 3 years old.
A youth soccer organizer called police during the dispute.
The organizer said the boy’s parents were being disruptive.
The organizer asked police to remove the parents.
The dispute drew widespread attention online.
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The Justice Department has filed charges accusing former FBI director James Comey of transmitting and conspiring to transmit national defense information to a New York Times reporter in 2016. Comey says he is innocent and his lawyers have asked a judge to dismiss the case; President Donald Trump called him a “dirty cop.” The live blog also reports expert warnings that AI-driven election disinformation is spreading on social media ahead of the U.S. midterms.
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The Justice Department filed a criminal information in federal court in Washington accusing Comey of transmitting and conspiring to transmit national defense information.
The filing alleges Comey shared classified information with a New York Times reporter in October 2016.
The Justice Department said it filed the document to prevent the 10-year statute of limitations from expiring.
Comey said in an Instagram video, “I’m still innocent,” and his lawyers have asked a judge to dismiss the case.
President Trump called Comey a “dirty cop” while speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews.
Experts cited in the article warn that AI-driven disinformation is spreading on social media ahead of the November U.S. midterm elections.
The article says social media companies have reduced efforts to protect voters from false election claims and increasingly rely on AI rather than human review.
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Syria condemned Jordanian airstrikes in southern Syria, calling them a violation of its airspace and sovereignty. Jordan said the strikes targeted confirmed terrorist threats after a church attack in Karak killed nine people, and expressed regret for civilian deaths.
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Syria said Jordan carried out the strikes without prior coordination or notification.
Syria reported that seven people, including three children and a woman, were killed.
Syrian civil defense also reported seven civilian deaths in Daraa and Sweida provinces, including five members of one family and two elderly men.
Jordan said the strikes were based on intelligence about confirmed threats and planned attacks.
The strikes followed a funeral attack at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak that killed nine people.
Jordan said it had arrested three gunmen but did not disclose their affiliation.
Jordan said it wanted to preserve ties with Syria and that the countries continued to coordinate on countering terrorism and weapons and drug smuggling.
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Former NOAA officials and scientists warn that staffing, funding, and research cuts under President Donald Trump have weakened U.S. capacity to forecast and prepare for extreme weather. They say a potentially strong El Niño this winter could bring multiple hazards and test those weakened systems, while NOAA data cuts could also affect weather services and research abroad.
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NOAA has lost roughly 20% of its staff since January 2025, according to the article.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, has hundreds of vacant meteorological and technical positions across its 122 forecast offices.
The article says some weather stations have delayed data collection or reduced operating hours.
El Niño involves warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific; the article says this event is expected to strengthen through the Northern Hemisphere autumn and winter.
The article says El Niño could raise temperatures, strengthen storms in parts of the American West, and raise sea levels along California by up to a foot.
Former NOAA officials warn that reduced agency capacity could hamper forecasts and public-safety preparations for hazards such as hurricanes, fires, floods, and storms.
Scientists and forecasters in other countries also rely on NOAA satellites, research, and shared data for weather monitoring and disaster response.
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The article argues that low tax payments by the wealthiest Americans threaten public revenue and democratic institutions. It focuses on California’s proposed Proposition 40, a one-time tax on billionaire wealth that voters are expected to consider in November 2026, and the debate over whether it could raise substantial funds or prompt wealthy residents to leave the state.
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The article says the top 1% of Americans hold more than 31% of the nation’s wealth, valued at about $55 trillion.
A research paper cited in the article found that 384 of the richest Americans paid 24% of their economic income in 2025, compared with 30% for the average taxpayer.
ProPublica reporting cited by the article says Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Michael Bloomberg have at times paid little or no federal income tax.
Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires who lived in California on January 1, 2026.
The article estimates that 260 billionaires lived in California as of early October and held nearly $2.5 trillion in wealth; it projects the tax could raise about $110 billion.
The article says much of the projected revenue would replace Medicaid funding cut by President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Xavier Becerra, a Democratic candidate to succeed him, oppose the proposal over concerns that billionaires could leave the state.
Six Nobel Prize-winning economists endorsed the proposed tax in an open letter, calling it a possible model for other governments.
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Casa de Salud, a primary care clinic in Albuquerque, trains bilingual high school and college students through a year-long health apprenticeship. The program aims to expand culturally informed care and help students from underrepresented communities enter healthcare careers and serve their communities.
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Casa de Salud opened in 2004 in Albuquerque’s South Valley neighborhood.
The clinic’s apprentice program began in 2005 and has trained more than 300 bilingual high school and college students.
Apprentices learn tasks such as taking vital signs and may receive harm-reduction training, including how to provide fentanyl test strips.
At least a third of the students the clinic has tracked entered healthcare, and more than half of that group attended medical school.
New Mexico has healthcare workforce shortages in 32 of its 33 counties.
Latinos make up 20% of the U.S. population but about 6% of the physician workforce.
Gisselle Martinez, a 21-year-old college student, works as a bilingual health apprentice while pursuing a path toward becoming a certified nurse anesthetist.
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Jill Schlesinger and Mark discuss how couples with an age gap can plan for two retirements. They also discuss when someone should replace a financial planner.
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The segment focuses on retirement planning for couples with an age gap.
It considers how couples may need to plan for two separate retirement periods.
The hosts discuss when to fire a financial planner.
The video is listed as 23 minutes and 53 seconds long.
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The article criticizes Barack Obama’s campaign-trail remarks shortly before the midterm elections. The excerpt says Obama joked about the tastes of middle-class Americans, but it ends before giving the full context or explaining Abdul El-Sayed’s connection to the remarks.
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The article says the midterm elections were just over a week away.
The article says Obama joined the campaign trail.
The writer characterizes Obama’s remarks as smug and condescending.
The excerpt says Obama joked about middle-class Americans’ tastes.
The excerpt ends while describing the joke and does not provide its full wording.
The title names Abdul El-Sayed, but the excerpt does not explain his role.
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Jordan said its air force carried out airstrikes against armed groups in Syria in response to an attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, southern Jordan. The church attack killed nine people, while Syrian authorities reported at least six deaths from the airstrikes.
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Jordan's air force said it carried out the strikes on October 27.
The strikes targeted armed groups in Syria.
Jordan described the strikes as retaliation for a Friday attack on a Greek Orthodox church.
The church is in Karak, a city in southern Jordan.
The church attack killed nine people.
Syrian authorities said the airstrikes killed at least six people.
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Neil Young filed a $10 million copyright lawsuit against Trump 47 Committee Inc., alleging that Donald Trump’s campaign group used “Rockin’ in the Free World” at rallies without permission. Young also seeks an order barring further use of the song, which he says harms his reputation by suggesting he supports Trump.
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Young filed the lawsuit on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The suit alleges that the song was played at a Trump rally in Ohio on October 12 and at other rallies promoting Republican votes in the midterm elections.
Young previously sued Donald J Trump for President Inc. in 2020 over alleged unlicensed use of the song.
According to the new suit, the 2020 case was settled with a promise that the organization would not use the song again without a license and Young’s permission.
Young is seeking $10 million in damages and an injunction against further public performances of the song.
The Trump administration had not responded to the lawsuit at the time of the article.
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The article reports that U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a Republican rally that Arabs do not produce science or literature or win Nobel Prizes. It says the remarks drew widespread condemnation and were criticized as factually incorrect and racially biased.
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The article identifies Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the U.S. Secretary of Health.
It says Kennedy made the remarks at a Republican rally.
The reported remarks claimed that Arabs do not produce science.
The reported remarks also claimed that Arabs do not produce literature or win Nobel Prizes.
The article says the remarks were widely condemned.
The article describes the criticism as saying the remarks were factually incorrect and racially biased.
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A group of 21 Indian news publishers has challenged the country’s privacy law in the Supreme Court, arguing that its consent and data-erasure rules could obstruct reporting and expose journalists’ sources. The court said it would hear the case next month; the publishers also object to the government’s powers to demand information and block access to it.
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The publishers include Network18, NDTV, the Indian Express and Times Internet.
The publishers argue that requiring journalists to seek consent from people they report on could let those people destroy evidence or intimidate witnesses.
The law allows people to withdraw consent and request that their personal data be erased, with no public-interest safeguard described in the publishers’ filing.
The publishers say a federal authority can fine organizations for failing to comply with the law.
The law gives New Delhi power to block access to information in the interests of the general public, according to the article.
From next year, the government will be able to require organizations handling personal data to provide information it requests, the publishers say.
The publishers say these powers could expose confidential sources and discourage whistleblowers from contacting reporters.
The Supreme Court said it would hear the challenge next month.
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Jordanian strikes in Syria, carried out in retaliation for a church attack the previous week, killed at least seven people, including five members of one family. Jordan said it targeted “terrorist hideouts,” while relatives of the people killed denied that they were connected to the attack.
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The strikes took place in Syria.
Jordan said the strikes targeted “terrorist hideouts.”
Jordan said the strikes were retaliation for a church attack the previous week.
At least seven people were killed.
The dead included five members of one family.
Relatives denied that the victims had links to the church attack.
Al Jazeera reporter Obaida Hitto reported from Deraa.
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