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Retired Rep. Bill Zeliff, who probed Waco siege, dies at 85 10/19/2021 05:25pm • Former U.S. Rep. Bill Zeliff, a three-term Republican best known for helping lead the congressional investigation of the government's disastrous siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, has died. He was 85. Zeliff, who represented southern and eastern New Hampshire in the U.S. House Biden's stimulus plan is fueling short-term inflation, SF Fed paper finds 10/19/2021 02:03pm • President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is contributing to elevated inflation but it isn't expected to overheat the economy, a new research paper from the San Francisco Federal Reserve concludes.The package signed into law in March included stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment ben Israel gives legal status to 4K in gesture to Palestinians 10/19/2021 12:01pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Tuesday it would grant legal residency to 4,000 Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, a gesture to the Palestinian Authority that will allow people who have lived under severe restrictions for years to get official IDs. It's one of a series of gesture Fate of NYC City Hall Jefferson statue unclear after vote 10/18/2021 06:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — An 1833 statue of Thomas Jefferson will be removed from New York's City Council chamber by the end of the year, a little-known city commission voted Monday, but it's unclear where it will go. Some members of the 51-member New York City Council have called for years for the statue t British Museum to display the world's oldest map of stars 10/18/2021 11:54am • LONDON (AP) — The British Museum will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on the Stonehenge stone circle. The 3,600-year-old “Nebra Sky Disc,” first discovered in Germany in 1999, is one of the oldest surviving representations Trulieve CEO speaks on growth via M&A, federal pot reform 10/18/2021 09:10am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S.' expanding legal marijuana market is helping drive strong sales and profit growth for multistate operators like Trulieve Cannabis Corp. The Quincy, Florida-based company sells cannabis products in 11 states from Arizona to Pennsylvania. It reported $408.9 million in Fundraising, spending for Virginia governor's race tops previous years 10/18/2021 03:29am • The latest campaign finance documents showed Democrat Terry McAuliffe outraising Republican Glenn Youngkin by about $5.5 million last month as both campaigns in the Virginia governor's race eclipsed fundraising totals from the past five election cycles. This followed GOP nominee Youngkin loaning 'We lost our heads': Inter beaten with controversial goal 10/16/2021 04:50pm • ROME (AP) — A controversial goal led to Inter Milan's first defeat of the season in a 3-1 loss at Lazio in Serie A on Saturday. Felipe Anderson scored a late winner while Inter fullback Federico Dimarco was down injured. The goal infuriated Inter but the rules say the referee should interrupt play Unhappy with prices, ranchers look to build own meat plants 10/16/2021 10:23am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Like other ranchers across the country, Rusty Kemp for years grumbled about rock-bottom prices paid for the cattle he raised in central Nebraska, even as the cost of beef at grocery stores kept climbing. He and his neighbors blamed it on consolidation in the beef industry s US average mortgage rates jump; 30-year loan at 3.05% 10/14/2021 08:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term mortgage rates jumped this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan again breaching 3%. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average rate for a 30-year mortgage rose to 3.05% from 2.99% last week. That is its highest level since April, when it peak Bank profits soar, helped by merger frenzy, fewer bad loans 10/14/2021 01:57pm • NEW YORK (AP) — It's good to be a bank right now. Four of the largest U.S. banks said their profits grew by double-digits last quarter, as a healthier U.S. economy has helped reduce the number of loans in default or that the bank won't likely recoup. The results for Citigroup, Bank of America, We Russian minister visits Belarus, discusses media conditions 10/14/2021 11:01am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's foreign minister said he discussed the Russian media situation in Belarus during a visit to the country on Thursday following the arrest of a journalist who worked for a top Russian newspaper. Hienadz Mazheyka, a Belarusian reporter for Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pra SKorea star Hwang starring in EPL after hard time in Germany 10/14/2021 08:52am • It was a game that propelled Erling Haaland further into soccer’s wider consciousness, earned Takumi Minamino a dream move to the English Premier League, and made American coach Jesse Marsch go viral with an animated, expletive-laden halftime speech. Salzburg’s comeback against Liverpool in an e Turris scores shootout winner, Oilers beat Canucks 3-2 10/14/2021 02:09am • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Kyle Turris scored the shootout winner and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Wednesday night in the season opener for both teams. Turris, a 32-year-old forward who had a career high 64 points with the Ottawa Senators in 2014-2015, has fallen on tough ti Asian shares rise as Wall Street tech gain boosts optimism 10/14/2021 12:08am • TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday, tracking an overnight rally on Wall Street as investors sought out bargains, including technology stocks. Benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney in morning trading. Markets in Hong Kong were closed for a holiday. The Shanghai Composit