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After the deluge, the lies: Misinformation and hoaxes about Helene cloud the recovery 10/05/2024 12:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The facts emerging from Hurricane Helene's destruction are heartrending: Businesses and homes destroyed, whole communities nearly wiped out, hundreds of lives lost, hundreds of people missing. Yet this devastation and despair is not enough for the extremist groups, disinformatio Alleged plots against US campaign are only the latest examples of Iran targeting adversaries 10/05/2024 12:12am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran has emerged as a twofold concern for the United States as it nears the end of the presidential campaign. Prosecutors allege Tehran tried to hack figures associated with the election, stealing information from former President Donald Trump���s campaign. And U Middle East latest: An Israeli airstrike cuts a major highway linking Lebanon with Syria 10/04/2024 11:35pm • An Israeli airstrike has cut off a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria, leaving two huge craters on either side of the road. The airstrike Friday rendered the road unusable for cars, leaving people to go on foot to the Masnaa Border Crossing where tens of thousands of people fleeing war in Leba The Latest: Harris to visit Michigan while Trump heads to Georgia 10/04/2024 08:17pm • Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the union stronghold of Flint, Michigan, on Friday as she battles with Donald Trump for working-class voters who could tip the scales in this year���s election. Her appearance in the battleground state comes the day after U.S. dockworkers suspended their strik Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for voting data scheme 10/04/2024 05:47pm • A judge ripped into a Colorado county clerk for her crimes and lies before sentencing her Thursday to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race. District Judge Matthew Barrett told former Mesa County Yoga business founder pleads guilty to tax charge in New York City 10/04/2024 04:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� An international yoga business founder whose chain of yoga studios promoted themselves as ���Yoga to the People��� pleaded guilty on Friday to a tax charge in a New York federal court. Gregory Gumucio, 63, of Colorado, apologized as he admitted not paying over $2.5 million in taxes The US could have seen shortages and higher retail prices if a dockworkers strike had dragged on 10/04/2024 01:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. The union representing the striking U.S. dockworkers, the International Longshoremen���s Association, reached a deal Thursday to sus Pakistan capital locked down to thwart a rally to support ex-leader Imran Khan 10/04/2024 11:29am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Authorities suspended cellphone service and blocked key roads into Pakistan���s capital with shipping containers Friday to try to thwart a rally by tens of thousands of activists seeking the release of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan���s supporters were trying to For Pittsburgh Jews, attack anniversary adds to an already grim October 10/04/2024 10:28am • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Jewish communities everywhere reacted with horror at last year's Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, but the approaching one-year commemoration of the assault hits home particularly hard in Pittsburgh's Jewish community, which already marks a grim anniversary each October. It was h Chief operating officer of Truth Social's parent company resigns 10/04/2024 08:24am • The chief operating officer of Truth Social's parent company has resigned and the company must hand over almost 800,000 shares to one of its investors as part of a court ruling, according to a regulatory filing. COO Andrew Northwall resigned from Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. late last mo Collapse of national security elites' cyber firm leaves bitter wake 10/04/2024 12:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The future was once dazzling for IronNet. Founded by a former director of the National Security Agency and stacked with elite members of the U.S. intelligence establishment, IronNet promised it was going to revolutionize the way governments and corporations combat cyberattacks. I Middle East latest: Israeli strike in Beirut kills 9 as troops battle Hezbollah in southern Lebanon 10/03/2024 11:48pm • An Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Lebanese capital killed nine people, according to Lebanon's health ministry. Israel has been pounding areas of the country where the Hezbollah militant group has a strong presence since late September, but has rarely struck in the heart of Beirut. UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US base on Diego Garcia stays 10/03/2024 11:05pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base. British Foreign Secretary Da Casey, McCormick hammer home attacks in debate for Pennsylvania's battleground Senate race 10/03/2024 10:24pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Republican challenger David McCormick met Thursday for their first debate in the pivotal race for a swing-state seat, with each candidate repeatedly accusing the other of lying and turning questions about energy, the sale of NFL determines fan didn't intentionally spill a drink on Cincinnati's Chase Brown 10/03/2024 08:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The NFL has determined a fan didn���t intentionally spill a drink on Bengals running back Chase Brown following Cincinnati���s victory in Carolina on Sunday. Video showed a fan appeared to pour a drink on Brown as he left the field and entered the tunnel at Bank of America Stadium.