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Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz suggested in an interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes that aired on Tuesday that his “misspeaking” does not matter because Minnesotans know and support him. “I think folks know who I am. And I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong by — you — rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump,” he responded when asked about his lie that he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square Massacre when he was actually in Nebraska. When pressed on whether he could be trusted…

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose in early Asian trade on Thursday on concerns about potential supply disruptions in the Middle East, with Israel planning to strike oil-producer Iran, and on spikes in fuel demand as a major storm barreled into Florida.Brent crude futures rose 37 cents, or 0.5%, to $76.95 a barrel, while the U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures was up 35 cents, also 0.5%, at $73.59 a barrel at 0034 GMT.The world’s largest oil producer and consumer has been hit by a second major storm, Hurricane Milton, which made landfall on Florida’s west coast, spawning tornadoes and…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — In a meeting on Tuesday, the Brown Corporation rejected a student-led proposal that would have seen the university divesting from 10 companies that the students say “profit from and facilitate gross human rights abuses committed by Israel throughout occupied Palestine.”In a letter to the Brown community, Chancellor Brian Moynihan and President Christina Paxson shared that the Corporation voted to accept a recommendation from the university’s Advisory Committee on University Resources Management (ACURM) against divestment.According to ACURM, the committee was unable to find “a causal link between the investmentor expenditure of University resources and the associated harm,”…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy hasn’t lost Republicans — but he’s on notice. Even some Republican supporters of Ukraine on Capitol Hill said that the Ukrainian President had made a strategic error when he visited a weapons plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, over the weekend and separately waded into the presidential race by calling JD Vance “too radical” in a recently published interview. The visit to the plant drew rebukes from Speaker Mike Johnson, who condemned it as a partisan campaign event in solidarity with Democrats, while Zelenskyy’s comment on Vance further complicates his swing through the U.S. as he seeks to shore up…

The Category 4 hurricane that ripped through the eastern seaboard is scrambling election preparations in some of the country’s top battlegrounds — adding to the troubles of administering the vote amid conspiracy theories and toxic partisan divides. The swing states of Georgia and North Carolina were among the most heavily affected by Hurricane Helene, which flooded towns, destroyed buildings, took out power and cell service and forced widespread road closures, with a death toll that has already ticked above 200. The upturning of everyday life has also introduced unanticipated disruptions into the nuts-and-bolts of running a high-stakes presidential election. Now,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — With less than four weeks until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is facing new urgency to define how her potential presidency would be different from that of President Joe Biden.Her struggle to present herself both as a candidate of change while demonstrating a loyalty to the politician she serves under was made clear Tuesday, when she was asked on ABC’s “The View” how she would lead differently than Biden.Harris said, “We’re obviously two different people” and “I will bring those sensibilities to how I lead.” But when pressed to identify a decision made by Biden that…

A Kansas City community college was briefly evacuated Wednesday afternoon as police responded to reports of a suspicious package near a campus building.The package was sighted outside of the Broadway Plaza building of Metropolitan Community College’s Penn Valley campus, at 3217 Broadway Blvd., according to MCC campus police.Just before 4 p.m. Wednesday, students were instructed to evacuate the building by way of the back entrance. The threat did not actually take place on campus property, the spokesperson said.Since the alert took place near the end of the business day and near a non-academic building, few students and staff were directly…

The event no longer puts “athletes first,” Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has claimed Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota is officially ending its Olympics sponsorship following the Paris Games, Chairman Akio Toyoda announced in a podcast posted on the company’s YouTube channel this week. According to Toyoda, this summer’s Olympics demonstrated that the event has become “increasingly political.”  Toyota struck a ten-year sponsorship agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2015. Toyota’s Olympic Partner contract was reported to be worth $835 million, the IOC’s largest sponsorship deal at the time. It was to span four Olympics but could be renewed upon expiry…

The popular messaging platform was blocked by court decision over safety concerns after having faced a similar verdict in Russia Turkish authorities have blocked access to the popular instant-messaging platform Discord after concerns were raised that the app was being used to target children for grooming, blackmail and cyberbullying. The move comes after the US-based platform also found itself banned in Russia this week. Türkiye’s Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) officially published the access-ban decision on its website on Wednesday following a ruling by the Ankara First Criminal Court of Peace. Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc has explained that the court has…

Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClearInvestigations,On the eve of a highly-anticipated live X “Spaces” conversation between Elon Musk and former president Donald Trump, the powerful (former) European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton warned in August that authorities would be “monitoring” the conversation for “content that may incite violence, hate, and racism.” While reminding Musk that the EU was already investigating X for alleged failures “to combat disinformation,” Breton said he and his colleagues “will not hesitate to make full use of our toolbox … to protect EU citizens from serious harm.”The European Commission distanced itself from Breton, who would eventually resign his post while…