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Iran’s General Esmail Qaani, who leads the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terror organization, was reportedly not killed by Israel but is being held by Iranian officials on suspicion of spying. Qaani, who replaced General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in January 2020 by an airstrike in Iraq ordered by then-President Donald Trump, was widely thought to have been killed in one of Israel’s aistrikes on Hezbollah leaders in Beirut, Lebanon. But as Breitbart News reported, Iranian officials insisted that Qaani was still alive, though he remained silent. Rumors emerged in Arabic media that Qaani had, in fact, been…

Trump-backed Republican Bernie Moreno and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are running neck and neck in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, according to a pair of polls published Thursday. A Washington Post poll conducted by Braun Research finds that 47 percent of the likely voter respondents back Moreno, a political outsider and businessman. He sits just one point behind Brown, at 48 percent. One percent of the respondents will not vote, while a critical three percent are undecided, with Election Day less than one month out. Most of the likely voters in the Buckeye State, 51 percent, want to see Republicans take a Senate majority,…

Donald Trump and the Republican party are pushing an agenda of “division, chaos and hate” by spending tens of millions on ads attacking transgender people, advocates said, as the right wing intensifies its anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.The GOP has spent more than $65m on ads targeting trans people, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, with the former president’s most frequently aired ad targeting Kamala Harris over her support for gender-affirming care.Television ads have also been running in tight statewide races further down the ballot, including in Ohio, Montana and Wisconsin, with Republicans returning to hyperbolic, far-right talking points that proved unsuccessful…

The Northern Lights, as promised, could be seen in the Miami Valley region on Thursday night.[DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]As reported at 6:00, Storm Center 7′s Nick Dunn broke down the timing and passed along the best ways to see the lights in the region. A coronal mass ejection (CME) will likely arrive at Earth on Thursday night into Friday morning, which will lead to elevated geomagnetic activity and the possibility of seeing the Northern Lights in the Miami Valley, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued for Oct. 10…

The country has essentially ceased to rely on oil and gas exports as a source of income, HSE University Rector Nikita Anisimov has said Western sanctions imposed on Russia amid the Ukraine conflict have made the country’s economy stronger, Nikita Anisimov, rector of the HSE University in Moscow, has said.Speaking on behalf of HSE economists at a parliamentary hearing on the draft of the 2025-2027 federal budget on Monday, Anisimov said sanctions have effectively propelled the restructuring of the country’s economy. According to the expert, this has led to Russia “essentially ceasing” its dependence on the export of raw materials…

This week’s planned meeting of the heads of state of Ukraine’s backers in Germany has been canceled after US President Joe Biden announced he will not attend, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing an e-mail sent by the US public affairs office at Ramstein Air Base. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) also reported the development, citing anonymous NATO sources.The gathering of the so-called Ramstein group at the eponymous US military base was supposed to feature addresses by Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky.Following the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, more than 50 countries, including…

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,Concern among Spaniards about immigration has surged in the past year with 57 percent of citizens believing there are now “too many” immigrants in the country, new polling shows.A recent survey by the 40dB Institute for El País and Cadena SER revealed that 75 percent of Spaniards now associate immigration with negative concepts such as insecurity, crime, and overburdened public services. The increase in concern — up by 16 points over the last year and a half — reflects a considerable shift at a time when the migrant crisis, particularly on the Canary Islands archipelago is…

One of America’s major banks has been hit with a massive fine after federal investigators said it was lax in its efforts to monitor money laundering. TD Bank will pay $1.89 billion to the Department of Justice, $123.5 million to the Federal Reserve Board, and $450 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, according to the consent order between the federal government and the bank. The bank must also pay $757 million to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement, referred to in the consent order as FinCEN. The penalty is a record, according to CNN.…

The Minnesota Twins are exploring a sale of the club. (Photo by Tom Dahlin/Getty Images)Getty Images Ownership of the Minnesota Twins announced on Thursday that they would explore selling the franchise. If so, they would see incredible profit. In a statement released today, Twins Executive Chair Joe Pohlad laid out the plans on behalf of the Pohlad family. “After months of thoughtful consideration, our family reached a decision this summer to explore selling the Twins. As we enter the next phase of this process, the time is right to make this decision public,” he said. The Twins have retained Allen…

The British government is set to miss out on billions in tax on gasoline and diesel after it pushed drivers to adopt electric cars instead, and will want to make up the shortfall by taxing road users per mile instead, a senior government advisor says. Britain faces a future of “Big Brother is watching you” style cameras tracking drivers so they can be billed for using roads as the government’s policy decisions to incentivise electric vehicles (EVs) means it stands to miss out on billions of pounds of tax money from drivers a year. In the United Kingdom, two of…