World shares and U.S. futures retreated on Thursday as oil prices jumped more than 2% following a report by Iran's state television that seven oil tankers caught fire and were damaged in the Strait of Hormuz. If the report is verified, it would be the largest number of vessels damaged in the wate...
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Russian attacks on Ukraine's capital with ballistic missiles and drones overnight into Thursday killed one person and wounded 22, Ukrainian authorities said. The strikes in Kyiv came hours after the Kremlin agreed to restart U.S.-brokered talks aimed at ending the war . The attac...
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Iran's state television reported that seven oil tankers were either struck by attacks or hit naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz overnight Thursday, possibly the largest single-day number of vessels damaged in the waterway since the Iran war started on Feb. 28. Here is the latest...
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Women plan street demonstrations in more than 20 Polish cities and towns Thursday to protest the lack of access to free and legal abortion . They're accusing Prime Minister Donald Tusk's liberal government of failing to fulfill its promise to relax Poland's strict abortion laws, ...
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A man has been charged with threatening an Australian lawmaker’s staff with nunchucks, police said Thursday, days after another legislator was critically injured when a man repeatedly hit her with a car. Nunchucks are a weapon used in martial arts consisting of two sticks or rods...
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Russia prides itself on its digital advances — from an extensive e-commerce services sector to ambitious plans for developing artificial intelligence. But now, some of the key data centers at the heart of its technical prowess have been knocked out by Ukrainian drone attacks in t...
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After Ashley Hinson dropped off her boys at school earlier this month, she saw the initials “DJT” flash on her phone. “'Ashley, it's your favorite president,'” Iowa's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate recently recounted to an audience of her supporters. “That's how he introduced...
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Emmanuel Macron, a centrist, has entered the final stretch of his decade-long presidency as France faces a wave of intense protests , with little sign he can prevent a candidate from the political extremes from succeeding him. On the eve of a major protest planned for Oct. 17, he...
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If Deb Haaland wins New Mexico’s race for governor this year, she’ll make history as the first Native American woman to lead a state. But first she has to convince New Mexicans that they should keep Democrats in charge. The state persistently ranks near the bottom nationally on p...
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A San Antonio woman preparing for a trip to Germany had to drive to Houston for a replacement passport after she said it was taken in a mailbox break-in at the Oakland Heights neighborhood. “I had my passport stolen out of the mailbox,” Emily Espinoza said. Espinoza said she had ...
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Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall said Wednesday that Ukraine's war with Russia — and not the U.S. war with Iran — was to blame for high diesel prices that have imperiled his party's control of Congress in the midterm elections. The answer, delivered during a debate with Demo...
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FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS ROUTINE CONTINUES: Pleasant mornings turn to comfortably warm afternoons HUMIDITY: Noticeable only in the mornings this weekend RAIN CHANCES : Slim FORECAST CONSISTENCY Conditions won’t change much in the days ahead with pleasant mornings leading to comfortabl...
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A woman is in critical condition after she was hit by a vehicle on the East Side, San Antonio police said Wednesday. Officers responded to the crash around 8:10 p.m. at the intersection of Rigsby Avenue and Diane Road. Police told KSAT the woman, who’s around 40 to 50 years old, ...
