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Can an independent or third-party candidate win the presidency?

The Washington Post is tracking which third-party presidential candidates will be on the ballot on Nov. 5 — an evolving landscape as many states will not finalize their ballots until August. This page will be updated. Presidential elections have recently been decided on the thinnest of margins, which is why some Democrats and Republicans fear […]

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US Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle resigns from agency

US Secret Service director Kim Cheatle has resigned after security failures surrounding an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. “As your director, I take full responsibility for the security lapse,” Ms Cheatle said in a resignation letter to agency staff on Tuesday. She had faced calls from both Democrats and Republicans to step down […]

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The economic mind of JD Vance : Planet Money : NPR

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the Republican vice presidential candidate, speaks at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Saturday. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Last week, former President Donald Trump selected Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate. And a host of traditional free-market conservatives and libertarians were less […]

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Mapping the scale of damage of cross-border attacks

Getty Images BBC analysis has uncovered the extent of damage caused by nine months of fighting between the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel. Satellite photos, radar imagery and records of military activity show that entire communities have been displaced, with thousands of buildings and large swathes of open land damaged on the border between […]

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House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global IT outage

A congressional committee on Monday called on the chief executive of the security company whose botched update triggered Friday’s sprawling computer outage to testify, according to a letter shared exclusively with The Washington Post, deepening lawmakers’ scrutiny of the incident. Republican leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee demanded that CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz commit […]

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China Slashes Interest Rates and Growth Continues to Sag

Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. China has slashed key interest rates in a bid to revive growth in the world’s second-biggest economy. This is the first rate cut by the Chinese central bank in almost a year and […]

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Boat fire kills at least 40 migrants, UN agency says

At least 40 migrants have died after the boat they were travelling in caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, a United Nations agency says. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says 41 others were rescued by the Haitian Coast Guard. The vessel was travelling from Cap-Haitien to the Turks and Caicos Islands, more […]

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Dark oxygen made by deep sea ‘batteries’

Getty Images Until this discovery, it was believed that oxygen could not be produced without sunlight Scientists have discovered “dark oxygen” being produced in the deep ocean, apparently by lumps of metal on the seafloor. About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was […]

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Five takeaways from Boris Johnson’s Covid inquiry evidence

He said that, whilst understandable, the different messages in different parts of the UK – where there were different Covid rules – risked being “confusing” for the public. He insisted that he had always enjoyed a “friendly” relationship with then-Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon, despite suggestions earlier in the inquiry that No 10 was reluctant […]

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