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☆ Pakistan province calls for ‘climate diplomacy’ with India as record smog chokes major city
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Lex Harvey | Sophia Saifi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Islamabad, Pakistan CNN —A smog-choked province in eastern Pakistan has issued a rare plea for cross-border collaboration with India, as major cities in both countries endure severe air pollution that risks the health of millions. “We are suffering in Lahore in a way due to the eastern wind corridor coming from India,” he said. Lahore, home to more than 14 million people, saw its air quality index surpass a record 1,900 in one part of the city on Saturday, according to IQAir, which tracks global air quality. Experts say India’s air pollution is so bad that smog could take years off the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Both India and Pakistan have tried to clamp down on the practice, but it is still widespread.

Persons: Raja Jahangir Anwar, ” Anwar, Punjab’s, ”, Arif Ali, Sakib Ali, Maryam Nawaz, Parveen Kumar Organizations: Pakistan CNN, Environment, CNN, Getty, Hindustan Times, World Health Organization, Experts, India’s Locations: Islamabad, Pakistan, India, Punjab, Pakistan’s, Lahore, AFP, Delhi Meerut, Ghaziabad, Delhi –, Gurgaon, India’s Punjab, Haryana, Pakistan’s Punjab

CNN —An American-Iranian journalist who once worked for a US-funded broadcaster is believed to have been detained in Iran, according to his former employer and multiple press freedom groups. Iran has not acknowledged detaining Valizadeh and the Iranian mission to the United Nations has declined to comment on his situation. The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which focuses on Iran, also believes Valizadeh is being held in Evin. Iran has a long history of using dual nationals as bargaining chips in its troubled relationship with the West. It is currently marking the 25th anniversary of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, in which 52 US citizens were held captive for 444 days.

Persons: Reza Valizadeh, Valizadeh, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ”, Yeganeh Rezaian, “ Organizations: CNN, Radio Farda, Free, Radio Liberty, RFE, United Nations, US State Department, Farda, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Intelligence Organization, Protect Journalists, Rights, News Agency, Department of State’s, State Department, US Locations: American, Iranian, Iran, Tehran, Free Europe, Switzerland, United States, Israel, New York, Iran’s, Evin, East, North Africa

☆ Iran is now dangerously vulnerable to the consequences of another attack on Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Israel carried out a series of precision strikes on military targets in Iran late last month. AdvertisementIran is signaling that it will deliver a harsh response to Israel's late-October strikes, which were revenge for Tehran's retaliatory ballistic missile attack at the start of the month. However, another direct Iranian attack on Israel — which would be its third ever — invites additional Israeli strikes at a time when Tehran is dangerously unprepared. Israel struck several S-300s, a Russian-made surface-to-air missile system considered to be the most advanced air-defense battery that Iran operates. He said last week that the strikes on Iran's air-defense network create "a huge disadvantage for the enemy when we will want to strike later."

Persons: Israel, —, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israel —, Salemi, Vahid, Yoav Gallant Organizations: Service, AP, Institute for, Embassy, Israeli, Planet Labs PBC, Israel, US, Pentagon Locations: Iran, Israel, Tehran, Russian, Washington, Iran's

☆ Retailers brace for DEI blowback in lead-up to election, holiday shopping season
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A sign disparaging Bud Light beer is seen along a country road on April 21, 2023 in Arco, Idaho. Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of Bud Light has faced backlash after the company sponsored two Instagram posts from a transgender woman. Retailers are facing a tough equation as they head into the all-important holiday shopping season — this time over DEI initiatives. CNBC spoke with a number of retail industry insiders, strategists and staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity to do so candidly. Last year, Anheuser-Busch -owned Bud Light and Target faced severe blowback for marketing campaigns and product collections geared toward the LGBTQ community and saw sales fall as a result.

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Clad in dress clothes, the man identified himself as a private investigator and said he was conducting a criminal investigation into election fraud. “You’re not going to come in here, grill me like this and I’m not going to find out what’s going on.”Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf. Bridget Bennett / Reuters fileShe soon learned that the deputy and the private investigator had visited other township offices as part of an effort to find evidence of election fraud. And the man responsible for it was the top lawman in the area — Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf. Leaf fashions himself as a “constitutional sheriff.” Sheriffs like him see themselves as holding supreme authority in their counties, exceeding that of state and federal law enforcement officials.

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☆ U.S. says Iranian-American held in Iran as tensions high following Israeli attack on country
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Valizadeh had worked for Radio Farda, an outlet under Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that’s overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The State Department told the AP that it was “aware of reports that this dual U.S.-Iranian citizen has been arrested in Iran” when asked about Valizadeh. “We are working with our Swiss partners who serve as the protecting power for the United States in Iran to gather more information about this case,” the State Department said. The Voice of America, another U.S. government-funded media outlet overseen by the Agency for Global Media, first reported the State Department was acknowledging Valizadeh’s detention in Iran. Meanwhile, Iranian state television aired footage Sunday of different cities across the country marking the anniversary of the embassy takeover.

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☆ Iran warns of 'crushing response' following Israeli airstrikes as Pentagon announces plans to bolster US presence in the Middle East
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Iran has vowed a "crushing response" following Israel's late October airstrikes. Israel's attack came in response to an Iranian missile barrage on October 1. It comes as the US announced plans to send more warships and B-52 bombers to the Middle East. AdvertisementIran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said there would be a "crushing response" following Israel's airstrikes on the country last week. Experts had predicted that Iran may look "an off-ramp" or launch a small-scale retaliation following Israel's strikes.

Persons: —, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israel, Joe Biden, Biden, Putin, Pat Ryder, Khamenei Organizations: US, Service, Zionist, Israel, Pentagon, US Air Force, Central Command, Minot Air Force Locations: Iran, Israel, United States, America, CENTCOM's

☆ How Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to dispute the election results – again
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

Election officials warn they’re outmatched and struggling to combat the wave of falsehoods coming from Musk and his platform. Manipulating early voting numbersIn 2020, Trump attacked early voting and mail-in voting, claiming they were used to cheat. Election officials have been inundated with threats of violence since the 2020 election. But Trump and his allies have been laying the groundwork to try to dispute the election should he lose. In Georgia, conservatives sought to allow county election officials to refuse to certify the election results, though the effort was blocked by a state judge.

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☆ A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Lizzie Presser | Kavitha Surana | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. Fails, who would have seen her daughter turn 20 this Friday, still cannot understand why Crain’s emergency was not treated like an emergency. Passed nearly four decades ago, it requires emergency rooms to stabilize patients in medical crises. Eight years earlier, the Texas Medical Board found that he had failed to diagnose appendicitis in one patient and syphilis in another. Last year, he sent a letter threatening to prosecute a doctor who had received court approval to provide an emergency abortion for a Dallas woman.

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☆ I make my son pay for his college tuition. If he gets good grades each semester, I pay him back.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When I was younger, I didn't understand or appreciate my parents paying my college tuition. My son pays his tuition first with his saved money, and I pay him back if he gets good grades. Related Video Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student-debt relief planThe tuition payment plan is simpleMy kids must save and then pay for their classes each semester. If they don't get at least a B, they don't get the money back, so there's no money for the next semester. AdvertisementIt's working for my oldest son so farMy son began his first semester in August.

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☆ Bill Clinton has hopes and fears on what comes after 2024 – for the country, the party and himself
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

Clinton speaks at a campaign rally in Durham, North Carolina, on October 17, 2024. His wife was the one whose loss put Trump in the White House, in a way that burns him still. Then again, Clinton said, he was “gobsmacked” that companies that said they’d pay to help with the transition never did. Clinton speaks during morning service at a church in Albany, Georgia, on October 13, 2024. Tim Walz appears with Clinton at the campaign rally in Durham, North Carolina, on October 17, 2024.

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Taco Bell is reviving five menu items from past decades for a limited time. We tried the new Decades menu and the Meximelt was our clear favorite. When the first Taco Bell restaurant opened in Downey, California, in 1962, it offered just five menu items: frijoles, tostadas, burritos, tacos, and a chili burger. Now, Taco Bell is hoping to evoke a sense of nostalgia in customers with its new "Decades" menu that features five of its previously discontinued items. We tried four items on Taco Bell's new Decades menu (the Caramel Apple Empanada will be released on November 21) and ranked them from our least favorite to our favorite.

Persons: Taco, —, Bell, Taco Bell, Wendy's, SpongeBob, Patty, Burger, McDonald's Organizations: Taco Bell, Service, Paramount, Nickelodeon, Burger King, Fast Company Locations: Downey , California

☆ Jill Biden closes out campaign with her own push for Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Arlette Saenz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

While her husband, President Joe Biden, has been a scarce presence on the campaign trial, the first lady has been one Biden in demand for the Harris campaign. Harris’ team has deployed the first lady to all seven battleground states in the last month. It marked a difficult period for the Biden family, which saw many fellow Democrats publicly and privately push for the 81-year-old president to step aside from the campaign. “Another Trump administration would lead to more chaos, more greed, more division.”First lady Jill Biden speaks during a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. The Harris campaign has deployed the first lady in targeted ways, having her speak in smaller markets like Carson City, Nevada, and Macon, Georgia.

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☆ Trump says he ‘shouldn’t have left’ the White House as he closes campaign with increasingly dark message
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The US had the “safest border in the history of our country” on the day he left office, Trump claimed. I don’t mind.”A Trump campaign spokesman said after the rally that the former president was actually musing about how the press was protecting him. “President Trump was stating that the Media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also. On Sunday, Trump told NBC that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent post on X about removing fluoride from public water if Trump were to win reelection “sounds OK to me.”“Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but it sounds OK to me,” Trump told NBC. “Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women, I love women,” Trump said.

Persons: Donald Trump, shouldn’t, Trump, Joe Biden, ”, he’d, –, “, ” Trump, somebody’s, Steven Cheung, Liz Cheney, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kamala Harris, Harris, it’s, John McCain, Barack Obama, “ He’s, Obama, Barack Hussein Obama –, mispronounces Harris ’, Arnold Palmer’s, “ Arnold Palmer, ‘, Charlie Kirk, Kamala, ” Harris, That’s, Roe, Wade Organizations: CNN, White House, US, “, Media, NBC, GOP Locations: Pennsylvania, Iowa, Lititz , Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Greensboro, Latrobe , Pennsylvania, Green Bay , Wisconsin, Washington ,, ’, Washington

☆ The US presidential election is 2 days away. Here's where things stand.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Harris and Trump are campaigning in swing states as they make their final appeals to voters. AdvertisementWith Election Day on Tuesday, the end is in sight for what has been a contentious US presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. It wasn't long before Harris began to narrow the gap between the Democrats and the GOP in the presidential race. Now, millions of women live in states with near-total abortion bans, while millions of other women live in states where abortion rights have been strengthened. In the closing days of the race, Harris has heavily emphasized the issue, which also helped Democrats in the 2022 midterms.

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☆ After their son came out as gay, these conservative Christian parents went into a closet of their own
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +37 min

But that’s not what happened to Greg Jr. That’s what happened to his parents, Greg Sr. and Lynn McDonald. One of them is a portrait of their son, Greg Jr., around the time his parents confronted him about his secret. An undated family photo shows Greg Jr., Greg Sr., Lynn and Connie McDonald. Courtesy Greg Sr. and Lynn McDonaldEven so, Greg Jr. learned to be quiet and blend in. They didn’t know how to answer this question: Can you still love God, the Bible and your gay son?

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☆ Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers tell their own story in ‘No Other Land’
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Leah Asmelash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Residents countered, saying the IDF had blown up Palestinian homes in Masafer Yatta decades earlier, in 1966). Speaking from Adra’s family home in Masafer Yatta, they spoke with CNN about life under occupation, and what, if anything, their documentary might change. And it’s unfortunate that people are now talking about the need for political change only after, in a way, human beings are paying with their blood. What I saw, like the missions happening, the attacks are happening here in Masafer Yatta. And this is what’s really happening here in Masafer Yatta.

Persons: Basel Adra, Tony Blair, Blair, Adra, Adra’s family’s, ” Adra, “, ”, — Adra, Yuval Abraham, Abraham, it’s, you’re, Yuval Abraham Abraham, It’s, they’re, I’ve, — Organizations: CNN, UK, West Bank, Adra, Berlin, Lincoln Center, New York Film, Basel, Google Locations: Israel, Hebron, Masafer, New York, Gaza, Masafer Yatta, Basel, Palestine, United States, South Africa, Yatta, Washington, London

☆ Millions of student-loan borrowers are waiting for broad debt cancellation. The next president won't have any immediate answers.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Neither former President Trump nor VP Kamala Harris would be able to act on them imminently. Despite its inability to provide broad cancellation, Biden's Education Department has issued targeted relief that has given nearly 5 million borrowers debt cancellation to date. Constance, 65, has nearly $200,000 in student debt, an amount that's ballooned since she graduated from law school in 1994. "I would expect continued improvements and limited expansions of debt relief where legally possible under a Harris-Walz administration," Partridge said. Regardless of who wins the election, legal challenges to debt relief will keep borrowers in limbo.

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The Supreme Court is facing a legitimacy crisis, with over half of Americans disapproving of its handling of its job. What caused this decline, and can reforms restore its credibility?

With Pennsylvania expected to be a close and crucial state in the 2024 race for the presidency, it's unusual election laws are again under the microscope. Election experts say Pennsylvania's laws make it fertile ground for rigged election claims to flourish. “The Pennsylvania legislature had multiple opportunities to clarify and improve the state’s election law,” said Nate Persily, an NBC News election law expert and professor at Stanford Law School. Vance, was "voter fraud" perpetrated by Democrats. Trump supporters on county boards across the country have sought to block the certification of election results by delaying or voting against the certification in the past.

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But that hasn’t stopped abortion rights supporters from pushing for votes up and down the ballot. Across the South, supporters of abortion rights are using the issue to motivate voters. Although Texas does not have a statewide referendum on abortion, Rep. Colin Allred's Senate campaign has galvanized abortion rights supporters. It’s easier for Democrats to campaign on the issue, she said, because their party is more united in favor of abortion rights than Republicans are in opposition. That switch proved pivotal in passing the state’s abortion ban.

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Sirens sounded in central and northern Israel Saturday and the Israeli military continued to pummel Lebanon and Gaza, as cease-fire talks held this week yielded little hope of ending hostilities on the ground. The Israeli military bombed targets in Beirut's densely-populated southern suburbs overnight after warning residents to evacuate. It was the first time in several days that the area, a Hezbollah stronghold, had been hit. The Lebanese Health Ministry said 52 people were killed by the Israeli strikes, and 72 injured across the country on Friday. Health workers in Gaza told Reuters that at least 68 people were killed in Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours.

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The Trump campaign and surrogates began filing lawsuits the very same day, challenging the results on a variety of grounds well before the final votes were counted. In Arizona, voters and the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit alleging thousands of people in Maricopa County had their ballots disqualified because of ink-bleed caused by Sharpies. In Wisconsin, Trump filed a lawsuit alleging widespread voter fraud and demanding a recount, which ultimately reaffirmed Joe Biden’s victory in the state. Giuliani has been disbarred in New York and D.C., indicted in Georgia and Arizona and has been ordered to turn over his Manhattan apartment and other property to two Georgia election workers he defamed. And dozens of ethics complaints against local attorneys who filed election challenges are still pending nationwide.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, Donald Trump, Trump, surrogates, Joe Biden’s, Biden, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, ” Giuliani, ” Powell, Powell’s, Jack, hadn’t, ”, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, ” Thomas, “, Giuliani, Powell, Ellis Organizations: WASHINGTON, Republican, Trump, Electoral, U.S, Supreme, White, Sharpies, Clark, Biden, Washington , D.C Locations: Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, In Arizona, Maricopa County, In Nevada, Clark County, Wisconsin, enjoining, Washington ,, Philadelphia, Venezuela, Cuba, China, United States, Texas, Arizona , Georgia, New York, Arizona, Manhattan

☆ The US says it will send more warships and bombers to the Middle East as tensions persist between Iran and Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The US is deploying warships and B-52 bombers to the Middle East amid rising tensions. Israel and Iran are stuck in a cycle of retaliatory strikes. The US earlier said it would also send a missile defense system and 100 more troops to Israel. AdvertisementThe United States is sending bombers and warships to the Middle East as Iran and Israel trade threats of retaliatory strikes. The United States said it would send about 100 troops to operate the air defense system.

Persons: —, Lloyd Austin, Pat Ryder, Austin, Ryder, Hassan Nasrallah, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Organizations: Service, Pentagon, US Air Force, Defense, United Locations: Israel, Iran, States, East, United States

☆ US citizens caught in Virginia’s voter purge aimed at noncitizens speak out
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Rene Marsh | Danya Gainor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Glenn Youngkin’s effort to purge 1,600 people he says are suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter registration rolls using records from the Department of Motor Vehicles. Nadra Wilson was also listed as a noncitizen and was purged from Virginia’s voter rolls. She also didn’t realize she had been purged from Virginia’s voter registration rolls until she received a call from CNN. She said she is still undecided but “I have the right to vote.”Saule Bohoney was also wiped off of Virginia’s voter registration rolls. She became aware she had been taken off Virginia’s voter rolls after receiving mail from the state informing her.

Persons: Glenn Youngkin’s, they’d, Noncitizens, Youngkin, ”, Christian Martinez, ” Martinez, Rachel Xu, “ I’m, Xu, Nadra Wilson, Wilson, she’s, ” Fatima Bashir, ” Bashir, ” Saule Bohoney, Bohoney, “, haven’t, Jill Stein, Abdullah Al Mosawa, ” Al Mosawa, Al Mosawa, ” Ryan Snow Organizations: CNN, Republican Gov, Department of Motor Vehicles, Virginia, Noncitizens CNN, George Mason University, Trump, Northern Virginia College, cybersecurity, Green, Lawyers ’, Civil Locations: Georgia, Virginia, China, Brooklyn , New York, Pakistan, Asia, Alexandria , Virginia, Yemen

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