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The 2024 presidential election is just seven days away. And the latest batch of major national polls and swing state surveys shows the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is as tight as it’s ever been. National polls Three websites that aggregate national and state surveys — the Silver Bulletin, FiveThirtyEight and the New…
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — New York City saw a big turnout in early voting for the 2024 general election, following the general trend. By the time polls were closed on Sunday, a total of 257,860 New Yorkers voted in the first two days of early voting for 2024, which started on Saturday, according…
MAIMANA, Afghanistan, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — Police have discovered a variety of arms and ammunition, including a DSHK-type anti-aircraft gun, from the Almar district of northern Afghanistan’s Faryab province on Monday, said a statement of the provincial police office. Police also found an assault rifle, a mortar weapon, three sets of walkie-talkies, countless shells, and…
TOKYO, Oct 28 (NNN-NHK) – Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner Komeito, are at risk of losing their lower house majority, in yesterday’s general election, after exit polls showed the LDP is set to lose its single-party majority. As of 8.00 p.m. local time, last night, when polling stations closed, forecasts…
A Florida woman was found guilty of second-degree murder Friday after authorities said she zipped her boyfriend up in a suitcase and left him for dead back in 2020. Sarah Boone, now 47, told authorities her boyfriend got trapped in a suitcase and died during a game of hide-and-seek, court records show. The Florida couple…
JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel’s airstrikes “hit hard” Iran’s defences and missile production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the country was considering its response. With warfare raging in Gaza and Lebanon, direct confrontation between Israel and Iran risks spiralling into a regional conflagration. But a day after…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran’s onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program, satellite photos analyzed Sunday by The Associated Press show. Some of…
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults at New York’s Madison Square Garden, turning what his campaign had dubbed as the event where he would deliver his closing message into an illustration of what turns off his critics. With just over a week before Election Day, speakers at the rally…
TEHRAN, Iran – Armed assailants ambushed two police patrol units and exchanged fire with them in southeastern Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province on Saturday, killing at least 10 police officers, state media reported. The incident occurred in Taftan earlier on Saturday when law enforcement responded to an emergency call to resolve a dispute and attacked when…
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — The United Nations and its partners in Lebanon are stepping up their efforts to reach people in need amid continued fightings, a UN spokesperson said Friday. A humanitarian convoy, comprised of UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and supported by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),…