Some Democrats are courting voters who support the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement by promoting food safety, healthier school meals and limits on harmful chemicals. Polling cited in the article suggests many voters support these policies, including some Trump voters, though vaccine-related views within MAHA remain a point of disagreement with Democrats.
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The Center for American Progress released a proposal on healthier foods and reducing exposure to harmful chemicals.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed proposed banning certain pesticides and improving school meals.
House Democrats’ health care working group included a section titled “Reclaiming MAHA and Protecting American Families.”
Sen. Cory Booker has supported some food policies advanced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and backed legislation on pesticide-related company liability.
Center for American Progress polling found that 37% of Trump voters were open to voting for a Democrat whose platform addressed core MAHA issues.
Annenberg Public Policy Center polling found that 80% of respondents supported labeling ultra-processed foods, 79% supported removing them from school lunches, and 76% supported removing artificial dyes from food.
Trump health adviser and MAHA advocate Calley Means resigned last week, reportedly citing the slow pace of food-related policy changes.
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Israeli right-wing leaders made statements about Arab voters, alleged election fraud and possible Jewish settlements in Gaza as votes were counted. With no camp projected to win a parliamentary majority, Arab-led parties could influence coalition talks.
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he would preserve settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and declared that Jewish settlements would be established in Gaza.
Israel dismantled its settlements in Gaza in 2005.
Smotrich claimed, without providing figures, that turnout was unusually high in Arab communities and left-wing areas.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Arab voters were turning out in large numbers and said an opposition victory would threaten Israel’s Jewish character.
Netanyahu accused three senior Ra’am figures of trying to steal the election; police confirmed arrests of three people suspected of voter bribery, but the article gave no indication they held senior Ra’am positions.
Likud minister Miri Regev also alleged on X that people were trying to steal the election, without providing evidence.
With about 55 percent of ballots counted, Netanyahu’s right-wing and religious bloc was projected to have 56 of the parliament’s 120 seats, short of the 61 needed for a majority.
Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas said he had received approaches from both Likud and the opposition camp led by Gadi Eisenkot.
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Two trains collided Wednesday morning in Spain’s Toledo province, according to rail operator ADIF. Urda’s mayor said some passengers were injured, and civil protection officials asked the town to prepare a sports pavilion to assist passengers.
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ADIF said the collision happened Wednesday morning in Toledo province.
The incident involved two trains.
Urda mayor Manuel Galan told Spanish state broadcaster TVE that passengers were injured.
Civil protection authorities asked Urda’s town hall to prepare a sports pavilion for passengers.
The article did not report how many people were injured or describe the cause of the collision.
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The article page contains only a headline and limited publication details. It says the government will decide who receives help and who pays, but provides no further information about the decision.
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The headline is “Government to decide who to help and who picks up the tab.”
The page links to live coverage of the Budget.
The article is labeled as politics coverage.
The page lists HM Treasury, John Healey, the UK economy, UK taxes, and UK government spending as related topics.
The video could not be played from the page content provided.
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Researchers have identified election-system weaknesses that could threaten ballot secrecy, vote recording and independent checks, but the article reports no credible evidence that such flaws have been used to change election results. Experts say paper ballots marked by voters and rigorous audits help verify results, while warning that paperless machines, ballot-marking devices and vote-counting software can pose risks.
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Louisiana is the only state that uses paperless voting machines statewide on Election Day, according to the article.
Paperless machines record votes electronically without producing a paper ballot that can independently verify the count.
Louisiana's secretary of state's office said the state is expected to award a new election equipment contract at the end of 2026.
Ballot-marking devices let voters make selections on a touchscreen and print a paper ballot; researchers warn of possible errors and manipulation.
About 23% of U.S. registered voters live in jurisdictions that use ballot-marking devices exclusively for in-person voting, according to Verified Voting.
A 2025 Def Con demonstration showed how a Georgia ballot-marking machine could be manipulated, according to the article.
A Princeton researcher said a flaw in Georgia's vote-counting software could help reveal how individual voters cast ballots.
Dominion Voting Systems, now Liberty Vote, released a software patch in 2023, but the article says there is no centralized database tracking where updates were installed.
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The Federal Reserve is expected to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, though markets anticipate a possible increase in December. The Fed is weighing rising inflation against signs of a slowing labor market, with its decision coming shortly before the midterm elections.
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The Fed raised its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point last month, its first increase in three years.
The benchmark rate currently stands between 3.75% and 4%.
Markets put the chance of no rate change on Wednesday at about 90%, according to CME Group’s FedWatch Tool.
Markets put the chance of a quarter-point increase at the Fed’s December meeting at 75%.
U.S. inflation reached 3.7% in September compared with a year earlier, above the Fed’s 2% target.
Fuel prices rose amid unrest in the Middle East, contributing to higher inflation in September, according to the article.
Employers added 29,000 jobs in September, down from 162,000 in August and below economists’ expectations.
President Donald Trump criticized the Fed after last month’s rate increase and called for lower interest rates.
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California may take days or weeks to report final results in the Nov. 3, 2026, midterm elections. The state counts many mail ballots, including eligible ballots that arrive after Election Day, and checks signatures before counting them.
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California has about 23 million registered voters.
Mail ballots postmarked by Election Day can be counted if they arrive within seven days after the election.
Provisional ballots must also be counted.
County election officials have up to 30 days after the election to count ballots.
Officials compare each mail ballot envelope’s signature with the voter’s signatures on file.
More than 89% of Californians who voted in the June 2 primary did so by mail.
California certified its June primary results on July 10; ABC News projected the two gubernatorial candidates on June 5 and June 9.
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Security researchers say AI-discovered flaws in PHP and other software triggered a surge of attack attempts, but few have succeeded because the vulnerabilities have been difficult to exploit. Experts say the episode resembles Y2K and urge companies to use the apparent reprieve to strengthen basic defenses and prepare to recover from attacks.
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AI agents from OpenAI discovered critical flaws in PHP, which the article says is used by roughly 70% of websites, and in the Brotli data compression library.
Researchers reported millions of hacking attempts but few successful attacks involving the vulnerabilities.
Breaches at OpenCode, Railway and LiteLLM put customers’ API keys and other credentials at risk.
Experts said the difficulty of exploiting these flaws does not mean AI-enabled cyberattacks pose little danger.
Recommendations included using multi-factor authentication, testing systems for weaknesses and planning how to restore critical services.
The article compares the response to the vulnerabilities with preparations for the Y2K software problem in 1999.
Experts said AI is making it easier to find and exploit longstanding security weaknesses.
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The article reports that the budget will remove gas standing charges, which the chancellor says will save about 60% of households £45 a year. The Conservatives called the change a shift of costs rather than a genuine reduction, while Martin Lewis said he expected a separate announcement on help with energy bills.
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The chancellor said removing gas standing charges would save about 60% of homes £45 a year.
Conservative treasury spokesperson Richard Fuller called the change “sleight of hand” and said costs would move to another part of bills or taxes.
Fuller said the Conservatives had proposed removing VAT from energy bills and rolling back some net-zero-related charges.
The Green party said removing standing charges was not enough to address the cost of living crisis.
Martin Lewis said he asked the chancellor about support for energy bills from January but received no confirmation.
Lewis said he expected an energy support announcement in the budget, while describing possible options as speculation.
Lewis cited an expected 27% rise in the energy price cap in January.
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Restrictions on Ukraine’s Starlink service temporarily disrupted drone use and renewed concern in Europe and the U.S. about relying on one company for battlefield communications. European firms are promoting alternatives, including a Finnish partnership with Ukraine that expects to launch its first satellites in 2028.
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SpaceX operates Starlink, which has more than 11,000 satellites, according to American Enterprise Institute data.
Eutelsat’s OneWeb network has more than 600 satellites.
Starlink said this summer that it had 12 million customers across more than 160 countries and territories.
Finnish companies ICEYE and Nokia agreed with Ukraine’s defense ministry to explore sovereign satellite communications.
An ICEYE spokesperson said the partnership’s initial satellites are expected to launch in 2028.
Elon Musk said on Oct. 24 that Ukraine had violated Starlink’s terms of service by using the system for offensive drone strikes, and that a loophole had been closed.
Eutelsat CEO Jean-François Fallacher said the company’s service is available in Ukraine and can be used for drones.
President Donald Trump denied reports that the White House was involved in the Starlink restrictions.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Gadi Eisenkot both pledged to form a government after Tuesday’s election. Exit polls projected a close result and showed that neither bloc had won a parliamentary majority.
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The election took place on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
Exit polls projected Netanyahu and Eisenkot to finish close to each other.
Exit polls showed both political blocs short of a parliamentary majority.
Netanyahu pledged to form a government.
Eisenkot also pledged to form a government.
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Spain suspended high-speed rail service between Madrid and Andalusia after two trains collided in Toledo province on Wednesday. Authorities said two cars derailed and were still determining the cause and number of injuries.
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The collision occurred between the towns of Mora and Orgaz.
The trains were operated by Renfe and Iryo and were travelling from Madrid toward Seville.
A Castilla-La Mancha government spokesperson said two Iryo cars derailed.
Adif said the crash was a rear-end collision and suspended traffic on the Madrid-Andalusia line.
Authorities had not confirmed the cause or the number of injured people.
Urda’s mayor said emergency services asked him to prepare a sports hall for injured people.
The report said witnesses described numerous injuries and emergency medical teams arrived at the scene.
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The Justice Department told a federal court that a search warrant involving Representative Ilhan Omar remains only partially executed and also covers “other individuals.” In a filing opposing news outlets’ request to unseal records, prosecutors said they expect to complete the warrant soon and asked for notice before any records are unsealed.
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Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Omar’s Washington home at about 6:05 a.m. on October 12.
The Justice Department disclosed the warrant’s status in a redacted, 47-page court filing.
The filing said the warrant covers Omar and “other individuals.”
Prosecutors said they expect the warrant to be fully executed in short order.
The Justice Department opposed news outlets’ request to unseal records, citing privacy concerns.
The filing said Attorney General Todd Blanche approved the warrant and confirmed its timing was not intended to affect an election or benefit a candidate or party.
Omar has denied unproven allegations that her former husband is her brother and that their marriage was intended to obtain immigration benefits.
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A Houston Advanced Research Center assessment found that Texas data-center growth could increase air pollution by 2031, depending on how the facilities’ added electricity is generated. In a scenario where the demand is met entirely by the projected Texas grid mix, nitrogen oxide emissions would be 136 percent above the study’s no-data-center baseline.
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The assessment modeled emissions of nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, sulfur dioxide, fine particulate matter and carbon dioxide through 2031.
From 2002 to 2024, Texas power-generation emissions fell by 67 percent for nitrogen oxides, 80 percent for sulfur dioxide, 37 percent for volatile organic compounds, 52 percent for carbon dioxide and 60 percent for fine particulate matter.
In the study’s grid-supply scenario, nitrogen oxide emissions in 2031 would approach levels last recorded around 2004.
In that same scenario, volatile organic compound emissions would exceed their 2002 level by 32 percent, while fine particulate matter emissions would reach about their 2006 level.
The study found nitrogen oxide emissions could be two to 10 times higher if data centers burn fuel to generate power than under a mix of grid electricity, solar and wind.
The study said even its cleanest energy scenario would increase emissions because data centers require large amounts of electricity.
In August, Governor Greg Abbott’s office said ERCOT was considering more than 474 gigawatts of grid connection requests, about 90 percent of them from data centers.
Abbott ordered an audit of data-center projects seeking grid connections and later directed the Texas environmental agency to halt data-center permit processing until the audit was completed.
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Yvette Cooper has dropped plans to abolish Healthwatch England and its local branches after criticism from lawmakers across parties. The government will retain and strengthen the patient watchdog so it can gather feedback and highlight recurring problems with NHS care in England.
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Healthwatch England and its 150 local branches were due to be abolished under a reorganisation of the health service in England.
Healthwatch gathers and analyses patients’ feedback about NHS services.
Cooper said the government would retain Healthwatch England and Local Healthwatch and strengthen their role.
Healthwatch has published reports on access to NHS-funded dental care, long waits for ADHD assessments and problems notifying patients about appointments.
Lawmakers from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats criticised the proposed abolition.
The government had planned to transfer Healthwatch’s functions to regional integrated care boards and local councils.
Health minister Gillian Merron is expected to confirm the change during a debate on the health bill in the House of Lords.
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The Supreme Court ruled that Missouri’s 2026 congressional elections will use the 2022 district map, even though candidates were selected under the 2025 map. The ruling settled which map applies for now, but close results, district disputes, or a contested redistricting referendum could lead to further legal challenges.
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Missouri’s Republican-led legislature adopted a new congressional map in 2025 after President Donald Trump urged Republicans to redraw maps.
The Supreme Court stayed an Eighth Circuit decision that had barred use of the 2025 map in the general election.
The Supreme Court said ballots had already been printed and mailed using the 2022 map, and voting had begun.
A USC professor estimated that about 1.4 million Missourians changed districts between the maps; about 284,000 primary voters would vote in a different district in the general election.
The Missouri Independent reported that voters in 28 counties were affected by the map changes.
The article said the map difference could affect the Kansas City-based Fifth District and potentially shift the state’s congressional delegation from a possible 7–1 Republican split to its existing 6–2 split.
Kansas City’s election board warned in September that voters might be unable to cast another ballot if courts changed the map after they voted.
Kansas City Election Board director Shawn Kieffer told Newsweek he had no concerns at that point.
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Rural and regional hospitals across the United States face financial strain, staffing shortages and reduced services, according to the article and an October 2026 American Hospital Association report. Health care leaders warn that closures or service cuts can make care harder to reach, especially for people with low incomes or limited transportation, and say policy changes affecting coverage could add pressure.
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The article says the United States has 6,100 hospitals, including 5,121 community hospitals and 1,797 rural hospitals.
The American Hospital Association report says more than 40 percent of rural hospitals operate at a financial loss.
Since 2010, more than 150 rural hospitals have closed or converted, while 331 have ended obstetric services and 448 have stopped offering chemotherapy, the report says.
Sandhills Medical in South Carolina serves about 12,000 patients each year; 85 percent live at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty line, and 65 percent are uninsured or covered by Medicaid.
Sandhills Medical's CEO says 42 percent of its patients manage hypertension and 21 percent manage diabetes, conditions she says respond well to steady primary care.
The article says low patient volumes, workforce shortages and inadequate reimbursements contribute to financial pressure on rural providers.
The article says federal policy changes affecting Medicaid and insurance coverage in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could add to the strain.
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Peter Berg directed The Mosquito Bowl, a Netflix film based on Buzz Bissinger’s nonfiction book about college football players who served in the Pacific during World War II. The story follows the players as they take part in a morale-boosting football game before the invasion of Okinawa, while the production filmed in Australia.
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The film stars Nicholas Galitzine, Ray Nicholson, Bill Skarsgård and Tom Francis.
It is adapted from Buzz Bissinger’s book The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in WWII.
The story follows college football players whose careers were interrupted by service in the Pacific after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The players organize a football game called the Mosquito Bowl before the Okinawa invasion.
Peter Berg directed the film.
The production filmed in a remote location in Australia.
Galitzine said the actors had to coordinate closely with camera operators during action scenes.
Francis said the cast spent time discussing the film and its scenes while filming in Australia.
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Residents across Guadalajara have reported foul-smelling, discolored tap water, and authorities shut a contaminated water source in October. Experts say the crisis reflects problems including polluted sources, aging pipes, weak monitoring and financially strained utilities, and warn that similar vulnerabilities have affected U.S. cities.
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Guadalajara is in Jalisco, in central-west Mexico, and its metropolitan region has more than 5 million people.
Residents have reported turbid water in dozens of neighborhoods since 2023, according to an expert quoted by Newsweek.
More than 1,000 formal complaints were filed across roughly 475 neighborhoods between January 2025 and January 2026.
The state government shut the Las Pintas reservoir source in early October after contaminated water entered it.
Since October 15, 627 neighborhoods have been on rotating water supply, which authorities expect to continue until March 2027.
Experts cited polluted sources, aging treatment and distribution systems, weak disinfection and monitoring, and water-service management and financing problems.
A Virginia Tech professor cited the Flint water crisis and Jackson, Mississippi, as U.S. examples of serious water-system failures.
Police used tear gas and water cannons during a Guadalajara protest; Reuters reported dozens injured and nearly 40 arrests.
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The article reports on several entertainment developments, including Apu’s return to The Simpsons, a planned five-episode revival of Girls, and a documentary about Harry Styles’s Together, Together tour. It also discusses Benson Boone’s appearance at a drink promotion and Penélope Cruz’s possible Oscar nominations in the same category.
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Apu Nahasapeemapetilon returned to The Simpsons in a recent episode after nearly 10 years without a speaking role.
Sunil Malhotra now voices Apu; Hank Azaria voiced the character previously.
Lena Dunham announced a five-episode revival of Girls, with production set to begin in 2027.
Girls ran for six seasons, beginning in 2012.
Penélope Cruz is generating awards attention for The Invite and La Bola Negra, and could receive two nominations in the same Oscar category under a new Academy rule.
A documentary about Harry Styles is planned, with a focus on his Together, Together tour.
Benson Boone appeared at an event promoting Caliwater’s new Dragon Fruit flavor, alongside co-founder Vanessa Hudgens and Demi Lovato.
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