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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders on Monday announced plans to vote next week on redrawing the state’s U.S. House district maps, responding to President Donald Trump’s call to hold more Republican seats nationwide and resist rival moves by Democrats.Moves to readjust the ninth-largest state’s already right-leaning boundaries come amid a battle between major political parties. span multiple states Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, the district boundaries will be redrawn to give partisan advantages.North Carolina Republicans drew maps in 2023 that resulted in Republican candidates winning 10 of the state’s 14 U.S. House seats in 2024.…
President Donald Trump repeatedly touted the ‘Abraham Accords’ Monday trip to the Middle Eastseeks to build on a 2020 agreement that expanded the number of Arab countries with diplomatic relations with Israel.The term is filled with religious and cultural meanings, with followers citing revered Biblical patriarchs as the founders of a wide range of three major religions. more than half World population – Christianity, Islam, Judaism. Anyone trying to build bridges between faiths tends to cite Abraham (known to Muslims as Ibrahim) as a common figure. But this legacy can also be a source of division, as some faith groups…
A fire broke out Saturday at a Russian oil refinery about 900 miles from the Ukrainian border. It was the third fire at the facility in the last month alone caused by a long-range Ukrainian drone attack, country security officials said. It was just the latest episode in the escalating energy war between Ukraine and Russia. Video from around the Ufa refinery in Bashkortostan, a Russian region south of the Ural Mountains, showed a column of black smoke rising from the factory after the attack. This refinery is one of the largest in the country. This is at least the…
In addition to doing what he loved, Keaton shared his life with the people he loved, including his two children, daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25, whom he adopted in his 50s. “I’m so grateful to have been adopted by such a strong, beautiful and talented woman,” Dexter wrote on Instagram in 2014. “I can’t thank you enough for everything you’ve done for me. I love you!” But while Keaton has never married, and counts Woody Allen, Al Pacino and Warren Beatty among her former lovers, she has long noted that her children have no intention of following in…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on September 17, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagessales force is adding voice to its Agentforce software, allowing it to go beyond text when answering customer questions using artificial intelligence agents.Ahead of this week’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce announced Monday that with Agentforce Voice, businesses can customize the tone and speed of their voices and adjust the pronunciation of certain terms. This feature also allows you to interrupt the AI agent during a call.Voice has become a big part of the generative AI boom…
McEWEEN, Tenn. (AP) — Officials said Monday that 16 people died in devastating explosion Last week, investigators promised an arduous process to find evidence that may now be miles away and uncover what happened in the attack at a rural Tennessee explosives factory.Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said at a news conference that people in the close-knit community probably at least know the relatives of the victims killed in Friday’s explosion at a factory owned by Accurate Energetic Systems. The company supplies and researches explosives to the military and is a well-known employer in the region.”This is a small county…
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Traders watch as U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin greet each other as they meet to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 15, 2025 in New York City, USA.Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersThis is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. October SurpriseStocks fell on Friday after President Donald Trump threatened a “massive increase in tariffs” on Chinese goods.…
ST HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Authorities Monday identified three men and a woman who died during the riot. weekend shooting incident At a bar in South Carolina. At least 20 other people were injured.When the shootings began Sunday, Willy’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island was crowded with people, many of whom attended Battery Creek High School in Beaufort and were at the bar for an alumni event.Flowers and candles were placed outside the bar after the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office identified the dead as Kashawn Glaze, 22, Chiraad Smalls, 33, Amos Gary, 54, and Ashantek Millidge, 22.Investigators…
HAVANA (AP) — Prominent Cuban Dissident José Daniel Ferrer left the island for U.S. asylum on Monday at the request of the U.S. government, Cuban and U.S. authorities confirmed. Alejandro Garcia, director of bilateral relations at Cuba’s foreign ministry, told The Associated Press that Ferrer, 55, left his hometown of Santiago in eastern Cuba around noon and was on his way to Florida. “He is leaving the country in response to a request from the U.S. government to the Cuban government, which (Ferrer) agrees to,” Garcia said.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed in a statement that Ferrer arrived on…