Death of Nasrallah pushes mideast conflict into new territory
Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, on Saturday confirmed the death of Hassan Nasrallah, its longtime leader, in a strike marking a major escalation of Israel’s campaign against Iran’s proxies in the Middle East.
The mushroom kingdom that Shigeru Miyamoto built
KYOTO, Japan — Shigeru Miyamoto has been making the same request of all new employees at Nintendo for at least the past decade: For the love of all things Super Mario, please design games that might sell 30 million copies.
Patient exposed to bat in Minnesota dies from rabies, officials say
A patient who was exposed to a bat in western Minnesota this year died from rabies this week, becoming the fifth person since 1975 to die from the treatable disease in the state, health officials said Friday.
Walz is viewed more favorably than Vance in midwest, polls find
In the contest between Minnesota dad energy and “Hillbilly Elegy” energy, Midwestern voters appear to have a clear preference.
SpaceX launches mission to bring back Starliner astronauts
Lifted by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, two astronauts left Earth on Saturday afternoon, headed to the International Space Station.
‘This is a Disaster’: Western North Carolina reels from Helene
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Abandoned vehicles caked with mud. Mountainous rural roads and slices of highways washed away into rivers. Parking lots filled with people desperately searching for cellphone service, trying to tell loved ones they are OK — or wanting to find out who is not.
Biden officials stave off sticker shock on Medicare drug premiums
The Biden administration Friday announced that older Americans next year would face lower average monthly premiums for their prescription drugs, a feat achieved by pouring billions of dollars into subsidies for insurers. The move avoided a potential minefield of higher costs affecting the nation’s most stalwart voters weeks before the presidential election.
US charges Iranians with hacking Trump campaign
WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury in Washington has indicted three members of a cyberespionage unit associated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for mounting wide-ranging attacks targeting politicians, officials and journalists that led to the hacking of the Trump campaign this summer.
Harris has a lot of strengths. Giving interviews isn’t one of them.
The first question Vice President Kamala Harris faced Wednesday night, in her first solo interview with a major cable network as the Democratic presidential nominee, was posed as a gentle hypothetical: What would she say to the many Americans who do not see how her economic policies would serve them?
Nation and world news — at a glance — for September 28
Conspiracy theorists and vaccine skeptics have a new target: geoengineering
Israel strikes residential buildings near Beirut it says housed Hezbollah headquarters
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli forces destroyed several residential buildings south of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, on Friday afternoon, asserting that the central headquarters of Hezbollah was underneath them.
Free COVID Tests Are Coming Back
Starting yesterday, you can once again order free COVID-19 tests from the government.
US pushes cease-fire in Lebanon as Netanyahu says Israel will fight on
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel arrived in New York on Thursday for what he called an “important visit to the United Nations,” but he gave no indication that Israel would accept a new cease-fire proposal international diplomats have been working on to defuse the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Biden administration set to make asylum limits more permanent
The Biden administration is expected to take action next week to make it harder to lift its policy banning asylum for migrants who cross the southern border illegally, three people with knowledge of the matter said Thursday.
Trump to rally again at site of the first assassination attempt against him
Former President Donald Trump will return to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 5, holding a rally at the same site where he survived an assassination attempt in July, his campaign announced Wednesday.
House passes short-term spending bill to avert a shutdown
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown just before the November elections, pushing a bigger funding fight to the end of the year.
Mark Robinson’s top staff in the lieutenant governor’s office plan to resign
Senior staff members in the office of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina have said they will resign Oct. 1, becoming the latest people to abandon Robinson, the state’s Republican nominee for governor, in the wake of a CNN report that linked him to disturbing comments on a porn site.
Meta unveils new smart glasses and headsets in pursuit of the Metaverse
SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg has spent billions of dollars, hired thousands of employees and worked for roughly a quarter of his life in pursuit of a vision: a future in which the physical and digital worlds are interwoven to connect people around the globe.
Brett Favre reveals he has Parkinson’s disease
WASHINGTON — Brett Favre, the former NFL quarterback accused of diverting millions of dollars in federal money away from welfare recipients, said Tuesday that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
US accuses Visa of monopoly in debit cards
The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa on Tuesday, accusing the financial giant of unfairly stifling competition in debit cards, the latest in a string of cases aimed at deterring monopolistic behavior by big companies.
