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"].join("");document.write(n)}})(1); new video loaded: Why Won’t Congress Use Its Power?transcripttranscriptWhy Won’t Congress Use Its Power?Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to block Trump’s tariffs. This proves Congress can act. So why isn’t it using that same power to address hunger, health care costs or undeclared wars? The New York Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, explains.A lot happened this week. “Melissa came ashore like no other hurricane.” “Ordering the Pentagon to resume nuclear testing.” “Indiana is diving into the nationwide gerrymandering fight.” “Restructured into a for-profit company.” Here’s one thing you shouldn’t miss. On Tue...

President Donald Trump shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung as he receives a gift of a gold crown and an award of the Grand Order of Mugunghwa, not seen, during a high honor ceremony at the Gyeongju National Museum in Gyeongju, South Korea, Oct. 29, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP GYEONGJU, South Korea — President Trump sat down with President Xi Jinping of China on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation convention (APEC) in South Korea last week. The leaders of the world's biggest economies met at the airport in Bus...

Hurricane Melissa’s strongest winds tore across Jamaica, where hotels in Montego Bay and along the north-west coast reported roof failures, blown-out windows and flooding.Footage verified by Reuters showed roof damage at Dreams Rose Hall Resort & Spa during the storm’s peak, while separate videos captured sections of Sangster International Airport’s roof ripped away, underscoring the strain on the tourism hub that serves major resorts.Authorities declared a disaster, and carriers began restoring limited schedules once safety checks allowed.American Airlines said services were resuming in Kingston, with wider flight normalisation dependent on airport infrastructure and power.Mixed picture in Cuba, the Bahamas and Turks & CaicosAfter Jamaica, Melissa crossed eastern Cuba, prompting m...

As more plastic waste is being released into the environment, microplastics in drinking water and food are being ingested by humans, causing damage to internal organs after being absorbed through the digestive system. That's most notably occurring in the kidneys, as found in a study published by Communications Biology.What's happening?The study has found that microplastics — tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length — are the primary carriers of the environmental pollutant Benzo[a]pyrene into the body. The specific pathways are not fully understood, but there is evidence that BaP is being absorbed primarily through the intestines after oral ingestion, posing health risks.The peer-reviewed study found that bottled water is the main source of microplastics, doing damage to the...

HILDALE, Utah — Few people talk about vaccinations here. Not to outsiders, anyway.By and large, the people who live in Hildale, as well as in neighboring Colorado City, just across the state border in Arizona, are fiercely private. High walls surround many of the homes to avoid the prying eyes of strangers.Measles got in anyway. As of Friday, 161 cases had been confirmed in Utah and Arizona, the bulk concentrated right along the border in the twin towns collectively known as Short Creek. Eleven people — eight in Utah and three in Arizona — were hospitalized.Short Creek, a community that straddles Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, has endured the brunt of a current measles outbreak.Ray Farmer / NBC NewsIt’s now become the site of the second largest measles outbreak in the U.S. this ...

The Metropolitan Police has been told to reinvestigate sex abuse allegations against Andrew Mountbatten Windsor following the removal of his royal titles.MPs and one of Britain’s top former prosecutors said Scotland Yard should reopen its probe into allegations that the King’s brother sexually abused Virginia Giuffre.The former prince is also facing pressure to appear before a US Congress committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, with one of its members warning Andrew “if you don’t come forward with information, we are going to find all the information” and that they would “not let this go”.The former Duke of York lost his remaining royal titles on Thursday and was ordered to leave Royal Lodge, his home in Windsor, Berkshire.Scotland Yard decided not to conduct a criminal investiga...

Sudan’s brutal civil war entered a new round of extreme violence this week after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the key city of El Fasher in Western Darfur following a year and a half of siege.Witnesses and local reports described sexual violence, massacres and executions of civilians by the militia as tens of thousands thousands fled the city. El Fasher was seen as the last holdout in Darfur of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), whom the RSF has been fighting for the past three years in the brutal civil war. Both sides have been accused of war crimes.Aid agencies raised concern as more than 60,000 people had fled El Fasher, but only 5,000 had arrived in the nearest city of Tawila, some 30 miles away through the desert. Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, the Assistant Secretary Ge...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army, Ukraine's military intelligence said Saturday, as Russia kept up a sustained campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.The operation was carried out late Friday, according to a statement on the Telegram messaging channel. The agency, which is known by its acronym HUR, described it as a “serious blow” to Russia’s military logistics.HUR said its forces struck the Koltsevoy pipeline, which spans 400 kilometers (250 miles) and supplies the Russian army with gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from refineries in Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.The operation, which targeted infrastructure near Ramensky district, destroyed all three fuel lin...

Authorities working on the case of the heist of priceless Napoleonic crown jewels from the Louvre last month have revealed key information about the team currently suspected of the daring raid. Prosecutors charged a 38-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man in connection with the robbery on Saturday, bringing the total number of suspects charged to four.Paris prosecutor Laure Beccau said the man was charged with theft by an organized gang and criminal conspiracy, and that his DNA was found inside the basket lift that was used to reach the museum's window. The woman is accused of being an accomplice. Beccau said both have denied their involvement in the robbery of priceless crown jewels in a daylight heist that has gripped France and stunned art lovers around the world, and both remain in cu...

After five years of saying it did not have plans to build a second location, a site plan for another H-E-B has been filed with the Lubbock site plan committee.Little is known beyond the address, which will be 5805 19th St. near West Loop 289, according to site review documents from the city of Lubbock released this week.Currently, the land on the southeast corner of the intersection between the West Loop and 19th Street is vacant but near a shopping center and across 19th Street from Academy Sports + Outdoors.H-E-B opened its first Lubbock location, 4405 114th St., in October of 2020. Around that same time, the company purchased land near 19th Street and Frankford, but said there were no plans to build there at the time. The company maintained this stance when asked again in 2022.Looking f...