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  Hurricane Milton surges to Category 5, expected to hit Florida as a major hurricane this week

  CBS News - By Cara Tabachnick, Lucia Suarez Sang, Emily Mae Czachor, Faris Tanyos

  Hurricane Milton has grown into an explosive Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour, just two days after it developed in the …

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  2 days ago

  Stunning photos of a vast e-waste dumping ground — and those who make a living off it

  NPR - Jonathan Lambert

  When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of discarded electronics to find valuable scrap metal. A week’s worth of painstaking, often dangerous …

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  Illegal border crossings hit lowest level of Biden presidency

  CBS News

  Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have hit their lowest level ever of Joe Biden's presidency, according to internal figures from the …

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  Israel's strikes are shifting the power balance in the Middle East, with US support

  Associated Press - By ELLEN KNICKMEYER

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli military strikes are targeting Iran’s armed allies across a nearly 2,000-mile stretch of the Middle East and threatening Iran itself. The efforts raise the possibility of an end to two decades of Iranian ascendancy in the region, to which the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq …

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  Russia set to remove Taliban from terrorist list, says Putin’s envoy

  politico.eu - Ketrin Jochecová

  Putin’s has described the Taliban as “a trusted ally.” Russia has made "a principle decision" to remove the Taliban from its list of terrorist …

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  Russia, China and Iran Intend to Stoke False Election Claims, Officials Warn

  The New York Times - Julian E. Barnes

  Foreign efforts to undermine American democracy will continue after Election Day, U.S. intelligence officials said on Monday, with covert influence campaigns focused on questioning the validity of election results after polls close. Adversaries believe that the possibility of a close presidential …