Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s report found new evidence of how the White House’s tightly controlled an FBI investigation into sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee.
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to 3 scientists for work on proteins, the building blocks of life
Their work used advanced technologies, including machine learning, and holds the potential to transform how new drugs are made.
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Millions without power as Hurricane Milton slams Florida, causing deaths, flooding
Before Milton even made landfall, tornadoes were touching down across the state. The Spanish Lakes Country Club near Fort Pierce, on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, was hit particularly hard, with homes destroyed and some residents killed.
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FBI arrests Afghan man who officials say planned Election Day attack in the U.S.
The arrest comes as the FBI confronts heightened concerns over the possibility of extremist violence on U.S. soil.
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Harris proposes that Medicare cover long-term care at home
Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan, which would face an uphill battle to become law, aims to help Americans caring for elderly parents.
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An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk. Then its maker refused to repair it.
Michael Straight walked more than a half-million steps using an exoskeleton, until the manufacturer said it would not maintain machines older than 5 years.
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Bill Gates-backed company is redesigning the wind turbine
Airloom Energy Inc. received $13.75 million in financing to build a pilot in Wyoming to test its technology, the company announced Tuesday.
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Harris can’t point to anything she would have done differently than Biden in ‘The View’ appearance
Later in the show, the Democratic nominee identified one thing that she would do differently: She would put a Republican in her Cabinet.
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What to know about Hurricane Milton as it churns toward Florida’s Gulf Coast
Hurricane Milton is churning through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida as an ‘extremely dangerous’ storm that could wallop one of the state’s major population centers just two weeks after Hurricane Helene.
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Biden sets 10-year deadline for U.S. cities to replace lead pipes nationwide
The president was expected to announce the final Environmental Protection Agency rule Tuesday in the swing state of Wisconsin during the final month of a tight presidential campaign.