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				<title>Trump names commentator Katie Zacharia of his media company as next White House press secretary</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that Katie Zacharia, a communications adviser for his media company, will succeed Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary. Trump revealed his selection of Zacharia on his Truth Social platform, where he often makes political and official announcements. Zacharia is a conservative commentator for Trump Media &#38; [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Justice Department won&#8217;t enforce registration rules on silencers and certain guns after court ruling</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department moved Friday to allow more people to purchase firearm suppressors — known as silencers — short-barreled rifles and certain other guns without registering them with the federal government following a court ruling that struck down provisions of a key law. The Trump administration announced the broad enforcement policy changes [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Mama Celeste frozen pizza discontinued after more than 60 years, ending a nostalgic era</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[Luke Duecy]]>
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					<![CDATA[Mama Celeste frozen pizza has officially been discontinued after more than six decades, closing a chapter for a brand that helped make frozen pizza a household staple.]]>
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				<title>Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Panama; no tsunami threat to West Coast</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Panama on Friday morning, shaking buildings as far away as the capital and prompting evacuations.]]>
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				<title>Congregants celebrate the reconstruction of one of America&#8217;s oldest Black churches</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[Associated Press]]>
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					<![CDATA[WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The reconstruction of one of the nation&#8217;s oldest Black churches, where congregants gathered in secret before building a meeting house in Virginia, was celebrated Friday. Hundreds of residents gathered for a community-wide re-dedication of the original First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, which was established in 1776 by enslaved and free African [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Trump says US to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midterms</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. Trump said on social media on Friday that [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Israel&#8217;s scorn of Nobel Peace Prize laureate highlights its combative relationship with UN bodies</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[Associated Press]]>
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					<![CDATA[The decision to award this year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize to veteran jurist Navi Pillay has exposed the vast gulf between Israel and global institutions charged with upholding international law, a rift that has widened over the war in Gaza. Over a decades-long career, Pillay served at the highest levels of international organizations created in the [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Republicans once raced to embrace Trump. Their debate answers tell a different story now</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[ATLANTA (AP) — Not long ago, Georgia gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson eagerly compared himself to his fellow billionaire in the Oval Office. He promised to be Donald Trump “with a Southern tone.” And sharing a summer rally stage, Jackson pointed at the president and declared, “I’m going to be this man’s favorite governor.” On the [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Mike Ditka, the quintessential Chicago Bear, dies at 86</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[Associated Press]]>
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					<![CDATA[Mike Ditka, who won NFL titles as a player and coach with the Chicago Bears, has died. He was 86. Ditka’s family announced the death on Friday in a statement.]]>
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				<title>Severe turbulence injures 9 aboard Avianca flight, forcing emergency landing in Miami</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[Nine people were injured when an Avianca flight encountered severe turbulence and had to make an emergency landing in Miami early Friday. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said that one person was rushed to a trauma center with severe injuries while seven others were taken to area hospitals in ambulances after the plane landed shortly after 3 [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Florida execution called off after DeSantis withdraws death warrant for the first time</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has withdrawn a death warrant for the first time since taking office, calling off a man’s execution just days before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection in the nation’s busiest death chamber. The Republican governor, who has aggressively used the death penalty in his final term, [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Mike Ditka, the quintessential Chicago Bear, dies at 86</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[CHICAGO (AP) — Mike Ditka, who won NFL titles as a player and coach with the Chicago Bears, has died. He was 86. Ditka&#8217;s family announced the death on Friday in a statement. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, Mike Ditka,” The family [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Hurricane Isaias could nudge fuel prices higher if Gulf of Mexico refineries lose power</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[Hurricane Isaias is forecast to miss the oil industry&#8217;s biggest hubs along the Gulf Coast but could still nudge fuel prices higher if it triggers power outages that shut down refineries for processing crude, according to industry experts. An extended shutdown of refineries would put a crimp in fuel supplies that already have taken a [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>in photos</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[Hurricane Isaias brings the threat of dangerous storm surge, high winds and heavy rainfall to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm prompted preparations across the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi.]]>
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				<title>US hits International Criminal Court with sweeping sanctions as part of drive to dismantle tribunal</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal over investigations into the United States and its allies, including Israel. The move drew immediate rebukes from around the world, including from U.S. allies. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Top Democrats join the wealthiest in fighting a California tax increase on billionaires</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It is not just tech moguls and venture capitalists fighting a California proposal to tax the net worth of billionaires, even though they are putting up the majority of the money in one of the most expensive ballot fights in state history. Lining up alongside them is a coalition of prominent [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>The Latest: Hurricane Isaias strengthens to a Category 3 ahead of expected landfall</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[Isaias strengthened into a major hurricane Friday as it headed toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, where final preparations were underway for potentially life-threatening storm surges and high winds. Meanwhile, Hurricane Simon was headed toward Mexico’s Pacific coast and forecast to strengthen significantly. U.S. forecasters issued a hurricane warning for parts of the central and southwest [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>ICE officers shot New York man because they believed they were in danger</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration officers opened fire on a Dominican man whom they were trying to arrest in New York because they believed their lives were in danger, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday. Marcos Charles made the comments Friday alongside U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and other immigration officials [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>Takeaways from AP’s report on Alaska’s growing fight over trawling and bycatch</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[THE BERING SEA (AP) — Alaska pollock is the second-largest fishery on Earth and supplies everything from McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwiches to fish sticks and imitation crab. The fishery uses methods that it — catch other marine life, too. That bycatch — the marine life caught unintentionally while fishers target something else — has become especially [&#8230;]]]>
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				<title>The fish behind America’s fish sticks is fueling a fight over trawling in Alaska</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<![CDATA[THE BERING SEA (AP) — The net rose from the heaving Bering Sea swells, packed so tightly with Alaska pollock that their heads squeezed through the webbing. As the catch spilled onto the deck, other dead marine life came with it: a skate, crabs, jellyfish and, among the most consequential, salmon — the fish at [&#8230;]]]>
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