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The Ground Game: Harris's Turnout Machine vs. Trump's Unproven Alliance
With 2,500 staff members located in 353 offices, the Harris campaign is working to convert the strongest backers into volunteers and to ensure that sporadic but supportive voters cast a ballot, all while winning over independents and moderate Republicans. Last week, the campaign said, it knocked on over 600,000 doors and made over three million calls through 63,000 volunteer shifts.


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The charioteer of victories foreseen
For a party seen to be perpetually in election mode, the mantra for success is: Be at it, guard your flanks and be ready for brickbats. That is what the ‘Chanakya’ of saffron politics does, and that is why the BJP is never tired of elections, and never tired of winning.






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IMA to hold hunger strike in solidarity with RG Kar doctors - Times of India
The Indian Medical Association announces a nationwide hunger strike on Oct 15, supporting West Bengal junior doctors' fast-unto-death agitation over t


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Kneading hope into women through co-op work, Lijjat turns 65 | India News - Times of India
India News: Nanda Anand Asande works for Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad, a women-led cooperative producing Lijjat papad, among other snacks. Founded in 1959




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Rahul Gandhi attacks government after death of 2 Agniveers | India News - Times of India
India News: Rahul Gandhi has urged PM Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to address the unequal treatment of deceased Agniveers compared to other martyred so


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Maliikarjun Kharge's 'terrorist' jibe at BJP sign of Congress desperation: JP Nadda | India News - Times of India
India News: In response to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge's comment labeling BJP as a 'party of terrorists,' BJP president J P Nadda criticized Congress for id




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Anti-extortion drive nets two banned Manipur outfit members | India News - Times of India
Kangkan Kalita is a reporter with The Times of India and covers issues on health, education, stories of human interest while keeping a close watch on political developments and student movements. Reporting on environment and forest related issues and concerns of the northeast interest him equally.Read More


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Mallikarjun Kharge's family trust recalls land plea amid Siddaramaiah wife's plot row | India News - Times of India
India News: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's family-run trust withdrew a request for a five-acre site in Bengaluru's Aerospace Park for a multi-skill devel




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Amit Shah, Mohan Yadav to be observers for Haryana CM pick | India News - Times of India
India News: Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini is set to continue, with endorsement from PM Modi and Amit Shah. Despite demands from Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh,


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Tensions ease in Maharajganj after clash, FIR filed; police take action to ensure smooth idol immersion | India News - Times of India
Highly responsive to unfolding developments. Reports on crime, and terrorism in UP and also probes by National Investigation Agency (NIA), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED), Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Uttar Pradesh.Read More




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Offer refund choice to users: Consumer panel to cab company - Times of India
India Business News: CCPA directs Ola to offer an option for refunds either as a bank transfer or a coupon, identifying existing practices as unfair. Ola is also mandated


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UN accuses Israel of tank raid on peacekeepers in Lebanon - FT
Israeli forces continue fierce bombardment and increase offensive in north of Gaza Strip




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Apple headset stalls, struggles to attract killer apps in first year - WSJ
Apple’s Vision Pro is struggling to attract major software-makers to develop apps for the device, a challenge that threatens to slow the progress of the company’s biggest new product in a decade.


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The tug of war over SpaceX launching the biggest rocket ever | Mint - WSJ
SpaceX is squaring off against government regulators as it seeks to test launch its nearly 400-foot-tall Starship rocket more frequently. Company executives and some members of Congress have raised concerns about the pace of approvals for the flights. NASA has a big stake in SpaceX’s campaign as well, counting on Starship to carry out some of its boldest missions.




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Taking a lesson from Barbie, Mattel builds a more nimble supply chain - WSJ
The toy maker accelerated the doll’s design and manufacturing process to tap in to the attention to the character, rapidly bringing to store shelves a doll that—like its on-screen inspiration—looks like it’s been “played with too much."


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Four ways Ukraines drone innovations are changing warfare - WSJ
The cutting edge of drone warfare is the front line of Ukraine’s defense against Russia, where soldiers and manufacturers are innovating to counter Moscow’s battlefield advantages.




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Israel Data Show Hundreds of Structures Damaged in Irans Attack - Bloomberg
Tax authority says a total of 2,500 claims filed so far


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Inside the nasty rivalry rocking the world of private jets - WSJ
It was from lawyers for his company’s much-larger rival, VistaJet. Scanning it over, Matthews realized they had his text messages. The lawyers told Matthews: Prepare to answer for them in court.


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Google's new antitrust defense is AI
Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation targeting Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), and Google's investments in AI startups. The inquiry focuses on three multibillion dollar deals: Microsoft's partnership with the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, as well as Amazon and Google's relationships with the AI startup Anthropic.


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SalioGen Therapeutics hit by layoffs, as gene-editing biotechs continue to struggle
Launched in 2021, SalioGen was among a group of new startups developing technology for inserting full-length genes into patients — a feat that can’t readily be accomplished with older approaches based on the gene-editing technology CRISPR. 


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Limp Bizkit's fraud lawsuit rattles music industry: 'These accusations are massive'
Three decades after it rose to prominence, the band and its founder, Fred Durst, alleges that Universal Music Group (UMG) owes more than $200m after fraudulently concealing royalties from the band.


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Americas new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs - WSJ
Aaron Rice has two logos tattooed on his left leg: one from the plumbing business he co-founded more than a decade ago, and another from the private-equity-backed company that recently bought it.


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The scion of the Ziploc empire is on a crusade to rein in plastic waste - WSJ
He has gone scuba diving among plumes of plastic sludge. He has funded research on how microplastics are damaging for human health. And, he has made trips to Congress to ask for regulations placing responsibility on consumer-goods companies to recycle the plastic waste their products generate.


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U.S. to Deploy Missile Defense System and About 100 Troops to Israel
“This action underscores the United States’ ironclad commitment to the defense of Israel, and to defend Americans in Israel, from any further ballistic missile attacks by Iran,” the statement said. “It is part of the broader adjustments the U.S. military has made in recent months to support the defense of Israel and protect Americans from attacks by Iran and Iranian-aligned militias.”


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Hezbollah Drone Strike Kills 4 Israeli Soldiers on Military Base
Concern about further attacks on Israel, which is also at war with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, prompted the United States to announce on Sunday that it was sending an advanced missile defense system to Israel, and 100 troops to operate it. That will put American forces still closer to the war in the Middle East.


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B. Riley to sell Great American unit to Oaktree Capital for $400M in cash, stock: WSJ
B. Riley (NASDAQ:RILY) has agreed to sell its Great American appraisal and valuations business to Oaktree Capital in a nearly $400M cash-and-stock deal, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.


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SpaceX successfully catches Super Heavy booster after launching Starship's fifth flight
Starship, meanwhile, continued on its flight for about an hour after separating from the booster and splashed down in the Indian Ocean as planned around 9:30AM ET. The entire Starship transportation system, consisting of the Super Heavy first stage and the Starship second stage, is designed to be reusable.


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Iceland's PM calls November snap election as coalition collapses
The coalition government, consisting of the Independence party, the centre-right Progressive party and the Left Greens, has faced uncertainty after recent volcanic eruptions forced thousands to leave their homes, putting pressure on an economy already facing high inflation and soaring interest rates.


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Three-armed robot conductor makes debut in Dresden
And in 2017, it staged a festival “against isolation and intolerance” during the Trump presidency close to the US-Mexican border wall near Tijuana and performed with Mexican and US musicians.


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UN mission says Israeli tanks forcibly entered base in southern Lebanon
Later on Sunday, the Pentagon confirmed that the US would send a sophisticated anti-missile system known as Thaad and operator troops to Israel to protect from missile attacks such as those launched against the Jewish state by Iran in April and September.


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Harris rallies North Carolina crowd to 'fight to realize the promise of America' as Trump hits Arizona ? as it happened
"She not only annihilated our border, but she began using your tax dollars by the billions to smuggle, fly, bus, transport and, in every way possible, relocate illegal aliens en masse inside the United States," Miller said.


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Tennessee shootout near university leaves one dead and nine wounded
Constant mass shootings in the US have prompted many in the country to plead for federal lawmakers to provide more substantial gun control, but Congress has largely been unable or unwilling to heed those calls.


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Data center tech is exploding but adoption won't be easy for startups | TechCrunch
“I think the main point to consider is there is a real urgency here,” Bakalar said. “The growth is really outpacing the current infrastructure that we have. We need newer, better, faster ways to achieve the promise we have heard about AI.”


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This three-person robotics startup is working with designer Yves Bhar to bring humanoids home | TechCrunch
Brian Heater is the Hardware Editor at TechCrunch. He worked for a number of leading tech publications, including Engadget, PCMag, Laptop, and Tech Times, where he served as the Managing Editor. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Juniper.


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Harris Sends a Secret Weapon to a Georgia Fish Fry: Bill Clinton
From a church service in Albany, where the former president reminisced about campaigning alongside the baseball great Hank Aaron, to the fish fry in Fort Valley attended by a few hundred people, Mr. Clinton used the opening hours of a two-day blitz to try to help Ms. Harris bump up her score wherever she can.


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Biden Calls for Bipartisan Effort to Help Areas Hit by Storms
Mr. Biden also used the moment to call for bipartisan collaboration to help the areas affected pick up the pieces. In a sign of such unity, Mr. Biden was greeted by Representative Anna Paulina Luna and Senator Rick Scott, Florida Republicans who are frequent critics of the Biden administration, after the president finished his helicopter tour.


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Democrats to Fly Harris Ads Over N.F.L. Games in Swing States
“Our goal is to meet people where they are, and there is only a sliver of the electorate that is still undecided,” Mr. Rahman said. “What we know about these undecided people — majority male — is they don’t like to read political publications. They aren’t in the 24-7 world of policy and politics, so what we are trying to do is reach them in a different way.”


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Mortgage rates unlikely to return to low levels, says Lloyds boss
Meta said in response that its "pilot Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange programme (FIRE)" was designed to enable banks to "share information so we can work together to protect people using our respective services".


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Georgia cars: How the country became a hub for used cars
“It's very expensive and it's very risky, but still we're trying to get traction there. We are also importing a lot of pickup trucks into Ukraine, which are used to fight against Russia.”


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Fisher-Price Recalls 2 Million 'Snuga Swings' After Five Infant Deaths
“Merely warning parents to stop using these products for sleep now will not be as effective as removing them from homes and day cares,” he said. “Fisher-Price cannot un-ring the bell. Dangerous products will remain in homes after this recall.”


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SpaceX Advances Starship Program With a Launch and a Catch
“As we prepare to go back to the Moon under Artemis, continued testing will prepare us for the bold missions that lie ahead — including to the South Pole region of the moon and then on to Mars,” he said.


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SpaceX's Starship rocket completes fifth test flight, lands booster in dramatic catch
The Super Heavy booster, which stands 232 feet tall, is what begins the rocket's journey to space. At its base are 33 Raptor engines, which together produce 16.7 million pounds of thrust — about double the 8.8 million pounds of thrust of NASA's Space Launch System rocket, which launched for the first time in 2022.


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Trump or Harris? Here are the 2024 stakes for airlines, banks, EVs, health care and more
Many in the tech industry are critical of Khan and want her to be replaced should Harris win in November. Meanwhile, Vance, who worked in venture capital before entering politics, said as recently as February — before he was chosen as Trump's running mate — that Khan was "doing a pretty good job."


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Just Over the Border from Israel, a Hezbollah Cache of Explosives and Mines
Military officials on the ground said they were surprised at the extent of Hezbollah’s entrenchment in forward positions a short walk north of the border wall — evidence, they said, that Hezbollah had made meticulous preparations to carry out its long-threatened plan to invade northern Israel.


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Opinion | Can We Please Just Find the Aliens Already?
Yet Europa seems to have the ingredients needed to stimulate life: water, hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus. These elements are churning together in a liquid water ocean sitting below the icy shell and warmed thanks to the massive friction induced by Jupiter’s awesome gravity. These conditions could have seeded strange cousins of earthly life-forms in the ocean’s depths near hydrothermal vents.


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Volatile Bond Market Puts Traders on Defense Amid Fed-Cut Doubts
Since around early September, Vanguard has also been benefiting from a tactical short wager in Treasuries as yields began to rise. The company remains in that short-term trade, though it has trimmed the size from its original level.


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Where Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leader Nvidia Be in 5 Years?
Nvidia stock is up nearly 2,800% over the last five years, but can the company keep posting those gains?


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An arcade-style Terrifier beat 'em up game is coming next year
According to the Steam listing, you’ll get to play as Art the Clown and “unleash chaos” on several movie sets where films about him are being produced. There will also be local multiplayer modes. Terrifier: The ARTcade Game will be available for PC, PS5, Nintendo Switch and Xbox when it’s released in 2025.


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Massive Pokmon leak exposes beta designs, source codes and plans for upcoming titles
The scope of the leak is enormous, exposing tons of beta character designs and concept art in addition to the source codes. Neither Nintendo nor The Pokemon Company has publicly acknowledged the leak yet. Engadget has reached out for comment. Game Freak said in its statement that it’s strengthening its security and apologized to those affected by the breach, noting that the unauthorized third-party accessed the personal information of over 2,600 current and former workers.


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Australia news live: Jewish TV chef targeted with threatening note blames 'cosplay radicals'; Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case returns to court
Price said "it's no surprise that there's still grieving taking place" but "it's not what I've picked up". She argued that yes campaigners need to "let go" and "accept the result".




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