Phil Lesh, an innovative bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, died Friday, according to a statement on his Instagram account. He was 84 years old.Over three decades, the classically trained Lesh and Grateful Dead icon Jerry Garcia shared a close musical partnership that resulted in the eclectic California rock band’s psychedelic sound and …
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Global stock markets diverged Friday in an end to a week’s trading dominated by earnings updates and angst over rising bond yields amid US election uncertainty.Wall Street stocks finished the day mixed, with the Nasdaq pressing higher and the Dow pulling back.Besides the neck-and-neck US election, investors are looking ahead to major economic data next …
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked horns Friday over accusations that the Republican ex-president has been running as a “fascist” as the pair headed to dueling events in Texas with pop titan Beyonce and podcast star Joe Rogan.The staunchly Republican Lone Star State isn’t one of the handful of battlegrounds that decides US elections, or …
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and an avid supporter of Donald Trump, was plunged into new controversy on Friday after a report that he is in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.The Wall Street Journal story, which has been denied by the Kremlin, comes days after the US Justice Department sent a letter …
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The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Friday that Israeli forces had detained hundreds of staff, patients and displaced people during a raid on the last functioning hospital in the north of the territory.The Israeli military said its forces were operating around Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza, where it …
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Mozambique’s capital Maputo on Friday suffered a mobile internet blackout after protests against the re-election of the ruling Frelimo party descended into violence.Protests erupted on Thursday with hundreds of opposition supporters rejecting what they called a ballot “stolen” by a “corrupt” electoral commission in favour of the party which has ruled since 1975.The commission had …
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A prolific “catfish” offender whose cruel campaign of global online blackmail targeted thousands of young victims and drove a 12-year-old US girl to suicide was on Friday jailed for life.Alexander McCartney, 26, posed online as a teenage girl to befriend young females across the world on the social media app Snapchat, forcing them to send …
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US President Joe Biden delivered a historic apology Friday for one of the country’s “most horrific chapters”: abducting Native American children from their families and placing them in government boarding schools to erase their culture.From the early 1800s until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to forcibly …
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Mining giants BHP and Vale on Friday signed a deal with Brazil’s government to pay nearly $30 billion in damages for a 2015 dam collapse that triggered the country’s worst environmental disaster.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended the signing of the deal over the November 5, 2015 collapse of a tailings dam at a …
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Billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and an avid supporter of Donald Trump, was plunged into new controversy on Friday after a report that he is in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.The Wall Street Journal story, which has been denied by the Kremlin, comes just days after the US Justice Department sent …
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