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World Economic Forum To Be Held In Singapore In May

By Administrator_India Capital Sands The World Economic Forum (WEF) will be held in Singapore instead of Switzerland next year as the COVID-19 pandemic would make it difficult to ensure the health and safety of participants in Europe, WEF organisers said on December 7. “The World Economic Forum will convene the Special Annual Meeting 2021 in […]

Hegseth awards USS Lincoln crew top unit honor after grueling Iran war deployment October 7, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln a high-level award during a visit to the aircraft carrier Wednesday, a day before the ship returns home to San Diego after a record-long deployment in support of the Iran war.The Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor a unit […]
KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Christa Pike is 'angry and confused' and can't move her arms after failed execution October 7, 2026
Christa Pike is feeling "angry and confused" after waking up in the hospital in the wake of a failed execution attempt that left her with severe physical health challenges that put her on a "long road to recovery," her attorneys said on Wednesday. Pike had been unconscious and in critical condition in the days after two […]
Tom Parfitt, Jasmine Andersson, Kate Murphy, Mike Bebernes, Jack Brewster
Tropical Storm Isaias: 1st Atlantic hurricane of season expected to hit U.S. Gulf Coast October 7, 2026
Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf on Wednesday and is expected to become the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, forecasters say.According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the storm will strengthen as it moves toward the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week, becoming a hurricane by Thursday. It could peak as a […]
Tom Parfitt, Dylan Stableford
Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election October 7, 2026
President Donald Trump announced a $6.6 billion investment with AI defense company Anduril Industries on Tuesday -- the most recent government funding agreement into a company with investment ties to the president's sons. The Trump administration announced the Navy will support $2.9 billion of the total cost to help create a new facility in Baltimore County, […]
NATHAN LEE
Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf course into the new Camp David October 7, 2026
Much of President Donald Trump’s second term has focused on changes to the nation’s capital. But his ambitions to remake the physical architecture of the presidency transcend Washington: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important […]
Meryl Kornfield, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post
GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers breaks with Trump and calls to end Canada tariffs October 7, 2026
WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers appears to be breaking with President Donald Trump on another key issue less than a month before Election Day. "Drinking a Labatt and watching the Red Wings, man, it just doesn't get any more Michigan than that," Rogers said in a new ad released Oct. 7. "Here […]
Grant Schwab and Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News
GOP spends big to rescue Paxton as his complaints strain ties with party allies October 7, 2026
National Republicans have spent months trying to rescue Ken Paxton. He’s complicating that effort.Tensions are brewing with some Republicans after POLITICO published Paxton’s closed-door comments that “D.C.” Republicans were largely controlling his race.“He is welcome to raise his own money and say whatever he wants,” said one Republican involved in the Paxton rescue effort, who […]
Meredith Lee Hill and Alex Gangitano
The sleeper House races Democrats and Republicans think they can flip October 7, 2026
The 2026 House map continues to move further onto GOP terrain. But while Democrats are dreaming big, the GOP insists they can hold the majority.Score talked to the DCCC's Deputy Executive Director Will Van Nuys and the NRCC's Communications Director Will Kiley.The two operatives chose four under-the-radar races where they’re feeling good about their underdog […]
Jason Beeferman
Cornell police pressed frat members on how they knew alleged rape was 'consensual' October 7, 2026
Two investigations are underway into a former Cornell University student's allegations that she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024 -- one to determine whether criminal charges should be brought and another to examine how the university handled her case.Newly obtained videos reviewed by ABC News show members of Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity being […]
AARON KATERSKY, TONYA SIMPSON, JOSH MARGOLIN and PETER CHARALAMBOUS
More than 20 million people are getting a $90 Social Security check, while 40 million aren't October 7, 2026
Millions of Medicare beneficiaries will receive a $90 payment from the Social Security Administration this week as part of an effort to lower health care costs for older Americans.President Trump announced on Oct. 2 that the administration would send a one-time payment to around one-third of people enrolled in Medicare Part B, which covers doctors' […]
Jasmine Andersson
Weeks before Election Day, the FEC can't enforce campaign finance law October 7, 2026
In July, Reps. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, and Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat, had a request for the Federal Election Commission: help make sure artificial intelligence chatbots do not feed voters false information about the 2026 midterm elections. The lawmakers, writing to the FEC as well as the Justice and Homeland Security departments, […]
Gabe Kaminsky
Democrats allege Trump allies benefited from a $1.7 billion Balkan gas deal October 7, 2026
London — The involvement of a small American firm linked to associates of President Trump in an energy project in Bosnia and Herzegovina worth more than $1.5 billion has raised questions about how the White House could be using its leverage in the fragile Balkan state.U.S. lawmakers accuse the Trump administration of lifting sanctions on Bosnian […]
Emmet Lyons
Congress ended production of the penny. Now it's coming for the nickel. October 7, 2026
It's common sense that common cents are getting less use in Americans' daily lives. Congress has already taken action to eliminate the lowest rung — the penny — and now another coin collecting dust in people's wallets could be on the chopping block next.The House and Senate both passed bills earlier this year aimed at […]
Elizabeth Elkind, Alex Miller
Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to 2 scientists who solved a century-old molecular problem October 7, 2026
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine.Many molecules come in versions that look alike but are not exactly identical, like right and left hands. […]
ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, KOSTYA MANENKOV and STEFANIE DAZIO