Retreating Russians leave their comrades' bodies behind

Russian troops abandoned a key Ukrainian city so rapidly that they left the bodies of their comrades in the streets, offering more evidence Tuesday of Moscow's latest military defeat as it struggles to hang on to four regions of Ukraine that it illegally annexed last week. Meanwhile, Russia's upper house of parliament rubber-stamped the annexations following “referendums” that Ukraine and its Western allies dismissed as fraudulent. Responding to the move, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally ruled out talks with Russia, declaring that negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin are impossible after his decision to take over the regions.

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  Russians retreat from annexed city

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  As Ukrainian Forces Advance, West Plays Down Threat From Russian Nuclear Weapons

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Florida alligators and snakes are swarming around unlivable homes that have been ravaged by Hurricane Ian: fire official

Alligators and snakes are swarming around Florida homes destroyed by Hurricane Ian, an official said. "There are a lot [of] places that are not livable," Sanibel Fire Chief William Briscoe told CNN. Briscoe added, "There are alligators running around, and there are snakes all over the place."

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  Rescues are underway on Sanibel Island, FL Hurricane Ian's death rate continues to climb

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  Florida mayor discusses state of city after Hurricane Ian

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Here’s exactly how much Suze Orman and Dave Ramsey say you need to save right now (and psst: most of you are falling short)

But pros say you need months of expenses socked away in your emergency fund — a fact that's become especially relevant as signs of a recession keep rearing their head. What's more, both Suze Orman and Dave Ramsey recently upped the amount of emergency savings they now recommend you have. Suze Orman: 12 months of expenses in an emergency fund Finance guru Suze Orman now recommends that people have enough money to cover 12 months' worth of expenses in an emergency fund, up from her previous eight months' recommendation.

NYPD asks for help after man follows woman into Chinatown apartment building and sexually assaults her

The New York Police Department is asking the public for help in finding a man sexually assaulted a woman in her Chinatown apartment building. The attacker followed the 27-year-old woman into her building near Market Street and Madison Street on Sept. 24, police said. In surveillance video of the incident, the woman is seen being pinned against the wall in her vestibule as the culprit tries to kiss her and forcibly grope her buttocks, breasts and groin, according to the NYPD.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he'll fight against a federal relief bill that would assist his state's recovery from Hurricane Ian if it has 'pork in it'

Marco Rubio on Sunday said he would fight against a Hurricane Ian relief bill if it included unrelated spending projects. Rubio said the extra spending would deter other lawmakers from voting for disaster relief. Recovery efforts are continuing, with more than 1,100 people rescued as of Saturday morning.

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  Sen. Marco Rubio says he'll oppose Hurricane Ian relief bills that include 'pork'

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  In the span of a week, Marco Rubio didn't vote for hurricane relief, asked for additional hurricane relief, and praised the Biden administration's hurricane relief

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Russia's war machine faces ridicule from two Putin allies

LONDON (Reuters) -The withdrawal of Russian forces from a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine has prompted two powerful allies of President Vladimir Putin to do something rare in modern Russia: publicly ridicule the war machine's top brass. Russia's loss of the bastion of Lyman, which puts western parts of Luhansk region under threat, touched a nerve for Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya. Kadyrov, who has been close to Putin since his father and former president of Chechnya, Akhmad, was killed in a 2004 bomb attack in Grozny that also killed a Reuters photographer, suggested that Russia should consider using a small tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine in response to the loss.

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  Protests over Russia's invasion erupt in Chechnya and Dagestan

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  Kadyrov says he is allegedly sending his underage sons to war

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Russian soldiers are surrendering en masse

TUESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2022, 11:46 The Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine says that more than 2,000 Russian soldiers have contacted them over the past few weeks asking for an opportunity to surrender. Source: Andrii Yusov, representative of Ukraine's military intelligence, on the Freedom TV channel Details: Yusov said there had been a surge of requests after the successful counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv Oblast and the announcement of partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation.

‘I’m paycheck to paycheck.’ I make $350K a year, but have $88K in student loans, $170K in car loans and a mortgage I pay $4,500 a month on. Do I need professional help?

What's more, your student loans, car loans and mortgage are all likely less than 9%, so it's not likely that consolidation via a HELOC would save you money. You may want to start somewhere different, like the snowball method, where you focus on one loan, usually the smallest one, and direct all of your resources to pay off that loan while maintaining payments on the others,” says Chen. This method could work to finish off your student loans and maybe one of your car loans, to start with.

Half of mobilised men in Russian region sent home, commissar fired - governor

Russia's first mobilisation since World War Two, declared by President Vladimir Putin on Sept. 21, has led to widespread discontent among officials and citizens over the way the draft has been handled, including complaints about enlistment officers sending call-up papers to clearly ineligible men. "In 10 days, several thousand of our countrymen received summons and arrived at the military registration and enlistment offices," Mikhail Degtyarev, the governor of the Khabarovsk region in Russia's Far East, said in a video post on the Telegram messaging app. Degtyarev said the removal of the commissar, Yuri Laiko, would not affect the mobilisation plan set by Putin.

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  Chaotic call-up reports add to Russian set-backs

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  Half of mobilized men in Russian region sent home - governor

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Groom arrives at wedding in patrol car, GA cops say. He didn’t want the bride to know

A groom was worried about his bride seeing him arrive at their wedding in a sheriff's patrol vehicle. “When a groom is on his way to his wedding and is involved in a traffic accident, who gets him to the wedding on time(?) We do,” the Walton County Sheriff's Office wrote in a Facebook post. Jon Dial had been driving with three of his groomsmen on Sept. 30 to the wedding venue in Monroe, about 45 miles east of Atlanta, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

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  Deputy makes sure groom's car crash doesn't wreck wedding

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  'Shotgun Wedding' Trailer No. 1

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Teens found a Maserati with the keys inside. Then came tragedy, Florida deputies say

An illicit early morning joy ride ended in tragedy Sunday in Southwest Florida, an area still reeling from Hurricane Ian. In a news briefing, in St. Petersburg, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said that three teen boys checking for unlocked cars, found a Maserati with the keys inside in a driveway, and took off. Deputies in a patrolling chopper investigating an unrelated burglary nearby spotted the teens from above as they were entering the high-end Italian performance vehicle.

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  Teens steal, crash Maserati that owner left unlocked with keys inside, sheriff says

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  A 15-year-old died after teens crashed and totaled an unlocked Maserati that was parked in a driveway with the keys inside: report

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Frustration with Ukraine war spills out on Russian state TV

Russia's retreat from a key Ukrainian city over the weekend elicited outcry from an unlikely crowd – state-run media outlets that typically cast Moscow's war in glowing terms. A series of embarrassing military losses in recent weeks has presented a challenge for prominent hosts of Russian news and political talk shows struggling to find ways to paint Ukraine's gains in a way that is still favorable to the Kremlin. Frustration with the battlefield setbacks has long been expressed in social media blogs run by nationalist pundits and pro-Kremlin analysts, and the volume grew after Ukraine's counteroffensive last month around Kharkiv in the northeast.

Elusive creature disappeared for decades — but it was just caught in West Virginia park

An animal that hasn't been seen in decades was recently rediscovered in a West Virginia national park — and experts are “thrilled.” Wildlife biologists at the Harpers Ferry Historical National Park captured and tagged multiple Allegheny woodrats during the summer in the forests, according to a Sept. 23 news release. The woodrats, which are more closely related to mice than rats, have been reported as “locally extinct” in certain areas in Appalachia and their populations has faced steep declines, according to the release.

Nicolle Wallace Slams Wall Street Journal’s Condemnation Of Trump

But the Journal was “seven years too late to the parade,” Wallace said, pointing out its past support of Trump. The Journal has repeatedlyflip-flopped on Trump and last year even published a letter to the editor from him containing unchecked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. The Journal did “more laundering and legitimizing of Donald Trump's presidency than perhaps any other outlet,” said Wallace, who was the White House communications director for former President George W. Bush.

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  Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Condemns Trump’s ‘Ugly’ and ‘Reckless’ Rhetoric About ‘Death Wish’ on Mitch McConnell

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  Wall Street Journal rips Trump’s ‘death wish’ rhetoric

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Special Operations Forces soldiers miraculously survive tank attack, which they even filmed

TUESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2022, 10:29 Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of Ukraine who participate in combat operations to liberate the occupied territories of Kherson Oblast have posted a unique footage from the front line. Source: press service of Special Operations Forces Quote: "These unique shots show a fragment of an operation in Kherson Oblast, during which the Russians were knocked out of several settlements. The Special Operations Forces soldiers were the first to enter the occupied villages and literally squeeze the enemy out of them."

Home prices are falling in 6 major US cities and still rising in 14. Here's how the major markets are faring as buyers adjust to the end of the boom.

A handful of cities are the first to show the housing market caving amid fading buyer demand. The six cities listed here are some of the largest in the US and have been in high demand in recent years. Rising mortgage rates and slowing sales suggest more cities will join the fray in coming months.

Trump staffers not returning White House records, National Archives says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump's administration has not turned over all presidential records and the National Archives will consult with the Justice Department on whether to move to get them back, the agency has told Congress. A congressional panel on Sept. 13 sought an urgent review by the National Archives and Records Administration after agency staff members acknowledged that they did not know if all presidential records from Trump's White House had been turned over. "While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should," acting Archivist Debra Wall said in a letter Friday to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

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  National Archives says some records from Trump White House are still missing

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  National Archive says it is still missing some Trump administration records

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Remember When ... A Soviet Nuclear Submarine Sank off the Coast of Bermuda

On this day in 1986, a Soviet nuclear submarine off the coast of Bermuda caught fire and sank. The sub's thermonuclear warheads and nuclear reactors went down with the ship. Although most of the warheads and reactors are still down there, some of the warheads—and the missiles containing them—were counted as missing two years later.

Iran's president tries to assuage anger as protests continue

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday appealed for national unity and tried to allay anger against the country's rulers, even as the anti-government protests that have engulfed the country for weeks continued to spread to universities and high schools. Raisi acknowledged that the Islamic Republic had “weaknesses and shortcomings,” but repeated the official line that the unrest sparked last month by the death of a woman in the custody of the country's morality police was nothing short of a plot by Iran's enemies. It's a familiar tactic for Iran's leaders, who have been mistrustful of Western influence since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and commonly blame domestic problems on foreign enemies without offering evidence.

Infant and her parents are among 4 people kidnapped from California family business, officials say

An 8-month-old girl and her parents were kidnapped in Merced County, California, on Monday, by a person described as armed and dangerous, authorities said. A fourth relative was also taken from a family business in an unincorporated community in the Central Valley community, the Merced County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Monday evening. The infant, 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri, and parents Jasleen Kaur, 27, and Jasdeep Singh, 36, as well as an uncle, Amandeep Singh, 39, were "were taken against their will from a business" on South Highway 59, a roadway lined with retailers and restaurants, officials said.

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  Sheriff: Baby among 4 family members kidnapped in California

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  8-month-old and her parents among 4 people kidnapped from business, police say

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More settlements liberated in the Kherson region: Ukrainian forces publish video

TUESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2022, 14:51 A number of videos from the newly-liberated settlements in Kherson Oblast have been published on social media on 4 October. Ukrainian troops report that Davydiv Brid, Starosillia, Arkhanhelske and Velyka Oleksandrivka have been liberated. Source: Petro Andriushchenko, Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol; Andrii Yermak, Head of the President's Office, on Telegram; combat operations maps from Deep State Details: Soldiers from the 35th Admiral Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi Separate Marine Brigade have reported that the village of Davydiv Brid was liberated on 4 October.

Kids with disabilities face off-the-books school suspensions

When she asked why he couldn't stay for the rest of the day, Manwell said the school told her they would call child protective services if she didn't take him home. The call was just one of a dozen that Manwell received last fall telling her John couldn't stay in school because of behaviors she says stemmed from his disability, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Many schools have promised to cut down on suspensions, since kids can't learn as well when they aren't in class.