Benjamin Netanyahu's fate uncertain after exit polls show no clear winner in Israel vote

A former commando whose tenure has been defined by promises to keep Israel secure and prosperous, while sidelining the Palestinians, Netanyahu could see his decade-long dominance of Israel's extremely polarized politics end. Gantz, 59, has bragged about flattening entire residential neighborhoods during two wars Israel fought with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Exit polls predicated that neither politician's party secured a majority, meaning that in order for either to form a government each would need to enter into a coalition deal with opposition parties.

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  Israel election: Exit polls suggest Netanyahu is in trouble as Gantz calls for broad unity government

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  Netanyahu: Israel's longest-serving premier fights for his future

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Iran charges three detained Australians with spying

Iran has charged three detained Australians with spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday, after the reported arrest of a travel-blogging couple and an academic. Two of the Australians were alleged to have used a drone to take pictures of military sites, while a third was accused of spying for another country, spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told reporters. It was the first official confirmation that Australians have been detained in Iran after the families of three of them said last week they had been arrested in the Islamic republic.

20 dead as truck falls off cliff in southern Philippines

Twenty villagers were killed and 14 others were injured when the truck they were riding in lost control and fell off a cliff Tuesday in a remote mountain village in the southern Philippines, police and the Red Cross said. Provincial police chief Joel Limson said the truck was negotiating a downhill road in Tboli town in South Cotabato province when its brakes apparently failed and plummeted down a ravine, pinning 15 people to death. Police, Red Cross volunteers and villagers retrieved the 15 bodies from the wreckage at the bottom of the ravine.

NYC to Allow 1.1 Million Students to Skip Class for Climate Protests

New York City public schools will allow 1.1 million students to skip classes Friday in order to attend the planned “climate strike” ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit. The protests aim to press the Summit for immediate action to stop climate change, and are geared specifically for the participation of young people. Reactions to the decision have been ecstatic in some cases, as protest organizers contemplate what they hope will be the largest climate change protest in the history of the U.S. “This completely changes things, and it's our doing,” Xiye Bastida, 17, a senior at Beacon High School in Manhattan, told the New York Times.

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  What you need to know about climate change

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  Must Read: Greta Thunberg Covers a Special Issue of 'Teen Vogue,' Is Extinction Rebellion Out-Marketing Fashion?

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Liam Fox: Britain must accept that Iran nuclear deal is 'dead'

Britain must accept the Iran nuclear deal is “dead” and join America in trying to force Tehran back to the negotiating table, former defence secretary Liam Fox said tonight. Mr Fox, who was in the cabinet until July, will use a speech in Washington to warn that the 2015 agreement was "flawed" from the start and that attempts to keep it alive are "futile". Iran's supreme leader on Tuesday ruled out talks with US officials “at any level”, appearing to end hopes of a meeting between Mr Trump and Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president, at the United Nations in New York next week.

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  Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rules out negotiations with US

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  Asian markets slip as tensions remain high after attack on Saudi oil facilities

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Video shows burglars kick in California family's front door, before being scared away

Two masked-man kicked in the front door of a Pleasanton home in an attempted home-invasion -- and it was all caught on surveillance video.

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  Homeowner shoots and kills 3 masked men in possible 'stand your ground' case

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  Georgia homeowner kills three teens wearing masks in possible 'stand your ground' case

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A flight in India was delayed when a swarm of angry bees covered the cockpit window and attacked staff who tried to remove them

A domestic flight in India was delayed by two hours after a swarm of bees settled on the cockpit window, obscuring pilots' vision and attacking staff who tried to remove them. The Air India flight was about to take off when the bees landed on the window. Staff tried fruitlessly to shoo them away and disperse them with the aircraft's windscreen wipers before calling the fire brigade.

'A war zone': Propane explosion kills firefighter, injures 8 others, levels building in Maine

A firefighter was killed and eight people were injured Monday when a powerful propane explosion destroyed a new building in Farmington, Maine. Fire crews were responding to a call reporting the smell of gas in the building, which was evacuated, Farmington Town Selectman Scott Landry said. The blast had such force that only debris remained from the two-story building, which housed a nonprofit group called LEAP that serves people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities.

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  Blast in Maine kills firefighter, levels special-needs

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  Propane explosion in Maine kills firefighter, injures 6 others

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French boy, 10, dies 8 years after supermarket burger poisoning

A French boy aged 10, who fell gravely ill in 2011 after consuming a beef burger from supermarket discounter Lidl that was infected with E.coli bacteria, has died of complications stemming from his poisoning, the family's lawyer said. The boy, Nolan, died on Saturday "as a consequence of his poisoning", the family's lawyer Florence Rault told AFP on Sunday. Lidl's French arm said in a tweet on Monday: "We share the pain of Nolan's family and will seek to assure our support during their suffering."

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  10-year-old dies after being sickened by supermarket burger: 'His limbs became deformed'

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  Ten-year-old boy dies after eating contaminated burger patty from Lidl

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Houthis Have an Arsenal of Ballistic and Cruise Missiles (Some from North Korea)

But it's worth noting that the Houthis also possess a surprisingly sophisticated arsenal of homemade ballistic and cruise missiles possessing the range performance to strike targets deep inside Saudi Arabia. According to aviation expert Tom Cooper, the main weapon in the Houthi arsenal is the Burkan, a modified version of the Soviet R-17E Scud rocket that's around five feet longer than the baseline missile and some 4,400 pounds heavier and can travel farther than 500 miles. The Houthis inherited from the defunct Yemeni military a large number of Soviet-exported Scuds as well as North Korean-made Scuds called “Hwasong-6s.

Wisconsin man accused of making THC cartridges charged

A Wisconsin man suspected of running an illegal operation to manufacture vaping cartridges flew to California last month to get THC oil in bulk to fill thousands of cartridges to sell, prosecutors said Monday in charging documents. Authorities in Kenosha, Wisconsin, arrested 20-year-old Tyler Huffhines on Sept. 5 after parents tipped off police when they saw their teenage son with one of the cartridges. Prosecutors say Huffhines employed 10 people to fill the cartridges with THC oil at a condo he rented with a stolen identity.

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  Flavored Vape Ban: NY Outlawing Flavored E-Cigarettes

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  California campaign will warn public of vaping dangers

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Afghan president sees his chance after collapse of U.S.-Taliban talks

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had no more than 20 minutes to study a draft accord between the United States and the Taliban on pulling thousands of U.S. troops out of his country, but upcoming elections could put him back at the heart of talks to end decades of war. What he read in the draft outlining the now collapsed deal left Ghani and his officials - who were shut out of the talks by the Taliban refusal to negotiate with what they considered an illegitimate "puppet" regime - badly shaken and resentful, said a senior Kabul official close to the Afghan leader. "Doesn't this look like surrender to the Taliban?" Ghani asked Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran Afghan-born diplomat who led negotiations for Washington, at a meeting the two held immediately afterwards, according to the source who was present.

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  Afghanistan suicide bomb attack near president's rally kills at least 24

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  Green Beret's death in Afghanistan comes amid increased Taliban violence

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AOC endorses first liberal candidate against incumbent Democrat

The Illinois challenger is a businesswoman, and has already garnered support from the group Justice Democrats, which backed Ms Ocasio-Cortez in her primary bid two years ago against a long-term Democrat in the Bronx and Queens who she said then was out of step with his constituents. Ms Newman, who calls herself a “real Democrat”, has also run against Mr Lipinski previously, in 2018 when she lost by 2,000 votes. Marie Newman is a textbook example of one of the ways that we could be better as a party — to come from a deep blue seat and to be championing all the issues we need to be championing,” Ms Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Times.

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  Ocasio-Cortez Makes Her First House Endorsement Against Democratic Incumbent

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  Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Challenger to Pro-Life Illinois Democrat

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Wisconsin brothers charged with operating counterfeit vaping cartridge operation

According to the criminal complaint: Tyler Huffhines admitted starting his THC vape cartridge business on Jan. 28, 2018, the same day he took a picture of his business to post on Instagram. He told detectives that he didn't smoke marijuana but saw a good business opportunity by purchasing THC vape cartridges in California for $2.50 each where they are legal and bringing them back to Wisconsin to sell for $15 apiece. Tyler Huffhines admitted he figured out he could boost profits by buying empty vape cartridges and jars of liquid THC and paying 10 workers to fill them.

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  New York to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes by Emergency Order

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  Vaping-related illness kills man in seventh death linked to e-cigarettes

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Earth warming more quickly than thought, new climate models show

Greenhouse gases thrust into the atmosphere mainly by burning fossil fuels are warming Earth's surface more quickly than previously understood, according to new climate models set to replace those used in current UN projections, scientists said Tuesday. The new calculations also suggest that the Paris Agreement goals of capping global warming at "well below" two degrees, and 1.5C if possible, will be challenging at best, the scientists said. "With our two models, we see that the scenario known as SSP1 2.6 -- which normally allows us to stay under 2C -- doesn't quite get us there," Olivier Boucher, head of the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace Climate Modelling Centre in Paris, told AFP.

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  Suddenly, TV News Is Warming Up to Climate Change

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  New models show that the earth is warming faster than first thought

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What Were the Mach 10 UFOs That Iran's Jets Encountered?

Key point: Iran has encountered really strange flying objects that might be an unknown, secret American spy plane. Iran is the only other country besides the United States to operate arguably history's most powerful interceptor aircraft, the F-14 Tomcat. The F-14s played a major role in Iran's war with Iraq from 1980 to 1988.

Sheriff indicted for plotting to kill deputy who had tape of his 'racially offensive' remarks

A North Carolina sheriff has been indicted for allegedly plotting to kill one of his deputies after learning the man had a tape of him making "racially offensive" comments. Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins was indicted Monday on two counts of felony obstruction of justice for withholding knowledge of a credible threat made against Joshua Freeman and failing to take appropriate law enforcement action. The indictment came after a ten month investigation by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the FBI, according to a release from Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman.

Investigation into alleged surveillance abuse and targeting of the Trump campaign is in its final stages

Inspector general Michael E. Horowitz outlined a multi-step review process with FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General William Barr; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports from Washington.

Fall-Flavored Cocktails, From Pecan Pie Martinis to Pumpkin Pie Sangria

For the nights you need something stronger than a latte. From Delish

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  Krispy Kreme Has Brought Back Its Pumpkin Spice Original Glazed Donut for Another Week

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In leaderless Hong Kong movement, Joshua Wong just 1 voice

Overseas, Joshua Wong has emerged as a prominent face of Hong Kong's months-long protests for full democracy. While not diminishing the importance of that role, other protesters say Wong does not speak for what is purposefully a leaderless movement. "Not that nobody cares about what he says, but it's just that Joshua Wong alone cannot represent the whole of Hong Kong," said Sean Au, a 17-year-old student.

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  Hong Kong protests: PR firms refuse to help restore city’s image

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  Train Passengers Walk to Station After Derailment in Hong Kong

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