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As the housing affordability crisis deepens, Airbnb and Vrbo face backlash

It’s been more than six years since Irvine, California, banned short-term rentals — and the city’s mayor hasn’t looked back.“It’s been great,” said Farrah Khan, mayor of Irvine, which is a city of about 300,000 in California’s Orange County. “In speaking to our residents, I think they appreciated that ban.”Irvine is not alone. Over the past few years, Airbnb and Vrbo, two of the most well-known short-term home rental platforms, have faced increasing restrictions and even outright bans from some local governments who say the platforms have worsened housing affordability.Ye

Counting down the top 10 most popular NFL teams

Job openings fall to pre-pandemic levels

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US nonprofit to spend $250 million on electric trucks to lease at California ports

U.S. nonprofit Climate United on Tuesday announced a plan to spend up to $250 million to buy as many as 500 electric semi trucks over three years in what it called the biggest single order of those zero-emissions trucks in the country so far.Climate United then aims to lease those vehicles at attractive rates to truckers that haul containers to and from California seaports, where roughly 33,000 so-called drayage trucks must have zero tailpipe emissions by 2035.The program could give a much-needed jolt to the adoption of heavy-duty electric trucks that now account for less than 1% of the

Pope's child protection board urges transparency from Vatican sex abuse office and compensation

Vehicle rams Louis Vuitton store in San Francisco Union Square burglary attempt

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Hate political text messages? Meet the people who send them

The letter that Jona Hilario, a mother of two in Columbus, received this summer from the Ohio secretary of state’s office came as a surprise. It warned she could face a potential felony charge if she voted because, although she’s a registered voter, documents at the state’s motor vehicle department indicated she was not a US citizen.But Hilario – who immigrated to the US from the Philippines two decades ago and now works to empower Asian and Pacific Islanders in her community – was naturalized in 2022; she just had not renewed her driver’s license since 2021. So, she had to submit

‘Fixated on his grievances’: Kamala Harris reacts to Donald Trump’s rally

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are everywhere and could have many health impacts, researchers say

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CNN bans conservative commentator who made a racist ‘joke’ on air

CNN says a right-wing commentator will not be welcomed back on air after he made a racist remark on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip.”On Monday’s prime time show, after Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan stated that he supports Palestinians, conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky responded, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” The comment referenced the thousands of pager explosions in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah militants. CNN has learned the attacks were carried out by Israel.Hasan then asked Phillip, “Did your guest just say I should be killed on live TV?” Girdusky responded by f

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Trump responds to critics calling him a fascist

Donald Trump on Monday told supporters in Georgia he is “the opposite of a Nazi,” as he responded to comparisons of his Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden to a 1939 pro-Nazi gathering at the same venue.The former president also sought to turn criticism of his rally into a flashpoint for all Trump supporters by falsely claiming Vice President Kamala Harris is calling those who cast their ballots for him Nazis.“The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that anyone who isn’t voting for her is a Nazi,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Georgia, a line that his Democratic rival

New York Yankees face uphill battle in World Series as LA Dodgers look to secure sweep with Shohei Ohtani hobbled

Trump calls Harris a fascist, says he is ‘the opposite of a Nazi’

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Iowa resident dies of rare Lassa fever, officials say

A resident of eastern Iowa who had recently traveled to West Africa died after catching Lassa fever, state officials said Monday. The virus, which is in the same viral hemorrhagic fever category as Ebola, is rarely seen in the United States.The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced the death Monday but did not release the person’s name and disclosed few details about them. Preliminary tests were presumptively positive for the virus, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to confirm the diagnosis.The department said the person was middle-aged and had

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John Berman breaks down how offensive joke could impact the race in PA

The violent and vulgar rhetoric at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday has prompted finger-pointing within the former president’s inner circle and deep concern that his message was once again eclipsed by controversy.Several of Trump’s allies expressed dismay at the language used by speakers at the New York City event, particularly an off-color joke about Puerto Rico by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who opened the event and set the tone for an evening of disparaging and divisive remarks.“I’m livid,” one source close to the former president said, noting that they were stun

Harris to speak on Tuesday at site of Trump's Jan. 6 rally

JPMorgan Chase customers who committed a viral check fraud scheme may soon have to pay up

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Russia, China and Cuba spread misinformation about US hurricane response, US official says

Russian, Chinese and Cuban operatives all spread misinformation about US government hurricane relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, a US official said Monday, citing recent US intelligence.A China-linked social media account used a likely AI-generated image of Vice President Kamala Harris overlooking flood damage next to a sign falsely claiming that “all of the United States’ money went to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan,” the US official said in a statement to CNN.Meanwhile, a Russian state-owned news agency shared a likely AI-generated image on the social med

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US warns humanitarian assistance not getting to people who need it in north Gaza

The U.S. State Department warned on Monday that humanitarian assistance was not getting to people that need it in Jabalia in northern Gaza, which spokesperson Matthew Miller said the U.S. does not accept."That's one of our assessments, is that the food and water and medicine that needs to get to people in Jabalia, they aren't getting it right now. And we want to see that change," Miller said.The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said around 100,000 people were marooned in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun without medical or food supplies. Reuters could not verify the number independently.

German-Iranian national and longtime US resident executed in Iran

Israel bans UN aid agency UNRWA from operating in Israel

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Hear from youngest woman ever to vote at a Vatican assembly

A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views ahead of a meeting of bishops and lay people – a synod – which formally concluded Sunday.The final Synod assembly document, approved by Pope Francis, said women must be given all the opportunities that church law provides to act as leaders, but left the possibility of ordaining women as deacons as an “open” question which needs further reflection.Frustrations about the slow pace of reform bubbled into the open during the assembly wh

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Russia bomb attack shatters historic building in Ukraine's Kharkiv

A Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv on Monday shattered much of the Derzhprom building, one of the most celebrated landmarks in Ukraine's second city, dating from the 1920s.Six people were injured in the 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) strike, adding to 13 wounded in an earlier overnight bomb attack on the city.In the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, a Russian missile struck a three-storey residential building, killing one person and wounding at least 11.President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced the strike on Kharkiv's Derzhprom (State Industry) building, one of the most striking examples of Soviet-e