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death toll climbed towards 100 after Hurricane Helene knocked out power for millions, destroyed roads and bridges and caused dramatic flooding from Florida to Virginia. The storm's winds, rain and storm surge killed at least 90 people in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia, according to a Reuters tally of state and local officials. Officials feared still more bodies would be discovered.

Sebi) is set to hold a crucial board meeting on Monday, its first gathering following the allegations of conflict of interest against chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch by US-based Hindenburg Research and India's Congress party. The board is likely to take cognisance of the conflict of interest accusations and the issues arising from the withdrawn press release on employee matters. Although these topics are not on the official agenda, they may be informally discussed, according to people with knowledge of the matter. «Between the last board meeting and Monday's meeting, any significant event concerning the institution, its board members, including the chairperson, has to be taken note of by the board,» said one of them.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it charged a Florida man for allegedly threatening to kill one of his opponents in a 2022 Republican primary race for a U.S. House seat, which subsequently was won by Representative Anna Paulina Luna.

Donald Trump escalated his personal attacks on his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, on Sunday by repeating an insult that she was “mentally impaired” while also saying she should be “impeached and prosecuted." Trump's rally Sunday in Erie, Pennsylvania, took on similar themes as an event one day earlier that he described himself as a “dark speech.” He told a cheering crowd that Harris was responsible for an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border and «she should be impeached and prosecuted for her actions.” “Crooked Joe Biden became mentally impaired,” he added. “Sad. But lying Kamala Harris, honestly, I believe she was born that way. There’s something wrong with Kamala. And I just don’t know what it is but there is definitely something missing. And you know what, everybody knows it.”

Donald Trump held a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, his fourth campaign stop in a month in what has become the 2024 campaign's most hotly contested state. The former president had begun addressing supporters in Erie, in Pennsylvania's northwest corner, shortly after 2 p.m. local time (1800 GMT). His rally comes one month to the day after his running mate, U.S. Senator JD Vance, held his own event in the lakeside city, and six days before Trump is due to hold another rally in western Pennsylvania, on October 5. Many allies and informal advisers to Trump privately characterize Pennsylvania as the most important of the battleground states in the November 5 election.

Stop-and-start negotiations between Israel and Hamas to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip, pushed by the United States, have repeatedly been described by the Biden administration as on the verge of a breakthrough, only to fail. The current Western-led attempt to avert a full-scale Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon amounts to a scramble to avert disaster. Its chances of success seem deeply uncertain after the Israeli killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, on Friday. «There's more capability in more hands in a world where centrifugal forces are far stronger than centralizing ones,» said Richard Haass, the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. «The Middle East is the primary case study of this dangerous fragmentation.»

Policy push by various countries and stricter emission norms are fuelling electric vehicle sales every year across key global markets, shows data from the International Energy Agency. However, penetration of hybrids (including strong hybrids and plug-in hybrids), driven purely by consumer choice, are climbing up at a faster pace. Since 2021, hybrid vehicle sales have been rising steadily in China, Japan, Korea, UK, France, and US, underscoring growing consumer preference for this technology, shows data collated by Nomura Research Institute. China leads the trend with a nearly fourfold surge in hybrid penetration levels to 19.9% in the first half of 2024 from 5.3% in 2021. Korea too has seen a big jump — to 25.2% from 11.8% in the same period. Other markets have shown a similar growth trajectory.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., says possible port strikes across America could really 'exacerbate' supply chain problems on 'The Evening Edit.' 

Talk to the hukka-smoking elders playing cards in villages or those on their morning jogs in urban parks, the issue of migration of youth, especially through the 'dunki' route and drugs feature prominently. Dunki or the mule route, is the slang used to gain unauthorised entry into the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Angoor Devi, in her early 60s, at Narukhera village near Karnala asks her husband Chand Singh whether their son Vikas has called or not. Smoking a hukka, along with others from the village, Singh says he was still waiting for his call. A Jat, Singh who owns six acres, says the land he has is just sufficient for his entire family. «Aage ka bhi toh sochna pade hai, Yehi soch ke chora bahar chala gaya dunki mar ke (But we have to think about the future as well, that's why my son went abroad),» Singh says.

Donald Trump scrambled political norms. Democratic governor of Minnesota Walz made it to national prominence by labelling rival Republicans 'weird'. Republican junior senator from Ohio Vance has torn into Vice President Kamala Harris' party on immigration, notably by spreading a false story about Haitian immigrants in his home state that Trump then cited during his own debate with Harris. A nominee's choice of number 2 has historically made little Election Day difference. This year could be different.

Government bond yields are likely to soften further by the end of the fiscal, leading to an annualised savings of Rs 1,000-2,000 crore for the exchequer. Higher demand, especially from foreign portfolio investors, would help yields remain tamed, economists said, pointing to North Block’s second-half borrowing calendar published last week. The Centre’s gross borrowings for the second half of the fiscal have been fixed at Rs 6.61 lakh crore with the borrowing target for the entire fiscal being maintained at Rs 14.01 lakh crore, the central bank said last week. About 77% of the bond issuances will be for 10 years or higher tenure. «Given the favourable global and domestic backdrop, we expect a further downward bias in domestic yields, leading to a steepening bias in the yield curve,» Bank of Baroda economist Aditi Gupta said.

Humanitarians are enlisting entertainers and creators to reach impassioned youth during climate week events that coincide with the United Nations General Assembly's high-level meetings

Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index is up 20 per cent year-to-date near a record high. With the third quarter ending on Monday, the index is on track for its strongest January-September performance since 1997. U.S. stocks closed another record-setting week with a muted performance Friday, as hope built on Wall Street that the U.S. economy can manage the rare feat of suppressing high inflation without causing a recession. S&P 500 slipped 7.20 points to 5,738.17, but it still closed out a third straight winning week and its sixth in the last seven. The Dow rose 137.89 to 42,313.00, and the Nasdaq composite lost 70.70 to 18,119.59.

Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump may disagree on numerous issues, but they’ve both recognized the value of apprenticeships and trade schools as viable alternatives to traditional four-year college degrees. Both political figures are advocating for policies that encourage young Americans to pursue these routes to well-paying jobs, as mentioned in a report by USA Today. Recently, Kamala Harris announced her intent to reduce college degree requirements for federal jobs and urged private-sector employers to do the same if elected. Speaking in the working-class town of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Harris emphasized the need to recognize the value of different career pathways beyond the conventional college route.

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