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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed a lawsuit against the State Board of Elections in North Carolina seeking to omit his name from the state's ballot ahead of November. Earlier, the elections board rejected Kennedy’s plea to remove his name ballots citing the move would cost hundreds of dollars to reprint the ballots. The lawsuit filed in Wake County Superior Court Friday says the board's denial of his request to remove his name as a third-party presidential candidate violated state election law and his right to free speech, according to The News & Observer and WRAL.

Iran's final investigation into the May helicopter crash that killed president Ebrahim Raisi has found it was caused by bad weather, the body investigating the case said Sunday. The helicopter carrying 63-year-old Raisi and his entourage came down on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran, killing the president and seven others, and triggering snap elections. The main cause of the helicopter crash was the «complex climatic and atmospheric conditions of the region in the spring», the special board investigating the dimensions and causes of the helicopter accident said, according to state broadcaster IRIB.

BJP has set a target of making one crore members in Rajasthan, the party's membership campaign state convenor Arun Chaturvedi said on Sunday. He said that the target of making one crore members has been set at all 51,000 booths in the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will start the party's membership campaign on Monday from the BJP's central office in New Delhi. On September 3, Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma and state president Madan Rathore will start the campaign in the state. Chaturvedi said that under the BJP's membership campaign, anyone can become a member by giving a missed call through the Namo app, website or scanning a QR code. This time, along with online, members will also be made through offline mode.

Sales of passenger vehicles in the local market declined for the second straight month in August, on a high base, and with carmakers reducing dispatches to rationalise stocks at dealerships. According to industry estimates around 350,000-355,000 cars, sedans and utility vehicles were dispatched from factories to dealerships last month, which is a decline of 1.7-3% over 361,123 vehicles sold in August 2023. Automakers in India mostly report wholesale dispatches to dealers and not retail sales to customers. Carmakers are hopeful of healthy demand in the upcoming festive season during the Ganesh Chaturthi in Maharashtra starting Sep 7 and Onam in Kerala from Sep 16.

D Y Chandrachud on Sunday said the fact that only 6.7 per cent court infrastructure at the district level is female-friendly needs to be changed. Speaking at the 'National Conference of the District Judiciary', Chandrachud said it should be ensured that courts provide safe and accommodating environment for all members of the society. «We must without any question, change the fact that only 6.7 per cent of our court infrastructure at the district level is female-friendly. Is this acceptable today in a nation where at the basic level of recruitment in some states over 60 or 70 per cent of the recruits are women? Our focus areas are on increasing accessibility measures which can be understood by carrying out infrastructural audits. »Opening in-court medical facilities, creches and technological projects like e-seva Kendras and video conferencing devices. These endeavours aim to increase access to justice.

Hotel housekeepers have for years waged a fierce battle to restore automatic daily room cleaning that was scaled back at many properties during the pandemic

Kamala Harris' running-mate and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is reportedly facing opposition within his family. Minnesota Governor's brother Jeff Walz has opposed his brother's ideology. Jeff Walz has claimed that he was «100 per cent opposed to all his ideology», as per a report on New York Post. 60-year-old Jeff Walz is also pondering over backing Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, as per the report on New York Post.

Congress screening committee on Sunday said that the party was currently doing its preparations for all 81 assembly seats in Jharkhand. The committee headed by its chairman Girish Chodankar arrived at Jharkhand's capital Ranchi on Saturday to review preparations for the assembly elections due later this year. The party has invited applications from all those who want to contest upcoming assembly polls, he said. «We are getting an exciting response. Fifty to 100 applications are being received from each assembly segment. Currently, the party is doing its preparations for all 81 assembly seats in the state,» he said while addressing media persons here.

The origins of Labor Day date back to the late 19th century, when activists first sought to establish a day that would pay tribute to workers

Pawan Khera said on Sunday that the collapse of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's statue in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district has broken the hearts of people in the country who draw inspiration from the legendary warrior king. Addressing a press conference here, Khera accused Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of spreading fake narratives over the incident. «The Mughals did not succeed in breaking Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. But this corrupt government has done what Mughals could never do,» he said. Hitting out at Fadnavis for claiming that late prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had shown Shivaji Maharaj in a «poor light» in his book 'The Discovery of India', Khera said the BJP leader should stop spreading fake narratives.

Russia will make changes to its nuclear doctrine in response to the West's actions over the conflict in Ukraine, the TASS state news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Sunday. Ryabkov did not say what the changes would entail. Russia's existing nuclear doctrine, set out in a decree by President Vladimir Putin in 2020, says it may use nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens the existence of the state.

Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee in the US presidential election in November, on Saturday called on her Republican rival Donald Trump to debate her with their microphones switched on throughout the event. Harris and the former president have both agreed to a debate, hosted by ABC News, on September 10. «Donald Trump is surrendering to his advisors who won't allow him to debate with a live microphone. If his own team doesn't have confidence in him, the American people definitely can’t,» Harris said in a post on X.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have starkly different visions on how to address a changing climate while ensuring a reliable energy supply

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil has divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians had difficulty and doubts about navigating other social media in its absence

Trinamool Congress president Ripun Bora on Sunday resigned from the party, claiming that the people of the northeastern state consider it as a «regional party» of West Bengal and are not willing to accept it as their own. In a letter to All India Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, Bora, the former Rajya Sabha member, said he had offered many suggestions to party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to make TMC acceptable in Assam, but those were «not implemented». "Assam TMC has great potential, but several recurring issues have hindered our progress, including the perception of TMC as a regional party of West Bengal. To counter this perception, we made several suggestions," Bora said in his resignation letter.

Donald Trump supporter Elon Musk called tech investor and Democrat Vinod Khosla “deranged" on X over the latter’s distaste for the former president. Kamala Harris supporter and chief executive of the cloud-computing company Box, Aaron Levie, suggested investor David Sacks must be high on cough syrup for supporting Trump. Green tech investors who admired Musk are calling him a traitor to the cause for siding with Trump.

The family of George Glezmann, feeling like it is running out of options, has informed the White House it would negotiate directly with the Taliban to try to secure the American hostage’s release from Afghanistan. “We are in the process of finalizing a meeting in Doha with the [Taliban] to try to recover George," wrote George Taylor, a Glezmann family representative, in an email last week to senior U.S. officials including national security adviser Jake Sullivan and top hostage negotiator Roger Carstens.

Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza, including that of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, U.S. President Joe Biden said late on Saturday. «Earlier today, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas,» Biden said in a statement issued by the White House. «I am devastated and outraged.» The Israeli military said in a statement early on Sunday that the bodies of Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino had been brought to Israel.

Moms for Liberty event in Washington DC. The 78-year-old's performance, which saw him dancing on stage with the group's co-founder, sparked varied reactions online. Scheduled for November, the upcoming US Presidential elections are widely anticipated to be a direct contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The video of Trump dancing was shared by a supporter on social media, garnering different opinions. «Trump just ended his Moms For Liberty event with his impressive dance moves! Moms love Donald Trump! Kamala (Harris) definitely doesn't want you to share this!» posted a supporter. The internet response to Trump's dance video was split. Some users praised the former president for his agility at the age of 78. One user commented, «Trump is the people's president!» In contrast, others found the episode comedic or disturbing. Another user wrote, «He's the worst version of the creepy, unstable uncle in the family.»

Iran president says investment needed to achieve 8% annual economic growth.

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil has divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians had difficulty and doubts about navigating other social media in its absence