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Apple is becoming a camera company Apple’s new iPhones can still send texts, download apps, and make video calls, but the company spends a lot of time and effort marketing its new phones as powerful photography… Technologyread more

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar fell while safe havens and currencies of oil-producing countries rallied on Monday, following an attack on Saudi Arabian refining facilities that disrupted global oil supply and heightened Middle East tensions. Oil prices surged nearly a fifth at one point following the strikes on two plants, including the world’s biggest petroleum processing facility in Abqaiq, which knocked out more than 5% of global oil supply. Yemen’s…

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Purdue Pharma, the company that made billions selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy in White Plains, New York, days after reaching a tentative settlement with many of the state and local governments suing it over the toll of opioids. The filing was anticipated before and after the tentative deal, which could be worth up to $12 billion over time, was struck. “This settlement framework avoids wasting hundreds of…

MIAMI (AP) — Beachgoers on the southeastern U.S. coast should be wary of potentially dangerous rip currents caused by Hurricane Humberto, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday. Late Sunday, Humberto strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph). The storm was about 785 miles (1,260 kilometers) west of Bermuda and moving northeast at 3 mph (5 kph). The U.S. National…

The blow is stunning. The attacks on Saudi oil facilities have knocked out half of Saudi Arabia’s oil production. The kingdom is the world’s largest oil exporter. The state-owned company that produces the oil, Aramco, is probably the world’s most valuable enterprise. And oil provides one-third of the world’s primary energy. It is hard to think through the global ramifications of an event such as this, because we know so little…

Julián Castro, who was housing secretary under President Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont, also called for his impeachment. Image Kamala Harris, a Democratic senator from California, said on Twitter that Justice Kavanaugh’s place on the Supreme Court was “an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice.”CreditT.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times Mr. Trump, who nominated Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, defended him on…

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Gusty winds are still affecting portions of the northwestern Bahamas and Humberto, only a couple of weeks after Hurricane Dorian hit the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama. The death toll currently stands at 50 after Dorian wreaked havoc but search and rescue teams are still searching through destroyed neighbourhoods. Meanwhile, a small low-pressure system is producing an elongated area of disorganised showers and thunderstorms over the central tropical Atlantic. The…

​Controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota made her first Sunday news show appearance on CBS’s Face The Nation, addressing comments made last week by the son of a 9/11 victim, who accused her of not understanding the outrage caused by her previously dismissive comments on the attack. Show moderator Margaret Brennan brought up the New York 9/11 memorial service, where a speaker wore a t-shirt inscribed with Omar’s prior controversial…

Almost exactly a year ago, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when the two were in high school. He became a Supreme Court Justice anyway. Now two New York Times reporters have uncovered new evidence backing up another woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct: Deborah Ramirez, who says that Kavanaugh thrust his penis in her face without her consent…

This satellite image shows smoke rising from Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia. Planet Labs Inc./AP hide caption toggle caption Planet Labs Inc./AP This satellite image shows smoke rising from Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia. Planet Labs Inc./AP Updated at 3:53 p.m. ET Iran says it is not behind Saturday’s drone attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia, denying accusations from Secretary of…

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday made his most expansive speech yet on race, calling on the nation to live up to its founding ideals and saying that silence on racism amounts to complicity. “There can be no realization of the American Dream without grappling with the original sin of slavery,” Biden told churchgoers in Alabama while delivering the keynote address at services marking the 56th anniversary of the…

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Tropical Storm Humberto is expected to strengthen over the next few days, likely becoming a Hurricane by late Sunday night or Early Monday, but is forecasted to make a sharp turn northeastward on Monday and avoid landfall with the United States. Humberto likely will become a Category 2 Hurricane by midweek and should do so in the open Atlantic Ocean. Humberto does seem to be traveling in the direction of…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Iran denied it was involved in drone attacks that hit the world’s biggest oil processing facility and an oil field in Saudi Arabia. The denial came just hours after America’s top diplomat alleged that Tehran was behind the “unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply.” Yemen’s Houthi rebels had claimed responsibility for the attacks, which led to the interruption of an estimated 5.7 million barrels in…

President Donald Trump said that Justice Brett Kavanaugh should “start suing people” or the Department of Justice “should come to his rescue” on Sunday in response to an article in The New York Times that surfaced a previously unreported allegation of sexual misconduct from the justice’s time as an undergraduate at Yale University. “The lies being told about him are unbelievable. False Accusations without recrimination. When does it stop? They…

An Iowa farmer loads corn seeds into the tanks on a planter near Luxemburg, Iowa. Forty percent of the United States’ corn crop goes to ethanol production. Mark Hirsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Hirsch/Getty Images An Iowa farmer loads corn seeds into the tanks on a planter near Luxemburg, Iowa. Forty percent of the United States’ corn crop goes to ethanol production. Mark Hirsch/Getty Images Farmers in the…

On Tuesday, Israelis will vote in a new election. The opinion polls suggest that the race for Israel’s next prime minister is between incumbent Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and Benny Gantz. This election is a rerun following an April election which failed to give Netanyahu a stable coalition. Once again, opinion polls show a near dead heat. The final pre-election polls released by Israeli channels 12 and 13 on Friday suggest…

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