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Canada&rsquo;s Deputy High Commissioner to India Stewart Wheeler, left, leaves after meeting with officials at the Indian government&rsquo;s Ministry of External Affairs, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.

Canada and India expel each other’s diplomats in escalating dispute over a 2023 assassination

Canada&rsquo;s Deputy High Commissioner to India Stewart Wheeler, left, leaves after meeting with officials at the Indian government&rsquo;s Ministry of External Affairs, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.

October 14, 2024, 12:18pm Nation & World

Canada and India each expelled six diplomats Monday in tit-for-tat moves as part of an escalating dispute over the June 2023 assassination of a Sikh activist in Canada. Read story

Olivia Chasse with her daughter Charlotte, walk their golden retriever Ben down Dahlia Lane in Vero Beach, Fla., on Saturday. Ben is a retired therapy dog, and the Chasses took him out walk to help cheer people up after tornadoes from Hurricane Milton damaged many Vero Beach homes earlier in the week.

Therapy dog comes out of retirement to help Milton recovery

Olivia Chasse with her daughter Charlotte, walk their golden retriever Ben down Dahlia Lane in Vero Beach, Fla., on Saturday. Ben is a retired therapy dog, and the Chasses took him out walk to help cheer people up after tornadoes from Hurricane Milton damaged many Vero Beach homes earlier in the week.

October 14, 2024, 12:16pm Nation & World

The same tornado that devastated the Spanish Lakes neighborhood in For Pierce, killing six people, crossed into Indian River County — ripping up roofs and trees in Vero Beach, according to the National Weather Service. Read story

FILE - Lilly Ledbetter watches as President Barack Obama signs executive actions, with pending Senate legislation, aimed at closing a compensation gender gap that favors men, at the White House in Washington, April 8, 2014, during an event marking Equal Pay Day.

Lilly Ledbetter, an icon of the fight for equal pay, has died at 86

FILE - Lilly Ledbetter watches as President Barack Obama signs executive actions, with pending Senate legislation, aimed at closing a compensation gender gap that favors men, at the White House in Washington, April 8, 2014, during an event marking Equal Pay Day.

October 14, 2024, 11:29am Business

Lilly Ledbetter, an former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86. Read story

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with a NASA spacecraft bound for Jupiter lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center Monday, Oct. 14, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of the right conditions for life

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with a NASA spacecraft bound for Jupiter lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center Monday, Oct. 14, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

October 14, 2024, 11:29am Latest News

A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life. Read story

FILE - A Bath &amp; Body Works store is shown on May 21, 2020, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.

Bath & Body Works pulls candle packaging that some said evoked Ku Klux Klan

FILE - A Bath &amp; Body Works store is shown on May 21, 2020, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.

October 14, 2024, 11:28am Business

Bath & Body Works is apologizing for selling a candle with packaging that some people said looked like Ku Klux Klan hoods. Read story

FILE - Israeli soldiers gather near a gate to walk through an inspection area for trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip, on the Israeli side of the Erez crossing into northern Gaza, on May 1, 2024.

Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

FILE - Israeli soldiers gather near a gate to walk through an inspection area for trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip, on the Israeli side of the Erez crossing into northern Gaza, on May 1, 2024.

October 14, 2024, 8:38am Nation & World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes. Read story

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump greets members of the U.S. Border Patrol as he speaks at a campaign rally at the Findlay Toyota Arena Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Ariz.

Trump calls for adding 10,000 Border Patrol agents after derailing a bipartisan border bill

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump greets members of the U.S. Border Patrol as he speaks at a campaign rally at the Findlay Toyota Arena Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Ariz.

October 14, 2024, 8:37am Nation & World

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday proposed hiring 10,000 additional Border Patrol agents and giving them a $10,000 retention and signing bonus, after he derailed a bipartisan bill earlier this year that included funding for more border personnel. Read story

Trump leads, and his party follows, on vaccine skepticism

October 14, 2024, 8:37am Health

More than four years ago, former President Donald Trump’s administration accelerated the development and rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. The project, dubbed Operation Warp Speed, likely saved millions of lives. But a substantial number of Republican voters now identify as vaccine skeptics — and Trump rarely mentions what’s considered one… Read story

FILE - Tatanka Gibson of the Haliwa-Saponi/Nansemond Tribal Nations leads attendees in song and dance during a gathering marking Indigenous Peoples Day at Penn Treaty Park, Oct. 11, 2021, in Philadelphia.

Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated with an eye on the election

FILE - Tatanka Gibson of the Haliwa-Saponi/Nansemond Tribal Nations leads attendees in song and dance during a gathering marking Indigenous Peoples Day at Penn Treaty Park, Oct. 11, 2021, in Philadelphia.

October 14, 2024, 8:35am Nation & World

As Native Americans across the U.S. come together on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day to celebrate their history and culture and acknowledge the ongoing challenges they face, many will do so with a focus on the election. Read story

Chris Sundar measures the depth of floodwaters from Hurricane Milton in his garage Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Tampa, Fla.

Florida neighbors band together to recover after one-two punch from hurricanes Helene and Milton

Chris Sundar measures the depth of floodwaters from Hurricane Milton in his garage Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Tampa, Fla.

October 14, 2024, 8:34am Nation & World

When ankle-deep floodwaters from Hurricane Helene bubbled up through the floors of their home, Kat Robinson-Malone and her husband sent a late-night text message to their neighbors two doors down: “Hey, we’re coming.” Read story