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Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work

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Oct 29, 20243 min read

Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work

Republican Presidential candidate, former US president, Donald Trump, left, poses for photos with Republican Vice Presidential candidate,...

Fact check: Trump won’t stop telling a lie that there were no terror attacks during his presidency

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Oct 29, 20243 min read

Fact check: Trump won’t stop telling a lie that there were no terror attacks during his presidency

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Ed Fry Arena in Indiana,...

Fact check: Harris makes false claim about Trump’s record on manufacturing jobs

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Oct 29, 20243 min read

Fact check: Harris makes false claim about Trump’s record on manufacturing jobs

Vice President Kamala Harris appears during an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday, September 25. Vice President Kamala Harris made a false...

Fact check: Amid bipartisan praise for Biden hurricane response, Trump falsely claims reviews are ‘universally’ negative

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Oct 29, 20243 min read

Fact check: Amid bipartisan praise for Biden hurricane response, Trump falsely claims reviews are ‘universally’ negative

Former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a press conference in the Discovery Center on October 1,...

Fact check: Trump, on a lying spree, made at least 40 separate false claims in two Pennsylvania speeches

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Oct 29, 202414 min read

Fact check: Trump, on a lying spree, made at least 40 separate false claims in two Pennsylvania speeches

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October...

Supreme Court to consider conservative effort to block federal power and a challenge to ‘qualified immunity’ for police officers

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Oct 29, 20243 min read

Supreme Court to consider conservative effort to block federal power and a challenge to ‘qualified immunity’ for police officers

Jim Young/Reuters/File The Supreme Court on Friday added another case to its docket that asks the justices to overturn decades-old...

Supreme Court allows Biden administration to continue fully enforcing ghost gun regulations

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Oct 29, 20243 min read

Supreme Court allows Biden administration to continue fully enforcing ghost gun regulations

Alex Wong/Getty Images The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Biden administration to continue regulating so-called ghost guns –...

Amy Coney Barrett: Supreme Court ethics code would be a good idea

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Oct 29, 20243 min read

Amy Coney Barrett: Supreme Court ethics code would be a good idea

Amy Coney Barrett meets with U.S. Sen. Martha McSally on October 21, 2020, in Washington, DC Amy Coney Barrett on Monday became the...

GOP-led states and industry groups ask Supreme Court to block Biden’s ‘good neighbor’ pollution rule

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Oct 29, 20242 min read

GOP-led states and industry groups ask Supreme Court to block Biden’s ‘good neighbor’ pollution rule

The FirstEnergy Corp. W.H. Sammis coal-fired power plant on the Ohio River in Stratton, Ohio, in 2017. A group of Republican-led states,...

Supreme Court says Missouri can’t bar local police from helping to enforce federal gun laws

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Oct 29, 20242 min read

Supreme Court says Missouri can’t bar local police from helping to enforce federal gun laws

Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images The Supreme Court declined to revive a controversial Missouri law on Friday that prohibits...

Supreme Court lifts restrictions on Biden administration communications with social media companies

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Oct 29, 20242 min read

Supreme Court lifts restrictions on Biden administration communications with social media companies

The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington, DC on February 8, 2022 The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on the Biden...

How Biden is continuing to cancel student loan debt despite Supreme Court ruling

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Oct 29, 20244 min read

How Biden is continuing to cancel student loan debt despite Supreme Court ruling

President Joe Biden speaks about student debt relief at the Central New Mexico Community College Student Resource Center in Albuquerque,...

Florida asks Supreme Court to allow its anti-drag law to take effect

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Oct 29, 20242 min read

Florida asks Supreme Court to allow its anti-drag law to take effect

Hundreds of drag queens and allies marched from Cascades Park to the Florida Capitol where they held a rally on the steps of the...

Redistricting battles have mostly ended. Here’s how they could determine the balance of power in the US House

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Oct 29, 20244 min read

Redistricting battles have mostly ended. Here’s how they could determine the balance of power in the US House

The US Capitol is seen at sunrise in Washington, DC, on October 18, 2023. Jose Luis Magana/AP Multiple Supreme Court showdowns....

SAF vehicle accident rate and heat injuries down in 2023

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Oct 29, 20242 min read

SAF vehicle accident rate and heat injuries down in 2023

Heat injuries and vehicle accidents are specific areas that the SAF is paying attention to as it seeks to strengthen its safety culture....

Low visibility due to dust clouds likely contributed to Exercise Wallaby accident: Ng Eng Hen

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Oct 29, 20242 min read

Low visibility due to dust clouds likely contributed to Exercise Wallaby accident: Ng Eng Hen

A Singapore Army Hunter armoured fighting vehicle in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area during Exercise Wallaby 2024 SINGAPORE – The...

Over two-fifths of bankruptcy orders in the first half of 2024 due to business failures: MAS

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Oct 29, 20243 min read

Over two-fifths of bankruptcy orders in the first half of 2024 due to business failures: MAS

Stress tests by the MAS have revealed that most households should be able to service their mortgage debt even under conservative...

The gist: Urgent Bill passed to amend Insurance Act; Team Singapore honoured

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Oct 29, 20243 min read

The gist: Urgent Bill passed to amend Insurance Act; Team Singapore honoured

PM Lawrence Wong and Cabinet ministers posing for a group photo with Team Singapore Olympians and Paralympians on Oct 16 SINGAPORE –...

NTUC central committee not aware of capital reduction plan in Allianz-Income deal: Desmond Tan

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Oct 29, 20244 min read

NTUC central committee not aware of capital reduction plan in Allianz-Income deal: Desmond Tan

NTUC Enterprise went into the deal to strengthen Income in the longer run as it recognised the challenges that Income had been facing....

MPs raise questions over communication, business uncertainty in move to block Allianz-Income deal

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Oct 29, 20244 min read

MPs raise questions over communication, business uncertainty in move to block Allianz-Income deal

The proposed deal drew public outcry when it was announced in July. It was then raised in Parliament on Aug 6 SINGAPORE - The...