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New Zealanders vote in general election

New Zealand votes in a general election on Saturday, with polls closing at 7 p.m. (0600 GMT). New Zealand’s Electoral Commission will begin releasing numbers shortly after, and expects to report preliminary results from 50% of voting places by 10 p.m. Official results, which consider special votes including overseas ballots, will be declared on November 27.Candidates standing for election include Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, leader of the centre-right National Party, and Chris Hipkins, leader of the centre-left Labour. There is no time frame for when a government must be formed.

OpenAI to press ahead with data-center expansion despite midterm sweep, CFO tells CNBC

Brazilian banks cut growth forecasts, raising fiscal stakes for Lula

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Susie Wiles, Trump's longest-serving White House chief of staff, is leaving the administration

President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections. On his social media site, Trump praised Wiles and said she’d continue to work for his political organization. Miller, long a key member of Trump’s inner circle, is a key architect of the administration’s hard-line immigration policies. Wiles, the steely political operator and longtime adviser to Trump, was the first woman to ever serve in that post.

Daly says Fed rate hike likely, despite 'painful' tech-stock dive

Mississippi US Senate candidates battle over ballots as winner remains unclear

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Soccer-China in contact with Real Madrid, LaLiga over Mbappe's Mao comments

China is in contact with Real Madrid and LaLiga over the fallout from Kylian Mbappe's remarks about Mao Zedong, China's ambassador to Spain Yao Jing said on Friday."There are no negotiations, but there is communication, based on mutual understanding," Yao told Spanish news agency EFE before attending a forum at the University of Salamanca."This unfortunate incident hurt the feelings of many people in China, who now have to come to terms with the current situation," he added.The dispute began after a video circulated online in which the Real Madrid and France forward discussed a meme showing h

Central banking veterans Knot and de Cos in race to replace Lagarde at ECB

AkzoNobel , Axalta gain conditional EU antitrust approval for $25 billion merger

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Colom tells CNN voters showed the country 'Mississippi matters'

National party operatives, lawyers, grassroots activists and content creators are descending on Mississippi to observe the vetting of thousands of provisional ballots in the coming days and to gear up for possible legal challenges over the final results.Mississippi, a state not used to the national spotlight for close elections, now sits at the forefront of a fight that will determine the size of the Democrats’ majority in the US Senate next year.Democrat Scott Colom has a razor-thin lead over Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, in a state that hasn’t sent a Democrat to the Senate in nearly

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Hegseth is not under consideration as jockeying begins for Tennessee Senate seat, AP source says

The race to replace Sen. Marsha Blackburn is intensifying in Tennessee, just days after she won the race for governor, with one Republican congressman publicly expressing interest and speculation swirling around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican who won reelection Tuesday, told The Associated Press that he wants to be considered for the Senate seat when Blackburn becomes governor in January. “Absolutely. Absolutely,” Burchett said when asked. Hegseth has also surfaced as a potential replacement, with his fut

US judge temporarily blocks Trump’s Washington arch

Trump says Oval Office to become national monument

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‘Like a bolt from the blue’: Israel’s president shocked by Trump announcing end of aid

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said it was “like a bolt from the blue” when President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday, the day of the midterm elections, that he would end US aid to Israel.Herzog brought up the issue during a meeting with the Yashar party, led by Gadi Eisenkot, the main rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“The issue of the American aid worries me greatly, and it also fell on me like a bolt from the blue. We have an (memorandum of understanding) with the US that is supposed to last until 2028 and this is one of the major goals, and therefore a government must be f

It's too early to call the outcome of California's proposal to tax billionaires

A California measure to tax the net worth of billionaires that divided liberal leaders nationally and triggered one of the most expensive ballot fights in state history was too early to call Wednesday morning as the vote tally continued. Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of Californians whose net worth exceeds $1 billion, with most of the revenue dedicated to replacing federal funding cuts to healthcare. The measure left the ultra-rich, some of whom spent heavily to defeat it, scrambling to figure out whether they would pay the tax or leave California.

Trump is still in charge, but Democrats gain leverage in coming economic debate

Seven numbers that explain Democrats' US midterm triumph

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Wave of anonymous bomb threats in Europe spreads to broadcasters — what’s going on?

Dozens of flights and several media organizations across Europe this week have been impacted by a string of hoax bomb threats which have disrupted travel plans and left authorities scrambling to identify the culprit.Fresh disruption hit several European airports and flights on Friday while Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ evacuated its offices after also receiving a bomb threat. Several other media organizations, including Sky, said they too had received similar threats.This string of incidents comes as Europe grapples with more and more hybrid attacks, some of which authorities have blam

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More than 40 pilot whales die in ‘distressing’ mass stranding on New Zealand coast

More than 40 pilot whales have died on a New Zealand beach following a mass stranding that rescuers described as “difficult and distressing.”The pod of pilot whales was found stranded on the Ngawi coast near the village of Cape Palliser on the southern tip of New Zealand’s North Island just after 8 a.m. local time on Thursday, the country’s Department of Conservation (DOC) said in a statement posted on Facebook that morning.At the time, at least 20 whales were known to be ashore, with four still alive, the environmental organization Project Jonah New Zealand said in a post on Facebook

Hegseth allows National Guard to boost DC patrols with military vehicles, boats and patrol cars

US carries out 'defensive' strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island, officials say

It's too early to call the outcome of California's proposal to tax billionaires

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Judge blocks construction of Trump’s arch within an hour of its final approval

A federal judge has blocked construction of President Donald Trump’s triumphal arch for 14 days after a final vote approving the structure passed late Thursday despite fierce opposition from citizens who voiced concern during a marathon public hearing.The National Capital Planning Commission, one of two federal agencies that oversees architectural and design changes in Washington, gave the final green light to build the 250-foot monument at its virtual meeting on Thursday after more than 120 citizens, many of them veterans, lined up to plead with the panel to block the project.After more tha

What the NTSB is examining as it investigates why a Learjet plunged into the ground

Investigators say Learjet may have broken up before crashing in Florida

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What sparked the stock market’s $2.5 trillion sell-off?

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Trump tapes ‘60 Minutes’ interview after GOP midterm rout

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Trump says he’s declaring Oval Office and Cabinet Room national landmarks to prevent future changes

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Tech-stock rout accelerates retreat from the AI trade

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The US economy added 165,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate fell

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Companies most exposed to potential US data-center curbs after blue sweep

Democratic victories in key data-center states such as Texas and Georgia have fueled expectations of tighter AI oversight, while investors also worry that a potential extension of

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Black voters help propel Democrats, including history makers, in sweeping midterm victories

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Democratic socialist Raman elected Los Angeles mayor in upset over Bass

Democratic socialist-backed candidate Nithya Raman defeated incumbent Karen Bass in a closely fought race for Los Angeles mayor.

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AI data centers took a beating in the midterm elections. A reckoning may be ahead for tech giants

Opposition to artificial intelligence data centers was part of midterm races across the U.S., with campaigns featuring them in hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of TV ads and many winners pledging to clamp down on the energy-hungry behemoths

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AI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion wipe out

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls