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From ocregister.com By DEEPA BHARATH Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India, particularly for Hindus, and widely marked by prayers, family gatherings and the lighting of fireworks. More than one billion people across faiths celebrate it in the world’s most populous nation and its diaspora. The name Diwali comes from “Deepavali,” […] From ocregister.com By JOHN RABY A storm system that caused what the National Weather Service calls a catastrophic, 1,000-year flood along the Tennessee-Georgia state line moved up the Eastern Seaboard on Friday, prompting flood advisories in coastal areas from North Carolina to Massachusetts. In McCaysville, Georgia, and Copperhill, Tennessee, residents and crews spent Friday cleaning […] From ocregister.com By R.J. RICO and EMILIE MEGNIEN ATLANTA (AP) — Zoo Atlanta’s newest pandas munched bamboo and lounged Friday during their public debut as smiling visitors lined up to welcome them. Ping Ping, a male, and Fu Shuang, a female, arrived in September from China under a 10-year loan agreement, bringing the cuddly black-and-white […] From ocregister.com Cornell University’s Faculty Senate approved a resolution Friday declaring “no confidence” in the school’s top leaders, a symbolic gesture reflecting deep discontent on campus in the wake of a former student’s lawsuit saying she was gang raped at a fraternity party in 2024. The resolution passed 75-50, with five faculty senators abstaining and […] From ocregister.com By DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged more support for Puerto Rico on Friday as it remains mired in multiple crises, asserting during a trip to the island that the sweeping Democratic win in the U.S. midterm elections […] Houston mayor signs order to limit cooperation with ICE, says ‘elections matter’ after Democrats winFrom ocregister.com By LEKAN OYEKANMI, ANNA WILDER and ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The mayor of Houston on Friday said the city would limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, heralding “a new model” of immigration enforcement after Democrats won power in Texas for the first time in decades. Mayor John Whitmire said the […] From ocregister.com Kim Bogan, an emergency room nurse in Michigan, has spent the past year campaigning for Abdul El-Sayed, because she believes “Medicare for All” is the best way to fix a broken healthcare system. The patients she sees coming into the ER have often put off getting care, even as their conditions deteriorated. (Kate […] From ocregister.com A NYPD officer was arrested after he was accused of pulling a gun on a woman he solicited for sex in the Bronx after she refused to service him inside his car, cops said. Joel Perez Leonardo, 25, was charged with harassment, menacing, patronizing a person for prostitution, and operating a motor vehicle […] From ocregister.com NEW YORK (AP) — Three people accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate corporate executives and attorneys to steal about $129 million have been indicted on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, prosecutors said Thursday. Over more than a year and a half, Jacob Soall, 41, Sharon Hazan, 54, and Guy […] From ocregister.com By DANIEL KOZIN and PHILIP MARCELO MIAMI (AP) — Former NFL star Antonio Brown pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated assault with a firearm in connection with a 2025 shooting outside a celebrity boxing match in Miami. Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez sentenced Brown to three years of probation, during which time he will have […] |
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