More than a billion Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists around the globe at present are celebrating Diwali, the pageant of lights. Also often known as Deepavali, it’s one in every of India’s most cherished holidays, symbolizing the triumph of sunshine over darkness and good over evil.
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President Donald Trump swiped at Saturday’s “No Kings” protests across the US, telling reporters on Air Force One that individuals who attended the rallies “are not representative of the people of our country.” Nearly 7 million folks confirmed up for Saturday’s rallies towards the administration’s insurance policies — together with greater than 100,000 folks in New York — in accordance to organizers and officers. Along with bigger occasions in main cities, small pockets of “No Kings” protesters cropped up alongside busy thoroughfares, in small-town squares and at municipal parks in crimson and blue states alike. Trump and Vice President JD Vance additionally posted AI memes to social media depicting Trump wearing a crown, showing to mock the protesters.
French police are looking for eight items of “priceless” jewellery following a daring daytime heist on the Louvre in Paris on Sunday. Early proof means that the thieves used an extendable ladder and different instruments to break right into a window off a balcony earlier than stealing French Crown Jewels and other treasures from the Apollo Gallery. The heist was carried out in seven minutes because the museum was opening to the general public at 9:30 a.m. native time. Four perpetrators seem to have been concerned within the theft, who have been unarmed and fled on bikes. French President Emmanuel Macron stated that “everything is being done” to catch the suspects. The Louvre, which homes world-famous artworks together with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, has not been the goal of a theft in additional than a century, a neighborhood official stated.
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A brand new week begins ad infinitum for the federal government shutdown, now coming into its twentieth day. Democrats and Republicans are nonetheless locked in a standoff over well being care subsidies as senators put together to return to Washington within the coming hours. Meanwhile, the federal company accountable for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff today because the stalemate drags on, in accordance to the Department of Energy. About 1,400 staff on the National Nuclear Security Administration will obtain furlough notices, whereas fewer than 400 staff will stay on the job to safeguard the stockpile, Energy Department spokesperson Ben Dietderich instructed NCS. The furloughs will first influence NNSA websites that assemble nuclear weapons and can drive these websites into protected shutdown mode. For now, two NNSA sources instructed NCS there isn’t a quick nationwide safety menace.
President Trump introduced Sunday he would end all US payments and subsidies to Colombia, marking a dramatic escalation in his conflict with the nation’s president, Gustavo Petro. Trump stated in a social media put up that Petro “does nothing to stop” the manufacturing of medicine in his nation, “despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America.” The US has supplied about $210 million in help to Colombia this fiscal yr, together with round $31 million in agricultural assist, in accordance to the US Department of State. Trump additionally stated he plans to impose tariffs on the Latin American nation over allegations of drug trafficking. This comes as tensions within the area are rising because the US carries out military strikes on boats which might be allegedly concerned in unlawful drug trafficking within the Caribbean.
Vice President JD Vance will lead a delegation to Israel this week, sources instructed NCS, because the administration works to implement the subsequent section of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire settlement. This comes after the US-brokered deal endured its first major test over the weekend, with either side reaffirming their commitments after a lethal flare-up. On Sunday, Israel carried out a collection of strikes throughout Gaza after it accused Hamas of finishing up an assault that killed two Israeli troopers. The Israeli strikes killed at the very least 44 folks in a number of elements of the enclave, in accordance to knowledge from Gaza’s hospitals. Both Hamas and Israeli forces blamed the opposite for violating the ceasefire.
Israel accuses Hamas of attacking Israeli forces in Gaza
Huge world outage impacts Amazon, Fortnite and Snapchat
Amazon has stated its cloud computing companies unit, AWS, has been hit by an outage, disrupting a number of well-liked web sites and apps worldwide, together with Snapchat, Facebook, and Fortnite. A quickly rising checklist of web sites are experiencing points, in accordance to Downdetector, which tracks web disruptions. Follow live updates here.
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Parents — when does monitoring your little one’s location flip from safety to an invasion of privateness? NCS’s Don Riddell shares his take as a father of grownup twins.
The San Jose Sharks have apologized after this offensive message was displayed on the world’s scoreboard through the staff’s Hispanic Heritage Night.
What started as a routine run via acquainted woods turned a determined dash for survival. A runner tells NCS what it seems like to survive a bear attack.
From billboards to runways, it looks like everyone seems to be grabbing their fringe and boots made for strolling. NCS’s Leah Asmelash explains why it’s possible you’ll be seeing a “wholehearted embrace of the American West.”
Fans of “Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” or “DDLJ” nonetheless flock to a Mumbai cinema that has proven the movie every day for three decades straight.
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That’s roughly how many individuals are prone to losing food stamps next month amid the federal authorities shutdown. It’s not clear whether or not the Trump administration will discover the funds to proceed paying advantages because it has with other priorities.
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‘Everything is already in there’: Comedians react to meals chains inside Pentagon
How about an intelligence briefing with a aspect of fries? In this video, Roy Wood Jr. and his panel on “Have I Got News for You” joke in regards to the Pentagon’s providing of eating places.