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By Hadas Gold and Brian Stelter, CNN Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. Photo: AFP For the first time in decades, the Washington Post will not endorse a candidate in this year's presidential election, the newspaper's publisher announced Friday, a decision that sparked widespread outrage among the paper's staffers. "The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election," Post publisher Will Lewis said in a statement. "We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates." The Post reported the decision not to endorse was made by the newspaper's billionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, citing two sources briefed on the matter. The Post's editorial page staffers had drafted an end...

(File photo) Photo: 123rf/ Andrey Moisseyev Three men are dead after two light planes collided midair before crashing into bushland in Sydney's south-west. Emergency crews rushed to the scene at Belimbla Park, near Oakdale, at about midday after residents witnessed the crash. At least five ambulance crews along with police and fire crews are parked nearby, with first responders making their way to the two wreckage sites on foot. The two crash sites are in close proximity and one plane burst into flames on impact. Police said three men had been found dead at the scene. - ABC Source link

By Daniel Trotta for Reuters Lil Durk performs during iHeart Powerhouse 105.1 at Prudential Center on 28 October 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. Photo: MICHAEL LOCCISANO / AFP Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a rival in 2022 from his position as leader of the Chicago-based rap collective Only the Family, federal prosecutors said. The arrest took place on Thursday local time near an airport where Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, was booked on a flight leaving the United States, according to a criminal complaint. A defense attorney representing the artist did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for a statement in his defence. Lil Durk made his initial appearance in federal court in the Southern District of Flo...

By Waylon Cunningham, Reuters Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images via AFP Moves by major US fast-food chains to temporarily pull fresh onions off their menus on Thursday, after the vegetable was named as the likely source of an E. coli outbreak at McDonald's, laid bare the recurring nightmare for restaurants: Produce is a bigger problem for restaurants to keep free of contamination than beef. Onions are likely the culprit in the McDonald's E. coli outbreak across the Midwest and some Western states that has sickened and killed one. McDonald's pulled the Quarter Pounder off its menu at one-fifth of its 14,000 US restaurants. Of the 61 people on whom information was available, 22 were hospitalised, and two developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious condition that can cause kidney fai...