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Nurses across the UK have voted to strike over pay with action expected to start by the end of the year. The walkout will involve Royal College of Nursing members in more than half of hospitals and community teams, but emergency care will still be staffed. Nurses in every service in Scotland and Northern Ireland voted for action. In Wales all but one health board did. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63561317

With inflation at 8% and poor approval ratings for the Democratic president, Republicans were hoping to make big strides in retaking Congress. Why hasn't that happened? Pollsters and pundits for weeks warned of an impending "red wave" - an electoral Republican rout which would deliver a harsh rebuke of Joe Biden and the Democrats. As the sun rose across the US on Wednesday, however, it became clear that the "tsunami" Republicans had hoped for never materialised. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63569850

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Sixty voting centers in Maricopa County saw issues with tabulation machines.(Arizona's Family) PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — A judge denied on Tuesday evening the Republicans’ effort to extend poll hours and delay the release of early ballot numbers on Election Day in Arizona’s largest county. The judge rejected the notion that people in Maricopa County were denied their ability to vote because of tabulation machine issues. The poll hours will stick with ending at 7 p.m. and early ballot results will be released around 8 p.m. Republican groups, including including the Republican National Committee and Kari Lake For Arizona, wanted to extend those by three hours.

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Ministers working with the National Archives found the extra legal text, which takes the grand total of retained EU law on the UK statute book to 3,800 laws rather than 2,400. Thousands of EU laws were transposed into UK law, with often only minimal changes, when Brexit took legal effect at 11pm on December 31. The move prevented legal gaps in a wide range of regulations after Brexit. The Government wants to have revised or repealed all those laws by the end of 2023. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/brexit-blow-as-ministers-find-1400-extra-eu-laws-to-repeal/ar-AA13RBjp

I suspect you will suddenly have friends and family members you never knew existed!!

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No, but tickets are only sold in the US (as far as I know). And some states don't allow it. Nevada for example, doesn't participate in the Powerball so residents of Nevada go to neighboring states to buy tickets. When it gets this high, it can be very long lines to get tickets. So, you either go to the US or have someone in the US or one of the territories buy a ticket for you.

The Powerball jackpot has grown to $1.9 billion after no winning tickets were sold in Saturday night's drawing, according to California lottery officials. The winning numbers Saturday were 28, 45, 53, 56, 69 and a Powerball of 20. The next drawing is set for Monday. If someone wins, it will set a new record for the largest lottery prize ever. A winner has the option to receive the prize as an annuity spread over 29 years or as a lump-sum payment of $929.1 million, the California lottery said. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/winning-numbers-powerball-jackpot-announced-saturday-one-point-six-billion-dollar-drawing/

The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting. An internal investigative report, made public this month by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, details the findings of DHS lawyers concerning a previously undisclosed effort by Trump’s acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, to amass secret dossiers on Americans in Portland attending anti-racism protests in summer 2020 sparked by the police murder of Minneapolis father George Floyd. The report describes attempts by top officials to link protesters to an imaginary terrorist plot in an apparent effort to boost Trump’s reelection odds, raising concerns now about the ability of a sitting president to co-opt billions of dollars’ worth of domestic intelligence assets for their own political gain. https://news.yahoo.com/homeland-security-admits-tried-manufacture-114500599.html

North Korea’s suspected ICBM test fails, South Korean government source says North Korea’s suspected launch of its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) failed on Thursday morning, according to a South Korean government source, as Pyongyang intensified its battery of missile tests against a backdrop of US and South Korean military drills that had been scheduled to end on Friday. However, within hours of the presumed failed test, Washington and Seoul agreed to extend those large-scale exercises until Saturday, according to a statement from the Pentagon. Earlier Thursday, the South Korean Air Force announced that the two countries had agreed to extend the “Vigilant Storm” military exercises without specifying an end date, saying “it was necessary to demonstrate a solid combined defense posture of the bilateral alliance under the current security crisis, heightened by North Korea’s provocations.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/asia/north-korea-missile-thursday-intl-hnk/index.html

CNN — Hundreds of climate activists breached a runway Saturday at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport to try to stop private jets from taking off, in the latest demonstration by protesters aimed at drawing attention to the climate crisis. Greenpeace Netherlands said “more than 500” Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion activists were at the airport, one of Europe’s largest, on Saturday afternoon, in a press release. A spokesperson for the Schiphol security forces could not confirm that figure. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/europe/amsterdam-climate-activists-block-private-jet-runway-intl/index.html

Three presidents – one sitting and two former – descend on Pennsylvania Saturday for a final-stretch midterm push that underscores the stakes of one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate races. For President Joe Biden, who will hold a rare joint appearance with former President Barack Obama in Philadelphia meant to boost the Democratic candidate Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Pennsylvania will amount to a political stress test in his home state, where he’s traveled 20 times since taking office. For former President Donald Trump, who rallies outside of Pittsburgh in the city of Latrobe, a win by his hand-selected candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz could prove his own enduring viability in a commonwealth he lost by a narrow margin in 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/politics/barack-obama-joe-biden-donald-trump-pennsylvania-campaign/index.html

TECH Twitter co-founder Dorsey apologizes for growing the company ‘too quickly’ in wake of mass layoffs Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company “too quickly,” a day after the company laid off approximately half of its employees under new owner Elon Musk. “Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient. They will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment,” Dorsey wrote in a tweet. “I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that.” https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/05/twitter-co-founder-jack-dorsey-speaks-out-after-mass-layoffs.html

TikTok Should Be Banned, Says US FCC Commissioner TikTok could be facing a ban in the United States after a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) raised concerns over national security. The app’s growing popularity in the US is concerning because ByteDance, a Chinese company, owns it. That means there’s potential for data on US citizens to flow back to China. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/tiktok-should-be-banned-says-us-fcc-commissioner/470021/ There's a little more here: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/tech/fcc-commissioner-tiktok-ban/index.html

Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, has blamed "activist groups pressuring advertisers" for a "massive drop in revenue" as the company makes sweeping job cuts in an effort to save money. The billionaire owner of Tesla tweeted that "activists" raising concerns about how Twitter is moderated are "trying to destroy free speech in America". It came as Twitter made widespread job cuts around the world on Friday. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63521713

Inmates at a Russian penal colony (file image) By Patrick Jackson. BBC News, London Convicted murderers and drug dealers who have recently left prison in Russia face being conscripted to fight in Ukraine under a change to the law. President Vladimir Putin amended the legislation on calling up reservists to include men convicted of serious crimes who recently left prison. Former prisoners convicted of sex crimes against children or terrorism are still excluded from serving. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63517680

Early voters dropping off ballots in Berks County, Pennsylvania, are confronted by a sight surprising for elections in the United States:  A pair of uniformed sheriff’s deputies armed with guns and tasers guarding the ballot box.   Directed by local election officials to question voters before letting them deposit their ballots, the deputies guarding the drop boxes underscore the growing schism in this country over the debunked claims that the 2020 election was marred by rampant vote fraud.   To some in Berks County, the deputies are only trying to ensure a fair and clean election. Others say their presence and direct questioning risks intimidating voters and stoking baseless conspiracy theories. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/politics/elections-law-enforcement-conspiracy-theories-invs/index.html