Escalating Tensions in the Middle East

Just days after Hurricane Helene devastated the American southwest, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida, hitting Tampa, Sarasota, and St. Petersburg hard.

During an appearance on a podcast, former President Donald Trump said that he believed immigrants who commit murder have "bad genes," a concept that ties the impulse to commit such a crime is genetically determined.

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