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CNN  —  Election deniers are running for important offices around the country in the November 8 midterms. And some of them will win. Dozens of Republicans trying to be elected in 2022 as governor, state secretary of state or US senator have joined former President Donald Trump in baselessly rejecting or questioning the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020. Some of these candidates have even attempted to overturn the 2020 results. The presence of so many 2020 deniers in 2022 races presents a challenge for American democracy. The winners could play a major role in shaping elections in…

Transatlantic travel is booming, driving airline revenue as Americans armed with a strong US dollar fly to Europe and the UK.Revenue at United Airlines from trips between the US and Europe rose 40 per cent in the third quarter compared with the same period in 2019, to $2.5bn. The average fare on those trips climbed 30 per cent compared with a year earlier.The strong dollar has been “useful” in prompting US travellers to book trips to Europe, said United’s chief commercial officer Andrew Nocella. What was an “incredible” summer season has maintained momentum into the autumn. The airline debuted multiple…

A fifth of companies are giving staff extra benefits such as shopping vouchers, free parking and travel subsidies to help with the cost of living, according to a national survey of UK businesses, but most are still only offering below inflation pay increases.According to a poll conducted for the Financial Times by the Chartered Management Institute of more than 1,000 managers at companies and public sector organisations, only one in 10 said they had offered a pay rise of more than 5 per cent to their staff this year. A similar number had offered no basic pay increase at all.A…

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is accustomed to playing the role of saviour: he rescued his on-screen family from an earthquake in San Andreas, pulled loved ones from a tower inferno in Skyscraper and saved drowning swimmers in Baywatch.Now the cinema industry itself is hoping he will come to the rescue as it struggles to bounce back from the pandemic. Johnson’s latest action film Black Adam is one of several hotly anticipated blockbusters that executives hope will help to reverse several months of slow trading as it launches this month.A dearth of so-called tent-pole movies to attract audiences to the big…

The world of college football had at least a few days to catch its collective breath after a Week 7 that saw one of the best regular season football games in history. The Tennessee vs Alabama game will go down as one of the best games ever played, as the Vols finally took down Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide.  Week 7 saw two other top-25 games go down to the wire, with TCU beating Oklahoma State in double overtime and Utah handing USC its first loss on the season with a two-point conversion with 0:48 seconds left on the…

A small plane crashed into the side of a New Hampshire home killing everyone on board, officials in the city of Keene said late Friday. “There were no injuries at the multifamily building. Unfortunately those on the plane have perished,” the city said in a Facebook post. The aircraft came down near the Keene Airport, the post said. Scott Gauthier told NBC News affiliate NBC10 Boston that he heard a loud noise and he could feel the building shaking. “The whole building shook and then my mother went out to check on what was going on and she started screaming,…

A Massachusetts mother and her son are recovering from a near-death experience after they both ingested highly toxic “death cap” mushrooms they foraged for dinner.Amherst woman Kam Look and son Kai Chen, were outside gathering mushrooms similar to ones they scoured in Malaysia before eating dinner, UMass Memorial Medical Center said in a news release.Both started feeling sick during dinner and were able to drive themselves to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. At the hospital, medical professionals realized the two were going to require a high level of intervention and transported them to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.FLORIDA OFFICIALS REPORT…

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Helen Mathers is hoping to raise £40,000 to improve her daughter Libby’s life, but online trolls have claimed she is exploiting the 12-year-old’s condition for cashA desperate mum has hit back at online trolls claiming she is scamming people for money by exploiting her daughter’s rare condition Helen Mathers is hoping to raise £40,000 so she can ‘create memories’ and build an extension to improve her 12-year-old daughter Libby’s life, who suffers from cerebral palsy and epilepsy. Doctors believe Libby may be just the sixth child in the world to suffer from a newly discovered genetic regressive condition called Chiari…

After Alabama fell to Tennessee in an instant college football classic last week, it got us thinking about a theme for this week. And the theme we came up with is “play to win.”Every season, Nick Saban & Co. come into the season like the unbeatable Big Bad Wolf. But they are beatable. Texas A&M proved that last regular season, Georgia proved it in the National Championship Game and the Vols reminded us again in Week 7.You have to play to win.We want you to do just that in Week 8 as you make your FOX Bet Super 6 College Football…