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A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Washington CNN  —  With just weeks to go until the November midterms, four letters are haunting President Joe Biden and the Democrats: OPEC. Last week, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, said that it will slash oil production by 2 million barrels per day, the biggest cut since the start of the pandemic, in a move that threatens to push gasoline prices higher just weeks before US midterm…

Liverpool has been chosen to host the iconic music competition on May 13, 2023 but fans will have to pay extortionate hotel prices if they want to stay in the city for the grand finalEurovision fans face shelling out up to £8,000 on accommodation in Liverpool as hotels cancel bookings to take advantage of soaring demand. Hotels in Liverpool have cancelled bookings and hiked prices up as thousands of people scour for rooms after the city was announced as the 2023 host of the Eurovision Song Content. The host city was announced on Friday evening and by Saturday morning hotels…

Erica Lee/CNN Charlie Whitehead, 64, lives on San Carlos Island, across the Fort Myers Beach isle, and has spent most days since the storm trying to salvage family photos. This one depicts him and his wife, Debbie, when they were younger. Nearly two weeks since Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida’s southwestern coast, battered communities are slowly beginning to sort through the damage the storm left. Families that were chin-deep in water in their homes have found there is little left to salvage: the furniture that floated around has dried but is now beginning to mold, wood chests and drawers bear…

The Naval School was founded in Annapolis, Maryland in the wake of a shocking scandal at sea on this day in history, Oct. 10, 1845. The renowned military institute was renamed the U.S. Naval Academy in 1850. The school was established following the discovery of a planned mutiny on the Atlantic Ocean aboard U.S. Navy brig Somers. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, OCT. 7, 1916, GEORGIA TECH BEAT CUMBERLAND 222-0Three sailors were executed on the high seas — including the 19-year-old son of Secretary of War John Canfield Spencer, which only elevated the national profile of the sensational incident. The ship departed New…

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A small group of Los Angeles city leaders faced shame and castigation after an audio recording of racist remarks at a private meeting surfaced Sunday.The most egregious remarks were uttered by council President Nury Martinez, who seemed to verify the 2021 recording by apologizing to constituents. She likened a colleague’s son, Black and 2 years old at the time, to an animal, and seemed to imply that the county’s progressive district attorney shouldn’t be supported because he may be popular with Black Angelenos.The audio from a political strategy meeting attended by a handful of Latino Democrats on the council was…

The Baltimore Ravens needed the leg of Justin Tucker four times on Sunday night and no kick was more important than his 43-yard field goal to give his team the 19-17 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.The Ravens were in search of an answer after Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow put his team up 17-16 after leading a 13-play, 75-yard drive. Burrow snuck the ball across the goal line for the score. It was his second touchdown of the night. Lamar Jackson answered the call with 1:58 remaining. He guided the Ravens down the field with a seven-play, 50-yard drive that was…

NEW DELHI: Indian police have shot dead a tiger dubbed the “Man-eater of Champaran” that killed at least nine people, in a major operation involving 200 people including trackers on elephants, officials said on Sunday (Oct 9). The big cat had terrorised locals on the fringes of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Champaran in eastern India, killing at least six people in the past month including a woman and her eight-year-old son on Saturday. Even before the two latest kills, authorities had designated the tiger, reportedly a male three or four years old, as a “man-eater”, meaning that it could…

NBC announcer Cris Collinsworth only fumbled the ball nine times during his eight-year career with the Cincinnati Bengals in the 1980s but on Sunday night he lost something equally important to his craft – his telestrator pen.At the end of the third quarter between the Bengals and Baltimore Ravens, play-by-play commentator Mike Tirico was heard asking fans for the former wide receiver’s tool back. “Hey down there! Can you get me Cris’ pen that he threw? I’ll get to it during the break,” Tirico said.When the broadcast returned from commercial, Collinsworth said he thought the pen had landed in the…

The harsh reality. Sister Wives’ Kody Brown’s battle to accept his split from Christine Brown has left him with a bad taste in his mouth — and resentment for his whole family. “Christine and I have been on the fast track from separation to divorce now for a few months. The last time the family got together was when Christine told us she was leaving,” Kody, 53, said during the Sunday, October 9, episode of the TLC series. “I feel very separated from the family. I’ve struggled through this process.” (Christine, 50, announced via Instagram in November 2021 that she…