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Oy vey! The City Council seemingly confused sacred Jewish holidays on Tuesday as it wished the Big Apple a “Happy Yom Kippur” — a day of atonement — in a social media post that prominently featured a Hanukkah menorah. The Council quickly deleted and apologized for the post — but not before New Yorkers had their fun with it. “OYYYY @NYCCouncil,” wrote journalist Jacob Kornbluh, whose post about the error went viral. “? (Yom Kippur is not Hanukkah ? and the Day of Atonement is not necessarily “happy”)”. “They forgot to include a picture of Matzot!,” joked Joel Rubin. By…

A victory lap like no other. Aaron Judge and his wife Samantha Bracksieck walked off into the sunset together after the Yankees slugger made history on Tuesday, becoming the American League single-season home run record-holder after hitting his 62nd homer. Judge surpassed the mark he shared for a week with Roger Maris in the first inning off Texas pitcher Jesus Tinoco — and received a standing ovation from the road crowd in Tuesday’s 3-2 loss to the Rangers. The happy couple — who tied the knot in December — was all smiles as they held hands walking through the back hallways of Globe Life…

Editor’s Note: This roundup is part of the CNN Opinion series “America’s Future Start Now,” in which people share how they have been affected by the biggest issues facing the nation and experts offer their proposed solutions. The views expressed in these commentaries are the authors’ own. Read more opinion at CNN. Reader Linda Stewart spoke for many Americans when she wrote that after her recent retirement, “money was getting uncomfortably tight. Soon I was in the red each month, just trying to keep up.” She stopped driving as much, turned her furnace down in the winter and cooked more…

Birmingham, England CNN  —  The empty chairs all around the hall for Liz Truss’s debut party conference speech as Conservative leader said a lot about the chaotic past four days. The atmosphere of gloom that has shrouded the International Conference Centre in Birmingham since Sunday suggests that the party, in power in various guises since 2010, has given up the political will to live. Most prime ministers could expect to play to a standing-room-only crowd at what would ordinarily be the biggest of big-ticket events at their own party’s annual jamboree. Allies of Truss could blame a strike by train…

M16 agent Gareth Williams was found dead in a bag inside his flat in 2010. Here’s everything we know about Gareth Williams’ life, his mysterious death and revelations from the inquest as Channel 5 documentary The Body In The Bag airs M16 agent Gareth Williams was found dead by police officers inside a zipped bag at his London flat back in 2010. There was lots of speculation about his mysterious death, with the most popular one suggesting that it might be linked to the secret intelligence work he carried out in his work as a Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) officer.…

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A homicide investigation is underway after a student was killed in a residence hall at Purdue University in Indiana, school officials said early Wednesday. A 911 call was made to university police around 12:45 a.m., school spokesperson Tim Doty said. The suspect, described as “the victim’s roommate,” made the call and was taken into custody, according to the official.“There is no threat to the community,” Doty said. Authorities have not identified the victim or the suspect or released any details about how the slain student was killed.Purdue has about 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled for the fall semester, according to its website.…

CNN  —  Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes raised more than $20 million in the third quarter of 2022, according to details from the Wisconsin lieutenant governor’s campaign, dwarfing what he raised throughout his entire bid for Senate. Barnes is aiming to unseat Sen. Ron Johnson, the Republican incumbent who is seeking a third term, in what has become one of the most closely watched Senate campaigns of the midterms. With an evenly divided Senate, every race this November could tilt the balance of power in the legislative body, but Barnes’ race against Johnson represents one of the best chances for…