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President Biden is set to meet with Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday to discuss the state and federal response to Hurricane Ian, a meeting that offers a possible preview of the 2024 White House contest.The meeting will take place in Fort Myers where state and local officials, including DeSantis, are expected to brief Biden on rebuilding efforts underway after the storm. The meeting will require Biden and DeSantis, who have clashed publicly over immigration, the coronavirus and other issues for months, to portray a united front in the face of natural disaster, a result one political observer said…

Three scientists jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for proving that tiny particles could retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon once doubted but now being explored for potential real-world applications such as encrypting information.Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for experiments proving the “totally crazy” field of quantum entanglements to be all too real. They demonstrated that unseen particles, such as photons, can be linked, or “entangled,” with each other even when they are separated by large distances.It…

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws on Wednesday officially recognizing the annexation of four Ukrainian regions into Russia.The laws finalize the annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which each held Russian-backed elections to join their eastern neighboring country. The “referendum” elections were conducted by Russian authorities and Russian-separatists.The elections were carried out in defiance of international law and Ukraine and the West have rejected them as a sham. They were also conducted amid the ongoing war effort.Earlier this week, both houses of the Russian parliament ratified treaties with the four regions, making the annexation legal in Russia’s eyes.NORTH KOREA…

The Atlanta Braves have claimed the NL East title, defeating the Miami Marlins Tuesday night to cap their incredible comeback. At one point in the season, the Braves trailed the New York Mets by 10.5 games for the division lead. It has been a wild ride in the second half for the defending World Series champions though, and after a sweep of the Mets this past weekend, they needed just a single win to claim their fifth straight division title. The Braves head into the postseason with a first-round bye, going straight to the NLDS to await their opponent from the Wild…

A 31-year-old man was slashed inside the Times Square subway station Tuesday night in the latest bout of violence within the Big Apple’s mass transit system. The victim was slashed in the leg by another man during a fight inside the station’s mezzanine near the shuttle train to Grand Central just before 11 p.m., police said. The slasher fled toward Grand Central Station.Gregory P. Mango Dramatic video posted to Twitter shows officers treating the injured and bleeding man on the subway platform, with a trail of blood behind him. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. His attacker…

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CNN  —  The search for a family of four kidnapped in California continues Wednesday after authorities took a person of interest into custody and released new details about the case Tuesday. Authorities revealed a short timeline surrounding the kidnapping of 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri, her parents Jasleen Kaur and Jasdeep Singh and the child’s uncle Amandeep Singh in Merced, California. According to the Merced County Sheriff’s Office, the investigation began Monday at 11:39 a.m., when the California Highway Patrol responded to a 2020 Dodge Ram that was on fire and asked the Merced Police Department to help track down the vehicle’s…

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Kyiv, Ukraine CNN  —  As Vladimir Putin lost more of the Ukrainian territory he is seeking to annex, his government on Tuesday sought to finalize the formalities of its claim to four Ukrainian regions, none of which are fully controlled by Russia anymore. The upper house of Russia’s rubber-stamp legislature, the Federation Council, on Tuesday unanimously approved the decision to annex the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia in defiance of international law and a day after the lower chamber had done the same. President Putin was expected to sign the legislation later in the day, his spokesman…

Sadie Kemp, 35, has revealed she is “really looking forward” to having a social life again after having all four limbs amputated, as she went on to praise doctors for saving herVideo LoadingVideo UnavailableThe video will auto-play soon8CancelPlay now A mum-of-two has had all four limbs amputated, despite being hailed a ‘medical miracle’ after surviving a sepsis battle. Sadie Kemp, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, has now had 10 fingers amputated, and more recently both legs below the knee after it was confirmed by her doctors that they were both necrotic from the sepsis. The 35-year-old has now revealed that after going…