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Oct 2024 22:56:38 +0000</pubDate><description>The lawsuit comes as GOP election skeptics, some parroting Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen, push for hand counting in other states.</description></item><item><title>Amazon adds color to Kindle for first time in e-reader’s history</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com</guid><dc:creator>Matt Day and Mark Gurman</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:31:01 +0000</pubDate><description>Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out a refreshed set of Kindles, including the first model capable of displaying colors since the company began making the e-reader 17 years ago.</description></item><item><title>Dining chat: A favorite restaurant adds a 3% surcharge. 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Beck | AP</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:27:48 +0000</pubDate><description>Nebraska’s high court says people with felony records can register to vote in a decision with implications for the upcoming election</description></item><item><title>More than 140 people are killed and dozens injured when a gas tanker explodes in Nigeria</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/16/nigeria-gasoline-tanker-explosion/4009e6bc-8ba0-11ef-84b5-dacd642f5899_story.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/16/nigeria-gasoline-tanker-explosion/4009e6bc-8ba0-11ef-84b5-dacd642f5899_story.html</guid><dc:creator>Chinedu Asadu | AP</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:27:42 +0000</pubDate><description>More than 140 people, including children, are dead in Nigeria after an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel</description></item><item><title>Many schools are still closed weeks after Hurricane Helene. 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Argentina</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/16/brazil-bolsonaro-supporters-extradition-argentina-fugitives-brasilia/0d5381a0-8bd3-11ef-84b5-dacd642f5899_story.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/16/brazil-bolsonaro-supporters-extradition-argentina-fugitives-brasilia/0d5381a0-8bd3-11ef-84b5-dacd642f5899_story.html</guid><dc:creator>ElÉonore Hughes and David Biller | AP</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:26:45 +0000</pubDate><description>Brazil’s Federal Police has requested the extradition of dozens of people who had fled the country after being accused of storming top government offices last year, in an alleged bid to forcefully restore former President Jair Bolsonaro to office</description></item><item><title>Shein adds more banks to arrange London IPO listing</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com</guid><dc:creator>Swetha Gopinath, Dinesh Nair and Ryan Gould</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:26:43 +0000</pubDate><description>Shein has added more banks to help arrange its potential initial public offering that could value the online fashion retailer at £50 billion ($65 billion), potentially one of the biggest listings in London in recent years, people familiar with the matter said.</description></item><item><title>Anti-establishment the MC5 ironically get into the establishment with Rock &amp; Roll Hall Fame invite</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2024/10/16/mc5-rock-hall-2024/0c770432-8bd3-11ef-84b5-dacd642f5899_story.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2024/10/16/mc5-rock-hall-2024/0c770432-8bd3-11ef-84b5-dacd642f5899_story.html</guid><dc:creator>Mark Kennedy | AP</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:26:43 +0000</pubDate><description>Before there was the Clash, Nirvana or Rage Against the Machine there was the MC5</description></item><item><title>The myth of Businessman Trump has collapsed</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/16/trump-businessman-politician-age/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/16/trump-businessman-politician-age/</guid><dc:creator>Philip Bump</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:48:24 +0000</pubDate><description>Trump is now a politician with a side job, as his stumbling in an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago put on full display.</description></item><item><title>United Airlines profit shows it shook off pressure from cheap summer fares</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com</guid><dc:creator>Mary Schlangenstein</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:24:06 +0000</pubDate><description>United Airlines Holdings Inc. reported a third-quarter profit ahead of Wall Street’s expectations in a sign the company is bouncing back from widespread fare discounts that squeezed many carriers this summer.</description></item><item><title>The vast divide between Republicans and Democrats over fast food</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/campaign-spending-fast-food-mcdonalds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/campaign-spending-fast-food-mcdonalds/</guid><dc:creator>Kati Perry, Adrián Blanco</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:00:31 +0000</pubDate><description>This week, we scour campaign finance reports to reveal strikingly partisan preferences for various restaurants, with few more polarizing than McDonald’s.</description></item><item><title>Xi urges officials to work on growth target in fourth quarter</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com</guid><dc:creator>Foster Wong</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:22:07 +0000</pubDate><description>Chinese President Xi Jinping called on government officials to make every effort in the final quarter to help the country meet its annual growth target of around 5%, underscoring the pressure the world’s No. 2 economy is facing as the year end draws closer.</description></item><item><title>Five things to try instead of ending a friendship</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/10/13/friendship-breakup-healthy-relationship/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/10/13/friendship-breakup-healthy-relationship/</guid><dc:creator>Emma Nadler</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>If we don’t figure out how to deal with the (occasionally grating) humanity of the people we wish to be close to, we are resigning ourselves to loneliness.</description></item><item><title>Elon Musk gives $75M to his own America PAC in push to elect Trump</title><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.washingtonpost.com</guid><dc:creator>Clara 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