With exactly two weeks to go until Election Day, both candidates for president are blitzing the battleground states. And we’ve learned how long student loan repayments for about eight million Americans will remain on hold. These stories and more highlight your Unbiased Updates for Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Harris, Trump look for more votes in battlegrounds…

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu react after Israel says it killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. And billionaires Mark Cuban and Elon Musk speak to voters in battleground states. These stories and more highlight your Unbiased Updates for Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. Israel says it killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza…

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that global economies face a period of lackluster growth and pressure from rising debt piles. Kristalina Georgieva made the comments ahead of the annual IMF meeting in Washington, D.C. She warned that high prices could affect the poor and could have influenced potential destabilization from…

Wendy McMahon, president of CBS News, is facing significant challenges in her first year, grappling with multiple crises in the newsroom. Recent key issues include backlash over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and controversies surrounding anchor Tony Dokoupil’s questioning of journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates about Israel. McMahon’s leadership has…

Iran has warned Israel that any retaliation for an earlier missile attack will be met with equal force, escalating concerns of a broader Middle East conflict. Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said Thursday, Oct. 17, that Iran could penetrate Israel’s defenses if Israeli aggression continues. The warning follows a missile barrage launched…

Delta, United and many other major airlines have suspended flights to Tel Aviv as regional conflict with Israel intensifies. The suspensions are expected to last through early 2025 for some carriers, leaving travelers scrambling to adjust their plans. Delta Airlines announced it is suspending all flights between New York’s JFK Airport and Tel Aviv until…

There are likely more than 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. today without authorization. On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has promised to enact “mass deportations” to remove unauthorized immigrants. Trump said he would use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which has not been used since internment camps during World War…

The Biden administration announced new sanctions against Iran’s oil and petrochemical sectors as a response to the Oct. 1 attack when Iran fired approximately 200 missiles into Israel. The sanctions largely target what’s called Iran’s “ghost fleet” of ships which illegally transport oil to buyers in Asia.  “Today’s sanctions target Iranian efforts to channel revenues…

One year has passed since Hamas’s surprise Oct. 7 attack on Israel, where 1,200 men, women and children were killed. The year since then has been defined both by global concern over Israel’s response in Gaza and by concern that the conflict might spill over into a wider regional war. With a majority of Americans supporting U.S.…

Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization representing thousands of survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was announced as the recipient of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 11. The survivors, also known as hibakusha, were honored for their activism against nuclear weapons. “The hibakusha helps us describe the indescribable,…