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Oct 2024
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Legal split over Musk giveaway, US overs...

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Legal experts are divided over Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway for voters who sign his free-speech and gun-rights petition. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel in his latest push for an elusive ceasefire. Republicans and Democrats are reaching out to US voters abroad in the tight election race, with only a small fraction of eligible overseas voters returning a ballot. And how a shark-owning billionaire looms large over Georgia’s election, with the small European country caught between Russia and the West.


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