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Japanese raider Stinger Glass has been scratched from the Melbourne Cup after veterinary experts judged the six-year-old to remain at heightened risk of injury. The Yasuo Tomomichi-trained horse failed a mandatory pre-race scan on Thursday, ruling him out of the race that stops a nation. His withdrawal gives Future History a place in the field and ends Jamie Melham’s wait to discover whether she would secure a Cup mount. Stinger Glass was initially flagged as carrying an increased injury risk following a CT scan. His connections were then given the opportunity to put him through a PET scan in a…

Three people were injured when two helicopters collided in mid-air near McMinnville Municipal Airport in Oregon, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The crash happened shortly before 2.15pm on Thursday near Southeast Highway 154 and Stringtown Road. A Robinson R22 carrying one pilot collided with an Airbus H125, which had two people on board. A witness told Fox 12 that he saw the helicopters strike each other while he was standing on the roof of a nearby barn. He said both aircraft then hit the ground just outside the airport perimeter and that he immediately called 911. The extent of the…

Sir Ian McKellen has paid tribute to his close friend and long-time collaborator Sir Patrick Stewart, who has died aged 86 following a brief battle with Alzheimer’s. McKellen remembered the actor as a man whose openness made him dependable and worthy of admiration. “He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love,” he said. The pair had known each other for half a century. McKellen recalled that one of his earliest strong memories of Stewart was advising him against accepting the role in Star Trek, fearing the…

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is set to campaign in Detroit on Sunday with former primary rival Haley Stevens, in a late attempt to demonstrate party unity before the 3 November election. The pair will appear at a get-out-the-vote event alongside South Carolina congressman Jim Clyburn, one of the Democratic Party’s most prominent Black politicians. It will be their first public appearance together since a unity event held shortly after the 4 August primary. El-Sayed defeated Stevens by a narrow margin in the Democratic contest, but the party has struggled to unite behind him during the general election campaign.…

Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism, Jillian Segal, has identified what she calls “progressive” anti-Semitism as the country’s most pervasive form, prompting a strong backlash from the Jewish Council of Australia. Bart Shteinman, the council’s executive officer, described the report as “Orwellian” and said it did not represent the views of all Jewish Australians. “This updated report from the Special Envoy is so misguided, conspiratorial and frankly Orwellian that it’s hard to know where to start,” he said. Ms Segal said Islamic extremist, far-left and far-right anti-Semitism remained serious concerns. But she argued that Jewish Australians were increasingly being excluded…

Alaska’s governor has ordered a new investigation into an alleged plot to siphon votes away from Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. The move comes as the US Justice Department issues new subpoenas in the case, adding to the scrutiny surrounding the claims. The alleged scheme involved recruiting a candidate with the same name as an opponent, according to the case under investigation. The legality of that tactic is now being examined. CBS News legal analyst Jessica Levinson provided analysis of the investigation and the new developments.

An ancient text may preserve a first-century written account of Jesus’s resurrection, according to an analysis of competing versions of a passage attributed to the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Independent researcher Jesús Fernández-Pedrera Correa, from Spain, argues that the wording could record what Jesus’s followers said they had seen after his crucifixion, rather than directly asserting that he rose from the dead. The disputed passage, known as the Testimonium Flavianum, appears in Jewish Antiquities, Josephus’s history of the Jewish people written around AD 93 to 94. It survived through Greek, Latin, Arabic and Syriac versions copied, translated and retold over…

Alphabet shares fell 12.6% on Thursday in their worst single-day performance since the company began trading in 2004, wiping about $482 billion (£?) from its market value as investors reacted to slowing growth in Google’s search business. Class A shares closed at $283.82, exceeding the previous record daily fall of 11.6% recorded in March 2020. The sell-off left Alphabet’s overall valuation at roughly 19 times expected earnings, according to Bank of America, while its core search operation was valued at about 10 times earnings. That compares with 18.7 times forward earnings for the S&P 500 and 13 times for the…

Filming has wrapped on Shrinking season four, with the Emmy Award-nominated Apple TV comedy set to return with a mixture of new and returning cast members. The series follows a grieving therapist who begins breaking professional rules by telling his clients exactly what he thinks, setting off major changes in their lives – and his own. What to expect from Shrinking season four The new episodes will introduce a significant shift in the story through a time jump. However, creator Bill Lawrence has said the series will retain its established characters while exploring a new chapter in their lives. Speaking…

Chicago rapper Chadwick Clark, known professionally as LoWick, had previously been convicted over a hit-and-run crash before he was killed during an FBI-involved operation in Dixmoor, Illinois. Clark, 22, died on Wednesday, 28 October, near 145th Street and Cooper Avenue as federal agents carried out a court-authorised operation. The FBI said one person was killed and that none of its personnel were injured; the circumstances of the shooting remain under review. Five people were taken into custody after the operation, although authorities have not announced any arrests. Dixmoor police assisted in securing a perimeter while federal agents and tactical officers…