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Biden implores voters to save democracy; Powell explains rate hike; Astros pitch rare no-hitter | Top headlines for Nov. 2 & 3, 2022

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Just days before major midterm elections, President Joe Biden is imploring voters to save American democracy from Trump supporters' election-denying lies and the violence that he says they have inspired. Biden shined a spotlight on “ultra MAGA” Republicans — a reference to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — and mounting concerns over political violence.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who stands to be speaker of the House if the GOP retakes control of the chamber, tweeted, “President Biden is trying to divide and deflect at a time when America needs to unite—because he can’t talk about his policies that have driven up the cost of living. The American people aren’t buying it.”

The bad news is that no one won Wednesday night’s huge $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot. The good news is that means the prize has grown even larger to $1.5 billion ahead of the next drawing Saturday night.

North Korea has added to its barrage of recent weapons tests, firing at least three missiles including an intercontinental ballistic missile that prompted the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and temporarily halt trains.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sought to strike a delicate balance at a moment when high inflation is bedeviling the nation’s economy and commanding a central role in the midterm elections. Powell suggested that the Fed may decide in coming months to slow its aggressive interest rate increases.

In sports, the Astros made history with a no-hitter against the Phillies in Game 4 to even the World Series. The Cavaliers outlasted the Celtics, the Sabres rallied past the Penguins and the Commanders are looking into financial changes to the team.

Survivors and loved ones of victims of the Parkland school shooting were berating gunman Nikolas Cruz for a second day before he was sentenced. Cruz was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the 2018 massacre that left 17 dead and others wounded at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

President Joe Biden will deliver remarks on threats to democracy, as he seeks to raise the stakes for voters before next week's midterm elections.

Lawyers who aided former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election regarded an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a “key” to their success.

Former President Donald Trump has settled a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who say they were roughed up by the Republican’s private security guards during his 2015 presidential campaign.

Schools and offices closed and some events in Hong Kong were canceled as Tropical Storm Nalgae swept south of the city. 

Hurricane Lisa has gained more force in the western Caribbean as it heads for an landfall in Belize.

The NFL's Washington Commanders could soon be for sale. Owners Dan and Tanya Snyder say they have hired Bank of America Securities to consider potential transactions.

A white police officer who fatally shot a Black driver during a struggle inside a car must pay his family $4.4 million. An Ohio jury made the award Tuesday, finding that Euclid officer Matthew Rhodes acted recklessly when he climbed into 23-year-old Luke Stewart’s car and shot him as Stewart drove away in 2017.

A group of winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature have urged world leaders to raise human rights issues as they visit Egypt for the COP27 climate change conference.

A government inquiry has begun hearing evidence of unsolved deaths resulting from gay hate crime over four decades in Australia’s most populous state. Peter Gray, a lawyer assisting the inquiry, said on Wednesday that the investigation of suspicious deaths in New South Wales is the “first of its kind anywhere in the world.”

—The Associated Press

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