Democrat Andy Beshear claimed victory Tuesday night over incumbent Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, an ally of President Donald Trump who said he was not ready to concede the election with only a few thousand votes separating him from reelection.
Beshear, Kentucky’s attorney general, was leading statewide by about 5,000 votes, holding many urban and suburban communities, while Bevin was running strong in many farming counties. The Associated Press said the race was “too close to call.”
Appearing at his victory party shortly after 10 p.m., Beshear vowed to be a “governor for everyone.” He said the election’s outcome should be viewed as a sign that voters are tired of partisan division.

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The incumbent Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas will not run for the office in the next Palestinian elections, a senior Fatah official told Palestine TV on Monday.
According to Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Football Association, Abbas will not agree to represent Fatah in the next vote.
This statement runs against the remarks made earlier by Hussein al-Sheikh, head of PA’s General Authority on Civil Affairs, who said that Abbas was the only possible candidate for Fatah.
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A few blocks makes all the difference when it comes to rent on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.
Lower Fifth Avenue, an area between 42nd and 49th streets, saw the biggest asking rent decline among Manhattan’s prominent retail corridors in the third quarter, falling 25% from the same period last year, according to a report by Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. In contrast, rents along upper Fifth Avenue, a swanky shopping district that runs from 49th Street north to Central Park, slipped just 0.7% over the same period.
“It’s two completely different stories,” said Patrick Smith, vice chairman at JLL’s retail brokerage.

Rav Menachem Nachum Kaplan (Nachumke) of Horodna, Lithuania (1811-1879). When he was nine years old, he lived in the home of Reb Yehuda Leib Ganker and learned with this wealthy man every morning. Later, he wandered through Lithuania until he came to Amshina, where he studied under Rav Avraham Kahane. Eventually, he was accepted to the Mirrer yeshiva and became close to its mashgiach, Rav Yisrael Heller. He married the daughter of wealthy man, but after a number of years, his father-in-law died.

Qatar warned Hamas, the Palestinian militant group running the Gaza Strip, that it could cease providing funds and aid to the area in 2020.
This warning, as Middle East Monitor reports citing Hezbollah-linked Al Akhbar newspaper, came from Qatari envoy Mohammed El-Emadi.
Hamas is said to believe, however, that the money will keep flowing as Doha worries that a lack of funds could trigger an escalation with Israel.
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President Donald Trump offered help to Mexico in dealing with its infamous drug lords on Tuesday after at least nine Americans were gunned down in a suspected cartel ambush.
It’s time “to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth”, he posted on his Twitter account.
Calling the Mexican drug lords “monsters”, he said the US was “ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively.
Later on Tuesday, the US president spoke to his Mexican counterpart on the phone, offering help in bringing the perpetrators of the attack to justice.
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Laser pointers are great for taunting cats and inflicting irritation. But they’re also quite effective at hacking Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant, researchers say – even from hundreds of feet away.
Microphones in smart devices translate sound into electrical signals, which communicate commands to the device. But as researchers at the University of Michigan and University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo have discovered, microphones will respond the same way to a focused light pointed directly at them. It’s a surprising vulnerability that would allow an attacker to secretly take over many popular voice-controlled devices with nothing more than a $13.99 laser pointer and some solid aim.

WASHINGTON (AP) – A government agency is recommending that all 50 states enact laws requiring bicyclists to wear helmets to stem an increase in bicycle deaths on U.S. roadways. The recommendation was among several issued by the National Transportation Safety Board after a hearing Tuesday on bicycle safety. The agency says 857 bicyclists died in […]