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By TERRY CHEA Associated Press WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of goats munch on long blades of yellow grass on a hillside next to a…
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By TERRY CHEA Associated Press WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of goats munch on long blades of yellow grass on a hillside next to a…
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BEIJING (AP) — China has expressed its support for Serbia following renewed violence between ethnic Serbs and NATO troops in Kosovo. China’s…
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A 15-year-old soccer player has been hospitalized with life-threatening brain injuries after being struck by an opposing…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — German truck maker Daimler, Toyota and two other automakers plan to work together on new…
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By KARIN LAUB Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A free concert, a henna party and other celebrations have taken place ahead of Jordan’s…
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LONDON (AP) — The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back. Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase…
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape says a proposed security treaty with…
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By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — NATO will send 700 more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell…
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BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army says troops have rescued a Saudi citizen kidnapped over the weekend in Beirut and held for ransom. The Lebanese…
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting in mixed trading Tuesday after Washington reached a tentative deal to avoid…
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By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press SAINT-LAURENT-DE-LA-PLAINE, France (AP) — If time travel was possible, medieval carpenters would surely be…
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SRINAGAR, India (AP) — At least 10 people died and 55 were injured when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims skidded into a mountain gorge in…
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By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and RENATA BRITO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s snap general election breaks…
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KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — There is activity at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, but it’s not what scientists at its cutting-edge…
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By KANIS LEUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Amnesty International says a Uyghur student who it had said was missing…
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By JIM GOMEZ and JOHNSON LAI Associated Press YILAN, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Mawar lashed Taiwan’s eastern coast with wind, rain and large…
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing last week has returned home after being released by his captors. Sami…
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors say Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers made meritless arguments in a bid…
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By STEVE PEOPLES, HANNAH FINGERHUT and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stepped up to Donald Trump at…
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By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire from conservatives, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy…
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By COLLIN BINKLEY and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Supreme Court decides the fate of affirmative action, most U.S.…
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By DENISE LAVOIE and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Following Target’s announcement last week that it removed products and…
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and LEKAN OYEKANMI AP Technology Writer BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at the Texas…
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By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robert Bowers carried out the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history when he killed 11…
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By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire stadium is being recognized for playing a largely unheralded role in helping…
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By SUSIE BLANN and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A rare drone attack jolted Moscow before dawn, causing only light damage…
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country’s…
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Wildfires in Canada’s Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia have caused thousands to evacuate. The Halifax Regional…
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BEIJING (AP) — China has launched a spacecraft carrying a new three-person crew for its orbiting space station. This comes as it plans to put…
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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Police launched a search Tuesday for three suspects they believe to be the gunmen who…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan poet and novelist Gioconda Belli, known for her feminist and erotic literature, has been awarded the Reina Sofia…
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By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A historic impeachment trial in Texas to determine whether Republican…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ralph Yarl — a Black teenager who was shot in the head and arm after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell — walked at…
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By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The prosecutor in Argentina who is leading the investigation into the failed…
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By CARLOS VALDEZ and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A prosecutor in Bolivia has launched an investigation into the…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it plans to launch its first military spy satellite…
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HOULTON, Maine (AP) — Officials say the driver of vehicle with a sign indicating there was an explosive device on board led Maine State Police on a…
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By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Police fired tear gas and demonstrators burned cars Monday near the home of Senegal’s…
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By ANNA FURMAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Recent allegations by WNBA player Dearica Hamby that her coach harassed her for being pregnant…
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By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers questioned whether a proposal to subsidize a new MLB…
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have arrested five police officers from a special border guard force on suspicion of working…
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By JAVIER COLÓN DAVILA Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Puerto Rico say that drug trafficking was behind a mass…
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PARACHUTE, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado student barred from wearing a sash representing the flags of Mexico and the United States to her high school…
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A converted artists’ warehouse in Oakland that burned in 2016 and killed 36 people has been acquired by a nonprofit…
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By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has unveiled plans to send a spaceship to explore the…
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By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s interior minister and security officials say assailants have kidnapped a Saudi Arabian…
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus and Russia have no immediate plans to adopt a joint currency, Belarus’ strongman leader announced on Monday.…
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By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Rescue groups are accusing the European island nation of Malta of coordinating the return…
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By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A teenage student who police in Guyana accuse of deliberately setting a fire in a…
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By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press ECATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s former ruling party could face near-extinction in Sunday’s governorship…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Horse racing’s oversight authority will hold an emergency summit with Churchill Downs, Kentucky’s racing commission and…
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By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A judge has sentenced former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes to 14 years…
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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a man charged in an Ohio shooting that killed four people and injured a child earlier this year has now been…
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By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a Black nun…
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The Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A cruise ship that navigated rough seas off the South Carolina coast over the Memorial Day weekend has…
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A United Nations official says Bangladesh should not bear the burden of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees alone while…
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has imposed sanctions on 365 Belarusian citizens and frozen the financial assets of other entities and people…
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By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection in a runoff Sunday, following a…
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CAIRO (AP) — A Libyan court has sentenced 23 suspected Islamic State group militants to death for launching deadly attacks that killed dozens of…
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By AAMER MADHANI and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden lauded the sacrifice of generations of U.S. troops who…
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By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word…
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By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, who is on trial in The Hague…
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By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The French general manager of Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala is facing the threat of a tenure cut…
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By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Jerusalem’s iconic citadel has opened its revamped museum after a three-year, $50 million…
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By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — South America’s leaders will gather in Brazil’s capital on Tuesday as part of President…
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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s warring sides have agreed to extend a shaky cease-fire in their battle for control of the…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday his son is resigning as his executive policy…
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GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Shootings and arson are continuing in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, where clashes between security forces and…
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ROME (AP) — Police in Italy say a high-school student wounded his teacher with a hunting knife and brandished what turned out to be a toy gun at…
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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it executed two Bahraini men after being convicted of…
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By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo have flared anew this week after Kosovo’s police…
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By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press In California, members of an under-the-radar, minority religious community are stepping into the public eye to…
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By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press FRESNO, California (AP) — For decades, worshipping in temples, Ram Asra has sung spiritual songs known as…
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Seven men have appeared in court on charges of attempted murder related to the February attack on a…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is urging the Catholic faithful, and especially bishops, to be “reflective,…
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By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Streamline how you manage your money to save yourself time and reduce stress. Prioritize addressing and simplifying your…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The shtick that’s gone viral features a soccer player, a Spice Girl, James Bond, you name it,…
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By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions have rattled Kyiv during daylight as Russian ballistic missiles fell on the…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Interior Ministry on Monday issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to…
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader says he’d “welcome” the restoration of full…
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By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Thailand say they seized more than a ton of crystal…
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in…
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By CIARÁN GILES and JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early general…
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By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has rejected a jailed publisher’s request to terminate his national security…
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By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he will sign a bill that creates a commission to investigate…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An International Atomic Energy Agency team has arrived in Tokyo for a final review before Japan…
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ROME (AP) — Two U.N. agencies are warning of rising food emergencies including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war and in Haiti, Burkina…
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s maritime agency says it has detained a Chinese-registered vessel on suspicion of looting two British…
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By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have built a religious school at a dismantled…
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By THOMAS ADAMSON and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A United Nations committee is meeting in Paris to work on what is intended…
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By CHINEDU ASADU ABUJA, Nigeria Associated Press (AP) — The new president of Nigeria has taken over the reins of power. Bola Tinubu was sworn in as…
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian branch of the PricewaterhouseCoopers consultancy network has ordered nine…
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Evangelisto Ramos walked out of a New Orleans courthouse and away from a life sentence…
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By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The attacks come at night, when most in Kyiv are sound asleep. The sirens wail across the…
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By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s government honored record-holding climbers Monday during celebrations…
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MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters say that they have recovered four bodies from a northern Italian lake after a tourist boat capsized in a sudden,…
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By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, Spain (AP) — Where once the population of Barcelona drank mostly from its rivers and wells,…
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By RADUL RADOVANOVIC and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press ZVECAN, Kosovo (AP) — The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force say that 25 of its troops were…
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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press EWA BEACH, Hawaii (AP) — Brian Keaulana is the quintessential Native Hawaiian waterman, well-known in…
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