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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is awarding $1 billion from the federal…
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is awarding $1 billion from the federal…
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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Alex Murdaugh’s housekeeper has testified at his double murder trial that the she never saw the shirt and shoes…
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By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education is criticizing a proposal…
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MADRID (AP) — Carlos Saura, Spain’s celebrated filmmaker whose career spanned over seven decades during which he earned three Academy Award…
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two former Marines bonded by a kidney donation and their love of football are now headed to the Super Bowl. John Gladwell, a…
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By TRAVIS LOLLER and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Years before Memphis Police officer Demetrius Haley pulled Tyre Nichols…
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge is rejecting a move to consider criminal prosecution for Boeing over the 737 Max…
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By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has agreed to apologize and pay $3.3 million in taxpayer money to…
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By JULIO CORTEZ and LEA SKENE Associated Press FALLSTON, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man was taken into custody early Friday, ending a 39-hour manhunt…
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Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight Croatian nationals have pleaded not guilty to new child trafficking charges in a Zambian court. The…
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Associated Press Brazil’s Federal Police have performed eight searches targeting money laundering derived from illegal gold mining in Roraima…
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Don’t feed the bears! Wildlife biologists and forest rangers have preached the mantra for…
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Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink is being probed over its shipping methods after an animal rights group contacted the U.S. Department of…
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By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched former Vice President Mike Pence ’s Indiana home on Friday for…
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former Miss Universe Cayman Islands has been found guilty of damaging two cars and assaulting three people,…
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Danielle Deadwyler says racism and misogynoir played a role in this year’s Academy Awards…
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By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — With a stunning musical career already spanning decades, Dionne Warwick couldn’t be…
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By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press Dutch police say they are investigating a stunt that saw a text alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory…
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas lawsuit with a key deadline this month is posing a threat to the nationwide…
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By FU TING, GRACE EKPU and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Corruption is undermining the management of some of the world’s…
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By ANDREW DAMPF and ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press MERIBEL, France (AP) — Mother Nature and global warming are having just as much to say about…
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VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — An unarmed U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile has been launched from California in a test of the…
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By KEN SWEET and MAE ANDERSON The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — How the mighty have fallen. Cryptocurrency companies grabbed the spotlight…
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By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One day in 2020, at the pandemic’s height, an earnest-looking man with long hair the color of…
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CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say at least two people were killed and 20 others were injured when an apartment building collapsed in the…
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government has withdrawn its earlier appeal to citizens to mark Valentine’s Day next week not as a celebration of…
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By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has issued a strong call for fellow members of the Association…
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Widespread tensions caused by a rift within Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christian church have resulted in the suspension of access…
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A driver has been arrested after an SUV crashed through a fence at the Texas State Capitol, authorities said. Troopers saw the…
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By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Mountains of rubble and twisted metal. Death on an unimaginable scale. Grief. Rage. Relief at having…
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BERLIN (AP) — A state-owned Dutch company that is Germany’s biggest electricity grid operator says it plans to hold talks on selling its entire…
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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say a suspected assailant rammed his car into several pedestrians in east…
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office says an EU lawmaker linked to a corruption scandal that rocked the bloc’s…
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By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s president tapped her defense and security adviser,…
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By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl ads are more than just breaks between gameplay during the biggest sporting event of…
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By FU TING, GRACE EKPU and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Indonesia’s fisheries minister, Edhy Prabowo was tasked with…
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities say a roadside bomb has exploded near a vehicle carrying security forces in the country’s…
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By DAVID BILLER, AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da…
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By DAVID McHUGH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia announced Friday that will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels per…
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BERLIN (AP) — Officials say a bus traveling from Poland to Belgium has come off a highway in eastern Germany and overturned, injuring 35 people,…
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By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BRASOV, Romania (AP) — University student Vlada Yushchenko was still in her teens and nearly three months…
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ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has for years tempted fate by not enforcing modern construction codes…
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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A youthful foreign minister who campaigned as a unifier unconstrained by antiquated…
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BEIJING (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has received pledges of economic and political support during a meeting in Beijing with Chinese…
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted to a mostly higher close on Wall Street but still closed out their worst week since…
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Honda is reporting a 27% jump in its October-December profit, despite headwinds like shortages of…
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British economy has stagnated in the final three months of last year amid cost-of-living crisis…
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By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A group of college students in Boston is getting a unique opportunity to learn to dance like the Radio…
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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has delayed a $6 billion bailout for cash-strapped Pakistan.…
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By JUSTIN SPIKE, GHAITH ALSAYED and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISKENDERUN, Turkey (AP) — More than a dozen additional earthquake survivors…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After a challenging first year in office, Manhattan’s district attorney is back in the…
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A venerable fine-dining fixture on Bourbon Street helped kick off the final frantic days of New…
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By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia used strategic bombers, cruise missiles and killer drones in a wave of attacks across…
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By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Allegations of childhood physical or sexual assault at New Hampshire’s youth detention…
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By AHMED AL-HAJ and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Onlookers gathered around a small, four-door car coated in dried mud, peering…
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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — An autopsy report shows that a former rugby player from South Africa who was shot and…
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By DAKE KANG and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has dismissed a U.S. House of Representatives resolution condemning Beijing over…
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Within hours of an Air Force F-22 downing a giant Chinese balloon that had crossed the…
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By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer The coolest thing on social media these days may be celebrities and regular folks plunging into frigid water or…
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By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Scholten is among the Democrats who had a surprisingly good election night in…
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s orbiting space station crew has completed their first spacewalk of their six-month mission. Several more spacewalks…
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By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The operator of an oil pipeline says a faulty weld at a bend in an oil…
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer New YORK (AP) — HarperCollins Publishers and the union representing around 250 striking employees reached a…
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine’s wartime leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has now been bestowed with France’s highest medal of honor. But there’s a…
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By JULIO CORTEZ Associated Press FALLSTON, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect sought in the shooting of two Maryland police officers has been…
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By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The first responders who saved Damar Hamlin’s life were recognized with a tribute video at…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it will remove the entry restrictions it placed on short-term…
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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police oversight agency has cast uncertainty on whether a man fatally shot by officers fired his weapon in what Supt.…
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court has again refused to overturn a lower court ruling blocking a voter-approved gun measure from taking…
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By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Christian Siriano has lined his New York Fashion Week runway Thursday with thousands of…
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By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Residents forced to evacuate in Ohio after a train hauling…
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By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press U.S. Rep. George Santos was charged with criminal theft in Pennsylvania in 2017 in connection with bad checks…
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By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Patrick Mahomes dominated the voting for the AP NFL Most Valuable Player award. Now, he’ll…
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By STEVE PEOPLES and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. counter-terrorism chief says the threat posed by Islamic State extremists…
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LONDON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told a group of sports ministers there should be “no place” for Russian athletes at…
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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is moving toward increasing the weight limit for large trucks to 90,000 pounds. The House…
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By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana lawmakers have amended a proposed bill that opponents criticize as letting…
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By FARNOUSH AMIRI, ERIC TUCKER, KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have opened a new inquiry with a…
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press A man who repeatedly admitted scheming to smuggle finches from Guyana into New York for birdsong competitions has…
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By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — An attorney for some insurance companies that could be liable for child sexual abuse…
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By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Ukrainian relatives of a slain cinematographer are seeking damages in her death from actor…
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Residential electric bills in Puerto Rico could increase by an average of $19 a month…
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By TRAVIS LOLLER and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — One of three Memphis Police officers who initially detained Tyre Nichols…
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By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed is pushing back on critics who say the city is dead or dying.…
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By TERRY TANG and DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are the reason Rhonda LeValdo is in Arizona for the Super…
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A local North Carolina prosecutor says campaign-related charges won’t be pursued…
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre filed lawsuits Thursday in Mississippi, accusing…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says there is new “energy, focus and improvement” across the Postal Service in an upbeat…
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By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test…
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By AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers are advancing a number of bills that would curb Chinese influence in…
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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have advanced a bill allowing teachers to misgender…
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Black lawmakers in Missouri are accusing House Republican leaders of racism after…
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Questions about female athletes’ menstrual history will no longer appear on medical…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia police say they have arrested a suspect in an assault on Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota. Craig was…
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By DAVID BAUDER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Easy listening, some called Burt Bacharach’s music, and not always kindly. But listen…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s inflation rate rose in January to 7.91%, leading the country’s central bank to boost its principle interest…
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By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An immigration judge has ordered a commercial truck driver from Ukraine to be deported,…
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will vote this month to repeal two decades-old measures that approved American…
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By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Police in Ohio say the arrest of a broadcast reporter who was pushed to the ground and handcuffed while covering a…
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