Oldest public library in the Americas has Catholic origins
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Disasters like Ian pose extra risk for fragile older people
By ANITA SNOW and JAY REEVES Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Older people with limited mobility and those with chronic health conditions…
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Continue Reading Town employee quietly lowered fluoride in water for years
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BERLIN (AP) — Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a…
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By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Kent Carter, vice president of the NAACP’s Arlington, Virginia, branch, was shot and killed Sunday while vacationing in…
Continue Reading Ian made landfall 20 miles from their mobile home community. Left with scraps and debris, these longtime neighbors wonder what’s next
By Christina Maxouris, CNN. Photographs by Erica Lee, CNN. There’s an eerie silence inside the Picketts’ living room Wednesday evening as…
Continue Reading Two teens and a child among 10 people killed in Ireland gas station explosion
By Zayn Nabbi, CNN Ten people, including two teenagers and a young child, were killed in Friday’s explosion at a gas filling station in the…
Continue Reading Japanese avant-garde pioneer composer Ichiyanagi dies at 89
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Avant-garde pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN More than 4,000 current and former law school applicants received the exciting news that they had been accepted to Northeastern…
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BEIJING (AP) — China has criticized the latest U.S. decision to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and…
Continue Reading California’s Merced community is mourning the loss of 4 family members who were kidnapped and killed. 2 men have been arrested, police say
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A community in central California is grappling with the grief of losing an 8-month old baby, her parents and her uncle, who…
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint in east Jerusalem on Saturday…
Continue Reading A Marine who hated Muslims went to a mosque to plant a bomb. His intended victims ended up saving his life
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Continue Reading Death toll rises to 10 in blast at gas station in Ireland
LONDON (AP) — The death toll from a gas station explosion that shattered a small village in northwest Ireland rose to 10 on Saturday, and emergency…
Continue Reading Ukrainian authorities take stock of ruins in liberated Lyman
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities are just beginning to sift through the wreckage of the devastated city…
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Continue Reading These endangered turtles just hatched for the first time in North America
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By ADAM SCHRECK and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An explosion Saturday caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking…
Continue Reading Massive blast cripples parts of Crimea-Russia bridge, in blow to Putin’s war effort
By Hannah Ritchie, Tim Lister and Josh Pennington, CNN In a major blow for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a huge explosion early Saturday severely…
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By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and DAVID RISING Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Grief-stricken families prayed Saturday at a Buddhist temple…
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Continue Reading Oklahoma City Zoo welcomes its first lion cubs born in 15 years
By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Oklahoma City Zoo has welcomed four new residents: a litter of tiny newborn lion cubs. The cubs were born September 26,…
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By Michelle Toh, CNN A megayacht linked to a sanctioned Russian oligarch has dropped anchor in Hong Kong, amid efforts by the West to seize the…
Continue Reading Hurricane Julia near Nicaragua after lashing Colombia island
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Julia closed in on Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast late Saturday after lashing Colombia’s San Andres…
Continue Reading Columbia University will pay $165 million to sexual abuse victims of a former gynecologist
By Rob Frehse and Zenebou Sylla, CNN Nearly 150 women who reported sexual abuse or misconduct by a former gynecologist reached a $165 million…
Continue Reading Report: Walker encouraged woman to have second abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman who says Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker paid for a 2009 abortion claims he encouraged her to have…
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NEW DELHI (AP) — A bus has caught fire after hitting a truck on a highway in western India and at least 12 passengers have been killed. Maharashtra…
Continue Reading A former prison warden and his brother face additional charges in the shooting of migrants in West Texas
By Ashley Killough, Rosa Flores and Ed Lavandera, CNN Two brothers who were accused of shooting two migrants in West Texas are now facing additional…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A United Nations human rights expert is urging Japan’s government to provide evacuees from the…
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Continue Reading Johnson, Barnes polished in 1st Wisconsin Senate debate
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Continue Reading Migrants from three countries are driving the spike in encounters at the southern border, swamping a backlogged immigration system
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Continue Reading Volusia County faces continued threat of flooding more than a week after Hurricane Ian as governor praises Floridians’ resiliency
By Amy Simonson, CNN Volusia County on the Atlantic coast of Florida faces the continued threat of flooding more than a week after Hurricane Ian…
Continue Reading Volusia County faces continued threat of flooding more than a week after Hurricane Ian as governor praises Floridians’ resiliency
By Amy Simonson, CNN Volusia County on the Atlantic coast of Florida faces the continued threat of flooding more than a week after Hurricane Ian…
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Ashley Garner had given up on ever seeing her wedding ring again. She lost it outside her Fort Myers home just days before…
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By ADAM BEAM and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will call a special session of the state…
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By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York hospitals have agreed to pay more than $165 million to 147 former patients who have…
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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally…
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CNN’s Aliza Kassim and Niamh Kennedy France has urged all French nationals to leave Iran “as soon as possible,” warning that they…
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By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Kent Carter, vice president of the NAACP’s Arlington, Virginia, branch, was shot and killed Sunday while vacationing in…
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An actor who’s accused Kevin Spacey of making a sexual advance on him as a…
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By Jo Shelley, Olga Voitovych and Tim Lister, CNN The bodies of more than 500 civilians have been discovered in territory in northeast Ukraine…
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By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s five American Indian tribes want exclusive rights to host internet…
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By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered in Montenegro for a protest led by the Serbian…
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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The younger brother of a man suspected in the kidnapping and killings…
Continue Reading Uvalde school board expected to discuss superintendent Hal Harrell’s retirement Monday
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By Samantha Beech, CNN Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency to help respond to the city’s migrant crisis, which he told reporters…
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NEW YORK (AP) — After almost a decade, the legal fight between pop singer Kesha and producer Dr. Luke is headed to trial in New York next summer. A…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Julia has formed in the Caribbean Sea, triggering hurricane watches and warnings for Nicaragua and Colombian…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — In a video posted on social media, a man claiming to be a Mexican drug cartel leader says an attack that killed 20 people…
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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is making a big bet to revive the West African…
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Uvalde school district on Friday pulled its embattled campus police force off the job…
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By Emma Tucker and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A 20-year-old Black man was experiencing a mental health crisis when he was killed this week after five…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The group photo of the Supreme Court’s nine members is a long-standing ritual. But it has never looked quite like the one…
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — At least two cars crashed during a funeral procession for a teen who died of a suspected drug overdose, killing a 12-year-old…
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By RAMI MUSA Associated Press BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — A spokesman for Libya’s Red Crescent says at least 15 bodies have been recovered after a…
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By Matt J. Friedman and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District said Friday it had suspended its school police…
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By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Left-wing supporters and nationalists in North Macedonia both have voiced…
Continue Reading Shock, questions after gruesome killing of gay Palestinian
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The gruesome killing of a 25-year-old Palestinian man, whose decapitated torso was found in the…
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