Race for Alaska’s lone US House seat narrows to final 4 candidates
Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two candidates who combined received just over 1% of the vote in last week’s U.S. House primary in Alaska…
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fatman Scoop, the hip-hop artist who topped charts in Europe with “Be Faithful” in the early 2000s and later…
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Associated Press/Report for America Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections. The lawsuit filed in state court…
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NY man pleads guilty in pandemic loan fraud
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A politically active western New York businessman has admitted to a multimillion-dollar pandemic loan fraud, and prosecutors…
Continue Reading Mississippi bus crash kills 7 people and injures 37
BOVINA, Miss. (AP) — Seven people were killed and dozens were injured in Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20 on Saturday…
Continue Reading A top court in the Dominican Republic deliberates anti-sodomy laws targeting police and military
Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top court in the Dominican Republic has agreed to review a challenge to laws dating from the last…
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WAPT, CNN By Amanda Musa and Rafael Romo, CNN (CNN) — Seven people were killed and dozens injured early Saturday when a commercial passenger…
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Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July, officials…
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Continue Reading UN-led campaign to vaccinate children against Polio kicks off in Gaza
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Continue Reading 7 killed by Russian attacks as Moscow pushes ahead in Ukraine’s east
Five people have been killed by Russian shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar as Moscow’s troops push ahead in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.…
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Continue Reading Man charged with assault on 2 Jewish students on University of Pittsburgh campus
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Continue Reading GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina has a history of inflammatory words. It could cost Trump
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Continue Reading Netanyahu clashes with defense minister over Gaza deal terms, Israeli media reports say
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Continue Reading Chinese and Philippine vessels collide at a disputed atoll and governments trade accusations
Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China and the Philippines have accused each other of causing a collision between their two vessels in the…
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By Catherine Nicholls and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — The wreckage of a Russian helicopter carrying 22 people that went missing in the…
Continue Reading UN will continue to engage the Taliban in Afghanistan despite new laws restricting women
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.N. spokesman says the United Nations will continue to engage all stakeholders in Afghanistan including the Taliban, even…
Continue Reading Dozens of exotic animals seized at Turkish border
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish customs officials in the northwestern city of Edirne discovered dozens of exotic animals being smuggled into Turkey from…
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Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say weeks of flooding have killed nearly 200 people across the country. The Nigerian…
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Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Some Oasis fans celebrated like a champagne supernova, while others looked back in anger on Saturday as online…
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Continue Reading The pot farm next door: Black market weed operations inundate California suburb, cops say
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Continue Reading ‘Nothing is left’: Israel’s military tells Gaza residents to go home but they find only rubble
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Continue Reading Japan lodges formal protest over Chinese survey ship entering its territorial waters
Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan lodged a formal protest via China’s embassy against what it called an incursion by a Chinese survey ship into…
Continue Reading Helicopter goes missing in Russia’s Far East with 22 people believed onboard
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Continue Reading 6 people hurt in a knife attack on a bus in Germany. No political or religious motive seen
BERLIN (AP) — Police arrested a 32-year-old woman after six people were hurt in a knife attack on a bus headed to a festival in western Germany.…
Continue Reading From Mazar to Manhattan: How a young couple escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan
By Monica Haider, CNN (CNN) — Deep in the jungle in Panama’s infamous Darien Gap, a lawyer and a dentist from Afghanistan kept pushing. With…
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Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian…
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Earth sizzled through a summer with four of the hottest days ever measured, Vice President Kamala Harris…
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Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil started blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys say the city of Los Angeles will pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit by relatives of a woman killed by police during…
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Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers have approved a bill designed to strengthen the state’s oversight of nursing homes,…
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AP Technology Writer Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday that they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse…
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Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis City Council is suing the commission that oversees the city’s elections for removing three gun…
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The Associated Press/Report For America TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama shuttered the offices of the Black Student Union and a…
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Continue Reading Conservative group plans to monitor voting drop box locations in Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — A conservative group has told Arizona officials that it plans to monitor ballot drop boxes for the November election and identify…
Continue Reading Former California employee to get $350K to settle sexual harassment claims against state treasurer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The state of California has agreed to pay a former employee $350,000 to settle her claims that Democratic state Treasurer…
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ST. JAMES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York man shot his former wife and her new boyfriend to death after first texting his 15-year-old…
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Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s top election official says organizers have gathered enough signatures to get the issue of…
Continue Reading Family of 3 killed in series of shootings that ended on Maine bridge identified
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Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Ethiopia is increasingly concerned over a defense deal signed earlier this month between Egypt and…
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Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — It was another day of war in Gaza, another day of what 19-year-old Palestinian TikTok star Medo Halimy called his…
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Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Republican state representative in central Florida has been indicted on felony…
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