French security forces are working to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French Pacific …
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By JOHN LEICESTER
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5/19/24
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A lawsuit over a Virginia prison inmate's death has raised broader questions about conditions at the lockup and newly obtained records are providing further insights. The Marion Correctional …
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By SARAH RANKIN
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5/19/24
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A Florida man will soon learn whether he will be sentenced to death or life in prison for fatally shooting five women in a bank in 2019. Jury selection starts Monday in the penalty trial of …
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By TERRY SPENCER
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5/19/24
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President Joe Biden is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically Black, male-only institution in Atlanta. The speech on Sunday offers Biden an election-year …
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and BILL BARROW
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5/18/24
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Georgia’s president has vetoed the so-called “Russian law” targeting media that has sparked weeks of mass protests. The law would require media and NGOs to register as “pursuing the interests …
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5/18/24
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French security forces have reported another death in armed clashes in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The fatality Saturday was the sixth in a nearly a week of violent unrest wracking …
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By JOHN LEICESTER
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5/18/24
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Georgia's prime minister has joined tens of thousands of people on march through the country's capital to mark the Day of Family Purity. The event on Friday celebrated so-called traditional family …
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5/17/24
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Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers may be as plentiful as ever. That's because of a another mild winter and other favorable factors. Experts are mostly …
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By MIKE STOBBE
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5/17/24
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May 10-16, 2024
People took part in the Piu Sik Parade at the Bun Festival in Hong Kong, Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump attended his trial at Manhattan …
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By The Associated Press
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5/17/24
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U.S. figures show that San Diego became the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in April. It is the fifth region to hold that distinction in two years, a sign of how quickly migration routes are …
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT
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5/17/24
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Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the impact of the decision is still up for debate. Have Americans truly ended segregation in fact, not just in law? The …
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By SHARON LURYE
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5/17/24
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May 10-16, 2024
Naval academy students climbed a monument to celebrate their first year in Annapolis, Maryland, wildfires filled the sky with smoke over Edmonton, Alberta, and lowrider cars were …
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By The Associated Press
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5/16/24
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The Justice Department announced this week that the Attorney General has submitted to the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking initiating a formal rulemaking process to consider moving marijuana from a schedule I to schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
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5/16/24
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Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It's so bad that …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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5/16/24
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Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was gravely injured in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country and the rest of Europe just weeks before an election. The attack calls to …
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By The Associated Press
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5/16/24
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The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. Scientists reported Thursday that these two gigantic and distant black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 …
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By MARCIA DUNN
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5/16/24
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Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the school’s president told students to leave the area or face arrest. The move on …
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By TERESA CRAWFORD
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5/16/24
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In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will issue a report Thursday showing that three-quarters of them …
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By JOHN O'CONNOR
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5/16/24
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies. China, led by President Xi Jinping, has offered robust diplomatic support to …
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By The Associated Press
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5/15/24
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The threat of a wildfire near Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, appeared to be easing Wednesday, a day after thousands of residents were forced to evacuate their homes in the city …
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By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and ROB GILLIES
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5/15/24
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