Russia has recruited about 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students, including teenagers, assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack …
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By EMMA BURROWS and LORI HINNANT
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10/10/24
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Russia is recruiting young African women to work at a factory producing drones for use in Ukraine amid a labor shortage. An Associated Press investigation has found that the foreigners and Russian …
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By EMMA BURROWS and LORI HINNANT
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10/10/24
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Twin brothers who were born conjoined recently celebrated their first birthday after undergoing successful separation surgery. Amari and Javar Ruffin, whose family lives in Philadelphia, were born …
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10/9/24
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Brown University has rejected a proposal to divest from 10 companies that protesters say were facilitating the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The vote Tuesday by the Corporation of …
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By MICHAEL CASEY
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10/9/24
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A video showing a helicopter hovering over a Burnsville, North Carolina, aid distribution site has been viewed millions of times with some claiming that its aim was to destroy the supplies. But the …
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BY MELISSA GOLDIN
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10/9/24
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North Carolina legislators have approved an initial $273 million relief package to help address Hurricane Helene’s devastation and recovery in the mountains. The unanimous House and Senate passage …
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON
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10/9/24
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Severe solar storm could stress power grids even more as US deals with major back-to-back hurricanes
Space forecasters say a severe solar storm is heading to Earth that could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes. A severe geomagnetic storm watch has been …
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By MARCIA DUNN
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10/9/24
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Friends and family of a state police recruit who died during training protested outside their graduation ceremony, demand to know how he died. Enrique Delgado-Garcia, 25, died at a hospital on Sept. …
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By MICHAEL CASEY
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10/9/24
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Authorities say five people are dead after a small plane crashed on Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast. The Federal Aviation Administration says the twin-engine Beechcraft 95 …
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10/9/24
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10/9/24
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Jury selection has begun in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, once the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history. Madigan is charged in a …
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By SOPHIA TAREEN
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10/9/24
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Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, has been hospitalized with a stroke. Her family announced on X Tuesday night that it happened Thursday in her sleep and that she's resting comfortably …
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By MICHAEL CASEY
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10/9/24
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A rare, bright comet will be visible in October, clear skies permitting. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on Saturday. Astronomers say it should be bright enough to see with the …
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By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN
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10/9/24
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Palestinian officials said Wednesday that Israel’s bombardment of central and northern Gaza killed at least 18 people, including five children and two women. Two strikes hit tents for displaced …
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By The Associated Press
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10/9/24
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The USS Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects most US households, on average, will pay about the same to heat their homes as they did last winter. A notable exception is that EIA expects Midwestern homes heated by natural gas will pay about 11% more on average for heat than last winter.
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10/9/24
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A U.S. Marine whose adoption of an Afghan war orphan has spurred a yearslong legal battle and raised alarms at the highest levels of government will stay in the Marine Corps. A three-member panel of …
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By JULIET LINDERMAN, CLAIRE GALOFARO and MARTHA MENDOZA
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10/8/24
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10/8/24
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The Atlantic hurricane season brings heavy rain, strong wind, storm surge and sometimes catastrophic damage to locations from the Caribbean islands and Central America, all the way up through the …
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By PATRICK WHITTLE
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10/8/24
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The Big Ten and SEC already have the upper hand in college football. At meetings this week, their leaders are setting the stage to exact even more control over the sport’s future. Among the talking …
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By EDDIE PELLS
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10/8/24
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10/8/24
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