A day after California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing state agencies to start clearing homeless encampments on state land, including lots under freeways, the homeless people …
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By JAIMIE DING
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7/26/24
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Comedian Jon Stewart and troops sickened by uranium have ended a meeting at the Department of Veterans Affairs angry that once again they have been told they will have to wait to see whether the VA …
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By TARA COPP
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7/26/24
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Utah officials have denied clemency to a man who is set to be executed for the 1998 killing of his girlfriend’s mother. Taberon Dave Honie is scheduled to die by lethal injection Aug. 8. He asked …
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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN
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7/26/24
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The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city’s bloody July 1967 race riot has received a historic marker. A …
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By COREY WILLIAMS
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7/26/24
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Autopsy findings on Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fired sheriff’s deputy charged in her death, confirm that she died from a gunshot wound to the …
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7/26/24
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While much of the globe is focused on the Paris Olympics, a movie filmed in ancient Olympia starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato premiered this week that uses music to spark contemplation of …
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By RONALD BLUM
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7/26/24
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In consecutive days this week, China brokered a deal between rival Palestinian factions and hosted Ukraine’s foreign minister at a key moment in the grinding war there. While it’s unclear if the …
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By HUIZHONG WU and DIDI TANG
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7/26/24
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Hadi Matar, 26, of Fairview, New Jersey, was arraigned this week in federal court in connection with attempting to provide material support to Hizballah, a designated foreign terrorist organization; engaging in an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries; and providing material support to terrorists.
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7/26/24
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A walrus calf seemingly left behind by her herd near Alaska’s northernmost city is receiving treatment at a nonprofit wildlife response center hundreds of miles away. Alaska SeaLife Center …
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By BECKY BOHRER
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7/25/24
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Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at U.S. prominent think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 73. His wife, Gahl Hodges …
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By SUSAN HAIGH
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7/25/24
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A court filing shows that the signatures collected by volunteers for an Arkansas abortion-rights measure would fall short of the number needed to qualify for the ballot if they're the only ones …
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By ANDREW DeMILLO
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7/25/24
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A man who was on the verge of walking out of prison this week after a judge found evidence of his “actual innocence” and overturned his murder conviction now faces a fresh legal hurdle. The …
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JIM SALTER
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7/25/24
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Justice Elena Kagan says the U.S. Supreme Court should bolster its new ethics code by adding a way to enforce it. She is the first justice to publicly call for a way to enforce the rules. Kagan made …
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By SOPHIE AUSTIN
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7/25/24
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A rising number of heat-related deaths in Texas among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl has pushed the number of storm fatalities to at least 36. Officials in suburban Fort Bend County …
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By JUAN A. LOZANO and JAMIE STENGLE
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7/25/24
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Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano, an inmate at Telfair State Prison in Georgia, died of heart and lung failure after officers left him in an outdoor cell in the summer heat for five hours without water or …
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By CHARLOTTE KRAMON
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7/25/24
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The Ohio Supreme Court says consumers can't expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones. By a 4-3 vote, the court on Thursday has rejected claims by a restaurant patron who suffered …
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By MICHAEL RUBINKAM
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7/25/24
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A Georgia judge has denied a preliminary request to block a commission created to discipline and remove prosecutors. Prosecutors argue that it violates the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. Fulton …
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By JEFF AMY
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7/25/24
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The United Nations is calling for a flurry of efforts to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures in what it calls an extreme heat epidemic. Thursday's report from 10 UN agencies …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN and SIBI ARASU
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7/25/24
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order to direct state agencies on how to remove homeless encampments. The order comes a month after a Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to …
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By TRÂN NGUYỄN
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7/25/24
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Officials say two NASA astronauts will remain at the International Space Station until engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing capsule. Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams …
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By MARCIA DUNN
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7/25/24
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