In southwest Serbia, construction machines are being repurposed to clear tons of waste clogging the Potpec lake. Year after year during the winter months, the lake near the southwest Serbian town of …
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1/31/23
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As Memphis police officers attacked Tyre Nichols with their feet, fists and a baton, others held Nichols down or milled about, even as he cried out in pain before his body went limp. Just like the …
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By JIM SALTER
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1/31/23
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A man at the center of an intense police search in Oregon after a violent kidnapping last week was released from custody in October 2021 by Nevada prison officials on the same day he was transferred …
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By RIO YAMAT and ANDREW SELSKY
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1/30/23
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COVID-19 precautions wiped out most New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festivities in 2021, and a shortage of police officers forced the city to shorten routes for some of its lavish seasonal parades in 2022. …
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By KEVIN McGILL
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1/30/23
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Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba says that legislation that would create a separate court system run by unelected judges in part of Mississippi’s capital city is racially motivated. Lumumba says …
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG
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1/30/23
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A former Guatemalan police chief has been found guilty of lying on his U.S. immigration papers about a prior conviction for killing two political activists in his country. U.S. authorities said …
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1/30/23
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A group of House Democrats is urging the Biden administration to suspend all U.S. security assistance to Peru. The lawmakers cite what they call a “pattern of repression” of antigovernment …
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN
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1/30/23
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A fishing community in southern Brazil has an unusual ally: wild dolphins. Accounts of people and dolphins working together to hunt fish go back millennia, from the time of the Roman Empire near what …
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By CHRISTINA LARSON
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1/30/23
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A new study using artificial intelligence finds that the world will likely warm a few more tenths of a degrees within the next 10 to 12 years and breach a key climate change threshold. The 2015 Paris …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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1/30/23
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Defense attorneys in South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial are continuing to question the way state agents collected and analyzed evidence in the shooting deaths of his wife …
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By JEFFREY COLLINS
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1/30/23
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Michael Jackson’s 26-year-old nephew, Jaafar Jackson, will play the King of Pop in the planned biopic “Michael” to be directed by Antoine Fuqua. Lionsgate announced Jackson’s casting Monday …
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By The Associated Press
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1/30/23
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The Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher has reopened with stepped-up security and a new administrator. Nervous parents and students expressed optimism Monday as they …
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By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE
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1/30/23
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Trevor Noah says he feels more comfortable hosting the Grammy Awards for a third-straight year, but the former “The Daily Show” host still has some nervousness about leading the ceremony with …
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr.
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1/30/23
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Three women killed in a weekend shooting at a short-term rental home in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood have been identified, while police continued to search for suspects. Four other people were …
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1/29/23
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Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated on such …
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By HILLEL ITALIE
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1/29/23
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Members of Mt. Olive Cathedral Church in Memphis gathered to worship Sunday, two days after Tyre Nichols’ parents used the sanctuary to call for peace following the release of video showing their …
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By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, LEAH WILLINGHAM and ADRIAN SAINZ
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1/29/23
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Increasingly it feels like America is at war with itself. From a triple homicide in New Orleans just days into the new year to the shooting of a Virginia teacher by a six-year-old to a series of mass …
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By TIM SULLIVAN and CAROLYN THOMPSON
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1/29/23
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Self-proclaimed “forest defenders” in Atlanta are calling for a more thorough investigation into the death of a protester who was killed by authorities after officials said the activist shot a …
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By R.J. RICO
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1/29/23
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A Northern California district attorney has confirmed that a farmworker charged with killing seven people was enraged by a $100 work-related repair bill. San Mateo County District Attorney Steve …
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1/28/23
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The 67 minutes of body camera and surveillance footage released in the death of a Memphis man at the hands of police give a glimpse of a harrowing night that oscillates between brutality and …
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By MATT SEDENSKY
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1/28/23
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