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Authorities searching for a suspect in the shooting deaths of 8 people near Chicago

Monday, January 22, 2024

The victims were found Sunday and Monday at three separate locations. Police said they did not know of a motive for the killings, but said the suspect knew the victims.

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Sarah, the Duchess of York, diagnosed with skin cancer

Sunday, January 21, 2024

The melanoma was found after several moles were removed while she was undergoing reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy. Doctors are analyzing it to see if it was caught early.

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Body of skier retrieved from Idaho backcountry after avalanche

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Authorities in Idaho on Friday located and retrieved the body of a man who was caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing with two other men who were rescued the previous day.

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Ex-Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses must pay $260,000

Thursday, January 04, 2024

The federal judge's ruling on Kim Davis is in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan County clerk should pay the couple who sued.

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Updated indictment adds details to bribery conspiracy charges against Sen. Menendez

Tuesday, January 02, 2024

The indictment says the senator connected one of his co-defendants with a member of the Qatari royal family who invested in the businessman's multimillion-dollar real estate project.

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U.S. forces say they killed the boat crews in a Houthi ship attack in the Red Sea

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Hours before the attack on the container ship, the U.S. military said it had shot down two missiles fired toward the same ship

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An Israeli airstrike in Syria kills a high-ranking Iranian general

Monday, December 25, 2023

The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a long-time adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, comes as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border between Hezbollah and Israel intensify.

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Missing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is located in an Arctic penal colony

Monday, December 25, 2023

Associates of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.

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States are trashing troves of masks and protective gear as costly stockpiles expire

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

As a deadline to allocate federal COVID-19 cash approaches next year, states must decide how much to invest in maintaining warehouses and supply stockpiles after panic buying during the pandemic.

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A jury decided Google's Android app store benefits from anticompetitive barriers

Monday, December 11, 2023

The maker of Fortnite sued three years ago, alleging that Google abused its power to shield its Play Store from competition in order to protect a gold mine that makes billions of dollars annually.

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Tennessee homes damaged by apparent tornado as severe storms rake the state

Saturday, December 09, 2023

Police and firefighters in Clarksville were responding to multiple reports of damage in the northern part of the city, which is located north of Nashville near the Kentucky state line.

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Denny Laine, co-founder of the Moody Blues and Paul McCartney's Wings, dies at 79

Tuesday, December 05, 2023

Laine joined Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder to form the Moody Blues and sang lead on the group's first hit, "Go Now." His death comes 50 years after the release of McCartney's "Band on the Run" album.

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A U.S. woman from Boston was killed in a shark attack in the Bahamas, police say

Tuesday, December 05, 2023

The victim, who was not identified, was attacked less than a mile off the western end of New Providence island, where the capital, Nassau, is located.

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New rules on tourist flights seek to return some serenity to national parks

Monday, December 04, 2023

One of the strictest plans was announced at Mount Rushmore and Badlands National Park, where tour flights will be banned from getting within a half mile of the South Dakota sites starting in April.

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Pentagon says a warship and commercial ships have come under attack in the Red Sea

Sunday, December 03, 2023

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched a series of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, as well as launching drones and missiles targeting Israel as it wages war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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7.6 magnitude quake strikes off southern Philippines, triggering a tsunami warning

Saturday, December 02, 2023

The powerful earthquake struck off the cost of the southern Philippines island of Mindanao Saturday night local time. There are no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

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Appeals court upholds actor Jussie Smollett's convictions and jail sentence

Friday, December 01, 2023

An appeals court upheld the disorderly conduct convictions of the "Empire" actor, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lying about it to Chicago police.

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Inspector general investigating the decision to relocate FBI headquarters to Maryland

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Virginia and Maryland competed fiercely for the project. Virginia's congressional delegation said there is "overwhelming evidence" that the process was influenced by politics.

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Russia's Supreme Court effectively outlaws LGBTQ+ activism in a landmark ruling

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Addressing a lawsuit filed by the Justice Ministry, the court labeled the LGBTQ+ "movement" in Russia an extremist group and banned it. The case was classified, and the ministry disclosed no evidence.

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41 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in India will soon be rescued, official says

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

The 41 workers have been trapped in the collapsed mountain tunnel in the north of India for over two weeks. Rescuers have drilled their way through debris to reach them.

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