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Mage has won the Kentucky Derby, at a race meeting marred by 7 horse deaths

Sunday, May 07, 2023

Mage earned a surprising Kentucky Derby victory on Saturday, capping a nerve-rattling day that included two more fatalities ahead of the 149th edition of the world's most famous race.

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Newton Minow, former FCC chief and public TV advocate, has died at 97

Saturday, May 06, 2023

Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a "vast wasteland," died on Saturday.

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Texas petrochemical plant fire sends 5 workers to hospital

Friday, May 05, 2023

Emergency responders were called to help around 3 p.m. on Friday at the Shell facility in Deer Park, a Houston suburb. A Deer Park official said that there was no shelter-in-place order.

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BMW warns that older models are too dangerous to drive due to airbag recall

Friday, May 05, 2023

The warning covers vehicles from the 2000 through 2006 model years that previously had been recalled to replace the faulty and dangerous air bag inflators.

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A suspect has been arrested in Serbia's second mass shooting in 2 days

Friday, May 05, 2023

Serbian police said they arrested a suspect in a shooting attack that killed at least eight and wounded 14, the nation's second mass shooting in two days. Serbia's president vowed tough gun measures.

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Jury finds that Ed Sheeran didn't copy Marvin Gaye classic 'Let's Get It On'

Thursday, May 04, 2023

A federal jury in New York concluded Thursday that the British singer didn't steal key components of Marvin Gaye's 1970s classic "Let's Get It On" when he created his hit song "Thinking Out Loud."

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Germany and Italy clamp down on Italian mob with raids and arrests

Thursday, May 04, 2023

The police operation, coordinated by European Union judicial cooperation agency Eurojust, aimed to dismantle a network that includes the 'ndrangheta, Colombian drug producers and paramilitary groups.

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New York passes law banning fossil fuel equipment in most new buildings

Thursday, May 04, 2023

When the phase-in starts in 2026, newly constructed buildings will have to forego fossil fuel equipment in favor of devices like induction ranges and heat pumps that run on electricity.

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Eli Lilly says an experimental drug slows Alzheimer's worsening

Thursday, May 04, 2023

In the 18-month trial, people in the early stages of Alzheimer's who received infusions of donanemab showed 35% less decline in thinking skills compared to those given a dummy drug, Lilly announced.

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A court in Belarus sentences a dissident journalist to 8 years in prison

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Raman Pratasevich and his Russian girlfriend were arrested in May 2021 when their Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was ordered to land in the capital of Belarus, Minsk.

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3 stabbings — 2 of them fatal — rattle a quiet California college town

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

The Davis, California, police chief said he could not say whether officials are searching for one or multiple suspects.

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Japan's Kishida plans to visit Yoon in South Korea before G-7

Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he wants to travel to South Korea to further strengthen ties between the two countries after President Yoon Suk Yeol's March visit to Tokyo.

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Palestinian prisoner dies in Israel after long hunger strike

Tuesday, May 02, 2023

A high-profile Palestinian prisoner has died in Israeli custody after a months-long hunger strike. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets into southern Israel in response.

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7 bodies have been found during a search for missing Oklahoma teens

Monday, May 01, 2023

The bodies were discovered during a search of a rural property near the town of Henryetta, agency spokesman Gerald Davidson said.

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Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr sues over her removal from House floor

Monday, May 01, 2023

Zephyr was silenced and barred for chiding her Republican colleagues over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and for encouraging protesters.

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Norway unveils a life-size sculpture of Freya, the euthanized walrus

Monday, May 01, 2023

Freya became a global celebrity last year after she was seen frolicking and basking in a Oslo fjord before she was euthanized by the authorities. A bronze sculpture now honors her in Norway's capital.

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Paraguay's long-ruling party scores an easy presidential election win

Monday, May 01, 2023

The Colorado Party remained the dominant force of Paraguayan politics as the vote count from Sunday's election gave an overwhelming lead to its presidential candidate, Santiago Peña.

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Basketball legend Larry 'Gator' Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, has died at 73

Monday, May 01, 2023

Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died on Saturday.

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Pope Francis says he is open to helping return Ukrainian children taken to Russia

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Speaking from the papal plane, Francis said he would be willing to help facilitate the return of children taken to Russia since the war began. And he revealed a secret peace "mission" was under way.

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2 teens were killed in a shooting at a house party on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Police have charged a 19-year-old man for killing two and wounding for others in the city of Bay St. Louis, about 15 miles west of Gulfport.

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