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A girl and a TV journalist were fatally shot near the scene of another shooting

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Authorities in Florida don't immediately have a motive for any of the shootings. A TV crewmember and the girl's mother were also wounded and in critical condition at the hospital.

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The Webb telescope finds surprisingly massive galaxies from the universe's youth

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

At about 600 million years after the Big Bang, they're not the oldest galaxies the telescope has spotted. But they appear as developed as our Milky Way — far further along than researchers expected.

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Israeli West Bank raid kills 10 Palestinians and hurts more than 100 others

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

The rare daytime arrest operation triggered one of the bloodiest battles in nearly a year of fighting, leaving shops in Nablus riddled with bullets and a building reduced to rubble.

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Seattle becomes the first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Calls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora communities in the United States.

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A discarded cigarette butt and DNA tests solve a 52-year-old murder of Vermont woman

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

A discarded cigarette found near the body of a Vermont school teacher in her apartment nearly 52 years ago helped lead investigators to a neighbor who they say strangled her, Vermont police said.

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Arby's+? More restaurants try subscription programs to keep eaters coming back

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Large chains like Panera and P.F. Chang's as well as neighborhood hangouts are increasingly experimenting with the subscription model as a way to ensure steady revenue and customer visits.

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A newborn delivered in the rubble of Turkey's earthquake is adopted by her relatives

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Her mother died in the quake, along with her father and four siblings. Her aunt and uncle in Syria have taken her in, and named her Afraa after her mom.

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Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe is forced out at the right-wing group

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

In a video, O'Keefe said he was leaving his group, known for hidden-camera efforts to embarrass journalists, after the board of directors removed his power. The board cited "financial malfeasance."

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A collection of rare centuries-old jewelry returns to Cambodia

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Cambodia's government said the pieces of jewelry that arrived back in their homeland included items "... precious metal pieces from the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian period."

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Heavy rains leave dozens dead in Brazil as cities cancel Carnival

Monday, February 20, 2023

The cities of Sao Sebastiao, Ubatuba, Ilhabela and Bertioga, some of the hardest hit and now under state of calamity, canceled their Carnival festivities as rescue teams struggle to find the missing.

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'All Quiet' wins 7 BAFTAs, including best film, at U.K. film awards ceremony

Monday, February 20, 2023

German movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" won seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards. American Austin Butler and Australian Cate Blanchett took top acting awards.

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A record 6,542 guns — 18 a day — were intercepted at U.S. airport security in 2022

Monday, February 20, 2023

With the exception of pandemic-disrupted 2020, the number of weapons intercepted at U.S. airport checkpoints has climbed every year since 2010.

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Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, dies at 78

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Belzer was one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU.

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Blinken tours Turkey's earthquake zone and pledges $100 million more in U.S. aid

Sunday, February 19, 2023

The additional aid includes $50 million in emergency refugee and migration funds and $50 million in humanitarian assistance, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

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U.N. talks to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity will pick back up this week

Sunday, February 19, 2023

The goal of the U.N. meetings is to produce a unified agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of the world's vast marine ecosystems.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber has written a new composition for Charles III's coronation

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the English composer who created the scores for blockbuster musicals such "The Phantom of the Opera'' and "Evita,'' has written the anthem for King Charles III's coronation.

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The U.S. and South Korea staged a joint air exercise after the North's missile launch

Sunday, February 19, 2023

North Korea said Sunday its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test was meant to further bolster its "fatal" nuclear attack capacity against its rivals.

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Brittney Griner is headed back to the Phoenix Mercury, the AP reports

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Griner has re-signed with the WNBA team on a one-year contract, a source told The Associated Press. The 32-year-old returned home from Russia in December after a high-level prisoner swap.

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An energy crunch forces a Hungarian ballet company to move to a car factory

Saturday, February 18, 2023

The Ballet Company of Gyor began rehearsing at a local Audi factory last month after being forced to shutter its rehearsal hall in response to soaring energy prices.

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North Korea fires a missile as the U.S. and South Korea prepare for military exercises

Saturday, February 18, 2023

North Korea fired a long-range missile into the sea off Japan a day after it threatened to take strong measures against South Korea and the U.S. over their joint military exercises.

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