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Monday's Powerball jackpot is now worth more than $1 billion

Monday, October 02, 2023

The jackpot for the next drawing Monday night remains the world's ninth-largest lottery prize of all time.

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At least 9 dead after church roof collapses in Mexico, officials say

Monday, October 02, 2023

The Tamaulipas state police said about 100 people were in the church during a Mass at the time of the Sunday collapse.

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Retired Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield dies at 57

Sunday, October 01, 2023

His role in the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry of the early 2000s turned Wakefield into a fan favorite whose impact went far beyond his numbers.

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Connecticut enacts its most sweeping gun control law since the Sandy Hook shooting

Sunday, October 01, 2023

The new law, signed by Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont in June, bans the open carrying of firearms and prohibits the sale of more than three handguns within 30 days to any one person, with some exceptions.

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Turkey strikes suspected Kurdish militants in Iraq after a suicide attack in Ankara

Sunday, October 01, 2023

Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq after a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkey's defense ministry said.

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Pro-Russia ex-PM leads leftist party to win in Slovakia's parliamentary elections

Sunday, October 01, 2023

The election was a test for the small central European country's support for neighboring Ukraine. The win by Robert Fico could strain a fragile unity in the European Union and NATO.

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The police chief who led a raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended

Sunday, October 01, 2023

Marion Mayor Dave Mayfield in a text said he suspended Chief Gideon Cody on Thursday. He declined to discuss his decision further and did not say whether Cody was still being paid.

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California's governor rejects a bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said he vetoed the bill because the fund the state uses to pay unemployment benefits will be nearly $20 billion in debt by the end of the year.

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A truck crash in Illinois kills 5 and forces temporary evacuation over ammonia leak

Saturday, September 30, 2023

The crash caused a large plume of anhydrous ammonia that caused dangerous air conditions in Teutopolis. Residents were later allowed to return to their homes after being evacuated.

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New York swamped by record-breaking rainfall as more downpours expected Saturday

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Heavy rains knocked out several subway and commuter rail lines, stranded drivers, flooded basements and shuttered a terminal at LaGuardia Airport for hours. More downpours were expected Saturday.

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Baltimore Archdiocese files for bankruptcy before law on abuse lawsuits takes effect

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Attorneys and advocates say the church is trying to protect its assets and silence abuse victims by halting all civil claims against the archdiocese and shifting the process to bankruptcy court.

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First Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in the Georgia election interference case

Friday, September 29, 2023

A bail bondsman charged alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others in the Georgia election case pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges, becoming the first defendant to accept a plea deal.

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Nevada grand jury indicts witness in killing of Tupac Shakur

Friday, September 29, 2023

A Nevada grand jury indicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis, one of the last living witnesses to the fatal drive-by shooting of the rapper in Las Vegas, prosecutors announced in court Friday

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Biden calls for up to 3 offshore oil leases in Gulf of Mexico, upsetting both sides

Friday, September 29, 2023

The administration's proposal seeks to strike a balance between energy companies seeking greater oil and gas production and environmental activists who want Biden to shut down new offshore drilling.

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Dozens are dead after a blast in Pakistan at a rally celebrating birthday of prophet

Friday, September 29, 2023

A powerful bomb exploded near a mosque at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in Pakistan, killing at least 52 people and injuring dozens more, officials said.

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Marcos says the Philippines will defend its waters against Chinese aggression

Friday, September 29, 2023

The president says he doesn't want trouble, but says Manila will staunchly defend its waters after its coast guard removed a floating barrier China placed at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

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As China censors homegrown feminism, a feminist scholar from Japan is a bestseller

Friday, September 29, 2023

A 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who's not married and does not have children is an unlikely celebrity on China's tightly censored internet.

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The fall of an enclave in Azerbaijan stuns the Armenian diaspora, shattering a dream

Friday, September 29, 2023

The swift fall of the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops and exodus of much of its population has stunned the large Armenian diaspora around the world.

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A 16-year-old boy was arrested in England over the felling of an iconic tree

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Thousands see the tree each year as they walk along Hadrian's Wall, which guarded the Roman Empire's northwestern frontier. It appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.

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Muscogee Nation judge rules in favor of citizenship for slave descendants

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Citizenship for freedmen, descendants of Black slaves once owned by tribal members, has been a difficult issue for tribes as the U.S. reckons with its history of racism.

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