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U.S. envoy says Russia intends to dissolve Ukraine from the world map

Saturday, July 30, 2022

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, ambassador to the U.N, told the Security Council that the U.S. is seeing signs Russia is laying the groundwork to attempt to annex regions in eastern and southern Ukrainian.

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Russia and Ukraine trade blame for a deadly attack on a POW prison

Saturday, July 30, 2022

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian POWs captured after the fall of Mariupol.

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Alex Jones' media company files for bankruptcy during defamation damages trial

Saturday, July 30, 2022

Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy amid the trial underway seeking to force Jones to pay $150 million or more to the family of one of the children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook attack.

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The pope visited Nunavut for the final apology of his Canadian tour

Saturday, July 30, 2022

Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the "evil" of Canada's residential schools, wrapping up his week-long "penitential pilgrimage" to Canada.

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Pop star Shakira could face 8 years in prison in a Spanish tax fraud trial

Friday, July 29, 2022

Authorities say the Colombian spent at least half the year in Spain in 2012, 2013 and 2014, when she was married to an FC Barcelona football player. That would mean she dodged $15 million in taxes.

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Under fire, U.S. officials say monkeypox can still be stopped

Friday, July 29, 2022

The country's monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, U.S. health officials said Thursday, despite rising case numbers and so far limited vaccine supplies.

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China backs away from growth goal, sticks to virus controls

Friday, July 29, 2022

China's leaders effectively acknowledged the struggling economy won't hit its official 5.5% growth target this year and said Thursday they will try to prop up sagging consumer demand.

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China's Xi warns Biden over Taiwan, calls for cooperation

Friday, July 29, 2022

President Xi Jinping warned against meddling in China's dealings with Taiwan during a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, that gave no indication of progress on diplomatic relations.

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San Francisco declares an emergency to help the city deal with monkeypox spread

Thursday, July 28, 2022

The mayor's announcement allows officials to mobilize personnel and resources and cut through red tape to get ahead of a public health crisis reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that devastated the city.

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Actor Bernard Cribbins, who delighted U.K. kids for generations, dies at 93

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Bernard Cribbins, a beloved British entertainer whose seven-decade career ranged from the bawdy "Carry On" comedies to children's television and "Doctor Who," has died.

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At least 16 people are dead in Kentucky after torrential rains flood Appalachia

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Teams are still searching for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities. Kentucky's governor said 16 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling.

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JetBlue agrees to buy Spirit for $3.8B. It would create the 5th largest U.S. airline

Thursday, July 28, 2022

The agreement Thursday capped a months-long bidding war and arrives one day after Spirit's attempt to merge with Frontier Airlines fell apart. The deal still needs approval from antitrust regulators.

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Gun-makers made millions marketing AR-15-style guns as a sign of manhood

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Gun manufacturers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling the weapons over the past decade, at times marketing them as a way for young men to prove their masculinity.

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The Highland Park shooting suspect is indicted on 117 charges

Thursday, July 28, 2022

The man accused of opening fire on a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago has been indicted on 21 first-degree murder counts, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery,

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The pope's apology to Indigenous people doesn't go far enough, Canada says

Thursday, July 28, 2022

The pope apologized to Indigenous peoples for abuses in church-run residential schools. Canada's response suggests that reconciliation over the fraught history is still a work in progress.

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Russia strikes areas in northern Ukraine while Ukraine counterattacks in the south

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Russian forces launched missile strikes on Ukraine's Kyiv and Chernihiv regions while Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announced an operation to liberate occupied territory in the country's south.

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Russia and the West are vying for influence in Africa and Ukraine is a big reason why

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Russia's foreign minister and France's president are visiting this week along with visits by U.S. officials in what some say is the most intense competition for influence there since the Cold War.

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Alabama execution is set despite opposition from the victim's family

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Joe Nathan James Jr. was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend nearly three decades ago. The execution is scheduled to proceed despite a request from the victim's family to spare his life.

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Kim threatens to use nuclear weapons in any clash with the U.S. and South Korea

Thursday, July 28, 2022

In a speech marking the 69th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice, Kim said his country is ready to use nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the U.S. or South Korea.

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James Lovelock, who theorized that Earth is a living organism, dies at 103

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity, has died on his 103rd birthday.

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