Illinois lawmakers wasted no time in the new legislative session, taking just five days to pass major gun safety measures that include a ban on semi-automatic rifles, high-capacity magazines and gun …
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By Matt Vasilogambros / Stateline.org
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1/20/23
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New Mexico prosecutors said they are filing felony criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin and the armorer of the low-budget western “Rust,” following the fatal shooting of the …
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By Tribune News Service
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1/20/23
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WASHINGTON — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California on Thursday failed in four more attempts to be elected speaker, extending the saga to determine which Republican will succeed …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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1/5/23
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will unveil a new border strategy Thursday expanding a Trump-era policy that gives border agents the power to turn back migrants without considering their …
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Hamed Aleaziz and Courtney Subramanian / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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1/5/23
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The U.S. and Germany will send armored vehicles and an additional Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, a significant upgrade in firepower urgently sought by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the …
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Jennifer Jacobs, Peter Martin and Michael Nienaber / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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1/5/23
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Armed men burned vehicles and stormed an airport in northern Mexico on Thursday in an apparent effort to prevent the capture of Ovidio Guzmán, one of the world’s most-wanted cartel …
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Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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1/5/23
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NEW YORK — Former U.S. Secretary of State and presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton will join the faculty at Columbia University next month, officials announced Thursday.
Clinton …
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Cayla Bamberger / New York Daily News (TNS)
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1/5/23
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WASHINGTON — Massive losses and large tax deductions in Donald Trump’s returns reveal how the former president was able to use the tax code to minimize his income tax …
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Laura Davison and Ben Steverman / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/30/22
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LOS ANGELES — Two people died in a rock slide Tuesday at Yosemite National Park, according to the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office.
The slide occurred between the town of El Portal and the …
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Summer Lin / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/30/22
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Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed deepening ties between their countries in talks Friday, despite signs of Beijing’s impatience over the wider political and economic impact …
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Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/30/22
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It’s slated to be a busy year of rocket launches from the Space Coast with a pace that could introduce some new names and set new records.
Launch pads at both Kennedy Space Center and Cape …
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Richard Tribou / Orlando Sentinel (TNS)
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12/30/22
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Southwest Airlines resumed a normal flight schedule Friday morning after more than a week of canceled flights and disappointed travelers.
The boards at the airport showed 41 cancellations, all but …
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Kyle Arnold, Maggie Prosser / The Dallas Morning News (TNS)
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12/30/22
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Barbara Walters, the groundbreaking political journalist who interviewed presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, died Friday. She was 93.
Walters’ death was announced by her …
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Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News (TNS)
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12/30/22
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Explosions reportedly caused by Russian missiles killed two people in Poland, prompting the NATO member to consider an appeal for assistance from its allies in the alliance.
Polish authorities …
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Piotr Skolimowski, Natalia Drozdiak and Natalia Ojewska / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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11/15/22
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Donald Trump looks wounded.
His handpicked candidates’ midterm woes sank the Republican Party’s chance of wresting back the Senate, his former vice president just scolded him over …
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Tim Balk / New York Daily News (TNS)
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11/15/22
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., vacated a controversial border policy known as Title 42, a public health law invoked during the pandemic that allowed border agents to quickly turn back migrants.
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Hamed Aleaziz / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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11/15/22
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WASHINGTON — The spectacular collapse of major cryptocurrency exchange FTX is prompting calls for stronger regulation in Congress, where some bipartisan proposals are being characterized as too …
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Sarah Wynn / CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
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11/15/22
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NEW YORK — Walmart agreed to pay $3.1 billion to resolve lawsuits accusing the pharmacy of selling drugs that contributed to the opioid epidemic, but denied the allegations and didn’t …
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Peter Sblendorio / New York Daily News (TNS)
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11/15/22
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ATLANTA — Georgia’s U.S. Senate race will be decided in a runoff between Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker in a race that could determine control of the …
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Shannon McCaffrey and Greg Bluestein / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)
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11/9/22
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Russia ordered its troops to leave Ukraine’s city of Kherson, the first major regional center seized in its invasion, in a highly symbolic setback for President Vladimir Putin.
With …
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Bloomberg News (TNS)
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11/9/22
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