The U.S. government moved a step closer to prosecuting Julian Assange on espionage charges, after London judges accepted that the WikiLeaks chief can be extradited.
Assange will now scrutinize …
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Jonathan Browning and Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/10/21
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. is preparing a fresh round of sanctions against Iran if it doesn’t soon engage in negotiations to limit its nuclear program, White House press secretary Jen Psaki …
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12/10/21
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U.S. consumer prices rose last month at the fastest annual pace in nearly 40 years, magnifying how rapid and persistent inflation is eroding paychecks and increasing pressure on the Federal Reserve …
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12/10/21
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CHICAGO — Actor Jussie Smollett was convicted by a Cook County jury Thursday of staging and reporting a hate crime on himself, marking a dramatic end to a case that captivated the nation ever …
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Megan Crepeau and Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune (TNS)
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12/9/21
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CHICAGO — First, it was the Pie House in Deerfield, then it was Scottie Pippen’s Highland Park home for the Summer Olympics.
Now it’s the McCallisters’.
An overnight …
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Darcel Rockett / Chicago Tribune (TNS)
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12/9/21
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Travis Scott says he had no idea what was happening in the crowd at his deadly Astroworld Festival in Houston last month, and he was told only that the show would be stopped after guest Drake had …
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Christie D’Zurilla / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/9/21
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Former reality television star Josh Duggar was found guilty of child pornography charges Thursday in Arkansas.
The eldest child of the Duggar family, whose day-to-day life was featured on the hit …
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Muri Assunção / New York Daily News (TNS)
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12/9/21
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BALTIMORE — A Baltimore jury found Keith Tyrone Smith guilty Thursday of first-degree murder for stabbing his wife to death three years ago while they drove through East Baltimore and blaming …
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Tim Prudente / The Baltimore Sun (TNS)
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12/9/21
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NEW YORK — Never-before-published photos introduced Wednesday in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial show the British publishing heiress grinning as she massages Jeffrey …
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12/9/21
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NEW YORK — The war on Christmas has reached Fox News’ doorstep.
A 49-year-old homeless man was arrested early Wednesday for setting fire to a 50-foot Christmas tree in front of Fox …
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Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy / New York Daily News (TNS)
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12/9/21
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Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE said initial lab studies show a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine neutralizes the omicron variant, results that will accelerate booster shot drives around the …
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Naomi Kresge / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/8/21
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Over the last week, the Kansas City metro area has been plagued by a high pace of violence that has even caused the mayor to publicly criticize the city's current approach to …
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Kaitlin Washburn and Humera Lodhi / The Kansas City Star (TNS)
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12/8/21
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WASHINGTON — A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday made clear the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan this year has further complicated the political, legal and legislative quandary …
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12/8/21
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NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell groped a 14-year-old girl’s bare breast and declared the teen “had a great body for Mr. Epstein,” a Manhattan jury heard Tuesday.
The third …
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12/8/21
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Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is facing mounting legal challenges by Rohingya refugees who blame the social media company for inciting genocidal violence in 2017 against the Muslim minority in …
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Naomi Nix / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/8/21
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Six more states no longer require residents to hold a permit to carry a concealed firearm.
Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, Tennessee, Texas and Utah this year enacted what gun rights advocates often …
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Matt Vasilogambros / Stateline.org (TNS)
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12/7/21
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SAN DIEGO — Prosecutors on Monday charged at least seven people, whom they described as self-identified anti-fascists, in connection with eight alleged assaults that occurred in January during …
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Alex Riggins / The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS)
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12/7/21
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PETERSBURG — The two deadliest foreign attacks on United States soil are 9/11 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Stephen Cease was a witness to both, as a child living near the U.S. naval base …
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Paul Guzzo / Tampa Bay Times (TNS)
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12/7/21
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Eight decades have passed since the Japanese military attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Since then, Michiganders lived through countless other calamities including many far closer …
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Bill Laitner / Detroit Free Press (TNS)
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12/7/21
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NEW YORK — FBI agents found a cache of thick black binders — all labeled with names — that contain hundreds of naked or semi-naked photographs on CDs that Epstein stored in various …
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Julie K. Brown and Ben Wieder / Miami Herald (TNS)
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12/6/21
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