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LOS ANGELES — Joe Landeros plunged a shovel into the earth, poured water into the hole and carefully inserted a spiky green seedling.
Around him were icons of the California desert, felled …
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Nathan Solis / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/17/21
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GREENVILLE, S.C. — More than three decades after an 80-year-old descendant of one of Greenville's leading legal families was found in her kitchen stabbed to death, prosecutors and police have …
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Lyn Riddle / The State (TNS)
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12/17/21
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A few hundred feet from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial is the dark, shuttered jail where her onetime boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself and left her to answer for their alleged …
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Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/17/21
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The messages between an Amazon.com Inc. delivery driver and her boss began about 80 minutes before a tornado struck one of the company’s warehouses in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Dec. 10, …
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Spencer Soper, Michael Tobin and Michael Smith / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/17/21
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A Haiti gang has released all 12 hostages two months to the day after they were kidnapped in Haiti’s capital, Haiti National Police spokesman Garry Desrosiers and two U.S. government sources …
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Jacqueline Charles and Michael Wilner / Miami Herald (TNS)
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12/16/21
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A new Columbia University study says the omicron variant of COVID-19 is “markedly resistant” to existing vaccines and antibody treatments, and that even booster shots may provide only …
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News (TNS)
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12/16/21
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WASHINGTON — Wednesday was the last day millions of California families will begin to get their $250 to $300 per child monthly child tax break payment.
Qualifying parents have been eligible …
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David Lightman and Francesca Chambers / McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)
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12/16/21
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NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys were rebuffed Thursday in their efforts to grant anonymity to three potential witnesses for the defense and to call lawyers representing two of …
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Julie K. Brown and Ben Wieder / Miami Herald (TNS)
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12/16/21
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BALTIMORE — A Baltimore Police officer was ambushed and shot while sitting in a patrol vehicle early Thursday in Curtis Bay, the police commissioner said.
At a briefing outside Maryland …
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Justin Fenton and Christine Condon / Baltimore Sun (TNS)
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12/16/21
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Lawyers have filed the first lawsuit against Mayfield Consumer Products LLC, alleging the company ordered workers to stay at its candle factory in the hours before a tornado …
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John Cheves / Lexington Herald-Leader (TNS)
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12/16/21
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MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard and federal immigration agencies stopped three human smuggling attempts and detained 100 people off Florida’s coast from Sunday to Tuesday, the military …
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Omar Rodriguez Ortiz / Miami Herald (TNS)
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12/16/21
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ATLANTA — He dreamed of being a professional football player. But first, 11-year-old Elyjah Munson had a Christmas wish: an Xbox.
“You have so many plans,” Kendall Munson, …
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Alexis Stevens / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)
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12/16/21
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The omicron variant will likely be dominant in Europe by mid-January, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday, adding that the case numbers appear to be doubling every two …
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John Follain, Katharina Rosskopf and Iain Rogers / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/15/21
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Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed relations with Russia as better than an alliance in a video call with President Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin, as the two leaders made a show of …
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Ilya Arkhipov and Andrey Biryukov / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/15/21
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WASHINGTON — Journalist Julio López says he endured years of harassment and violence by the Nicaraguan government and its supporters for his investigative reporting on corruption and …
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Andrea Castillo and Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/15/21
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President Joe Biden will make an appearance in Kentucky Wednesday to tour the damage left behind by a string of deadly tornadoes that ravaged the state over the weekend.
Biden will begin his trip …
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Christopher Leach / Lexington Herald-Leader (TNS)
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12/15/21
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WASHINGTON — The House voted on Tuesday to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a special committee investigating the Jan. …
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Anumita Kaur / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/15/21
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WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia sued the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers right-wing groups for allegedly conspiring to terrorize the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when a mob of former President …
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/15/21
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DETROIT — The parents of the Oxford High School shooting suspect will spend the holidays in jail, though their lawyers are preparing arguments to have their detention revisited as both remain …
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Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press (TNS)
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12/15/21
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ROCK HILL, S.C. — Former NFL Player and Rock Hill native Phillip Adams had a chronic brain injury called CTE when he fatally shot six people before killing himself in April, officials said …
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Andrew Dys and Alex Zietlow / The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C. (TNS)
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12/15/21
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