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Federal researchers will release nontoxic particles and gases into the New York City subway this month as part of a study on airborne terrorism threats, officials announced Sunday.
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By Clayton Guse / New York Daily News (TNS)
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10/11/21
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PRAGUE — Czech President Milos Zeman was rushed to the hospital over complications related to his chronic health problems, a development that may snarl government negotiations after his ally …
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By Peter Laca and Lenka Ponikelska / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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10/11/21
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As flames from the KNP Complex threatened to race up a steep slope toward the remote Muir Grove of giant sequoias, officials at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks had to think fast.
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Lila Seidman / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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10/11/21
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A suspect has been captured a day after a Middle Georgia police officer was shot and killed outside of the police station where he worked, according to the GBI.
Damien Anthony Ferguson, who was …
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Less than two weeks until the start of one of the highest-profile murder trials in Georgia history, defense attorneys are trying to exclude what could become a crucial piece of evidence.
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As Montana intensive care units fill with critically ill, mostly unvaccinated COVID-19 patients, hospital leaders there are caught between two laws that dictate whether they can require their …
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Sophie Quinton / Stateline.org (TNS)
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10/10/21
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Maria Ressa from the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to safeguard freedom of expression.
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By Lars Erik Taraldsen and Stephen Treloar / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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10/8/21
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BALTIMORE — A Baltimore funeral home accused of throwing a fake funeral and giving a widow a fake urn said in a court filing that its employees didn’t commit fraud because they never …
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By Phil Davis / The Baltimore Sun (TNS)
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10/8/21
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WASHINGTON — As the Senate headed into a weeklong recess, Democrats showed little sign they were making progress on their economic agenda other than clearing the must-pass measures competing …
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By Lindsey McPherson / CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
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10/8/21
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President Joe Biden Friday restored the protected Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments after former President Trump dramatically slashed them in an effort to open more …
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By Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News (TNS)
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10/8/21
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a bill that expands the definition of sexual battery to include the intentional removal of a condom without verbal consent, …
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Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that it has requested an emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11, which would protect more than 28 …
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The Senate is nearing a deal on a short-term increase in the debt ceiling that would pull the U.S. from the brink of a payment default but threatens to exacerbate year-end clashes over trillions in …
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By Laura Litvan, Erik Wasson and Mike Dorning / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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10/7/21
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LOS ANGELES — In their sprawling sexual assault inquiry focused on the University of Southern California, Los Angeles police detectives traveled the country to interview scores of people about …
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By Paul Pringle / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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10/7/21
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A federal judge temporarily blocked Texas’s new ban on most abortions, handing a major early victory to the Biden administration as it seeks to overturn the strictest such law in the …
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By Erik Larson / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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10/7/21
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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Coast Guard investigated a vessel in Oakland on Wednesday as part of its probe into whether a ship’s anchor punctured an oil pipeline off the coast of Orange County …
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By Richard Winton, Laura J. Nelson and Anita Chabria / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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10/7/21
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. government subjected Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding and other brutality in 2002 at secret CIA sites in Thailand and Poland, believing wrongly that he was a close associate …
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By David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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10/6/21
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WASHINGTON — For more than 100 years, young men have registered for the draft. Now, Congress is poised to make a historic change for gender equality by requiring women, for the first time in …
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Mark Satter / CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
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10/6/21
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LOS ANGELES — In a year that has set records for the number of ships coming and going through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Friday was not unusual. Winds were light, and the steady …
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WASHINGTON — A former Facebook employee turned whistleblower urged Congress on Tuesday to regulate the social media giant because she said its products harm children and democracy.
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Erin B. Logan / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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10/6/21
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