Female students won’t return to Kabul University until “a real Islamic environment” is provided for all, the Taliban-appointed chancellor said this week, dealing another blow to …
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By Muneeza Naqvi / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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9/29/21
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The World Health Organization is launching a new investigation into the origins of COVID-19, months after an earlier probe ended without drawing firm conclusions, according to a report published on …
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By Shant Shahrigian / New York Daily News (TNS)
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9/27/21
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HOLBROOK, N.Y. — Gabrielle Petito, the 22-year-old Blue Point native whose disappearance and death stunned Long Island and riveted the nation, was remembered Sunday in Holbrook as a kindhearted …
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By John Asbury and Lisa L. Colangelo / Newsday (TNS)
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9/27/21
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Palo Alto woman has been charged with arson in connection with Shasta County’s Fawn fire that has destroyed 41 homes and 90 smaller structures and is threatening …
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By Lisa M. Krieger / The Mercury News (TNS)
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9/27/21
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SAN DIEGO — A woman and her 2-year-old son died late Saturday afternoon after they fell from the third level of Petco Park, just as thousands of baseball fans were heading inside for a Padres …
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By Lori Weisberg and Gary Robbins / The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS)
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9/27/21
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Hurricane Sam continues dancing Monday morning as a powerful Category 4 storm and seems to have partners joining it on the Atlantic basin dance floor in the forms of three other disturbances.
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By Joe Mario Pedersen / Orlando Sentinel (TNS)
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9/27/21
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CHICAGO — The accusations tell a sordid tale that seems straight from a supermarket tabloid: The story of the genius scientist who stabbed his boyfriend to death as part of a violent sex …
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By Megan Crepeau / Chicago Tribune (TNS)
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9/27/21
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WASHINGTON — After decades of fighting against the Roe v. Wade decision, conservatives scored a pair of major victories this month when the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a restrictive abortion law …
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By Adam Wollner / McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)
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9/27/21
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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged to pass a $550 billion infrastructure bill this week and signaled that the headline amount on a bigger package of spending and tax measures will …
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By Yueqi Yang and Tony Czuczka / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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9/27/21
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WASHINGTON — Parts of the U.S. health system “are in dire straits,” as the spread of the COVID-19 delta variant forces some states to prepare for rationed medical care, said …
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By Ian Fisher / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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9/27/21
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President Joe Biden hadn’t heard Germany’s election results when he returned to Washington from his weekend retreat on Sunday, but he complimented the projected winner.
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By Sophia Cai / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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9/27/21
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Within a day of testing positive for COVID-19 in June, Miranda Kelly was sick enough to be scared. At 44, with diabetes and high blood pressure, Kelly, a certified nursing assistant, was having …
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9/25/21
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NEW YORK — An appeals court judge has tossed a monkey wrench into the city’s demand that teachers and other adults in public schools be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Monday, buying time …
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Michael Elsen-Rooney and Cathy Burke / New York Daily News (TNS)
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9/25/21
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WASHINGTON — The House Budget Committee advanced a draft version of President Joe Biden’s signature tax and social spending measure, a milestone ahead of possible votes on the floor of …
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Erik Wasson and Jack Fitzpatrick / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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9/25/21
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WASHINGTON — The House on Friday voted to legalize abortion nationwide until fetal viability, and even though the legislation is almost certain to fail in the Senate, it marks a historic …
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By Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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9/24/21
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A shooter killed one person and at least a dozen others were injured Thursday inside a grocery store in Tennessee, officials said.
The shooting happened at a Kroger grocery store in …
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By Chacour Koop / Miami Herald (TNS)
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9/24/21
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WASHINGTON — Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and three other former President Donald Trump’s advisers were subpoenaed Thursday by the select House committee investigating …
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By Billy House / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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9/24/21
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CHICAGO — An Illinois woman who was arrested in Hawaii last month for allegedly entering the state with a fake COVID-19 vaccination card that misspelled drug company Moderna as …
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By Paige Fry / Chicago Tribune (TNS)
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9/24/21
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris invoked her familial ties to India as she gently pressed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on human rights during a history-making meeting Thursday …
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Harshly criticizing what he called the United States’ “inhumane” treatment of Haitian migrants and its policy toward Haiti, Daniel Foote, the U.S. diplomat whose reputation for …
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By Jacqueline Charles and Michael Wilner / Miami Herald (TNS)
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9/23/21
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