WASHINGTON — It’s still early in the 2022 election cycle, but new fundraising reports show that campaign donations are continuing to flow to races that will determine control of the …
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7/19/21
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SEATTLE — When Kent, Washington-based Blue Origin on Tuesday rockets Jeff Bezos upward on its first mission carrying humans into space, the wealthiest man on the planet will be blazing the …
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7/19/21
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CHICAGO – Six people, including four teenage girls — the youngest of them 12 — were injured in a mass shooting late Saturday on the West Side.
Less than two hours later, an …
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7/19/21
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Fueled by a trifecta of dangerous weather conditions — strong winds, low humidity and high temperatures — a series of wildfires, including a so-called megafire that has already charred …
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7/19/21
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“Space Jam: A New Legacy” narrowly topped returning champ “Black Widow” in theater-ticket sales in a modest opening weekend for the animated basketball film.
The Warner …
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7/19/21
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said the U.S. will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the DACA program protecting hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” who came to the …
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7/19/21
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The nation's newest service is beset with old problems that slow the fielding of new gear and carve big holes in even the Pentagon's massive budget, the House Armed Services Committee warned in a …
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7/19/21
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are monitoring the state's bird population after a "mysterious disease" has killed many in the mid-Atlantic region.
Officials …
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7/19/21
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A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the long-standing federal ban on sales of handguns from licensed dealers to 18- to 20-year-olds is unconstitutional, because Congress in the 1960s did not …
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7/17/21
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The death toll from the floods that devastated parts of western Germany rose to at least 103, with scores of people unaccounted for after houses collapsed and roads and bridges were badly …
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7/16/21
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian President Jovenel Moïse will be laid to rest on July 23 in a state funeral, the government said Friday.
Moïse’s funeral will take place in the …
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7/16/21
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Greenland dropped all plans for future oil exploration on environmental grounds, saying the price of extraction was “too high.”
The island’s socialist-led government, in office …
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7/16/21
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U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio was arrested by Capitol police Thursday after she marched to a Senate office building to push for voting rights legislation aimed at curbing restrictions in …
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7/16/21
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Three years and 17 days after the mass shooting, an Anne Arundel County jury ruled Thursday the man who killed five Capital Gazette employees was sane, and therefore criminally …
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7/16/21
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House on Thursday for what will likely be the final visit of one of America's foremost allies before she …
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7/16/21
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Justice Stephen Breyer told CNN he hasn’t decided when he will retire from the Supreme Court, a stance certain to disappoint liberals who have been calling for the 82-year-old to step down and …
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7/16/21
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SEOUL, South Korea – In a week's time, the now-anachronistically named 2020 Olympic Games will finally get underway.
It's a moment Japan has long been preparing for — since March of …
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7/15/21
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Indonesia surpassed India’s daily COVID-19 case numbers, marking a new Asian virus epicenter as the spread of the highly-contagious delta variant drives up infections in Southeast Asia’s …
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7/15/21
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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer unveiled draft legislation Wednesday that would decriminalize cannabis and expunge federal sentences tied to the drug, which has been …
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7/15/21
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LOS ANGELES — Officials apprehended a heavily armed man Wednesday morning attempting to enter the parking garage of the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A.
The man was stopped …
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7/15/21
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