PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The multinational probe into the brazen, middle-of-the-night assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse broadened Tuesday, with law enforcement in Haiti and …
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7/15/21
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Using $1.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, researchers at University of California, Davis, are looking into whether venom from the widely feared …
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7/15/21
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TAMPA, Fla. – When Elsa reached sustained winds of 85 mph last week, it became the strongest July storm in the Caribbean Sea since Hurricane Emily in 2005. Four days later, it would brush past …
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7/14/21
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BOISE, Idaho — With smoke wafting across the sky above him, Gov. Brad Little on Tuesday implored Idahoans to help minimize wildfires during a Tuesday press conference at Boise’s National …
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7/14/21
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WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday again lambasted President Joe Biden’s rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, claiming that the Taliban is already …
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7/14/21
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Welcome to the year of “Ted Lasso.”
After “Schitt’s Creek” swept the comedy awards at the 2020 Emmys, the Canadian show’s ending paved the way for an almost …
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7/14/21
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President Joe Biden called on Americans to band together to protect the right to vote and reject Republican-led efforts to change election laws, casting the battle as a globally watched test of U.S. …
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7/14/21
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NEW YORK – An Iranian intelligence officer and a network of accomplices tried to kidnap a prominent U.S. journalist and author from her Brooklyn home to silence her criticism of the Iranian …
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7/14/21
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s favorite target again this year was the California-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which saw 15 of its 16 rulings overturned on review.
For …
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7/14/21
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CHICAGO – In October 1887, the steamer Vernon set sail from Michigan toward Chicago with about 50 people on board. Likely overloaded with cargo, she never made it.
A “terrible …
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7/11/21
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen began to put a timeline on when the Biden administration hopes Congress can take up two key portions of a global tax agreement endorsed Saturday by Group of 20 …
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MIAMI — The death of seagrass caused the death of Florida manatees at a record rate in 2021, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.
FWC’s preliminary count of …
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Shot in the face, stabbed in the head and nearly drowned with bleach, Brianna Arrington had been dying for about nine hours by the time someone found her.
It had been …
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7/11/21
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In 2004, British billionaire Richard Branson proclaimed he would fly into space on his company’s spaceship in just three years to kick off what he hoped would become a routine travel …
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7/11/21
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — President Joe Biden dispatched a delegation of U.S. officials to Haiti on Sunday after its interim government requested U.S. security and investigative assistance, …
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Jacqueline Charles and Michael Wilner / Miami Herald (TNS)
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7/11/21
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The operation that led to Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s middle-of-the-night assassination was in the planning for at least a month, and came together …
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Jacqueline Charles and Kevin G. Hall / Miami Herald
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7/11/21
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, citing religious liberty, has lifted another of California’s COVID-19 restrictions, holding the state may not prevent people from gathering in homes …
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times
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4/11/21
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