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Colorado cannabis companies have a new strategy to attract more hesitant customers: Weaker weed

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DENVER — At Terrapin Care Station, a Denver dispensary on Broadway, area manager Adam Shepler stood behind a counter displaying an array of more than 20 low-dose cannabis products: gummies, patches, drinks, topical lotions, tinctures, a vape and a powder.

Most of them were recently released. Though Shepler has fielded customer interest in low...Read more

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Marines from California's Camp Pendleton to operate out of Australia for 6 months next year

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SAN DIEGO — Camp Pendleton has begun large-scale training exercises to prepare Marines to operate from a base in Darwin, Australia, early next year, part of a larger U.S. effort to deepen ties with a key ally in the Indo-Pacific.

Darwin represents a potential staging point for the U.S., which has repeatedly said it will repel any attempt ...Read more

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Trump cites Biden pardon in asking NYC judge to toss Stormy Daniels hush-money case

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NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s attorneys have asked the judge who presided over his criminal hush money case to dismiss the indictment and vacate the jury’s guilty verdicts — arguing their client is a victim of the same “raw politics” President Joe Biden cited in pardoning his son, Hunter, according to filings made public Tuesday.

“...Read more

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Who's going to run Oakland when Mayor Sheng Thao leaves?

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OAKLAND, Calif. — The city charter in Oakland contains an extensive set of laws, but it wasn’t exactly set up to address the aftermath of an election that saw the mayor recalled and the next-up city official ascend to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

But that’s where Oakland now finds itself, nearly a month after City Hall was ...Read more

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Trump's Treasury pick to meet Thune, key senators on confirmation

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WASHINGTON — Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent plans to meet this week with incoming Senate Republican leader John Thune and other key senators as he begins preparing for confirmation hearings.

The veteran hedge fund manager hasn’t aroused public opposition from GOP senators even as some of Donald Trump’s other picks have stirred ...Read more

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South Korea's Yoon ends martial law after political gamble

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he will rescind his martial law decree, giving in to the parliament’s opposition just hours after his dramatic move imposing it that shook markets and surprised other world leaders.

Yoon said in a televised address early Wednesday that he will “accept the National Assembly’s...Read more

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Federal judge denounces President Biden's pardon, saying he misrepresented son's criminal case

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The judge who presided over Hunter Biden's federal tax case in Los Angeles criticized President Joe Biden on Tuesday for pardoning his son this week, saying he misrepresented the facts of his son's criminal case when he announced the move.

In a brief order, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi faulted Hunter Biden's lawyers for failing to file a ...Read more

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South Korea opposition party seeks to impeach Yoon for treason

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s main opposition party announced that it would seek to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol after he shocked the nation by briefly imposing martial law.

The Democratic Party will pursue charges of treason and impeachment against Yoon, as well as South Korea’s defense minister and safety minister, for ...Read more

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With Hunter Biden pardon, NYC Mayor Adams doubles down on claim his indictment is politically motivated

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NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams doubled down on his claim that President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is politically motivated — touting a front-page New York Times story focusing on the Hunter Biden pardon at a press briefing Tuesday.

“President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump now agree on one thing: The Biden Justice ...Read more

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Macron asks French lawmakers not to topple the government

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PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron called on French lawmakers to set aside their personal ambition and reject a vote that would topple the government and throw the country into political turmoil.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party have vowed to support a no-confidence motion on Wednesday submitted by a left-wing ...Read more

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After gang violence shuts Haiti's major airports, US continues deportation flights into another city of 'catastrophe'

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Haiti’s second-largest city, Cap-Haïtien, has the only airport in the country open to international commercial air travel. But getting in and out of the northern city has for weeks now been nearly impossible.

Domestic flights remain grounded after gang gunfire last month struck three U.S. commercial airplanes, prompting a ban against U.S. ...Read more

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Missouri executes Christopher Collings by lethal injection despite questions in case

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state of Missouri executed Christopher Collings by lethal injection Tuesday evening, the state’s Department of Corrections and his legal team confirmed.

Collings — who was convicted of the 2007 killing of Rowan Ford, a 9-year-old girl in southwestern Missouri — was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. Central time at the ...Read more

Fox News contributor Dr. Kelly Powers dead at 45

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Fox News contributor and medical expert Dr. Kelly Powers has died following a battle with glioblastoma brain cancer. She was 45.

The native New Yorker died Sunday in New Jersey, according to an online obituary published by Holmdel Funeral Home, where visitation will take place on Thursday. Powers spent her recent years living in Colts Neck with...Read more

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Fatal Tesla Cybertruck crash in California being reviewed by federal agency

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A fatal Tesla Cybertruck incident in Piedmont is being investigated by the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration and California Highway Patrol after three Piedmont high school graduates died and another was hospitalized.

The NHTSA said it is working with the California Highway Patrol to determine the cause of ...Read more

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Gun possession will be part of Roger Golubski's death probe, Kansas investigators say

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will be looking into how Roger Golubski, a retired Kansas City, Kansas, detective found dead on the morning of his criminal trial, obtained a firearm, a spokesperson for the state agency said Tuesday.

“We will look into how he obtained the firearm as a part of the death investigation,”...Read more

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Jury in NYC subway chokehold case ends first day of deliberations without reaching verdict

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NEW YORK — Manhattan jurors ended their first day of deliberations in the case against Daniel Penny without reaching a verdict Tuesday after prosecutors asked them to determine he killed Jordan Neely “recklessly and needlessly.”

The panelists who got the case around 1:15 p.m. sent one substantive note requesting to rehear Justice Maxwell ...Read more

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Fulton County DA Fani Willis ordered to turn over records of Georgia Trump investigation

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ATLANTA — A Fulton County judge has ordered the Fulton District Attorney’s office to turn over documents from its election interference investigation that were sent to Special Counsel Jack Smith and the U.S. House Jan. 6th Committee.

On Monday, Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the DA’s office to turn over the documents to ...Read more

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Stanford misinformation expert admits his chatbot use led to misinformation in sworn federal court filing

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A Stanford University misinformation expert who was called out in a federal court case in Minnesota for submitting a sworn declaration that contained made-up information has blamed an artificial intelligence chatbot.

And the bot generated more errors than the one highlighted by the plaintiffs in the case, professor Jeff Hancock wrote in an ...Read more

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Ex-Illinois Speaker Madigan prosecutors to ask Solis about cooperation against another 'high-ranking official' -- but can't mention Edward Burke by name

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CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan will get the chance Tuesday to ask ex-Ald. Daniel Solis about his cooperation against another “high-ranking official” — but they won’t be able to say the name Edward M. Burke.

Solis, whose stunning turn as an FBI mole is at the center of both...Read more

More than 54,000 new NC private school vouchers awarded in record program expansion

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More than 54,000 new Opportunity Scholarships were awarded Tuesday, which would more than double the number of students getting taxpayer funding to attend private schools.

The N.C. State Education Assistance Authority (NCSEAA) issued the new private school vouchers to the families who had been on the Opportunity Scholarship list. The 54,000 new...Read more