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As portions of US swelter, climate officials declare summer of 2024 the hottest on record
LOS ANGELES — While Southern California and the Southwest swelter under their most punishing heat wave of the year, international climate officials have confirmed that the summer of 2024 was Earth’s hottest on record.
The global average temperature in June, July and August — known as the boreal summer in the Northern hemisphere — was a ...Read more
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Likely Maryland voters prefer 'strict' juvenile justice laws in recent poll, though some object to question's framing
BALTIMORE — A recent statewide poll found that a majority of likely Marylander voters, about 58%, prefer “strict” juvenile justice laws over “lenient” ones, which secured roughly 34% support.
That majority preference persisted among Democrats, Republicans, white respondents, Black respondents and each age group — and remain largely ...Read more
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Maryland Supreme Court to hear argument over Child Victims Act: 'This is what it means'
BALTIMORE — A priest lured 9-year-old David Schappelle into a private area of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Gaithersburg decades ago under the guise of teaching him about confession.
Father Wayland Brown proceeded to masturbate under his “ceremonial robe,” withdraw his hand when he was finished and tell the boy that “God will be ...Read more
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Blinken says US will probe American's death in West Bank protest
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is investigating the death of an American citizen who was shot and killed during a protest in the West Bank, an incident that threatened to further strain ties with Israel.
Blinken declined to answer if the killing might prompt a re-evaluation of the Biden administration’s move to keep sending ...Read more
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs law making tax exemption for greenhouse equipment permanent
DENVER — Greenhouse farmers will be able to write off their agricultural equipment from their personal property taxes permanently under a law signed Friday by Gov. Jared Polis.
Passed as House Bill 1003 during the legislature’s special session last month, the law extends in perpetuity an exemption that was set to expire in tax year 2027. ...Read more
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Massachusetts betting big on wind energy despite summer failures
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is going all-in on wind energy.
Amid the fallout of the Vineyard Wind turbine blade failure off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts has secured the largest offshore wind energy procurement in state history.
The selected 2,678 megawatts from three projects, announced Friday, is also the largest purchase in New ...Read more
Biden and Harris heading to Shanksville to mark 9/11 anniversary
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will mark the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a visit to Shanksville, site of the Flight 93 National Memorial.
The site in Stonycreek Township 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh was where one of the four planes hijacked by Arab terrorists on Sept. 11, 2021...Read more
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2 former Central Florida cops --father and son -- plead guilty in Capitol riot
ORLANDO, Fla. — Two former Central Florida cops with ties to the far-right Proud Boys pleaded guilty Friday for their roles in the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Kevin and Nathaniel Tuck — who are father, 52, and son, 32, and worked for the Windermere and Apopka police departments, respectively — both admitted to entering a ...Read more
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Biden and Harris heading to Shanksville to mark 9/11 anniversary
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will mark the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a visit to Shanksville, site of the Flight 93 National Memorial.
The site in Stonycreek Township 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh was where one of the four planes hijacked by Arab terrorists on Sept. 11, 2021...Read more
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Deputy pleads no contest to vehicular manslaughter in killing of 12-year-old boy in high-speed off-duty crash
A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy charged with murder after killing a 12-year-old boy in a high-speed crash while off duty has pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
Ricardo Castro, 30, was at the wheel of his pickup truck on Nov. 3, 2021, when it rammed a car turning left in front of him at an intersection, ...Read more
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Apalachee shooting: DA says suspect will face more charges
WINDER, Ga. — The 14-year-old accused of fatally shooting two teachers and two students this week at Apalachee High School and his father made their first appearances in court Friday, and prosecutors announced that more charges are forthcoming.
Shackled at the hands and waist, a bleached-blond Colt Gray was the first to appear before Chief ...Read more
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Trump is back in a NYC courtroom to challenge finding that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll
NEW YORK — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump was back in a New York courtroom Friday, appearing before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge a civil jury’s findings that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll and demand a new trial.
The Republican nominee, who was not required to attend, ambled into the 17th-...Read more
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Threats after Georgia school shooting -- hoax or not -- resulting in arrests
ATLANTA – At least 11 juveniles and one adult in Georgia have been arrested and accused of making school threats in the days after four people were killed and nine others were injured in a shooting at Apalachee High School.
Each of the students have been charged with making terroristic threats. If convicted of a felony charge, they could face...Read more
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Donald Trump's sentencing for hush money scheme postponed until after election, NYC judge rules
NEW YORK — Donald Trump will not be sentenced in his Manhattan hush money case until after the November presidential election, a judge ruled on Friday.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he would rule on Trump’s outstanding motion to toss his conviction on Nov. 12.
He said Trump would be sentenced on Nov. 26 “if necessary....Read more
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With lawsuit against gun shops, Maryland AG joins other communities suing to hold sellers accountable
BALTIMORE — When firearms sold at Maryland gun stores turned up at crime scenes in Washington, D.C., and the surrounding suburbs in 2021, federal prosecutors took action against the man who bought the guns and illegally re-sold them, known as a straw purchaser.
Earlier this week, the attorneys general of Maryland and D.C. moved against other ...Read more
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New treatment could be 'game-changing tool' in fight against Alzheimer's, CSU research finds
DENVER — Laboratory mice with cognitive issues including Alzheimer’s disease showed improved memory skills within a couple of weeks of treatment with a new medicine tested at Colorado State University.
The combination of drugs targets two brain proteins critical in neuroinflammation, which is involved in brain aging and Alzheimer’s, ...Read more
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Apalachee shooting: DA says suspect will face more charges
WINDER, Ga. — The 14-year-old accused of fatally shooting two teachers and two students this week at Apalachee High School and his father made their first appearances in court Friday, and prosecutors announced that more charges are forthcoming.
Shackled at the hands and waist, a bleached-blond Colt Gray was the first to appear before Chief ...Read more
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New treatment could be “game-changing tool” in fight against Alzheimer's, CSU research finds
DENVER — Laboratory mice with cognitive issues including Alzheimer’s disease showed improved memory skills within a couple of weeks of treatment with a new medicine tested at Colorado State University.
The combination of drugs targets two brain proteins critical in neuroinflammation, which is involved in brain aging and Alzheimer’s, ...Read more
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Boeing's beleaguered Starliner set for crewless trip home tonight
Boeing’s Starliner is set to complete its Crew Flight Test without its crew with an undocking planned for Friday evening from the International Space Station and a trip back to Earth.
The spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V back on June 5 with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams docking ...Read more
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AG opinion helps Gov. Brian Kemp skirt simmering Georgia election board controversy
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp won’t soon have to face a decision on whether to remove members of Georgia’s State Election Board who are under fire for approving new rules that critics say are designed to favor former President Donald Trump.
That’s because Attorney General Chris Carr, a Kemp ally, declined to issue an advisory opinion Friday...Read more
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