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Apalachee shooting: DA says suspect will face more charges

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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

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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

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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

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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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Atlanta faces new lawsuit over sewage releases into Chattahoochee River

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ATLANTA – The city of Atlanta is facing a new federal lawsuit over claims the city’s wastewater treatment plants have repeatedly released poorly treated sewage into the waterway containing dangerous levels of bacteria and other pollutants.

The suit was filed Friday in an Atlanta federal court on behalf of the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, just...Read more

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Sacramento mass shooting suspect died in jail nearly 3 months ago. There are still no answers

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The family of Smiley Martin, a suspect in Sacramento’s deadliest mass shooting, has no answers about how Martin died in Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office custody as the three-month anniversary of his death approaches this weekend.

Martin was charged with two others in a brazen shooting that killed six people along ...Read more

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Over 2 dozen swept up in cocaine-distribution arrests, including boat racing team owner

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MIAMI — A massive federal drug-trafficking sweep targeting more than two dozen suspects resulted in multiple arrests in South Florida this week.

FBI agents conducted raids on Thursday in connection with a widespread cocaine-distribution network involving at least 27 suspects over a four-year period, according to federal court records.

“I ...Read more

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Teen accused of killing 4 at Apalachee High School appears in court after father's arrest

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Colt Gray, the 14-year-old gunman accused of killing four people at his Georgia high school, appeared in court for the first time on Friday to face murder charges, less than 24 hours after the arrest of his father, who faces up to 180 years in prison for his alleged role in the massacre.

Gray, sporting a prison uniform with his dyed-blonde hair...Read more

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom urges emergency rules to rein in sale of easily purchased hemp products with potent high

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LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed emergency regulations aimed at reining in the manufacture and sale of illegal hemp products that contain intoxicating cannabinoids such as THC.

The new rules would close loopholes that manufacturers in the "intoxicating hemp" industry have exploited to skirt restrictions on hemp products, allowing ...Read more

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Crediting voters, Miami-Dade mayor backs off transit funds cut. Restores $16 million in budget

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MIAMI — Extra transit dollars helped Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s 2025 budget win preliminary approval Thursday night, with commissioners securing an extra $16 million for transportation reserves in a year when the newly reelected mayor says finances are the tightest since she took office.

“It won’t be easy,” Levine Cava ...Read more

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Florida couple pleads guilty to selling fentanyl that killed baby. They face 20 years to life

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MIAMI — More than two years after a 10-month-old baby girl died from ingesting fentanyl at her parents’ home in Boynton Beach, the South Florida dealers that sold the drug to the couple pleaded guilty to distributing the synthetic opioid that killed her.

Samantha Yi, 32, pled guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and ...Read more

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Zelenskyy in Germany urges allies to speed up weapons deliveries

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reinforced his plea for allies to accelerate weapons deliveries to help halt Russian advances as he met with defense ministers in Germany.

“We need to force Russia to seek peace,” Zelenskyy said in his first in-person appearance at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in southwest ...Read more

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US still pushing Gaza cease-fire deal as Israel and Hamas dig in

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About three months ago, U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel and Hamas faced a “decisive moment” when he proposed a cease-fire deal to pause their devastating war in Gaza.

His administration, despite repeated setbacks, is still pushing for an agreement and trying to end a deadlock as the war nears the one-year mark.

The U.S. will present ...Read more

Hurricane center tracks 4 systems with tropical potential

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The National Hurricane Center continued Friday to keep busy with four systems that could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, though, all had low chances for formation.

One that has been dropping rain along the U.S. coast is a low pressure system up against a weak frontal ...Read more

In California hearing about the border, House GOP seeks to attack Harris in her home state

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LOS ANGELES — House Republicans are in California on Friday for a field hearing, bringing their 2024 election campaign message about Democrats' handling of the border to Vice President Kamala Harris' home turf.

The House Judiciary Committee's hearing "The Biden-Harris Border Crisis: California Perspectives," takes place in Santee, Calif., a ...Read more

Zelenskyy in Germany urges allies to speed up weapons deliveries

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reinforced his plea for allies to accelerate weapons deliveries to help halt Russian advances as he met with defense ministers in Germany.

“We need to force Russia to seek peace,” Zelenskyy said in his first in-person appearance at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in southwest ...Read more

Apalachee shooting: Suspect, father make first court appearance

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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.

Shackled at the hands and waist, a bleached-blond Colt Gray was the first to appear before Chief Judge Currie Mingledorff at 8:30 a.m. The Barrow County ...Read more

Putin aide who leads disinformation efforts once was a reformer

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The head of a russian propaganda campaign that allegedly aimed to influence the upcoming us elections began as a liberal politician before he became one of president vladimir putin’s closest advisers.

Sergei Kiriyenko, who is the first deputy head in Putin’s administration, oversaw a years-long Kremlin operation to meddle in U.S. elections...Read more

Georgia's Kirby Smart visited Apalachee campus just weeks before 'horrific' shooting

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ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia coach Kirby Smart was on the campus of Apalachee High School just three weeks ago. His youngest son Andrew’s middle school football team from Athens Academy played Apalachee middle schoolers at Wildcats Stadium on Aug.15.

Having just been there, Smart shared with sports-talk radio station “92.9 The Game” on ...Read more

As eastern equine encephalitis spreads, a neurologist explains how to stay safe during this latest outbreak of the ‘triple E’ virus

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The 2024 outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis – known as triple E or EEE – has caused six reported and confirmed human disease cases in five states, including one death, as of Sept. 4, 2024.

EEE surfaces nearly every year in the U.S., but with another outbreak of West Nile virus also spreading across the country, health ...Read more