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NFL's Roger Goodell donates to family of slain Ga. high school football coach
ATLANTA — Roger Goodell was in Brazil when he learned about the shooting at Apalachee High School.
The NFL commissioner traveled abroad to attend Friday’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers. After hearing about the shooting, Goodell was pulled to read everything he could find about Ricky Aspinwall, a 39-year-old ...Read more
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Venezuela tensions rise in standoff on sheltered Maduro foes
Venezuela’s government, whose brutal crackdown on dissent is rattling Latin American allies, threatened to go after opposition campaign workers who have sheltered in the Argentine embassy for months.
Dozens of President Nicolás Maduro’s agents stationed themselves outside the embassy in Caracas on Friday night, though as of Saturday ...Read more
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'Love will prevail': Georgia town rallies together after school shooting
WINDER, Ga. — Morning arrived Saturday like so many others. Slightly cool, a hint of fall under the rays of the golden sun.
People ran errands and met friends for coffee and early lunches. But everywhere in this northeast Georgia community — the marquee outside the movie theater, the Walgreens in downtown, front lawns throughout Barrow ...Read more
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US, UK spy chiefs warn of deepening Iran-Russia military links
Iran would signal a “dramatic escalation” of support for Russia by providing ballistic missiles to aid its war in Ukraine, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said.
Burns and his U.K. counterpart, Richard Moore, warned during a joint appearance in London that military cooperation between the two countries is deepening.
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Contaminated eggs sold in Illinois recalled after causing salmonella infections
CHICAGO — A Wisconsin poultry company has issued a recall for eggs sold in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin after they were found to be contaminated with a strain of salmonella that has sickened 65 people.
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Food Safety Alert for the recalled eggs from Milo’s Poultry Farms LLC...Read more
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Karen Read maintains innocence in ABC '20/20' special: 'Buzzed' but not a killer
BOSTON — Karen Read maintained her innocence in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, in a risky interview with ABC’s “20/20” television newsmagazine that aired Friday night.
“I felt like I’d had alcohol, I felt that I had a buzz, but I did not feel it was unsafe to be operating my vehicle,” Read, who ...Read more
NHC increases tropical development odds for Gulf system, tracks 2 others
ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center increased the chances a tropical wave that is moving into the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. forecast, the system was over the Bay of Campeche with disorganized showers and thunderstorms but expected to ...Read more
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2 earthquakes, centered in Ontario, rattle Southern California
LOS ANGELES — A pair of modest earthquakes rattled Southern California on Saturday morning, with epicenters in Ontario.
The earthquakes, of magnitudes 3.5 and 3.9, occurred within about a half hour of each other. Shaking was felt as far away as the city of Los Angeles, Orange County and northern San Diego County, according to crowdsourcing ...Read more
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How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11
As soon as Islamic extremists were identified as having carried out four deadly, coordinated attacks on U.S. soil in the early morning of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta started hearing calls from the public to ban Arab Americans and Muslims from all flights – and even to round them up and detain them.
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Record-breaking heat wave will broil Southern California for several more days
LOS ANGELES — The record-breaking heat wave pummeling Southern California will continue through the weekend, delivering a miserable combination of triple-digit highs and unrelenting overnight heat.
The National Weather Service in Oxnard said Saturday morning that "dangerously hot conditions" will continue in the region through Monday. On ...Read more
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Ukraine's push into Russia leaves allies impressed, but worried
Ukraine’s daring offensive into Russia’s Kursk region impressed Kyiv’s allies with its quick initial success, upending perceptions the war had settled into a stalemate and exposing the hollowness of Vladimir Putin’s vows to defend his territory at all costs.
But a month into the operation, U.S. and European officials still question what...Read more
NHC increases tropical development odds for Gulf system, tracks 1 other
ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center increased the chances a tropical wave that is moving into the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. forecast, the system was over the Bay of Campeche with disorganized showers and thunderstorms but expected to ...Read more
How someone becomes a torturer
Every day, thousands of people are tortured in police stations, security offices and prisons around the world. Human rights organizations protest torture and advocate for survivors, but neither they nor the public knows much about the torturers themselves.
Where do torturers come from? How can they do such terrible things? And most ...Read more
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Trump or Harris? For Putin, his preference isn't clear cut
Back in 2016, it was evident that Russian President Vladimir Putin was Team Trump. Top Kremlin officials cracked open champagne bottles in the early hours of Nov. 9 as the businessman-turned-politician emerged as the surprise victor in the U.S. election.
When it comes to determining where the Russian leader stands today, there is no easy answer...Read more
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Some colleges see dips in Black, Latino students post Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions
PHILADELPHIA — Colleges were bracing for a decline in Black and Latino freshmen at many of the nation's elite institutions following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year to ban race-conscious decisions.
Nationally, so far, that appears to be the case at some schools: Amherst College, a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts, ...Read more
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A database of dangerous dogs. San Diego County should publish biters' addresses, grand jury says
LOS ANGELES — If a pet dog has a history of biting, does the public have a right to know?
The grand jury in San Diego County considered this question and answered in the affirmative.
In an investigation prompted by a complaint from a dog bite victim who found the official response inadequate, the watchdog group recommended that San Diego ...Read more
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Boeing's beleaguered Starliner makes crewless return to Earth
Boeing’s Starliner completed its Crew Flight Test without its crew undocking Friday evening from the International Space Station and making the 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 with the ISS the next ...Read more
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9th Circuit upholds California gun bans in some 'sensitive' places, but not others
California may enforce its recent ban on guns in “ sensitive places” when it comes to parks and playgrounds, bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, casinos, stadiums, amusement parks, zoos, libraries, museums, athletic facilities and the parking areas associated with them, a federal appellate court ruled Friday.
However, the state may not...Read more
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Justice Alito reports $900 concert tickets, no trips in latest filing
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reported in a new financial disclosure that he took no trips in 2023 paid for by another person or organization, but revealed he failed to report a loan and did accept concert tickets from a German socialite.
The federal judiciary released Alito’s report on Friday after he requested an ...Read more
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Two reporters from Times, Post ousted from NYPD headquarters media trailer
NEW YORK — Two veteran New York City newspaper reporters who cover the New York Police Department were given the boot Thursday from the media trailer at police headquarters dubbed “the Shack.”
Tina Moore, police bureau chief of The New York Post, and Maria Cramer, police bureau chief of The New York Times, were barred from NYPD ...Read more
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