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    News Driver sought, victim hospitalized after Miami-Dade hit-and-run

    Police officers in Miami-Dade County are searching for a hit-and-run driver. Authorities said that driver was heading south near Northwest 15t h Avenue and 79t h Street late Saturday night. The driver struck a pedestrian and took off, police said. The victim was taken to the hospital but...
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    News Leon Vitali, Stanley Kubrick's right-hand man, dies at 74

    Leon Vitali, the “Barry Lyndon” actor who became one of Stanley Kubrick’s closest associates, has died. He was 74. Vitali died Friday in Los Angeles, his family told The Associated Press Sunday. He passed peacefully surrounded by loved ones including his three children, Masha, Max and Vera...
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    News Miami police officer arrested, facing DUI and drug charges

    A City of Miami police officer has been arrested. According to the department, 32-year-old Jeffrey Jose Marcano has been charged with possession of cocaine and driving under the influence. In a statement, Miami police said, in part: “The Miami PD Internal Affairs Anti-Corruption Unit...
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    News Lopez and Affleck celebrate marriage with friends, family

    Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck said “I do" again this weekend. But instead of in a late night Las Vegas drive through chapel, this time it was in front of friends and family in Georgia, a person close to the couple who was not authorized to speak publicly said Sunday. According to People...
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    News Georgia jury awards $1.7 billion in Ford truck crash case

    A Georgia jury has returned a $1.7 billion verdict against Ford Motor Co. involving a pickup truck crash that claimed the lives of a Georgia couple, their lawyers confirmed. Jurors in Gwinnett County, just northeast of Atlanta, returned the verdict late last week in the yearslong civil case...
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    News Stelter says CNN must hold media accountable as show ends

    “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter insisted Sunday that he'll still be rooting for CNN even after his show was canceled this week, but stressed that it was important for the network and others to hold the media accountable. CNN gave Stelter the chance to host a final episode of the 30-year...
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    News Palestinian activist defies Israeli interrogation order

    A Palestinian rights campaigner said that Israel tried to summon him for questioning on Sunday, as it pressed ahead with a crackdown on Palestinian rights groups based in the West Bank. European and U.S. diplomats have pushed back against the claim by Israeli officials that the targeted groups...
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    News Western fires outpace California effort to fill inmate crews

    As wildfires rage across California each year, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them — even as far as Australia. Yet one homegrown resource is rarely used: thousands of experienced firefighters who earned their chops in prison. Two state programs...
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    News ‘Dragon Ball Super’ bests ‘Beast’ at box office with $20.1M

    Idris Elba may go head-to-head with a lion in “Beast,” but the action flick was no match for the latest “Dragon Ball” movie at the North American box office this weekend. “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” topped the charts in its first weekend in theaters, with $20.1 million in ticket sales...
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    News Singapore to decriminalize gay sex, but will limit change

    Singapore announced Sunday it will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law while protecting the city-state's traditional norms and its definition of marriage. During his speech at the annual National Day Rally, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he believed it is the...
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    News Horror film convention promoter speaks after Busey charges

    A horror movie convention promoter says it is assisting authorities following charges against actor Gary Busey involving alleged sexual offenses at an event in New Jersey earlier this month. Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of...
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    News Sen. Graham testimony in Georgia election probe put on hold

    A federal appeals court on Sunday agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court's order requiring that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating illegal plots to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 presidential election loss in Georgia. A subpoena had...
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    News Many still seeking food, shelter a year after Haiti quake

    The cinderblock home with a tin roof that Erline Castel and Dieunord Ernest rented was among the more than 130,000 houses damaged or destroyed by a powerful earthquake that struck southern Haiti last year, killing more than 2,200 people. In the days after the magnitude 7.2 quake hit, they...
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    News Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine

    For years, global health officials have used billions of drops of an oral vaccine in a remarkably effective campaign aimed at wiping out polio in its last remaining strongholds — typically, poor, politically unstable corners of the world. Now, in a surprising twist in the decades-long effort to...
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    News Florida Department of Law Enforcement mourns death of special agent killed in line of duty

    The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is mourning the loss of one of their own. Special Agent Jose Perez, a retired assistant chief with the City of Miami Police, has sadly died from his injuries 17 days after being hit by another driver. FDLE Acting Commissioner Mark Glass issued a...
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    News Hollywood police investigating after man’s body found near ditch

    Authorities in Broward County are conducting a death investigation. The body of a man was found near a ditch off McKinley Street and North 63rd Avenue early Saturday morning. Police transported the man’s body to the Broward County Medical Examiner in order to determine the cause of death. The...
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    News Dead body found in Deerfield Beach parking lot, police investigating

    A death investigation is underway in Deerfield Beach after a body was discovered early Sunday morning. Police responded to the area around the intersection of West Sample Road and North Powerline Road after receiving calls of a body that was found in a parking lot. Local 10 News’ cameras...
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    News Serbia warns it will protect Kosovo Serbs if NATO doesn't

    Serbia’s president called on NATO on Sunday to “do their job” in Kosovo or he says Serbia itself will move to protect its minority in the breakaway province. The fiery televised address to his nation by President Aleksandar Vucic followed the collapse of political talks between Serbian and...
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    News Tracking new disturbances in the eastern Atlantic this week

    Potential Tropical Cyclone Four over the western Gulf moved ashore shortly after sunset yesterday with little fanfare. The disturbance, which exhibited some bluster while over the southern Gulf and Bay of Campeche, succumbed to increasingly hostile upper winds by late yesterday afternoon and...
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    News What does the queen like with tea? Jam sandwiches every day

    Queen Elizabeth II has eaten jam sandwiches every day since she was a toddler, according to her former private chef. Darren McGrady claims on his YouTube channel that the monarch favors a strawberry preserve made from fruits picked in her Balmoral Castle grounds in Scotland. “The queen was...
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