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    News Marine Corps veteran goes home months after surviving crash as Miami-Dade police officer

    Surveillance video shows the body of a police motor officer flying about 20 feet into the air and about 30 feet away from the sports utility vehicle that struck his Miami-Dade Police Department motorcycle. Officer Matthew Larsh, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, landed on the street’s concrete — on...
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    News Respected snake researcher dies from rattlesnake bite

    A respected snake researcher who had been making significant discoveries about the species since childhood has died after being bitten by a timber rattler. William H. “Marty” Martin died Aug. 3 after being bitten the day before by a captive snake on the property at his home in Harpers Ferry...
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    News Colombia and ELN rebels begin moving to restart peace talks

    Colombia’s new government and members of the nation’s last guerrilla group are moving toward restarting peace talks that were suspended three years ago in Cuba. After a meeting between both sides in Havana on Friday, Colombia’s national peace commissioner said the government will take the...
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    News Anne Heche remains on life support for donor evaluation

    Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor said Friday. Under current California law, death can be determined by the loss of all brain function and in accordance with accepted medical...
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    News Wisconsin GOP leader Vos fires 2020 election investigator

    Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly leader on Friday ended a 14-month, taxpayer-funded inquiry into the 2020 election by firing his hand-picked investigator. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos' firing of Michael Gableman came just three days after the lawmaker narrowly survived a primary challenge from an...
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    News Judds asks court to seal report of death investigation

    The family of country singer Naomi Judd filed a court petition Friday to seal police reports and recordings made during the investigation into her death. The family filed the petition in Williamson County Chancery Court, saying the records contain video and audio interviews with relatives in...
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    News Video shows duo’s fail while trying to steal from Broward sports card store

    Surveillance video shows a duo’s early Friday morning attempt to break into a sports card store in Broward County failed. The two persistent vandals struck the store’s impact-resistant windows with sledgehammers about 30 times — but the glass held up. The owners of the AA Mint Cards, at 9630...
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    News Reports: FBI seized ‘top secret’ documents, 27 boxes from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate

    The FBI recovered documents that were labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, according to court papers released Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the unprecedented search this week. A property receipt unsealed by the court...
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    News California governor proposes extending nuclear plant's life

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed extending the life of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant by at least five to 10 years to maintain reliable power supplies in the climate change era. A draft bill obtained by The Associated Press said the plan would allow the plant to...
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    News Oil shipments from Russia resume to Czechia

    Oil shipments from Russia through a critical pipeline to Czechia resumed Friday after more than a week, the Czech pipeline operator Mero said. Czechia became the last central European country after Slovakia and Hungary to receive deliveries from the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline after...
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    News GOP backs Trump, escalates dark rhetoric after FBI search

    Republicans in Congress who are relying on Donald Trump to excite voters in the fall elections are not only defending the former president against the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home but politically capitalizing on it with grave and potentially dangerous rhetoric against the nation’s justice...
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    News Deputies: Broward suspect leaves behind trail of evidence

    Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies said a suspect left behind a trail of evidence that made it easier for them to find him. Detectives arrested Kevin Raglin on Thursday after the residents of an Oakland Park community at Northeast 43 Street and First Terrace reported oil was leaking from a...
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    News Amazon's Ring, MGM to launch show from viral doorbell videos

    Two Amazon-owned companies — Ring and Hollywood studio MGM — are teaming to create a TV show in the mold of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” using viral footage from Ring’s doorbell and smart-home cameras. The half-hour show, called “Ring Nation,” will be hosted by actor and comedian Wanda...
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    News Best Buy cuts jobs after it cuts sales and profit outlook

    Best Buy, the nation's largest consumer electronics chain, is trimming jobs in an effort to adjust to new changes in consumer behavior as the virus wanes. Best Buy declined to say how many jobs it was cutting, but The Wall Street Journal, which was first to report the news, estimated it...
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    News Judge revives Obama-era ban on coal sales from federal lands

    A federal judge on Friday reinstated a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands that was imposed under former President Barack Obama and then scuttled under former President Donald Trump. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Brian Morris requires government officials to conduct a new...
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    News Montenegro gunman kills 11 on the street; police kill him

    A man in Montenegro went on a shooting rampage Friday, killing 11 people on the streets of a city before being shot dead, Montenegro state TV reported, quoting police sources. State TV RTCG said the 34-year-old gunman wounded another six people, including a policeman, in the city of Cetinje's...
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    News Arizona won't wait for feds, starts filling border wall gaps

    Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma on Friday, with officials saying they were acting to stop migrants after repeated, unfulfilled promises from the Biden administration to block off the...
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    News WHO plans to rename monkeypox over stigmatization concerns

    The World Health Organization says it's holding an open forum to rename the disease monkeypox, after some critics raised concerns the name could be derogatory or have racist connotations. In a statement Friday, the U.N. health agency said it has also renamed two families, or clades, of the...
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    News Oscar winner Troy Kotsur awarded key to Arizona hometown

    Troy Kotsur, who made history as the first deaf man to win an Academy Award, has been honored with a key to his Arizona hometown. Kotsur, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in March, was given the key Thursday in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa, the city said in a statement. "It is such a...
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    News EXPLAINER: What to know about polio spreading in New York

    The polio virus has been found in New York City sewage, but officials are stressing that the highest risk is for people who haven’t been vaccinated. Polio was once one of the nation’s most feared diseases, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of paralysis. Its elimination in the...
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