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    News Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch reach agreement on divorce

    Model and actor Jerry Hall and media mogul Rupert Murdoch have agreed to the terms of their pending divorce, her attorney said Thursday. Hall filed a request in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday to dismiss her original petition for divorce from Murdoch, which she filed last month, with...
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    News Bartering increases in Argentina as inflation keeps soaring

    Argentina reported a monthly inflation rate of 7.4% in July, the highest number in two decades for a country where citizens are used to increasing prices. Over the past year, Argentina’s consumer prices have soared a whopping 71%, the INDEC national statistics agency said Thursday. At a time...
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    News CDC drops quarantine, screening recommendations for COVID-19

    The nation's top public health agency on Thursday relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said people no longer need to stay at...
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    News Justice Dept. seeks to unseal search warrant of Trump home

    The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the search warrant the FBI received before searching the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday. Garland cited the “substantial public interest in this matter” in announcing the request...
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    News Buried as numbers, more of Bucha’s victims are laid to rest

    With graves marked only with numbers, not names, burial services were held Thursday for 11 more unidentified bodies found in Bucha, the town outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that saw hundreds of people slaughtered under Russian occupation early in the war. Under a grim gray sky, the two...
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    News Scientists use tiny trackers, plane to follow moths on move

    Trillions of insects migrate across the globe each year, yet little is known about their journeys. So to look for clues, scientists in Germany took to the skies, placing tiny trackers on the backs of giant moths and following them by plane. To the researchers’ surprise, the moths seemed to have...
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    News Man gets 12 years in case that tested broad search warrants

    A Virginia man has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison on federal bank robbery charges in a case that tested the constitutionality of broad search warrants that use Google location history to identify people who were near the scene of a crime. Okello Chatrie, 27, was sentenced Wednesday...
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    News WATCH LIVE: Attorney General Merrick Garland releases statement at DOJ

    U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is holding a press conference Thursday, although the Department of Justice did not confirm details about what he would speak about. Continue reading...
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    News Stolen puppy returned to South Florida pet store, thief still on loose, sheriff says

    Authorities say they’ve located a Pekingese-Maltese puppy stolen from a South Florida pet store last month, but they’ve yet to find the woman accused of stealing the dog. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, a woman wearing a face mask and baseball cap entered the Wet Kisses Pet...
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    News 19 Cuban migrants come ashore in Marathon, official says

    Officials took 19 Cuban migrants into custody Thursday morning after their homemade boat came ashore in Marathon, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, who heads the Border Patrol’s Miami sector, said the group consisted of 16 men and three women. The...
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    News Umbrella swept by wind impales woman at beach, killing her

    A beachgoer was killed Wednesday after a loose beach umbrella impaled her in the chest, authorities said. The umbrella was blown from its anchoring by the wind around 12:40 p.m. and hit Tammy Perreault while she was at a Garden City beach, Horry County Chief Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard told...
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    News Beto O’Rourke responds to heckler over Uvalde with expletive

    Democrat Beto O’Rourke responded to a heckler at a campaign stop with an expletive after the Texas gubernatorial candidate heard a cackled laugh while criticizing the ease with which the Uvalde elementary school gunman legally purchased an AR-15-style rifle. By Thursday, video of O’Rourke’s...
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    News 2nd firefighter dies as Cuba controls big oil facility fire

    Officials said Thursday that a second firefighter has died in Cuba, where crews have controlled a massive blaze that began last week at a key oil storage facility amid a deepening energy crisis. The 24-year-old firefighter identified as Elier Correa had been hospitalized in extremely critical...
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    News Guatemalans march in protest of corruption, cost of living

    Hundreds of Guatemalans set out from various points of the capital Thursday to protest alleged corruption by a deeply unpopular government, the high cost of living and attacks on freedom of expression. University students, faculty and other employees marched from the campus of the capital’s...
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    News Jury can't reach verdict in engineers' Flint water trial

    A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after jurors said they couldn't reach a verdict in a dispute over whether two engineering firms should bear some responsibility for Flint's lead-contaminated water. Four families accused Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, of...
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    News ‘We train so that we don’t get it wrong’: BSO deputies train for school shooting

    As students prepare to go back to school, Broward County deputies trained for the worst-case scenario Thursday, holding an active shooter simulation at Deerfield Beach High School. “We looked at and seeing what occurred at Uvalde, just like the rest of the country, in the world, for that matter...
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    News Police search for brazen Hollywood car burglars that followed victim from bank

    Authorities in Broward County are searching for some bold car burglars. According to Hollywood police, officers responded to a Publix Supermarket at 1700 Sheridan Street at approximately 3:22 p.m. on Aug. 2. After reviewing surveillance video, police officers determined the suspects followed...
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    News Latvia Parliament calls Russia a state sponsor of terrorism

    Latvia’s Parliament on Thursday declared Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” for attacks on civilians during the war in Ukraine and urged other countries to follow suit. Lawmakers adopted a strongly worded statement that accuses Moscow of using “suffering and intimidation as tools in its...
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    News Initial dives in collapsed Mexican mine unsuccessful

    Rescue divers' first attempts to reach 10 miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine since last week were stopped by debris-filled shafts and poor visibility, Mexican authorities said Thursday. They made four attempts Wednesday and managed to remove more than a dozen pieces of wood and some 15...
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    News Video shows social media model striking boyfriend repeatedly a month before his murder

    A South Florida social media model has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend. Courtney Clenney, 26, was arrested Wednesday in Hawaii and is expected to be extradited to South Florida soon. She’s charged in the death of 27-year-old Christian Obumseli. He was killed on...
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