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    News European drought dries up rivers, kills fish, shrivels crops

    Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France’s Burgundy region in what was the Tille River in the village of Lux. From dry and cracked reservoirs in Spain to falling water levels on major arteries like the...
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    News Dairy farm in Ukraine's Donbas region struggles to survive

    One of the last working dairy farms on Ukrainian-controlled territory in the eastern Donbas region is doing everything it can to stay afloat in a place where neither workers nor animals are safe from Russia's devastating war. Only around 200 head of cattle remain of the nearly 1,300 kept at the...
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    News In Biden's big bill: Climate, health care, deficit reduction

    The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions left over to pay down federal deficits. All told...
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    News House Dems set to overcome GOP for climate, health care win

    A flagship Democratic economic bill perched on the edge of House passage Friday, placing President Joe Biden on the brink of a back-from-the-dead triumph on his climate, health and tax goals that could energize his party ahead of November’s elections. Democrats were poised to muscle the measure...
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    News Suspect who tried to breach FBI office dies in standoff

    Authorities are investigating the motives of an armed man who they say tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati office, fled and died hours later in a rural standoff with law enforcement, a case unfolding as the FBI warns agents to take extra precautions amid increased social media threats to its...
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    News At 75, India’s democracy is under pressure like never before

    The Aug. 5 demonstrations by India’s main opposition Congress party against soaring food prices and unemployment began like any other recent protest — an electorally weak opposition taking to the New Delhi streets against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s massively popular government. The...
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    News Fetterman plans 'raw' remarks in return to PA Senate race

    Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman is expected to open up about his personal health challenges as he officially returns to the campaign trail Friday, more than 90 days after the Democrat suffered a stroke that threatened his life and political prospects in one of the nation's premier...
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    News Kansas abortion vote shows limits of GOP's strength

    An increase in turnout among Democrats and independents and a notable shift in Republican-leaning counties contributed to the overwhelming support of abortion rights last week in traditionally conservative Kansas, according to a detailed Associated Press analysis of the voting results. A...
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    News South Korea to pardon Samsung's Lee, other corporate giants

    South Korea's president will pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong with a year left on his sentence for bribing a president as part of a massive corruption scandal that toppled her government, the justice minister announced Friday. Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin and two other top business...
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    News Burglar steals $4,000 in tools preventing Hollywood man from going to work

    Stephen Homer said he watched his whole livelihood going down the drain. A burglar stole from his truck near the intersection of Park Street and North 64 Avenue in Hollywood. “Everything I worked for, everything I built these last few years was gone,” Homer said adding the power drills and the...
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    News Cops: Crime ring moved $22M in catalytic converters

    Police in suburban Portland, Oregon, said Thursday they arrested a crime ring leader responsible for trafficking more than 44,000 catalytic converters stolen from vehicles on the West Coast since 2021. Detectives said they identified Brennan Doyle, 32, as the leader of the operation and...
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    News Getty Museum in LA to return illegally exported art to Italy

    The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is returning ancient sculptures and other works of art that were illegally exported from Italy, the museum announced Thursday. The Getty will return a nearly life-size group of Greek terra-cotta sculptures known as “Orpheus and the Sirens," believed to...
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    News Model’s defense attorney says ‘victim’ killed ‘abuser’ in Miami apartment

    After prosecutors announced a murder charge against the model who stabbed her boyfriend in a Miami apartment, her attorney reiterated on Thursday that she did so in self-defense. Frank Prieto, a Coral Gables defense attorney, is representing Courtney Clenney, who is better known as Courtney...
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    News Officers find man injured after shooting in Miami-Dade

    Police officers found a man injured after a shooting on Thursday in Miami-Dade County’s Gladeview neighborhood. Officers responded to a report of a shooting shortly after 7 p.m., near the intersection of Northwest 19 Avenue and 67 Street, according to Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, a spokesman for...
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    News Man arrested for beating up dog to death in Broward

    Police officers arrested a 28-year-old man on Thursday after he was accused of beating up Jack, an eight-month-old American pit bull terrier, to death in Broward County. Daniel Lamont Gray, Jr., punched, kicked, and slammed Jack on Wednesday in Pembroke Pines, according to Officer Amanda...
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    News Large wildfire burning amid drought on Hawaii’s Big Island

    A large wildfire in a rural area of Hawaii's Big Island is not threatening any homes, but high winds and extremely dry conditions are making it difficult for crews to contain the blaze. The fire started in the western reaches of the U.S. Army's Pohakuloa Training Area, which is above the town...
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    News New Zealand welcomes back first cruise ship since COVID hit

    New Zealand on Friday welcomed the first cruise ship to return since the coronavirus pandemic began, signaling a long-sought return to normalcy for the nation's tourism industry. New Zealand closed its borders in early 2020 as it sought at first to eliminate COVID-19 entirely and then later to...
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    News Protester: San Francisco paramedic sedated her involuntarily

    A protester has filed a federal civil lawsuit against the city of San Francisco claiming that a paramedic, under the direction of a police sergeant, injected her against her will with a sedative while she was handcuffed after being removed from a Golden State Warriors championship game for...
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    News DeSantis promotes program to place military veterans in classrooms

    Gov. Ron DeSantis released a video on Thursday encouraging U.S. military veterans to participate in his effort to deal with teacher shortages. DeSantis announced The Florida Department of Education launched a page with the details of the program now named the Military Veterans Certification...
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    News FBI: Data from mall gunman's laptop cannot be recovered

    Data cannot be recovered from the laptop of the 20-year-old man who allegedly shot five people in a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall, killing three of them, the FBI said Thursday. Agents were unable to recover data from the laptop found in the gunman’s oven, Herb Stapleton, the special agent...
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