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    News Arizona AG says most alleged 2020 dead voters were alive

    Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Monday his investigators found just one dead voter after thoroughly reviewing findings from a partisan review of the 2020 election that alleged 282 ballots were cast in the name of someone who had died. The finding by the Republican attorney general...
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    News Al-Qaida mastermind Ayman al-Zawahri, 71, reportedly killed

    Ayman al-Zawahri, an Egyptian surgeon who became a mastermind of jihad against the West and who took over as al-Qaida leader after Osama bin Laden’s death in a U.S. raid, has been killed. He was 71. Five people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press that a CIA drone strike killed...
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    News Dems allege cover-up on Secret Service texts, demand records

    Top congressional Democrats have requested sit-down interviews and internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general as part of a deepening investigation into the agency's handling of now-deleted Secret Service text messages surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the...
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    News UN chief warns world is one step from `nuclear annihilation'

    The United Nations chief warned Monday that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” citing the war in Ukraine, nuclear threats in Asia and the Middle East and many other factors. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave the dire warning at the...
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    News Settlement blocks new federal fracking leases in California

    Leasing for new oil and gas drilling on federal land in central California is temporarily blocked under a settlement announced Monday between the state and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The deal, which still needs court approval, centers on more than 2,500 square miles (6,475 square...
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    News Biden's COVID sequel: back on the balcony, dog for company

    It’s back to the White House balcony and the Treaty Room for President Joe Biden as he contends with a “rebound” case of COVID-19. Trapped in the White House for the second time in as many weeks, the president knows the drill this time: He’s got an office in the residential section of the White...
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    News Treasury says borrowing needs increased by $262 billion

    The Treasury Department is seeking to borrow $444 billion in the current quarter through September as the Federal Reserve tightens its portfolio. Figures released Monday by the department show that to be a $262 billion increase compared to estimates announced in May, a sign that the federal...
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    News At least 14 potential heat deaths in Oregon after hot spell

    Oregon authorities are investigating four additional deaths potentially linked to last week’s scorching heat wave, bringing the total number of suspected hyperthermia deaths to 14. The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday the designation of heat-related death is preliminary and...
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    News Dem Sen. Sinema's views on economic bill remain shrouded

    Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's views remained a mystery Monday as party leaders eyed votes later this week on their emerging economic legislation and both parties pointed to dueling studies they used to either laud or belittle the measure's impact. With Democrats needing all of their 50 votes...
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    News Senate candidate Val Demings visits Haitian community leaders in North Miami

    Senate candidate Val Demings wants to take Marco Rubio’s seat, and she’s got some tough new TV ads that are airing in heavy rotation in South Florida. On Monday, she brought her campaign to North Miami. She spoke with various members of the Haitian community during a roundtable discussion...
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    News Supreme Court certifies ruling ending Trump border policy

    The Supreme Court on Monday certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a cornerstone Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, a pro forma act that has drawn attention amid near-total silence from the White...
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    News Large police presence responds to northwest Miami-Dade home

    A massive response of police officers converged on a home in northwest Miami-Dade County on Monday afternoon. According to Miami-Dade police, officers received a third party call about threats coming from the home located near the intersection of Northwest 120th Street and 21st Court. Officers...
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    News Biden to speak on operation against al-Qaida in Afghanistan

    President Joe Biden was set to address the nation Monday following what the White House says was a “successful” counterterrorism operation on an al-Qaida target in Afghanistan over the weekend. The White House said there were no civilian casualties. Biden planned to speak from the balcony off...
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    News Louisiana abortion ban reinstated, clinics halt procedures

    Staff at Louisiana’s abortion clinics spent Monday calling patients to cancel procedures and direct them to resources in other states as Louisiana’s near total abortion ban is once-again in effect. For weeks, access to abortion in Louisiana has been flickering — with the state’s three clinics...
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    News Miami commissioner responds to criticism over proposed Virginia Key homeless community

    A controversial proposal to create pop-up communities for the homeless across Miami, including on Virginia Key, was approved by commissioners last week. The matter is now heading to the people. Commissioner Joe Carollo responded to critics of a City of Miami plan build between 50 and 1000 tiny...
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    News Police disperse anti-UN protesters in Congo amid tensions

    Police dispersed about 100 demonstrators in Congo’s eastern town of Beni on Monday, a day after U.N. peacekeepers returning to duty killed three people and wounded more than a dozen others at the border with Uganda. Dalzon Mikundi, president of the Beni Urban Youth Council, said they want the...
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    News Man who stormed Capitol with gun gets 87 months in prison

    A Texas man convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun helmet and body armor was sentenced on Monday to 87 months — more than seven years — in prison, the longest sentence imposed so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases. Prosecutors said Guy Reffitt told fellow members...
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    News Chances of climate catastrophe are ignored, scientists say

    Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or the potential extinction of humans, however unlikely, a group of top scientists claim. Eleven scientists from around the world are calling on the United Nations' Intergovernmental...
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    News Man robbed of chain in his own front yard in southwest Miami-Dade

    The Miami-Dade Police Department is investigating after a man was robbed in the front yard of his own home in southwest Miami-Dade. The robbery occurred around 5:15 p.m. July 17 in the 18700 block of Southwest 316th Street. According to authorities, two armed robbers, described only as Black...
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    News Poles mark 1944 uprising against Nazis; compare to Ukraine

    Poles on Monday marked the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a doomed 1944 revolt against Nazi German forces, with some including the president comparing the wartime Polish resistance to that of Ukrainians today fighting Russia's invasion. People in Warsaw observed a minute of silence as...
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