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    News GOP warms to far-right gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania

    Republicans are warming up to Doug Mastriano. When he crushed a nine-person field to win the GOP nomination for Pennsylvania governor in May, some in the party warned that Mastriano's far-right views on everything from abortion to the 2020 presidential election would squander an otherwise...
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    News Trump returning to Washington to deliver policy speech

    Former President Donald Trump will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a policy speech before an allied think tank that has been crafting an agenda for a possible second term. Trump will address the America First Policy Institute's two-day America...
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    News US sends Sherman, Kennedy to visit the Solomon Islands

    The U.S. is sending a high-profile diplomatic delegation to visit the Solomon Islands next week led by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and including Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy. The U.S. State Department said Tuesday the trip is to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the...
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    News Japan executes prisoner who killed 7 in Tokyo street rampage

    Japan on Tuesday executed a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a crowded Tokyo shopping district in 2008. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa told reporters that Tomohiro Kato was hanged at the Tokyo detention center earlier Tuesday. Japan has maintained the...
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    News Shirtless crook captured on camera stealing BMW from outside Hollywood synagogue

    Surveillance cameras captured the moments a car was stolen from outside a Broward County synagogue. The thief is first spotted driving up and then reaching over to try to open the door of the empty car. And when that worked, he makes his move to go in for more. “The key must’ve been by the...
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    News US judge OKs online publication of New Mexico voter records

    A conservative-backed initiative to publish voter registration records from across the country online for public consumption can move forward over the objections of New Mexico election regulators, a federal judge has ordered in a preliminary opinion. Albuquerque-based U.S. District Court Judge...
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    News Alibaba to seek primary listing in Hong Kong, adding to NYSE

    Alibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce company, said Tuesday that it would apply for a primary listing in Hong Kong. The listing is expected to be completed by the end of 2022, which would make Alibaba a dual-primary listed company on the New York Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange...
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    News TBS cancels Samantha Bee's 'Full Frontal' after 7 seasons

    TBS is canceling “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” after seven seasons, removing a rare female voice from late-night TV, the channel said Monday. In a statement announcing the cancellation, TBS said it has made “some difficult, business-based decisions” as part of its new programming strategy...
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    News Biden says Trump lacked 'courage to act' during Jan. 6 riot

    President Joe Biden decried his predecessor for failing to try and stop last year's deadly mob attack on the Capitol, saying Monday that “ Donald Trump lacked the courage to act” as hours of “medieval hell” unfolded. “Every day we rely on law enforcement to save lives. Then, on Jan. 6, we...
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    News Growing number in GOP back Pelosi on possible Taiwan trip

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reported plans to travel to Taiwan have upended Washington’s political divide, with a rift emerging with President Joe Biden over the visit to the self-governing island while prominent Republicans offer encouragement to a political opponent they normally scorn...
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    News AP source: Top aide to Pence testifies before 1/6 grand jury

    The former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence has testified before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. Marc Short, a close aide to Pence, was at the Capitol on the day of the siege and...
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    News Budget airline Allegiant cuts profit outlook on rising costs

    Shares of Allegiant Air's parent company tumbled in after-hours trading Monday after the budget airline gave a disappointing preview of its second-quarter earnings that it said were undercut by higher costs, including fuel. Allegiant Travel Co. said after the market closed that it expects to...
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    News Democratic women resort to personal attacks during Florida Senate campaigns

    The heated race for Florida Senate District 35 is getting nasty. Two Democratic women who agree on most issues are resorting to personal attacks as they both campaign for votes in Broward County. State Sen. Lauren Book, the minority leader, and former Broward Mayor Barbara Sharief have both...
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    News Tribal leaders, members react to pope's apology on schools

    Pope Francis' apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada's residential school system and the abuses that took place within it was a full-throated denunciation of a decadeslong policy of forced assimilation that aimed to strip Indigenous children of their culture and traumatized...
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    News Walmart cuts profit outlook as shoppers adapt to inflation

    Walmart Inc. on Monday lowered its profit outlook for the second quarter and the full year, citing surging inflation on basics like food that is forcing shoppers cut back on discretionary items, particularly clothing, that carry higher profit margins. That behavior is forcing the nation's...
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    News EXPLAINER: What's behind efforts to decertify 2020 election?

    A year and a half after Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, Donald Trump is still pushing for decertifying Biden's win, particularly in Wisconsin. One of the loudest advocates in the battleground state, a Republican state lawmaker who is running for governor, wants the Legislature to rescind...
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    News School board incumbents in Miami-Dade facing opponents with state backing, conservative group funding

    Election time is right around the corner, and while school board races usually don’t receive a lot of attention, that may not be the case this year. School board candidate and teacher Sandra Manzieri is kind of an outlier this election. “I’ve see so many things change,” she said. “Kids needs...
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    News Biden presses computer chips case in advance of Senate vote

    Calling semiconductors “the building blocks for the modern economy," President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to move quickly and send him a bipartisan bill designed to boost the computer chips industry and high-tech research in the United States. The Senate was originally expected to take...
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    News Family mourns hardworking father killed by 2 teens in Coral Gables shooting

    For Jorge Romero Gil, family was everything. He was the patriarch, the hero. The reason his wife and daughters were here in the states. “Great father, a lovely father,” said Romero Gil’s daughter, Erika Romero. “A father that works really hard for his family.” Romero said Romero Gil came from...
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    News One South Florida university will be housing several students at hotels this Fall

    Florida Atlantic University will be housing some students off campus at nearby hotels, as the school deals with lack of affordable housing. A Renaissance Hotel, about two miles from the campus will house about 800 students for the upcoming Fall semester. A university spokesman says the school...
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