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    News Emmett Till accuser, in memoir, denies wanting teen killed

    The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 says she neither identified him to the killers nor wanted him murdered. In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press, Carolyn Bryant Donham says she was...
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    News Caught on Camera: Men pull rabbi from his car, attack him in front of his young son

    South Florida’s Jewish community is sending their support to a rabbi, who was beaten in front of his five-year-old son in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn. Surveillance video shows the moments when a suspect cut Yossie Hershkop off in traffic, pulled him from his car and began beating...
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    News US study says cocaine production remains high in Colombia

    Cocaine production in Colombia remained near record levels in 2021, according to estimates released on Thursday by the White House, raising the stakes for bilateral cooperation between the United States and Colombia’s next administration. President-elect Gustavo Petro has promised to rethink...
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    News Fed ethics inquiry clears Powell and Clarida trades

    The Federal Reserve's inspector general concluded Thursday that financial trades made several years ago by Chair Jerome Powell and Richard Clarida, then the vice chair, did not violate any laws or ethics rules. “We did not find evidence to substantiate the allegations that former Vice Chair...
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    News Video shows women stealing $10,000 in jewelry, police say

    Detectives are searching for two women who are suspects in a series of jewelry thefts in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Surveillance video shows them stealing from a kiosk at the Coral Square Mall, at 9469 W. Atlantic Blvd., in Coral Springs, police said. The kiosk vendor accused the two...
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    News 2 injured during car crash in Miami Gardens

    A child was among the injured after a car crash on Thursday in Miami Gardens. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the intersection of Northwest 183 Street and 22 Avenue. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel picks up a child injured on Thursday in Miami Gardens. Fire Rescue personnel...
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    News Ivana Trump, first wife of former president, dies at 73

    Ivana Trump, who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has died in New York City, her family announced Thursday. She was 73. “I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which...
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    News 1 million pills with fentanyl seized in record bust near LA

    One million pills containing fentanyl were seized during a raid near Los Angeles this month in what the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration called largest bust of its kind in California. The pills were found when agents served a search warrant July 5 at a home in Inglewood that investigators...
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    News US solicits help as it defines old growth and mature forests

    U.S. officials on Thursday solicited outside help as they craft definitions of old growth and mature forests under an executive order from President Joe Biden. The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management issued a notice seeking public input for a “universal definition framework” to...
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    News Ivana Trump, first wife of former president, has died

    Ivana Trump, the first wife of Donald Trump, has died in New York City, the former president announced on social media Thursday. “I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City,” Trump posted on...
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    News Amazon handed Ring footage to police without user consent

    Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission, a revelation that’s bound to raise more privacy and civil liberty concerns about its video-sharing agreements with police departments across the country. The disclosure came in a...
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    News Clintons interview Kim Kardashian, Steinem on Apple TV+ show

    Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, will interview the likes of Kim Kardashian, Megan Thee Stallion and Gloria Steinem for a streaming series that debuts in two months. Apple TV+ said Thursday that “Gutsy” will debut on its service on Sept. 9. In the eight-part series, the former...
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    News EXPLAINER: How gestational age plays a role in abortion laws

    The abortion bans taking effect after the nation's highest court overturned Roe v. Wade vary greatly in how they define when a pregnancy can be ended. Some laws prohibit abortion at the point of the “first detectable heartbeat" while others restrict abortion at 15, 22 or 24 weeks of pregnancy...
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    News Ashes of 8,000 WWII victims found in two Poland mass graves

    Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by the Nazis during World War II in forest executions that the Nazis later tried to hide by incinerating the bodies and planting trees on the burial pits. Investigators from a...
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    News WHO: COVID-19 cases rise for the 5th week, deaths stable

    The number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide rose for the fifth week in a row while the number of deaths remained relatively stable, the World Health Organization reported Thursday. In the U.N. health agency’s weekly review of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO said there were 5.7 million new...
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    News GOP governors mulling 2024 run aren't rushing abortion laws

    Gov. Kristi Noem had pledged to “immediately” call a special legislative session to “guarantee that every unborn child has a right to life in South Dakota” if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. But nearly three weeks after that ruling, the first-term Republican remains unusually...
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    News Officials suggest pipeline company hid problems after spill

    U.S. prosecutors suspect a Wyoming company of potentially concealing problems with a pipeline that broke in 2015 and spilled more than 50,000 gallons (240,000 liters) of crude into Montana’s Yellowstone River, fouling a small city’s drinking water supply, court filings show. The government is...
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    News Schumer readies vote on scaled-back computer chips bill

    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is telling senators to expect an initial vote as early as Tuesday on scaled-back legislation that would provide grants, tax credits and other financial incentives for companies that build semiconductor manufacturing plants in the U.S. Both the House and...
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    News Portion of US 1 shut down in Fort Lauderdale as police serve search warrant

    Police shut down a portion of US 1 in Fort Lauderdale Thursday afternoon as they served a search warrant at a motel, officials confirmed to Local 10 News. Sky 10 was over the scene just before 3 p.m., where traffic was shut down in the area of Southeast 17th and 20th Streets. Police officers...
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    News Arrest sought of Colorado clerk in voting tampering case

    An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for a Colorado clerk indicted on charges of tampering with voting equipment after she allegedly traveled out of state despite a court order not to do so, according to court documents. A judge revoked bond for Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters after District...
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