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    News Australia, New Zealand say Pacific must discuss China

    Australia and New Zealand’s prime ministers agreed Friday that the security implications of China’s burgeoning influence must be discussed at a meeting of western Pacific leaders next week. The neighboring countries are the wealthiest in the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum whose leaders will...
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    News Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat as hajj reaches apex

    Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Friday, an intense day of worship considered to be the climax of the annual hajj. Multitudes stood shoulder to...
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    News Governors offer Democrats aggressive reply on guns, abortion

    Hours after a gunman killed seven people at a July 4th parade in suburban Chicago, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker tapped into the frustration of many fellow Democrats at the seeming inability of the U.S. to curb gun violence. “If you’re angry today, I’m here to tell you: Be angry. I’m furious,”...
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    News Inflation, expenses rise sharply as priorities: AP-NORC poll

    Concerns about inflation and personal finances have surged while COVID has evaporated as a top issue for Americans, a new poll shows, marking an upheaval in priorities just months before critical midterm elections. Forty percent of U.S. adults specifically name inflation in an open-ended...
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    News China demands end to US-Taiwan military 'collusion'

    China has demanded the U.S. cease military “collusion” with Taiwan during a virtual meeting between the joint chiefs of staff from the two countries whose relationship has grown increasingly fractious. Gen. Li Zuocheng told Gen. Mark Milley on Thursday that China had “no room for compromise” on...
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    News Biden to visit CIA as intelligence plays key role in Ukraine

    President Joe Biden will visit the CIA Friday at a time when his administration’s support for Ukraine has pushed the work of the normally secretive intelligence agencies into the limelight. Biden will commemorate the agency's 75th anniversary since its founding after World War II. While at the...
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    News Noise cameras may help enforce new state law against loud music and vehicles in Miami Beach

    Blaring loud music from a car along South Beach could soon be a thing of the past. In conjunction with a new state law against loud music, the city of Miami Beach is launching its own pilot program to help turn down the noise. The new state law allows police departments and cities to fine...
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    News Services planned Friday for 3 Highland Park parade victims

    Memorial services and funerals for three of the seven people killed when a gunman opened fire on a July 4 parade are scheduled Friday, the first formal opportunity to grieve the deaths of two beloved grandfathers and a former synagogue preschool teacher shot Monday during the annual event in the...
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    News Hallandale Beach Burger King ordered shut after video of rodent inside goes viral

    Viral video of a rodent running around a South Florida restaurant kitchen was posted by a former employee. He told Local 10 News’ Jeff Weinsier that he recorded it because his bosses refused to address the situation. The video was taken at the Burger King at 1030 West Hallandale Beach...
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    News Large police presence responds to Sunrise home of man arrested for shooting at Coral Springs hospital

    A large police presence was called to the home of the man arrested for shooting at a Coral Springs hospital. Both Sunrise police and Broward Sheriff’s Office vehicles were seen crowding the block of Northwest 39th Street in Sunrise late Thursday night, where the home was located. According to...
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    News UN sets new meeting amid impasse on aid to Syria's northwest

    The U.N. Security Council has called a meeting for Friday after having to put off a vote on extending humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey when no compromise could be reach on how long it would run. Russia, one of the council's five members with veto power...
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    News Hawaii museum revisits history of gender-fluid healers

    More than 500 years ago, Hawaiians placed four boulders on a Waikiki beach to honor visitors from the court of Tahiti’s king who had healed the sick. They were “mahu,” which in Hawaiian language and culture refers to someone with dual male and female spirit and a mixture of gender traits. The...
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    News Beijing appears to retract vaccine mandate after pushback

    The Chinese capital Beijing appears to have backed off a plan to launch a vaccine mandate for entry into certain public spaces after pushback from residents. While not explicitly saying it had dropped the plan, a city official was quoted in state media late Thursday saying that people could...
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    News Japan ex-leader Abe reportedly shot during campaign speech

    Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe collapsed and was bleeding after apparently being shot during a campaign speech in western Japan, NHK public television said Friday. NHK says Abe was bleeding when he collapsed and was rushed to a hospital. Witnesses reported hearing gunshots in the...
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    News Facing pressure, Biden to sign order on abortion access

    President Joe Biden will take executive action Friday to protect access to abortion, according to three people familiar with the matter, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks...
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    News UN delays vote on aid to Syria's northwest from Turkey

    The U.N. Security Council delayed Thursday’s expected vote on extending humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey after failing to reach a compromise on how long it would run. Russia, which is one of the veto-wielding members, is demanding an extension of only six...
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    News G20 diplomats face unity headwinds on Ukraine, war's impact

    Top diplomats from the world’s richest and largest developing nations are confronting multiple crises as they open talks beset by sharp divisions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its impacts on food and energy security, along with climate change, endemic poverty and the lingering effects of...
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    News 'New normal' for 8-year-old twin wounded in July 4 shooting

    Sports-loving Cooper Roberts and his 8-year-old twin brother, Luke, loved the Fourth of July parade in their bucolic Chicago suburb. But now the family is envisioning a “new normal" for Cooper who was struck in the chest in a hail of gunfire that left dozens of others wounded and seven dead...
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    News Parkland school shooter’s defense tries to limit evidence shown to jurors

    Pre-trial hearings continued in the Broward County death penalty case of the Parkland school shooter. At issue during the hearing on Thursday were about 450 photographs and videos in evidence that Nikolas Cruz’s defense attorneys do not want the jury to see. The defense was concerned that the...
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    News Book, Sharief face off in Broward County for Florida Senate District 25 primary

    Two experienced women have been campaigning to be the Democratic candidate to run for the Florida Senate District 25 in Broward County. Florida Sen. Lauren Book, the Senate’s minority leader, and Barbara Sharief, a former Broward commissioner, are both preparing to run in the primary election...
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