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    News Splintered Ukrainian city braces for new battle with Russia

    A group of young off-duty Ukrainian soldiers gathered at a military distribution center to enjoy a rare respite from the fighting that has again engulfed their fractured home in eastern Ukraine. As they shared jokes and a pizza, artillery explosions could be heard a few kilometers away — a...
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    News North Korea slams US-South Korea-Japan military cooperation

    North Korea on Sunday slammed the United States, South Korea and Japan for pushing to boost their trilateral military cooperation targeting the North, warning that the move is prompting urgent calls for the country to reinforce its military capability. North Korea has long cited what it calls...
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    News Ricky Martin faces restraining order in Puerto Rico

    A judge has issued a restraining order against Puerto Rican superstar Ricky Martin, police said Saturday. The order was signed Friday, and authorities visited an upscale neighborhood in the north coastal town of Dorado where the singer lives to try to serve the order, police spokesman Axel...
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    News Man found at Taylor Swift properties faces stalking charges

    A 35-year-old New York man is facing trespassing and stalking charges after authorities said he entered two New York City residences linked to the famed singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Police say the suspect, who was arrested Friday, entered one of the residential buildings, located in the...
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    News Flamethrower used to torch Pan-African flag flying on pole

    A person used a flamethrower to set fire to a Pan-African flag flying on a pole outside the headquarters of a Black international socialist group based in Florida. Security video released by the Uhuru Movement shows the driver of a white sedan pulling up outside the group’s St. Petersburg...
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    News Clevelander Hotel employee’s accused killer faces judge

    A North Miami man accused of shooting and killing a worker at a well-known South Beach hotel faced a Miami-Dade County judge Saturday. The judge ordered Brandon Kortez Burris, 29, be held without bond on a second-degree murder charge in the death of Dion David Moore, 50, at the Clevelander...
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    News BSO: 10-year-old boy drowns in Lauderdale Lakes

    Deputies are investigating the death of a 10-year-old boy who drowned in Lauderdale Lakes Saturday morning, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. BSO spokesperson Carey Codd said the agency received a 911 call reporting a drowning in the 4500 block of Northwest 32nd Court just after 9 a.m...
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    News Texas clinics halt abortions after state high court ruling

    Clinics were shutting down abortion services in the nation's second-largest state Saturday after Texas' Supreme Court blocked an order briefly allowing the procedure to resume in some cases, the latest in legal scrambles taking place across the United States following the reversal of reversal of...
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    News Palestinians give bullet that killed journalist to US team

    The Palestinian Authority on Saturday said it has given the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to American forensic experts, taking a step toward resolving a standoff with Israel over the investigation into her death. Abu Akleh, a veteran correspondent who was well known...
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    News Google to erase more location info as abortion bans expand

    Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies. The company behind the internet's dominant internet search...
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    News Hard Rock deal ends casino strike threat in Atlantic City

    The Hard Rock casino reached agreement with Atlantic City's main casino workers union on Saturday, removing the last threat of a strike during the busy holiday weekend and clearing the way for the gambling halls and their workers to concentrate on bouncing back from financial losses during the...
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    News High court marshal seeks enforcement of anti-picketing laws

    The Marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court has asked Maryland officials to step up the enforcement of laws she says prohibit picketing outside the homes of the justices who live in the state. “For weeks on end, large groups of protesters chanting slogans, using bullhorns, and banging drums have...
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    News Actress Lindsay Lohan celebrates birthday as married woman

    Actress Lindsay Lohan is celebrating her 36th birthday on Saturday as a married woman. The “Freaky Friday” star said she was the “luckiest woman in the world” in an Instagram post Friday that pictured her with financier Bader Shammas, who had been her fiance. “I am stunned that you are my...
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    News Uvalde schools' police chief resigns from City Council

    The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Chief Pete Arredondo...
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    News Tesla's 2Q sales drop amid supply chain, pandemic problems

    Tesla's sales from April through June fell to their lowest quarterly level since last fall as supply chain issues and pandemic restrictions in China hobbled production of its electric vehicles. The company on Saturday disclosed it sold more than 254,000 cars and SUVs from April through June, an...
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    News Musk meets pope, uses Twitter to announce the audience

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose $44 billion bid to buy Twitter remains in limbo, used the social media platform to announce he had met with Pope Francis. “Honored to meet @Pontifex yesterday,” Musk tweeted of the Friday afternoon audience, alongside a photo showing Musk, Francis and four of Musk’s...
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    News 2-year-old boy drowns in Florida canal, police say

    A two-year-old boy drowned in a canal outside a west central Florida apartment complex Friday morning, police said. According to a Facebook post by the Bradenton Police Department, a witness called 911 just after 10:30 a.m. to report what appeared to be a child floating in the canal behind an...
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    News Afghan clerics' assembly urges recognition of Taliban govt

    A three-day assembly of Islamic clerics and tribal elders in the Afghan capital concluded Saturday with pledges of support for the Taliban and calls on the international community to recognize the country's Taliban-led government. The meeting in Kabul was tailored along the lines of...
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    News Holiday getaway pushes US airport traffic to pandemic high

    The Fourth of July holiday weekend is providing further evidence that the travel bug is at its most infectious levels since the pandemic began in 2020. About 2.49 million passengers went through security checkpoints at U.S. airports Friday, surpassing the previous pandemic-era record of 2.46...
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    News 18 Cuban migrants arrive in Key West on homemade boat

    18 Cuban migrants arrived near a Key West marina in a homemade boat early Saturday morning, an official said. Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, who heads the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami sector, tweeted that the migrants landed near Conch Harbor Marina. Agents took the migrants into custody...
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