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    News Woman sentenced for killing teen in Miami crash after taking drugs

    A South Florida woman accepted a plea deal and will serve 15 years in state prison for killing a 15-year-old boy in a crash while she was under the influence of Fentanyl and cocaine, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Catherine Capozzi’s sentence will be followed by two years of community control...
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    News French parliament opens new era, after Macron lost majority

    France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday opened its first session since President Emmanuel Macron's party lost its majority, and is expected to elect a woman as speaker for the first time. Legislative elections earlier this month shook up France’s political landscape. Macron’s centrist...
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    News Cassidy Hutchinson, Trump White House aide, now in spotlight

    Two years after completing a White House summer internship, Cassidy Hutchinson was in the room where the president's top aides debated how they could overturn his election loss. Hutchinson, 25, who served as a top aide to Mark Meadows, chief of staff to President Donald Trump, is scheduled to...
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    News NTSB investigators look into fatal Missouri Amtrak accident

    Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board were in Missouri Tuesday trying to determine how an Amtrak train carrying more than 200 people slammed into a dump truck, killing two train passengers and the truck driver. Amtrak’s Southwest Chief was traveling from Los Angeles to...
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    News Scottish leader calls for new independence vote next year

    Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told lawmakers in Edinburgh Tuesday that she plans to hold a fresh referendum on Scotland's independence on Oct. 19, 2023. Sturgeon said the question to be asked will be the same as that in Scotland’s first independence vote in 2014: “Should Scotland be...
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    News 48 migrants die after trailer abandoned in Texas heat

    Forty-eight people died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer in the sweltering Texas heat, one of the worst tragedies to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S. Sixteen people were hospitalized, including four children. A city worker heard a cry for...
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    News US consumers less confident as anxiety over future grows

    U.S. consumers were less confident again in June as persistent inflation and rising interest rates have Americans as pessimistic as they've been about the future in almost a decade. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index slipped to 98.7 in June from 103.2 in May...
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    News MDPD seeks more victims of longtime fraudster accused of stealing from cancer patient

    Miami-Dade police asked more victims of a longtime fraudster, who already stands accused of stealing nearly a half-million dollars from a cancer patient, to come forward Tuesday morning. Police said Ana Maria Nunez, 65, convinced a small group of people to invest money into a nonexistent...
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    News Charges spiked against ex-governor, 8 others in Flint water

    A judge had no authority to issue indictments in the Flint water scandal, the Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday in an extraordinary decision that wipes out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and seven other people. It’s an astonishing defeat for Attorney General Dana...
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    News Family announces lawsuit after woman killed in parasailing accident

    The attorneys for the family of a woman who was killed last month in a parasailing accident off the coast of Marathon is holding a news conference Tuesday to announce that they are filing a lawsuit against the parasail operator. “The boat captain allowed the group to parasail in terrible...
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    News Yacht of wealthiest Russian oligarch docked in haven Dubai

    The man considered to be the wealthiest oligarch in Russia, who has been photographed playing ice hockey with President Vladimir Putin, joins a growing list of those transferring — or, sailing — their prized assets to Dubai as the West tightens its massive sanctions program on Russia’s economy...
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    News Potential Tropical Cyclone 2 forecast to become Bonnie

    Latest update on the tropics provided by Local 10 News Hurricane Specialist and Storm Surge Expert Michael Lowry. The strong disturbance we’ve been tracking through the middle Atlantic – previously Invest 94L – was designated Potential Tropical Cyclone Two by the National Hurricane Center at 5...
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    News Fire kills 49 following riot attempt at prison in Colombia

    A fire at a prison in southwestern Colombia has killed at least 49 people and injured a dozen more, prison authorities reported Tuesday. The director of the national prison system, Tito Castellanos, told Radio Caracol that it's not clear if all of the dead were prisoners. He said inmates had...
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    News Folk Art Museum offers donors naming rights to CEO's title

    The American Folk Art Museum, unlike many other arts institutions, managed to avoid layoffs and other cutbacks in the two years after the pandemic through a mix of fundraisers and increased donor contributions. On Tuesday, the museum plans to announce its largest and most unusual recent gift —...
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    News Hinckley says he's sorry for shooting that wounded Reagan

    The man who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981 apologized for his actions Tuesday and said that he doesn't remember the emotions he was feeling when he fired the shots that also wounded three others. John Hinckley Jr., who was freed from all court oversight earlier this month...
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    News 10-year-old boy reported missing in Tamarac

    The Broward Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit is searching for a 10-year-old boy from Tamarac who has been reported missing. According to detectives, Albert James was last seen around 8:30 p.m. Monday in the 8300 block of Sands Point Boulevard. James is 5 feet tall and weighs about 100...
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    News NATO summit to open as leader warns of 'dangerous' world

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a “fundamental shift” in NATO’s approach to defense, and member states will have to boost their military spending in an increasingly unstable world, the leader of the alliance said Tuesday. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg spoke as U.S. President Joe...
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    News EXPLAINER: Why are Dutch farmers protesting over emissions?

    Farmers protested around the Netherlands as lawmakers voted Tuesday on proposals to slash emissions of damaging pollutants, a plan that will likely force farmers to cut their livestock herds or stop work altogether. The government says emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock...
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    News Police have no leads months after fatal hit-and-run crash in Plantation, family says

    The family of a 31-year-old man who was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Plantation earlier this year are still seeking answers as to who is responsible for their loved one’s death. The mother of Mark Manco told Local 10 News that Plantation police have no leads at this time. “Mark was a sweet...
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    News Navalny appeal rejected; another Kremlin critic jailed

    A Russian court has rejected an appeal by imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who contended that prison authorities illegally prevented his lawyers from bringing necessary equipment including voice recorders and laptop computers to a court session held in a prison. Navalny testified at...
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