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    News MSNBC appoints Alex Wagner as 4-night prime-time anchor

    MSNBC on Monday solidified its prime-time lineup by appointing Alex Wagner to fill Rachel Maddow's time slot four nights a week, Tuesday through Friday. Wagner, who has worked at CBS News, as a co-host of Showtime's “The Circus” and as an editor at The Atlantic, is on her second stint at MSNBC...
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    News President Biden meets with key allies at G-7; protests continue after Supreme Court decision

    President Joe Biden met with key allies at the Group of Seven summit on Monday, as protests continue across the nation following the U. S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. The president had a message for the country’s allies to “stay together” against Russia amid their ongoing...
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    News Views on abortion vary in South Florida

    Among the opponents of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade was a group of teenage girls in Weston who were raising funds to support Planned Parenthood. U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart was among the Republicans from Florida who supported the top court’s decision and...
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    News Deputies: Florida man behind bars after caught entering woman’s bedroom

    Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man accused of entering a woman’s bedroom late at night. Deputies responded to the scene on Monday, when the victim, 31, said she was asleep in her bedroom when she woke and saw a stranger standing next to her. According to a police report, the...
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    News Court revives block of vaccine mandate for federal workers

    In a reversal for President Joe Biden, a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Monday agreed to reconsider its own April ruling that allowed the administration to require federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The new order from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New...
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    News DeSantis expands eligibility for Bright Futures scholarships

    Florida high school students applying for the state’s college and vocational school scholarship program will be able to substitute paid work experience for volunteering under a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Students who apply for the Bright Futures program starting in the next school year...
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    News Removed South Dakota AG presses ethics case against Noem

    Former South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, in his first public comments since being removed from office last week, appeared before a state ethics board Monday to press for an investigation of fellow Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, the person he blames for his impeachment over his conduct...
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    News White House to resume its full tour schedule next month

    Public tours of the White House will return to a full operating schedule next month, after nearly a year and a half of disruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Free tours of the executive mansion were suspended when President Joe Biden took office, as officials tightened virus protocols in...
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    News Anonymous donors raise reward money following Broward teen’s shooting death

    A reward for information that leads to the arrest of a 16-year-old boy’s killer has been raised to $17,000 thanks in part to anonymous donors, Broward Crime Stoppers announced on Monday. Crime Stoppers put up $5,000 for the reward and the rest was donated by anonymous donors and the victim’s...
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    News 1 dead, 10 injured as storm pummels southern Dutch city

    One person was killed and about 10 injured Monday as a “weak tornado” ripped through a historic fishing town in the southern Netherlands, tearing the roofs off at least four houses and sending café furniture flying through the streets. Video posted on social media showed a waterspout close to...
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    News Officials: US sending advanced missile systems to Ukraine

    The U.S. is planning to buy and send more medium- to long-range missile systems to Ukraine, a move officials hope will help Ukrainian forces hold onto the last remaining segments of land in the eastern Donbas that Russia has not yet been able to capture. A senior defense official said Monday...
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    News DeSantis expands eligibility for Bright Futures scholarships

    Florida high school students applying for the state’s college and vocational school scholarship program will be able to substitute paid work experience for volunteering under a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Students who apply for the Bright Futures program starting in the next school year...
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    News 'I want my son back': Moroccan's father pleads with Putin

    The father of a Moroccan man facing execution after being captured by Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine appealed Monday to Russian President Vladimir Putin to intervene, “as a father,” to spare his son from the firing squad. “I want my son back, just like any father would,” Taher Saadoun...
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    News Thieves steal trailer filled with expensive tools in Pompano Beach

    Alarms, security devices and cameras did nothing to stop a pair of thieves from stealing a trailer with thousands of dollars’ worth of tools from a local contractor in Pompano Beach. The brazen heist happened Saturday morning outside an industrial warehouse near Powerline Road and Copans Road...
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    News Qatar Energy to cut emissions as methane movement grows

    The state-owned oil and gas company Qatar Energy said Monday it is joining a new industry-led initiative to reduce nearly all methane emissions from operations by 2030. It comes as part of a broader global push to tackle emissions from methane, or natural gas, which is the second most polluting...
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    News Man accused of beating elderly victim at assisted living facility in North Miami Beach

    A 42-year-old man was arrested Sunday on accusations that he beat an elderly man at an assisted living facility in North Miami Beach and then held a knife to the victim’s neck. The incident was reported just before 8 p.m. Sunday at 1590 NE 161st St. According to the suspect’s arrest report...
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    News Planned Parenthood of South among providers disputing Florida’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy

    Planned Parenthood of South, East, and North Florida and other reproductive health care providers are challenging Florida’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy on Monday at a state court in Tallahassee. Attorneys representing Planned Parenthood argued at the Second Judicial Circuit...
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    News Jill Biden has company on trip to Spain

    U.S. first lady Jill Biden has some company on a trip to Spain: two of her granddaughters. Biden opened the visit to Madrid on Monday by meeting with Queen Letizia at the Palacio de la Zarzuela. They later toured the headquarters of the Spanish Association Against Cancer. The first lady is an...
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    News Russian superyacht seized by US arrives in San Diego Bay

    A $325 million superyacht seized by the United States from a sanctioned Russian oligarch arrived in San Diego Bay on Monday. The 348-foot-long (106-meter-long) Amadea flew an American flag as it sailed past the retired aircraft carrier USS Midway and under the Coronado Bridge. “After a...
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    News 2 Subway employees shot during argument about how much mayo was on sandwich

    Two female Subway employees were shot over the weekend all because of too much mayonnaise on a sandwich, authorities said. The shooting took place at a subway in Atlanta on Sunday. According to police, an argument began about the amount of mayonnaise on a customer’s sandwich. Police said the...
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