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    News Trump's lasting legacy grows as Supreme Court overturns Roe

    President Joe Biden rarely mentions his predecessor by name. But as he spoke to a nation processing a seismic shift in the rights of women, he couldn't ignore Donald Trump's legacy. “It was three justices named by one president — Donald Trump — who were the core of today's decision to upend the...
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    News Woman faces judge following arrest for stealing car with infant inside

    Authorities have made an arrest in a startling case of a stolen vehicle. Officers spent several weeks searching for the suspect who stole a car with a nine-month-old baby inside. On Thursday, police arrested Jeanette Munoz for the crime. She appeared before a Miami-Dade judge for the first...
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    News Man charged after alleged incident with gun outside Wilton Manors bar

    Police in Fort Lauderdale arrested a man accused of threatening a security guard with a gun. The incident happened outside a bar in Wilton Manors. According to police, 45-year-old Kenneth Justesen was taken into custody Friday night outside the Gym Sportsbar. It is located on Wilton Drive and...
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    News Iran launches rocket into space as nuclear talks to resume

    Iranian state television said Sunday that Tehran had launched a solid-fueled rocket into space, drawing a rebuke from Washington ahead of the expected resumption of stalled talks over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers. It's unclear when or where the rocket was launched, but the...
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    News Invest 94L organizing as it races toward the Caribbean, not a concern for now for South Florida

    We continue to monitor two areas for potential development in the tropics this morning, but neither is a concern for South Florida at this time. Invest 94L in the far eastern Atlantic has the highest chance of developing into a tropical depression or tropical storm over the next five days. The...
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    News Prince Charles denies any wrongdoing over bags-of-cash claim

    Prince Charles' office has denied there was any wrongdoing in the heir to the British throne accepting bags full of cash as charity donations from a Qatari politician. The Sunday Times said the prince was given a total of 3 million euros ($3.2 million) by Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al...
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    News Did corporate greed fuel inflation? It's not biggest culprit

    Furious about surging prices at the gasoline station and the supermarket, many consumers feel they know just where to cast blame: On greedy companies that relentlessly jack up prices and pocket the profits. Responding to that sentiment, the Democratic-led House of Representatives last month...
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    News Illinois governor's race is also battle among billionaires

    The race to be Illinois' next governor is also a battle among billionaires, including two whose names won't appear on Tuesday's primary ballot. Republican candidates Darren Bailey, who as a state lawmaker fought pandemic measures such as mask mandates, and former prosecutor Richard Irvin, the...
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    News Pride parades march on with new urgency

    Parades celebrating LGBTQ pride kick off in some of America's biggest cities Sunday amid new fears about the potential erosion of freedoms won through decades of activism. The annual marches in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and elsewhere take place just two days after one conservative...
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    News Norway mourns victims of Oslo shooting with memorial service

    Norway's prime minister and members of the royal family joined mourners at a memorial service in Oslo Cathedral Sunday for the victims of a shooting in the capital's nightlife district. A gunman opened fire in central Oslo’s bar area early Saturday, killing two people — a man in his 50s and and...
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    News 2 GOP congressmen in Mississippi at risk of defeat in runoff

    Congressional primary runoffs with incumbents are rare in Mississippi. This year, two of the state's Republican representatives are fighting to keep their jobs in runoffs against challengers from their own party. U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo is seeking a seventh term and was considered vulnerable...
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    News Senior US officials visit Sri Lanka to help resolve crisis

    Senior U.S. officials arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday to find ways to help the island nation in the throes of an unprecedented economic crisis and severe shortages of essential supplies, as the energy minister warned that new fuel shipments would be delayed. The U.S. over the past two weeks has...
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    News Paul McCartney wows Glastonbury with Dave Grohl and The Boss

    Paul McCartney’s Glastonbury Festival show was two years late. Fans thought it was worth the wait. The former Beatle pulled out all the stops — and brought on big-name rock’n’roll guest stars — for a 2½-hour concert at the southwest England festival on Saturday night. McCartney was due to play...
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    News Explorers find WWII Navy destroyer, deepest wreck discovered

    A U.S. Navy destroyer that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of World War II in the Philippines has become the deepest wreck to be discovered, according to explorers. The USS Samuel B. Roberts, popularly known as the “Sammy B," was identified on Wednesday broken into...
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    News Destruction everywhere, help scarce after Afghanistan quake

    When the ground heaved from last week’s earthquake in Afghanistan, Nahim Gul’s stone-and-mud house collapsed on top of him. He clawed through the rubble in the pre-dawn darkness, choking on dust as he searched for his father and two sisters. He doesn't know how many hours of digging passed...
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    News Carpe diem: In Ukraine, war turning love into marriages

    When the couple awoke to the rumble of war on Feb. 24, they'd been dating for just over a year. Russia was invading and Ihor Zakvatskyi knew there was no more time to lose. He fished out the engagement ring he'd bought but, until then, not yet been ready to give to Kateryna Lytvynenko and...
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    News Live updates | Ukraine war looms large at annual G-7 summit

    The Latest on the G-7 summit, the annual meeting of the leading democratic economies, which this year is being held in Germany's Bavarian Alps: U.S. President Joe Biden has arrived in Germany’s Bavarian alps for the annual meeting of the leading democratic economies, with the war in Ukraine and...
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    News As summit host, Spain urges NATO to watch its southern flank

    While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certain to dominate an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid, Spain and other member nations are quietly pushing the Western alliance to consider how mercenaries aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin are spreading Moscow's influence to Africa. As the host...
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    News Survivors recount Mali's deadliest attack since coup

    Moussa Tolofidie didn’t think twice when nearly 100 jihadis on motorbikes gathered in his village in central Mali last week. A peace agreement signed last year between some armed groups and the community in the Bankass area had largely held, even if the gunmen would sometimes enter the town to...
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    News A ‘sucker punch’: Some women fear setback to hard-won rights

    At 88, Gloria Steinem has long been the nation’s most visible feminist and advocate for women’s rights. But at 22, she was a frightened American in London getting an illegal abortion of a pregnancy so unwanted, she actually tried to throw herself down the stairs to end it. Her response to the...
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