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    News Capitol Hill riot hearings take to prime-time television

    Cameras are set up in place on Capitol Hill for a prime-time event, which is the high-stakes hearing of the Jan. 6 riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol. At the hearing, never-before-seen video will be revealed, which lawmakers said will show how President Donald Trump and his allies...
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    News A look at high-profile killings by US police

    A Michigan police officer has been charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head as the Black man was on the ground. The charges against Grand Rapids Officer Christopher Schurr come weeks after Lyoya was killed on April 4 during an intense physical...
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    News Man grateful to be alive after Lauderhill fire destroys Corvette, spreads to home

    A Lauderhill man feels lucky to be alive after a fire quickly spread from his carport to his Lauderhill home last Friday. At around 1 p.m., John Jackson said his prized Corvette caught fire, spreading to his carport and then the rest of his home on the 400 block of Northwest 39th Avenue. “I...
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    News NLRB denies Amazon's ask to close union hearing to public

    A federal labor board has denied Amazon's request to bar the public from a hearing on the company's bid to overturn a historic union win at one of its Staten Island, New York, warehouses. Hearings by the National Labor Relations Board are typically held in person and open to the public. But the...
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    News Sriracha hot sauce maker warns of shortage

    Bottles of the popular Sriracha hot sauce could be hard to find on store shelves this summer. Southern California-based Huy Fong Inc., told customers in an email earlier this year that it would suspend sales of its famous spicy sauce over the summer due to a shortage of chili peppers. The...
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    News If victim was younger, man accused of masturbating in front of teen would have faced felony charges

    Luis Rodriguez had nothing to say to a Broward County judge Thursday, as he faced a misdemeanor charge of exposing himself after a 16-year-old girl told police he masturbated in front of her at a Pembroke Pines bus stop. Prosecutors said Rodriguez, 25, would have been charged with a felony sex...
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    News Paladino: Saying Hitler 'kind of leader we need' was mistake

    Carl Paladino, a Republican running for Congress in western New York, said Thursday he was wrong to invoke Adolf Hitler when he said in an interview last year he was “the kind of leader we need today” because of his ability to rally crowds. It was the second time this week that Paladino had to...
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    News Paying for guest parking at an apartment complex? It’s about to happen

    Some residents in a South Florida apartment complex can’t believe their management company is planning to gouge their guests. We’ve all seen those Pay to Park signs at the beach or downtown but inside an apartment complex? At Axis at One Pine, at the corner of Pine Island Road and Broward...
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    News Michigan officer charged with murder in Lyoya shooting

    A prosecutor filed a second-degree murder charge Thursday against the Michigan police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man who was on the ground when he was shot in the back of the head following an intense physical struggle recorded on a bystander's phone. Kent County prosecutor Chris...
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    News Salvadoran leader rebuffs Blinken effort to bolster summit

    It was the sort of diplomatic rebuff a small country like El Salvador generally can rarely afford to make. In the run-up to this week's Summit of Americas in Los Angeles, senior U.S. officials frantically worked the phones seeking to boost attendance amid threats of a boycott from Mexico's...
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    News Feds say Navarro lied about being denied call to lawyer

    The Justice Department on Thursday pushed back on an assertion from former Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who had claimed he was denied access to an attorney when he was arrested on contempt charges last week. In a court filing, the Justice Department alleged that Navarro lied to the...
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    News Justice Barrett's $425K tops among Supreme Court's authors

    Supreme Court justices took in $800,000 in book royalties last year, a lucrative supplement to their judicial salaries, according to financial reports released Thursday. By far the largest payment went to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, $425,000 for a yet-to-be-released book and likely the first...
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    News Justices allow counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania

    The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time. The unsigned order Thursday applies to a Lehigh County judicial election from 2021. But Justice Samuel Alito warned in a dissent that the issue...
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    News Someone stole a mail truck from Hollywood and the postal service wants it back

    A U.S. Postal Service truck was stolen from a post office in West Hollywood Hills and there’s a reward of up to $10,000 for information on who swiped the truck, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The USPS Grumman Long Life Vehicle was taken from the West Hollywood Hills Post...
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    News EXPLAINER: A look at far-right extremists in Jan. 6 riot

    The first public hearing of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is expected to spotlight two far-right extremist groups whose members are accused of plotting for weeks to stop the peaceful transfer of power. Top leaders and members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers...
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    News Flash flood warning in effect until 5 p.m. for parts of Broward County

    The National Weather Service in Miami has issued a flash flood warning for southern Broward County until 5 p.m. At 1:49 p.m., the city of Hollywood emergency management reported thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the area. Up to 5 inches of rain is expected in the warned area and flash...
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    News Ex-employee accused of setting fires in Miami-Dade warehouse, causing $1M in damage

    A former employee of a northwest Miami-Dade County furniture warehouse is facing arson and burglary charges after investigators said he set multiple fires to the business after he was terminated. Damage caused by the fire is upwards of $1 million, according to Miami-Dade Police. Miami-Dade...
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    News Free program in Miami teaches how to help in an emergency

    With a busy hurricane season ahead, a program in Miami is aimed at getting more hands on deck during an emergency. Citizens can now learn how to help first responders by joining the Community Emergency Response Team or CERT. Volunteers are enrolled in a three-day course that teaches them CPR...
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    News Double whammy: Both farmers and consumers hit by high prices

    Food import bills will reach a record high this year and food markets are likely to tighten around the world, according to a glum new forecast by a U.N. food agency. The Food Outlook, issued twice a year by the Food and Agriculture Organization, also found that “many vulnerable countries are...
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    News Migrants split on whether to keep walking through Mexico

    A group of migrants that once numbered as many as 5,000 split on Thursday about whether to keeping walking through southern Mexico toward the U.S. border. A group of about 2,000 mainly younger male migrants set out walking Thursday from the southern town of Huixtla. But throngs of families...
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