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    News NATO chief speaks with Erdogan about Finland, Sweden joining

    NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has met with Finland’s prime minister and spoken to Turkey’s president as he seeks to overcome Turkish resistance to Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. Stoltenberg, who visited Washington this week, tweeted late Friday that he met with Finnish Prime...
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    News As Ukraine loses troops, how long can it keep up the fight?

    As soon as they had finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next hole. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, the empty grave won't stay that way for long. Col. Oleksandr Makhachek left behind a...
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    News Pageant participants in queen's jubilee celebrate diverse UK

    As designer Clary Salandy pushes open the kitchen door at a nondescript community center in west London, her visitors pause, astonished by what they find. A dozen giraffe heads, crafted in shades of orange and brown with top hats and flowing eyelashes, smile in a tidy row atop the...
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    News In eastern Ukraine, keeping the lights on is a dangerous job

    As the fighting in eastern Ukraine inches forward, Russian attacks are knocking out power, water and gas to entire towns and cities — and the utility crews sent to repair the smashed transmission lines and pipes are finding themselves in the middle of the shelling. Crews sometimes arrive at a...
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    News Abu Dhabi hosts a pandemic-delayed Bollywood awards ceremony

    Indian celebrities and Bollywood stars walked a green carpet at the start of the International Indian Film Academy awards in Abu Dhabi. The Friday night ceremony had been twice canceled in the last two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the famous of Bollywood arrived in the capital of...
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    News Police patrol Hong Kong park amid Tiananmen vigil ban

    Dozens of police officers patrolled Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on Saturday after authorities for a third consecutive year banned public commemoration of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. For decades, an annual candlelight vigil would be held in the park to remember...
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    News China plans to complete space station with latest mission

    China is preparing to launch a new three-person mission to complete work on its permanent orbiting space station, the country's China Manned Space Agency said Saturday. The Shenzhou 14 crew will spend six months on the Tiangong station, during which they will oversee the addition of two...
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    News Online pro-gun extremism: 'Cool for active shooter stuff'

    The young man in the jeans and sunglasses proudly shows off his gun in the YouTube video, then instructs his 1 million subscribers how to fit an extra clip in his gun belt, and offers a chilling observation. “Pretty cool for active shooter stuff, if you need extra mags.” It’s a typical video...
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    News Man held in attack on doctor, nurses at California hospital

    A man stabbed a doctor and two nurses inside a Southern California hospital emergency ward and remained inside a room for hours before police arrested him, authorities said. The man walked into Encino Hospital Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, Los Angeles...
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    News Doctor, nurses stabbed at California hospital; man arrested

    A man stabbed a doctor and two nurses inside a Southern California hospital emergency ward on Friday and remained inside a room for hours before police arrested him, authorities said. The man walked into Encino Hospital Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley shortly before 4 p.m., Los...
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    News Parts of South Florida experiencing some flooding as tropical system nears South Florida

    Standing water was spotted in parts of Broward County Friday evening as a tropical system neared South Florida. The standing water was mostly found in lower-lying areas, and the rain is expected to continue overnight into Saturday morning. A rain-soaked Broward County is dealing with the...
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    News Firm proposes Taser-armed drones to stop school shootings

    Taser developer Axon said this week it is working to build drones armed with the electric stunning weapons that could fly in schools and “help prevent the next Uvalde, Sandy Hook, or Columbine.” But its own technology advisers quickly panned the idea as a dangerous fantasy. The publicly traded...
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    News Woman testifies Cosby forcibly kissed her when she was 14

    A woman testified Friday that she was 14 when Bill Cosby took her into a trailer on a movie set in 1975, grabbed her so she couldn't move her arms, and kissed her. “I was struggling to get away,” she said. “It was very shocking.” The woman, now 61, told her story in a public venue for the...
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    News Florida man killed in Colorado avalanche identified

    Authorities have released the name of a man who was killed in a rock fall and avalanche that also injured two other climbers at Rocky Mountain National Park. The Boulder County coroner’s office identified the victim Friday as 25-year-old Christopher Clark, of Land O’ Lakes, Florida. Two New...
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    News Somerset Academy: Principal’s guns weren’t meant to make it into school

    A closed box containing two guns was accidentally taken out of the trunk of the Somerset Parkland Academy principal’s car and brought inside the school on Thursday, according to a statement that was sent out from the school’s governing board. According to the statement, items that were unloaded...
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    News The Latest: Local 10′s Nicole Perez in London at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

    In their first public appearance in London after stepping back from royal duties, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reunited with the rest of the royal family on Friday. Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, followed by Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, and Camilla, the Duchess...
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    News Activists say cyber agency weakens voting tech advisory

    The nation’s leading cybersecurity agency released a final version Friday of an advisory it previously sent state officials on voting machine vulnerabilities in Georgia and other states that voting integrity activists say weakens a security recommendation on using barcodes to tally votes. The...
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    News Transgender youth treatment under fire in Florida again

    Florida health officials have asked the state medical board to draft new policies that would likely restrict gender dysphoria treatments for transgender youth as the state amps up its ongoing attacks on the treatments amid the country's culture wars. The officials are also arguing that such...
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    News McCormick concedes to Oz in Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary

    Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick conceded the Republican primary in Pennsylvania for U.S. Senate to celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, ending his campaign Friday night as he acknowledged an ongoing statewide recount wouldn't give him enough votes to make up the deficit. McCormick said...
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    News Young South Florida artist wins prize for ‘stellar’ artwork

    A very talented South Florida fifth grader has won an “out of this world” prize for her artwork. Kylie Lopez, a student at Maplewood Elementary School in Broward County, won the 2022 Florida Space Art Contest. The artist has won the privilege of having her artwork flown on a upcoming Space X...
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