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    News Trial tied to Russia probe ends with debate: Did lawyer lie?

    A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign hid his partisan interests from the FBI as he pushed “pure opposition research” related to Donald Trump and Russia in the weeks before the election, a prosecutor asserted Friday during closing arguments of the attorney's trial. But...
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    News Idaho trial for Chad and Lori Daybell delayed to January

    A woman charged in Idaho with killing her two youngest children and her new husband’s previous wife will be tried alongside her husband and their trial has been delayed until early next year because the judge says that will give her lawyers enough time to effectively prepare a defense. Judge...
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    News New head of Italian bishops launches sex abuse query

    The new president of the Italian Conference of Bishops on Friday said he would launch an independent inquiry on sex abuse by Catholic clergy in Italy, but the announcement disappointed victims advocates because it will only go back 20 years. The Italian church is coming under mountain pressure...
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    News Many back strict gun laws, but opposition tends to be louder

    Majorities of U.S. adults think mass shootings would occur less often if guns were harder to get, and that schools and other public places have become less safe than they were two decades ago, polling shows. Still, public attitudes on guns and gun policy are complicated, and the issue has seen...
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    News South Florida braces for busy Memorial Day weekend, with record travel expected

    Officials at both the Miami and Fort Lauderdale airports have said they expect this Memorial Day weekend to be one of the busiest they’ve ever seen, if not the busiest. Parking garages at Miami International Airport are already full. Officials at the airport are projecting the busiest Memorial...
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    News Judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit, allowing NY probe to go on

    A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, rejecting the former president’s claim that she targeted him out of political animus and allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue. In a 43-page ruling...
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    News Director Kore-eda returns to Cannes with film about baby box

    “Shoplifters” director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the Cannes Film Festival with “Broker,” another tale of misfits from society’s margins. This time, the film centers on the use of a “baby box,” a controversial method of anonymously dropping off newborns to be cared for by others used in...
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    News Multiple vehicles broken into at parking lot in downtown Miami

    The City of Miami Police Department responded to a parking lot where several vehicles were broken into Thursday night in downtown Miami. Officers were dispatched to 60 Southeast Second St. around 9:30 p.m., where a black Toyota was burglarized along with several other vehicles in the area...
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    News Biden-backed Schrader ousted in Oregon primary

    Seven-term U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader has been ousted in a Democratic primary in Oregon by progressive challenger Jamie McLeod-Skinner. The vote count in the state's 5th Congressional District was significantly delayed due to ballots with blurry bar codes in Oregon’s third-largest being rejected...
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    News Mass shooters exploited gun laws, loopholes before carnage

    The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18, authorities say, when they bought the weapons used in the attacks — too young to legally purchase alcohol or cigarettes, but old enough to arm themselves with assault...
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    News Recount begins in Pennsylvania's GOP primary for Senate

    Recounting began Friday in the too-close-to-call Republican primary contest for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, with barely 900 votes separating celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick. Montour County began the recount Friday, one of seven counties that said...
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    News Rescue operation underway after car crashes into canal in west Miami-Dade

    Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews are working to rescue people after a car crashed into a canal Friday. The crash occurred in the area of Southwest 117th Avenue and Eighth Street, near Florida’s Turnpike. Miami-Dade police, Sweetwater police, Miami-Dade Schools Police and the Florida Highway Patrol...
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    News Miami woman accused of running over, killing man she carjacked

    A woman was set to appear in court Friday on second-degree murder charges after police accused her of running over and killing a man whom she carjacked at a Miami tow lot. India Latimore, 28, also faces charges of robbery and obstruction by a disguised person. Police said the entire crime was...
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    News US levels new sanctions after North Korea missile launches

    The U.S. targeted two Russian banks Friday as part of new sanctions over alleged support for North Korea and its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The sanctions come after what the U.S. says were three new ballistic missile launches by North Korea on Tuesday, including one...
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    News Students who survived Texas school attack describe scene

    A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school said she covered herself with a friend's blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive. Miah Cerrillo, 11, told CNN that she and a friend called 911 from her dead teacher's phone Tuesday and waited for what felt...
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    News Biden renews Chevron license to bypass Venezuela sanctions

    The Biden administration has renewed a license partially exempting Chevron from sanctions on Venezuela so it can keep operating in the oil-rich, socialist-run nation. The license issued Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department allows the California-based Chevron and other U.S. companies to...
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    News 'We don't have food': African leaders meet as crises grow

    African leaders gathered for a summit Friday in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to address growing humanitarian needs on the continent, which is also facing increased violent extremism, climate change challenges and a run of military coups. Leaders called for increased mobilization to resolve a...
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    News Clean Plate: Restaurants with zero violations in Broward County in April, May

    Below is a list of places that had ZERO VIOLATIONS on their unannounced routine food safety inspection in Broward County in April and May 2022. Most places are inspected twice a year, but it’s a risk-based system. Restaurant inspections are performed by the Florida Department of Business and...
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    News Day of triumph turned to day of tragedy for honor student

    Tuesday should have been a day of triumph for 10-year-old Maite Rodriguez. Instead, it was the day she died. Maite was among 19 grade school students who, along with two teachers, were shot to death at Robb Elementary School in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde. The 18-year-old gunman also...
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    News Quentin Tarantino book 'Cinema Speculation' to land Oct. 25

    Quentin Tarantino's next book is a nonfiction dispatch from a lifelong movie fanatic. “Cinema Speculation,” to be published Oct. 25, will center on “The Getaway” and other films from the 1970s that influenced him during childhood. The book, announced Friday by Harper, comes a year after his...
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