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    News President: 11 babies killed in fire at Senegalese hospital

    A fire in the neonatal unit of a hospital in Senegal has killed 11 newborns, President Macky Sall said. Only three infants could be saved. “To their mothers and families, I express my deepest sympathy,” Sall tweeted late Wednesday. The fire was blamed on an electrical short circuit at the...
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    News Texas school massacre: Slain teacher’s husband dies of ‘grief,’ relative says

    Joe Garcia, the widow of one of the teachers killed during the recent Texas school massacre, died on Thursday. A relative announced the cause of death was “grief.” Garcia was married to Irma Garcia for more than 20 years and had four children: Cristian, Jose, Lyliana, and Alysandra. “PLEASE...
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    News ‘No future for babies:’ 842 US-bound Haitians end up in Cuba

    Some of the more than 840 Haitians who tried to reach the United States in a boat but ended up in Cuba said Thursday that they fled violence in their country and were charged thousands of dollars by smugglers who ushered them onto a dilapidated boat and later abandoned them at sea. Cuban...
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    News Adapting Denis Johnson, Claire Denis debuts 'Stars at Noon'

    Just days removed from finishing her latest film and hours after arriving in Cannes, Claire Denis sat down in a poolside hotel restaurant and warmly pronounced herself “a mess.” Denis’ latest, the Denis Johnson adaptation “Stars at Noon,” has been percolating in her for more than a decade. She...
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    News 'Goodfellas' co-stars, many others pay tribute to Ray Liotta

    Reactions to the death of “Goodfellas” star Ray Liotta: "I am utterly shattered to hear this terrible news about my Ray. I can be anywhere in the world & people will come up & tell me their favorite movie is Goodfellas. Then they always ask what was the best part of making that movie. My...
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    News Police: Woman killed man who fired rifle into party crowd

    A woman in West Virginia fatally shot a man who began firing an AR-15-style rifle into a crowd of people that had gathered for a party, authorities said. Dennis Butler, 37, was killed Wednesday night after he pulled out the rifle and began shooting at dozens of people attending the...
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    News IOM: Up to 600 missing at sea in 3 months in Central Med

    The International Organization for Migration says up to 600 people attempting to reach Europe by sea from Tunisia and Libya have gone missing during the first three months of 2022, the highest figure since 2014. In the latest tragedy, according to Tunisian authorities, a wooden boat carrying...
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    News Justices won't block Biden policy on 'social cost of carbon'

    The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Biden administration to use a higher estimate, challenged by Republican-led states, for calculating damages to people and the environment from greenhouse gas emissions. The justices did not comment in refusing to put back in place an order from a...
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    News Sri Lanka PM stresses urgency for economic reform plan

    Sri Lanka's prime minister said Thursday that he will quickly prepare an economic reform program and seek approval from the International Monetary Fund — because global inflation and the financial impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on other countries could limit their ability to help the...
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    News Local 10′s Hurricane Survival Guide 2022

    It’s here. Local 10 Weather Authority’s Hurricane Survival Guide CLICK HERE to download yours and keep it on hand for reference. What’s included in the guide: ⇒Hurricane Family Plan ⇒Supply Kit Checklist ⇒COVID-19 Evacuation Shelter Protocol ⇒Tri-County Evacuation Zones ⇒Tri-County...
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    News West mulls having Russian oligarchs buy way out of sanctions

    Western allies are considering whether to allow Russian oligarchs to buy their way out of sanctions and using the money to rebuild Ukraine, according to government officials familiar with the matter. Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland proposed the idea at a...
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    News US education chief seeks action to prevent school shootings

    Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Thursday that he's ashamed the United States is "becoming desensitized to the murder of children” and that action is needed now to prevent more lives from being lost in school shootings like the one in Uvalde, Texas. Cardona spoke at a House Education and...
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    News 'This tears my soul apart': A Ukrainian boy and a killing

    As he listened to his father die, the boy lay still on the asphalt. His elbow burned where a bullet had pierced him. His thumb stung from being grazed. Another killing was in progress on a lonely street in Bucha, the community on the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, where bodies of...
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    News More Memorial Day travel expected, despite high gas prices

    To drive, or not to drive? This Memorial Day weekend, with surging gas prices that are redefining pain at the pump, that is the question for many Americans as a new COVID-19 surge also spreads across the country. For Marvin Harper, of Phoenix, his family’s weekend travel plans are a double...
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    News Texas police face questions over response to school shooting, suspect’s mother comments

    Law enforcement authorities faced mounting questions and criticism Thursday over how much time elapsed before they stormed a Texas elementary school classroom and put a stop to the rampage by a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers. But the 18-year-old suspect’s rampage started at this...
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    News Big Book Drive stops at Stirling Elementary School

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    News 14-year-old girl goes missing from northwest Miami-Dade

    Miami-Dade police are searching for a 14-year-old girl who has been missing since Tuesday. Katherine Roig was last seen around 4 p.m. Tuesday in the 16400 block of Northwest 67th Avenue. Police said she was last seen wearing a black and red sweater, black jeans, and was carrying a dark-colored...
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    News For lockdown generation school shootings are their 'reality'

    A day after the school massacre in Texas, Ohio teacher Renee Coley thought her sixth grade students would need time to process, so she opened class with a video about the news and started a discussion. Some students said they were sad. Some were dismayed the 19 slain children were so young...
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    News Moldova's ex-president placed under 30-day house arrest

    A court in Moldova placed former President Igor Dodon under 30-day house arrest on Thursday as he faces an investigation into suspected treason, corruption, illicit enrichment and illegal party financing. The ruling came after Dodon, who served as Moldova's president from 2016 to 2020 and leads...
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    News Ray Liotta, 'Goodfellas' and 'Field of Dreams' star, dies

    Ray Liotta, the actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 67. An official at the Dominican Republic’s National Forensic Science Institute who was not authorized to speak to the media confirmed...
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