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    Amber Heard cross-examined about fights with Johnny Depp

    Lawyers for Johnny Depp on Tuesday questioned the truthfulness of Amber Heard's accusation that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. Heard was cross-examined for most of the day after her testimony in Depp's libel suit against her. Depp is suing Heard in Virginia's Fairfax County...
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    The AP Interview: Scottish leader pushes independence, NATO

    The European crisis wrought by Russia’s war in Ukraine makes Scotland’s independence drive more important and demands that Scotland play its “full part” in ensuring stability and security in Europe as an eventual member of NATO, Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said in an interview Tuesday...
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    WATCH: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announces $100M for cancer programs during UM Health visit

    Gov. Ron DeSantis, First Lady Casey DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo held a news conference Tuesday at the University of Miami Health System. DeSantis announced a $100 million increase in funding for Florida cancer treatment programs. The full news conference in which the...
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    Clinton campaign lawyer sought to 'use' FBI, prosecutor says

    A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign who is charged with lying to the FBI early in the Trump-Russia probe sought to “use and manipulate” federal law enforcement to create an “October surprise" in the final weeks of the presidential race, a prosecutor alleged Tuesday at the start of his...
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    Congress dives into UFOs, but no signs of extraterrestrials

    Congress held its first hearing in half a century Tuesday on unidentified flying objects. And no, there is still no government confirmation of extraterrestrial life. Testifying before a House Intelligence subcommittee, Pentagon officials did not disclose additional information from their...
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    Greek leader tells Congress democracy is tested by Russia

    Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the U.S. Congress on Tuesday their shared belief in “freedom over tyranny, in democracy over authoritarianism” is being tested as he focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Mitsotakis used his address to a joint meeting of...
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    Suspect charged in deadly California church shooting

    Prosecutors have charged the suspect in the California church shooting with one count of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer also announced Tuesday that David Chou, 68, of Las Vegas faces an enhancement for “lying in wait,” as...
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    Wesley Morgan wins Colby award for 'The Hardest Place'

    Author and journalist Wesley Morgan is this year's winner of the William E. Colby Award for military and intelligence writing. He was cited for his book “The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley." The Colby award, a $5,000 prize named for the former...
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    Cannes Film Festival opens with Zelenskyy video address

    After a canceled 2020 edition and a scaled back gathering last year, the Cannes Film Festival kicked off Tuesday with an eye turned to Russia's war in Ukraine and a video message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Formally attired stars including Eva Longoria, Julianne Moore...
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    ABC tries something brave: drama with journalist as hero

    ABC is bringing actress Hilary Swank and the writer of the 2015 Oscar-winning film “Spotlight” together for a new drama about a journalist working in Alaska. The Thursday series “Alaska” headlines a fall schedule announced Tuesday that also includes an hourlong celebrity version of “Jeopardy!”...
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    Issue of bicycle safety on Rickenbacker Causeway front and center to Miami-Dade Commission meeting

    The deaths of two cyclists on the Rickenbacker Causeway Sunday may have tipped the scales toward a safer future for riders. The cycling community unloaded at the Miami-Dade County Commission on Tuesday, demanding more protection, and saying that painted unprotected lanes are not enough. Those...
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    Pennsylvania governor race divides Republicans, unites Dems

    As Pennsylvania Republicans prepare to choose a nominee for governor Tuesday, some party officials are twisted in knots over the possibility of a primary victory by a candidate many see as too far to the right to win statewide this fall. Doug Mastriano, a retired U.S. Army colonel and state...
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    US takes control of Afghan embassy, consulates in NY, CA

    The United States has taken control of Afghanistan’s embassy in Washington and the country’s consulates in New York and Beverly Hills, California, the State Department said Tuesday. The State Department said that it had assumed “sole responsibility” for the security and maintenance of the...
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    Fall of Mariupol appears at hand; fighters leave steel plant

    Mariupol appeared on the verge of falling to the Russians on Tuesday as Ukraine moved to abandon the steel plant where hundreds of its fighters had held out for months under relentless bombardment in the last bastion of resistance in the devastated city. The capture of Mariupol would make it...
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    Ultra Music Festival tickets for 2023 now on sale

    The Ultra Music Festival will call Bayfront Park “home” every March for the next five years. Ultra signing a new deal to keep the festival where it is until 2027. To celebrate the unanimous decision made by the City of Miami Commission, a limited number of tickets will go on sale on Tuesday...
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    Man arrested in Dallas shooting had Asian-focused delusions

    The girlfriend of a man arrested in Dallas Tuesday in a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown told police he had been admitted to health facilities because he was having delusions about Asian Americans, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Jeremy Theron...
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    Republican Senate candidates promote 'replacement' theory

    A half-dozen mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the “great replacement” conspiracy theory once confined to the far-right fringes of U.S. politics to court voters this campaign season, promoting the baseless notion that there is a plot to diminish the influence of white people...
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    Treatment on the horizon for painful hand condition

    Research is advancing into a treatment for Dupuytren’s Disease, a condition that causes one or more fingers to curl or pull sideways. Dr. Jorge Gonzalez with the Institute of Regenerative Orthopedics and Sports Medicine said Dupuytren’s is caused by an abnormal thickening of the skin in the...
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    Livestreamed carnage: Tech's hard lessons from mass killings

    These days, mass shooters like the one now held in the Buffalo, New York, supermarket attack don’t stop with planning out their brutal attacks. They also create marketing plans while arranging to livestream their massacres on social platforms in hopes of fomenting more violence. Sites like...
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    Election 2022: Pennsylvania, North Carolina hold key races

    Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday faces the strongest test yet of his ability to shape a new generation of Republicans as voters in Pennsylvania and North Carolina decide whether to rally around his hand-picked choices for critical U.S. Senate seats. As this year's midterm primary...
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