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    South Florida brewery sells special beer to raise funds to support Ukraine

    A special brew is being canned for the first time at 26 Degree Brewing Company in Pompano Beach, to support the war efforts in Ukraine. “This came across our desk about 8 weeks ago and has more or less been a daily thought every day since just trying to execute it as best as we can,” said Jason...
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    Florida high school senior set to graduate with record setting GPA

    A high school student in Tampa is set to graduate with the highest grade point average in Hillsborough County. Dylan Mazard, a senior at Gaither High School, has an 11.84 grade point average. Mazard said he started working on his high school credits when he was in middle school and takes as...
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    1 dead in afternoon shooting not far from I-95

    1 person is dead after an afternoon shooting. Sky 10 was over the scene along Northeast 181st Street and 6th Avenue where a car was parked on the side of a road and, not far, a yellow tarp covered a body. Police responded just after 3:30 p.m. Monday. The scene is not far from Interstate 95...
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    Depp's agent calls Heard op-ed piece on abuse 'catastrophic'

    Johnny Depp's agent testified Monday that his ex-wife's 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post describing herself as a victim of domestic abuse was “catastrophic” to his career and coincided with the loss of a $23 million deal for a “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel. Amber Heard's lawyers...
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    Biden to meet with parents of missing journalist Austin Tice

    President Joe Biden said he was meeting Monday with the parents of American journalist Austin Tice, who was abducted in Syria 10 years ago. The meeting with Marc and Debra Tice is expected to take place at the White House. Debra Tice was introduced Saturday night as being in attendance at the...
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    Georgia Republicans spar over Trump's false election claims

    Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the state's top election official, accused a fellow Republican at a debate Monday of lying and spreading misinformation about former President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election. U.S. Rep. Jody Hice shot back that Raffensperger...
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    Energy chief Granholm touts $3B plan to boost EV batteries

    Continuing its push to dramatically boost sales of electric vehicles, the Biden administration on Monday announced $3.1 billion in funding to U.S. companies that make and recycle lithium-ion batteries. The investments from last year's $1 trillion infrastructure law are separate from an...
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    DNA confirms coyote that attacked 2-year-old is dead

    DNA from a coyote that bit a girl on Southern California's Huntington Beach last week matched samples from one of two coyotes shot and killed following the attack, authorities said. The 2-year-old child was hospitalized with bites to her head and face that were not considered life-threatening...
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    Death in Ukraine's Kharkiv is everywhere, rarely explained

    The outskirts of Kharkiv have the feel of an open-air morgue, where the dead lie unclaimed and unexplained, sometimes for weeks on end, as Ukrainian and Russian forces fight for control of slivers of land. There is the charred body of a man, unidentifiable, propped on an anti-tank barrier made...
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    Ex-ABC anchor Gibson prodded out of retirement for podcast

    Former ABC News anchor Charles Gibson dropped completely out of the public eye upon his retirement in 2009. Now, prodded by his daughter Kate, he's back. The two are collaborating on “The Book Case,” a weekly podcast on reading and authors produced by ABC Audio that debuted Monday and featured...
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    Stellantis pours billions more into Canada, electric

    Automaker Stellantis said Monday it will invest $3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($2.8 billion) to upgrade two Canadian assembly plants and expand a research center as it accelerates its long-term electrification strategy. Combined with its March announcement of a joint venture battery plant with...
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    Myanmar's Suu Kyi charged with bribery as new trial opens

    Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial Monday in a new corruption case against her, alleging she took $550,000 in bribes from a construction magnate. She is charged with two counts under the country's the Anti-Corruption Act, with each count punishable by up to 15 years in prison...
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    California's population fell again amid pandemic's 2nd year

    California's population shrank for the second year in a row in 2021 as the nation's most populous state was hit by declining birth rates, higher deaths from the pandemic and fewer people moving into the state from elsewhere in the U.S., officials said Monday. California lost 117,552 people in...
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    Biden lunches with Clinton as midterms loom

    President Joe Biden had lunch Monday with former President Bill Clinton, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, as Democrats are facing long odds to retain their congressional majorities in November's midterm elections. Psaki declined to say what the pair would discuss, only saying “I’m...
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    Republicans look to surrogates for boost in Ohio Senate race

    High-profile surrogates for Republicans running in Ohio's hotly contested Senate primary are fanning out across the state or holding other events to give their endorsed candidates a last-minute boost ahead of Tuesday's election. Sens. Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, along with Reps. Matt...
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    Harris negative for COVID-19 after taking antiviral pill

    Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative on Monday for COVID-19, six days after she tested positive for the virus, and has been cleared to return to the White House on Tuesday. Harris press secretary Kirsten Allen said Harris, who was prescribed the antiviral treatment Paxlovid last week...
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    Push to arm Ukraine putting strain on US weapons stockpile

    The planes take off almost daily from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware — hulking C-17s loaded up with Javelins, Stingers, Howitzers and other materiel being hustled to eastern Europe to resupply Ukraine’s military in its fight against Russia. The game-changing impact of those arms is exactly...
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    WATCH LIVE!: State attorney charges 3 in stealing Miami-Dade County grant money

    3 people allegedly manipulated the Miami-Dade County grant-awarding process out of $640,000 utilizing the prestige of a County Commissioner’s Office, according to State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. The state attorney is holding a press conference at her office in Miami to announce the...
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    JonBenet Ramsey's father wants outside agency to test DNA

    The father of JonBenet Ramsey is supporting an online petition asking Colorado’s governor to intervene in the investigation into her death more than 25 years ago by putting an outside agency in charge of DNA testing in the case. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family’s home...
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    19-year-old accused of pointing green laser at Miami-Dade PD aircraft

    A 19-year-old woman was arrested Monday for allegedly pointing a green laser at a Miami-Dade Police Department aircraft, authorities said. Yeneisy Valdera, of Doral, faces one count of misuse of a laser lighting device. According to her arrest report, an aviation officer requested assistance...
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