Nation and World
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Labor dispute stops Canadian freight railroads and could cause major economic disruption in U.S.
Aug 22, 2024 7:12 am - TORONTO — Both of Canada’s major freight railroads have come to a full stop because of a contract dispute with their workers, an impasse that could bring significant econ...
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Zelenskyy visits border area for the first time since Ukrainian forces entered Russia's Kursk region
Aug 22, 2024 7:10 am - KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy toured the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy on Thursday in his first visit to the border area since his forces entered ...
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Trump is holding his first outdoor rally since last month's assassination attempt
Aug 21, 2024 1:35 pm - ASHEBORO, N.C. — Donald Trump is holding his first outdoor rally since narrowly surviving an attempted assassination in Pennsylvania last month. Trump's podium at the Nor...
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Attorney for far-right Oath Keepers extremist group pleads guilty to Capitol riot charges
Aug 21, 2024 1:30 pm - WASHINGTON — An attorney who represented the far-right Oath Keepers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges stemming from a mob's Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol,...
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Divers find 4 bodies during search of superyacht wreckage after it sank off Sicily, 2 still missing
Aug 21, 2024 11:27 am - PORTICELLO, Sicily — Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of four passengers Wednesday and searched for two more as questions ...
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Tim Walz and Bill Clinton will speak at the Democratic National Convention's third day
Aug 21, 2024 10:01 am - Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton will headline the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the third day of the party's choreogra...
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Inflation is falling, but the next president could bring it back
Aug 21, 2024 9:45 am - Inflation is just about dead — unless the next president brings it back to life. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are pushing economic ...
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Moscow sees one of Ukraine’s largest drone attacks as fighting rages in Kursk and eastern Ukraine
Aug 21, 2024 7:34 am - MOSCOW — Moscow came under one of the largest attacks yet by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, Russian authorities reported Wednesday, saying they des...
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'Is this America?' Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention with her speech 60 years ago
Aug 21, 2024 7:25 am - JACKSON, Miss. — Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats' presidential nomination Thursday, exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nati...
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Putin’s slow response to the Kursk attack could test the patience of some of his backers in Russia
Aug 21, 2024 7:20 am - A year ago this week, President Vladmir Putin strode onto a stage in the Kursk region to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of the Soviet army's proudest moments in ...