Nation and World
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Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war in biggest release so far
Jan 03, 2024 6:55 am - Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukra...
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Israel's Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior figure killed in strike
Jan 03, 2024 6:54 am - BEIRUT — The chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service vowed Wednesday that the agency would hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no ...
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Rescuers race against time in search for survivors in Japan after powerful quakes leave 73 dead
Jan 03, 2024 6:50 am - SUZU, Japan — Japanese rescue workers and canine units searched urgently through rubble Wednesday ahead of predicted bitter cold and heavy rain in what the prime minister...
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Iran says at least 95 were killed in blasts at a ceremony honoring slain general
Jan 03, 2024 6:48 am - TEHRAN, Iran — Two bombs exploded and killed at least 95 people Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Ira...
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Prosecutors recommend six months in prison for a man at the center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theoryJan 02, 2024 10:52 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday recommended a six-month term of imprisonment for a man at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, ...
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Justice Dept. accuses 2 political operatives of hiding foreign lobbying during Trump administrationJan 02, 2024 10:51 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Two well-connected political consultants provided false information about lobbying work on behalf of a wealthy Persian Gulf country during the Trump adm...
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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony
Jan 02, 2024 1:27 pm - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where sh...
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States and Congress wrestle with cybersecurity after Iran attacks small town water utilities
Jan 02, 2024 11:24 am - HARRISBURG, Pa. — The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never had out...
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Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blast
Jan 02, 2024 11:12 am - BEIRUT — An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Le...
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A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe
Jan 02, 2024 8:58 am - Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The ...