Nation and World
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NC judge suspends sheriff taped disparaging Black employees
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - WHITEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina judge has suspended a sheriff who was recorded calling Black employees by derogatory names and saying they should be fired. The ...
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Texas executes man convicted in 2004 fatal stabbing whose legal challenge clarified death chamber rules on prayer, touch
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas executes man convicted in 2004 fatal stabbing whose legal challenge clarified death chamber rules on prayer, touch. ...
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Ian deals blow to Florida's teetering insurance sector
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - Daniel Kelly and his wife bought a 1977 doublewide mobile home in May for about $83,000 at Tropicana Sands, a community for people 55 and older in Fort Myers, Florida. B...
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'Forever chemicals' in deer, fish challenge hunters, tourism
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Wildlife agencies in the U.S. are finding elevated levels of a class of toxic chemicals in game animals such as deer - and that's prompting health...
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Iran summons UK envoy, again, over anti-crackdown complaints
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran summoned the British ambassador, again, for what it said were 'œprovocative'ť statements made by London over Tehran's crackdown on widespread pr...
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Nobel Prize for 3 chemists who made molecules 'click'
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - STOCKHOLM (AP) - Three scientists were jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way of 'œsnapping molecules together'ť that can...
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Climate change made summer drought 20 times more likely
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - Drought that stretched across three continents this summer - drying out large parts of Europe, the United States and China - was made 20 times more likely by climate cha...
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The Satanic Temple takes aim at Idaho, Indiana abortion bans
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Religious organizations have long been involved in the debate over Idaho's strict abortion laws, with Catholic priests, evangelical Christian groups ...
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Today in History: October 5, Truman speaks on TV
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - Today in History Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2022. There are 87 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 5, 1953, Earl Warren was...
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Putin signs laws annexing 4 Ukrainian regions
Oct 05, 2022 7:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed laws absorbing four Ukrainian regions into Russia, a move that finalizes the annexation carried out in d...