Nation and World
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Supreme Court allows construction to resume on the Mountain Valley Pipeline
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed construction to resume on a contested natural-gas pipeline that is being built through Virginia and West Virginia. Wor...
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Grimace campaign that went weirdly viral fuels McDonald's Q2, yet growth may slow as inflation cools
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - McDonald's is grinning thanks to Grimace after a marketing campaign to celebrate the "birthday" of its big purple mascot went viral and contributed to surprisingly stron...
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Judge sees dark writings of Michigan school shooter who could get life in prison
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - PONTIAC, Mich. - A teenager who killed four fellow students at a Michigan high school in 2021 wrote about his plans in a journal, detailing how he would target his victi...
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Biden announces an advanced cancer research initiative as part of his 'moonshot' effort
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced the first cancer-focused initiative under its advanced health research agency, aiming to help doc...
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Trump once condemned the Jan. 6 rioters. Now he's become one of their biggest supporters
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - The day after Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump denounced the rioters who violently stormed the Capitol building, breaking through barricades, battlin...
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A 'rolling recession' or a 'richcession' might spare the U.S. economy from a full-scale downturn
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Despite more than a year of widespread warnings that a recession was near, America's economy is, if anything, accelerating. Even as the Federal Reserve has ...
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Putin claims fighting in southeastern Ukraine has intensified, with Kyiv suffering heavy losses
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - Fierce fighting raged Thursday in southeastern Ukraine, where a Western official said Kyiv has launched a major push and Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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How the coup in Niger could expand the reach of Islamic extremism, and Wagner, in West Africa
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - More than 1,000 U.S. service personnel are in Niger, which until Wednesday's coup by mutinous soldiers had avoided the military takeovers that destabilized West African ...
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Elon Musk wants to turn tweets into 'X's'. But changing language is not quite so simple
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Elon Musk may want to send "tweet" back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site he now calls X is here to stay - at least for ...
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Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dies at 77
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as "Take It Easy" and "The Best of My Love" and stepped out front fo...