Nation and World
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Banks far from hitting Paris climate targets, groups warn
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - The world's most influential banks need to substantially accelerate climate efforts if global temperature rise is to be kept within the targets of the Paris Agreement, a...
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Los Angeles County avoids new mask rule as COVID stabilizes
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County dropped a plan to impose a universal indoor mask mandate this week as COVID-19 infections and rates of hospitalizations have stabil...
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94 migrants escape suffocation in truck in Mexico
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities in Mexico said Thursday that at least 94 migrants had to bash their way out of a suffocating freight trailer abandoned on a highway in the...
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Gov't: US Bank workers opened fake accounts for sales goals
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - For more than a decade, US Bank pressured its employees to open fake accounts in their customers' names in order to meet unrealistic sales goals, the Con...
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Man executed despite calls from victim's family to spare him
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama inmate convicted of killing his former girlfriend decades ago was executed Thursday night despite pleas from the victim's family to spare ...
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Pope ends Canadian visit with stop in small, far-north city
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - In his extensive papal travels, Pope Francis has never journeyed farther north than Iqaluit, capital city of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut. On Friday, it will ...
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Russia attacks Kyiv area for the first time in weeks
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kyiv area for the first time in weeks Thursday and pounded the northern Chernihiv region as well, in...
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Tony Dow, big brother Wally on 'Leave it to Beaver,' dies
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Tony Dow, who as Wally Cleaver on the sitcom 'œLeave It to Beaver'ť helped create the popular and lasting image of the American teenager of the 1950s and 6...
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Kremlin poker-faced on US swap offer to free Griner, Whelan
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - The Kremlin warned Thursday that a possible prisoner swap with the United States involving American basketball star Brittney Griner needs to be negotiated ...
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Samsung fined $9.8M for misleading Australian phone ads
Jul 28, 2022 7:00 am - CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - An Australian judge on Thursday ordered Samsung to pay 14 million Australian dollars ($9.8 million) in penalties for misleading advertising ov...