Nation and World
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LGBTQ pride group excluded from southwest Iowa town's Labor Day parade
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - A local LGBTQ pride group was excluded from a southwest Iowa town's Labor Day parade, apparently by the city's mayor, who cited safety concerns. Shenandoah Pride planned...
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Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - The small band of soldiers gather outside to share cigarettes and war stories, sometimes casually and sometimes with a degree of testiness over reco...
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Pope insists Vatican-China relations are on track but says more work is needed
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) - Pope Francis insisted Monday that the Vatican's relations with China were going well but said work must still be done to show Beijing that ...
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UAW's clash with Big 3 automakers shows off a more confrontational union as strike deadline looms
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - DETROIT - A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of traditional pensions. The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pr...
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Zimbabwean president at his inauguration says the disputed election reveals a 'mature democracy'
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday hailed recent elections as a sign of the country's "mature democracy" and a victory over Wester...
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Americans have long wanted the perfect endless summer. Jimmy Buffett offered them one
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - It seemed wistfully appropriate, somehow, that news of Jimmy Buffett's death emerged at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend, the demarcation point of every American s...
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Pope wants to keep big Vatican meeting on the church's future behind closed doors, ideology-free
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) - Pope Francis defended the decision to keep the discussions of a big Vatican meeting on the future of the Catholic Church behind closed door...
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Burning Man revelers begin exodus after flooding left tens of thousands stranded in Nevada desert
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. - Muddy roads that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days at a counterculture festival had dried up enough by Monday afternoon to...
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'Equalizer 3' cleans up, while 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' score new records
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - The third installment in the Denzel Washington-led "Equalizer" franchise topped the domestic box office this weekend with $34.5 million according to studio estimates Sun...
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Jimmy Buffett died after a four-year fight with a rare form of skin cancer, his website says
Sep 04, 2023 1:00 am - SAG HARBOR, N.Y. - Jimmy Buffett, whose sun-drenched songs celebrated life by the shore, died of a rare, aggressive skin cancer, according to a statement on his website....