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Friday, August 12, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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The motion by the Justice Department to the U.S. District Court South District of Florida to unseal the search warrant the FBI received before searching the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump. Attorney General Merrick Garland cited the “substantial public interest in this matter” in announcing the request.

Trump home search: Judge deciding on unsealing the warrant

A federal judge was to decide as soon as Friday whether to grant the Department of Justice's request to unseal the warrant that authorized the FBI to search former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. Attorney General Merrick Garland declared there was "substantial public interest in this matter," and Trump backed the warrant's "immediate" release.
A dump track unloads grain Tuesday in Zghurivka, Ukraine. A ship approached Ukraine on Frida to pick up wheat for people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N.-brokered plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide on the brink of starvation.

Ship heads to Ukraine to get grain for food-starved Africa

A ship approached Ukraine on Friday to pick up wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N.-brokered plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia's war and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide on the brink of starvation.
A dead fish skeleton on the cracking earth of a dry lake bed near the village of Conoplja, Serbia. Water shortages reduced Serbia’s hydropower production. An unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of the European continent, damaging farm economies, forcing water restrictions and threatening aquatic species. Water levels are falling on major rivers such as the Danube, the Rhine and the Po.

European drought dries up rivers, kills fish, shrivels crops

An unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of the European continent, damaging farm economies, forcing water restrictions and threatening aquatic species. Water levels are falling on major rivers such as the Danube, the Rhine and the Po.
In this image taken from FOX19 Cincinnati video, FBI officials gather Thursday outside the FBI building in Cincinnati. An armed man decked out in body armor tried to breach a security screening area at the FBI field office in Ohio on Thursday, then fled and exchanged gunfire in a standoff with law enforcement, authorities said.

Ohio gunman appeared to threaten FBI after Trump search

A gunman who died in a shootout after trying to get inside the FBI's Cincinnati office appeared to have posted calls on social media for FBI agents to be killed and for people to take up arms and "be ready for combat" in the wake of the search at Donald Trump's home, a law enforcement official said.
Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked Friday during a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, about 75 miles south of Buffalo.
Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks Thursday at the Justice Department in Washington.
Garland asks court to unseal warrant for Mar-a-Lago search; Trump says he's 'encouraging' it
The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the search warrant the FBI received before searching the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday.
People walk outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington. The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits.
In Biden's big bill: Climate, health care, deficit reduction
The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share.
The CDC has again revised its COVID guidelines, further relaxing quarantine recommendations and dropping the recommendation that people stay at least 6 feet away from each other.
CDC drops quarantine, distancing recommendations for COVID
The nation's top public health agency is relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines and dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person
Chicago police: Man shot during struggle with officers
A 40-year-old man has been shot during a struggle with police in a Southside Chicago neighborhood
Small plane carrying at least 3 crashes in West Virginia
Authorities say a small plane with at least three people on board has crashed in northern West Virginia
Somaliland leader says 5 killed in opposition protests
The president of Somaliland says five people were killed in opposition protests over fears of a delayed election, hours after police confirmed shooting demonstrators and accused them of not following officers' instructions
FILE - A member of the Arab Commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Olympic Village appearing with a hood over his face stands on the balcony of the building where the commandos held members of the Israeli team hostage in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. The German government said Friday it regrets plans by families of Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich to boycott a 50-year anniversary ceremony next month, and said it was prepared to continue talks on further compensation. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf, File)
Germany regrets boycott by Munich attack victims' families
The German government says it regrets plans by families of Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich to boycott a 50-year anniversary ceremony next month
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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