Nation and World
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Judge fines Lebanese bank heist figure, issues travel ban
Oct 06, 2022 7:00 am - BEIRUT (AP) - A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to a woman who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cov...
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EXPLAINER: Russia's military woes mount amid Ukraine attacks
Oct 06, 2022 7:00 am - Even as the Kremlin moved to absorb parts of Ukraine in a sharp escalation of the conflict, the Russian military suffered new defeats that highlighted its deep problems ...
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Jury begins deliberations in Alex Jones' Sandy Hook trial
Oct 06, 2022 7:00 am - WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - A jury began deliberations Thursday to decide how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay for pushing the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook Sch...
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West, China showdown looms in vote at UN human rights body
Oct 06, 2022 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - The U.N.'s top human rights body is poised to vote Thursday on a proposal from Britain, Turkey, the United States and other mostly Western countries to hol...
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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...