Nation and World
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Mickey Mantle card breaks record, as sports memorabilia soar
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia i...
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Federal jury awards $100M in stun gun fall paralysis lawsuit
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - A federal jury in Atlanta has awarded $100 million to a panhandler who fell and broke his neck after a police officer shocked him with a stun gun during a...
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Mexico's president revived dangerous form of coal mining
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - MEXICO CITY (AP) - As hopes faded of rescuing 10 men trapped in a flooded Mexican coal mine, evidence mounted that the current administration's populist policies have dr...
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Sick dolphin calf improves with tube-fed milk, helping hands
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - RAYONG, Thailand (AP) - The Irrawaddy dolphin calf - sick and too weak to swim - was drowning in a tidal pool on Thailand's shore when fishermen found him. The fisherme...
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Army program gives poor-performing recruits a second chance
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) - Chaz Andrews has wanted to join the Army since he was 19, but he has failed the service's academic test more than 10 times over the past decade...
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Coming to a theater near you: $3 movie tickets for one day
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched 'œNational Cinema Day'ť to lure moviegoe...
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Francis praises humility of 13th-century pope who resigned
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) - Making a pilgrimage in an Italian mountain town, Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the humility of a 13th-century pontiff who resigned to live a hermi...
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EPA waives fuel rule in 4 states after Indiana refinery fire
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency temporarily lifted a federal rule for fuel sales in four states in response to a fire last week at an Indiana oil refi...
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Flooding looms large again in Mississippi's capital city
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - JACKSON, Miss (AP) - The forecasted flooding in Mississippi could not have come at a worse time for Veronique Daniels, who became homeless three months ago and was sleep...
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Today in History: August 28, King's "I Have a Dream" speech
Aug 28, 2022 7:00 am - Today in History Today is Sunday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2022. There are 125 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a ...