Nation and World
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'Magic mushroom' psychedelic may help heavy drinkers quit
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - The compound in psychedelic mushrooms helped heavy drinkers cut back or quit entirely in the most rigorous test of psilocybin for alcoholism. More research is needed to ...
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Biden's student loan plan: What we know (and what we don't)
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday that many Americans can have up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt forgiven. That amount increases to $20,000 if ...
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Supporters of jailed ex-PM Najib rally for royal pardon
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Supporters of Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak rallied Wednesday outside the national palace to seek royal pardon just a day after h...
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US airstrikes target Iran-backed militia in eastern Syria
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - BEIRUT (AP) - The U.S. military said early Wednesday it carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria that targeted areas used by militias backed by Iran's paramilitary Revolu...
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Company pledges to reduce Puerto Rico outages amid anger
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Persistent power outages and threats from Puerto Rico's government prompted a company that operates the island's transmission and distributi...
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Judge rules Mexico's ex-attorney general to go to trial
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's former attorney general who oversaw the original investigation into the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from a radical teachers college wi...
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Victims irked as Spain lets gunman die before trial
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - MADRID (AP) - Spain's assisted suicide law is in the spotlight after doctors allowed the death of a former security guard who faced trial for having stormed his former w...
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Native groups seek to repair lands damaged by colonization
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - KINGSTON, Mass. (AP) - Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, d...
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Creed Taylor, 'The Girl from Ipanema' producer, dead at 93
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Creed Taylor, a prolific and innovative force in the evolution of jazz who worked with John Coltrane, Ray Charles and many others and a popularizer of Br...
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Jerry Allison, drummer for Buddy Holly, dead at 82
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jerry Allison, an architect of rock drumming who played and co-wrote songs with childhood friend Buddy Holly and whose future wife inspired the c...