Nation and World
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US aircraft carrier counters false Houthi claims with 'Taco Tuesdays' as deployment stretches on
Jun 17, 2024 7:22 am - ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IN THE RED SEA — The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy, but it's still fighting — d...
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It’s not your imagination. Men really do eat more meat than women, study says
Jun 17, 2024 7:14 am - Vacationing in Chicago this week from Europe, Jelle den Burger and Nirusa Naguleswaran grabbed a bite at the Dog House Grill: a classic Italian beef sandwich for him, gri...
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Israel's army says it will pause daytime fighting along a route in southern Gaza to help flow of aid
Jun 16, 2024 3:49 pm - JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military announced on Sunday that it would pause fighting during daytime hours along a route in southern Gaza to free up a backlog of humanitari...
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R.E.M. reunite at Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony also honoring Timbaland and Steely Dan
Jun 14, 2024 2:14 pm - NEW YORK — A comet must have landed at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The members of R.E.M. had joked only hours before it would take “a comet” to ...
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Alex Jones’ personal assets will be sold to help pay Sandy Hook debt as judge decides Infowars’ fate
Jun 14, 2024 1:23 pm - HOUSTON — A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets but was still deciding on his company’s separate bankruptc...
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 massacre
Jun 14, 2024 9:27 am - The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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U.S. Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebelsJun 14, 2024 7:56 am - ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA — The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world's waterways. Bu...
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Putin offers truce if Ukraine exits Russian-claimed areas and drops NATO bid. Kyiv calls it ‘absurd’
Jun 14, 2024 7:23 am - Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four re...
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Trump returns to Capitol Hill and whips up Republican lawmakers in first meeting since Jan. 6 attack
Jun 13, 2024 2:08 pm - WASHINGTON — Donald Trump made a triumphant return Thursday to Capitol Hill, whipping up House and Senate Republicans in his first meetings since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack...
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Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
Jun 13, 2024 9:22 am - The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.