Nation and World
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Speaker Johnson leads House GOP on a trip to a Texas border city as Ukraine aid hangs in the balance
Jan 03, 2024 12:52 pm - EAGLE PASS, Texas — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is leading about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit Wednesday to the Mexican border as they demand hard-line...
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Jeffrey Epstein documents: Here's what we know so far
Jan 03, 2024 12:48 pm - NEW YORK — Dozens of previously sealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein were made public late Wednesday, as a court releases more records from a years-old lawsu...
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Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage
Jan 03, 2024 10:02 am - WASHINGTON — American higher education has long viewed plagiarism as among the most serious of offenses. Accusations of plagiarism have ruined the careers of academics an...
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Trump's vows to deport millions are undercut by his White House record and one family's story
Jan 03, 2024 7:38 am - Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s. When she was 1, Noelia and ...
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Investigators focus on air traffic communication after a fatal Tokyo runway crash
Jan 03, 2024 6:58 am - TOKYO — Investigators were focusing on communication between air traffic control and two aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Wednesday, a day after a large passenger pl...
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Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war in biggest release so far
Jan 03, 2024 6:55 am - Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukra...
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Israel's Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior figure killed in strike
Jan 03, 2024 6:54 am - BEIRUT — The chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service vowed Wednesday that the agency would hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no ...
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Rescuers race against time in search for survivors in Japan after powerful quakes leave 73 dead
Jan 03, 2024 6:50 am - SUZU, Japan — Japanese rescue workers and canine units searched urgently through rubble Wednesday ahead of predicted bitter cold and heavy rain in what the prime minister...
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Iran says at least 95 were killed in blasts at a ceremony honoring slain general
Jan 03, 2024 6:48 am - TEHRAN, Iran — Two bombs exploded and killed at least 95 people Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Ira...
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Prosecutors recommend six months in prison for a man at the center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theoryJan 02, 2024 10:52 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday recommended a six-month term of imprisonment for a man at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, ...