Nation and World
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Vice President Harris breaks nearly 200-year-old record for Senate tiebreaker votes, casts her 32nd
Dec 05, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Vice President Kamala Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for casting the most tiebreaking votes in the Senate when she voted Tuesday to advance the c...
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Brutal killings of women in Western Balkan countries trigger alarm and expose faults in the system
Dec 05, 2023 12:00 am - BELGRADE, Serbia - A man in Bosnia killed his wife and streamed the murder live on Instagram. In neighboring Serbia, 27 women were killed in gender-based attacks this ye...
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'We are officially hostages': How the Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz embodied Hamas hostage strategy
Dec 05, 2023 12:00 am - NIR OZ, Israel - The engineer and his family cowered in the safe room, dark except for a red remote-control light because they feared the gunmen outside the door would n...
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House Speaker Johnson is insisting on sweeping border security changes in a deal for Ukraine aid
Dec 05, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - House Speaker Mike Johnson told fellow Republicans on Tuesday that sweeping changes to U.S. border policy would be their "hill to die on" in negotiations ov...
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Israel moves into Gaza's second-largest city and intensifies strikes in bloody new phase of the war
Dec 05, 2023 12:00 am - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip - Israel said Tuesday that its troops had entered Gaza's second-largest city as intensified bombardment sent streams of ambulances and cars rac...
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Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023's most-viewed articles on the internet's encyclopedia
Dec 05, 2023 12:00 am - NEW YORK - Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to number...
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UN agency cites worrying warming trend as COP28 summit grapples with curbing climate change
Dec 05, 2023 12:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Nations weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic ice sheet lost 75 p...
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After racist shooting that killed 3, families sue Dollar General firms and others over lax security
Dec 05, 2023 12:00 am - JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Family members of three Black people fatally shot at a Dollar General store in north Florida by a racist gunman have sued the store's landlord, oper...
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Ukrainian officials say Russian shelling has hit a southern city, killing 2 people in the street
Dec 05, 2023 12:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - The Dutch government has allocated 2.5 billion euros (nearly $2.7 billion) to support Ukraine in 2024, the country's foreign minister announced during a ...
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Walking through Old San Juan: Seven things to do in Puerto Rico's Walled CityDec 04, 2023 5:00 am - Cobblestones are blue in Puerto Rico's oldest city, evidence of its age and ties to the Old World. To walk on them is to step back more than five centuries when Juan Pon...