Nation and World
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What to know about the situation in the Middle East this week
Feb 17, 2024 8:23 am - LONDON (AP) — As Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks flounder, Israel is vowing to press ahead with its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip despite warnings from the U.S. to w...
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Trump avoids 'corporate death penalty' in civil fraud case, but his business will still get slammed
Feb 17, 2024 8:22 am - NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump won’t face the corporate death penalty after all. A New York judge on Friday spared the ex-president that worst case punishment as he ruled i...
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Donald Trump fraud verdict: $364 million penalty in civil fraud case
Feb 16, 2024 2:23 pm - NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge ruled Friday against Donald Trump, imposing a $364 million penalty over what the judge ruled was a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and oth...
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Fani Willis' father says he didn't know about Willis' relationship with prosecutor until recently
Feb 16, 2024 12:39 pm - ATLANTA — Georgia prosecutors sought to knock down misconduct allegations against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Friday, calling her father to the witness...
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A chaotic U.S. House is losing three Republican committee chairs to retirement in the span of a week
Feb 16, 2024 10:21 am - WASHINGTON — In a single week, the Republican chairs of three House committees announced they would not be seeking reelection, raising questions about whether the chaos t...
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Greece just legalized same-sex marriage. Will other Orthodox countries join them any time soon?
Feb 16, 2024 8:19 am - Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under civil law. At least for the near future, it will almost certainly be th...
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy signing security agreements with Germany, France as Kyiv shores up support
Feb 16, 2024 7:08 am - BERLIN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bilateral security agreement with Germany and planned to sign another with France on Friday, securing a strong s...
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5 patients die as oxygen runs out in Gaza hospital seized by Israeli forces, health officials sayFeb 16, 2024 7:05 am - RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Five patients in intensive care died after their oxygen cut off in southern Gaza's main hospital that was stormed by Israeli troops, causing chaos for...
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Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says
Feb 16, 2024 5:50 am - MOSCOW — Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the ...
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Fani Willis taking stand to testify in hearing that could disqualify her from Trump election case
Feb 15, 2024 2:50 pm - ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the witness stand Thursday to defend herself from efforts to remove her from the 2020 election interference cas...