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What do marijuana, the death penalty and fracking have in common? Harris shifted positions on themAug 16, 2024 5:47 am - WASHINGTON — As California’s attorney general, Kamala Harris successfully defended the death penalty in court, despite her past crusade against it. As a new senator, she ...
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Protests grow in India over the rape and killing of a doctor at a state-run hospitalAug 16, 2024 5:43 am - NEW DELHI — Thousands of people marched through various Indian cities Friday to protest the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a government hospital, demanding justic...
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Why the progressive ‘Squad’ is getting smaller after defeats this primary cycleAug 16, 2024 5:41 am - WASHINGTON — The “Squad,” a group of progressive lawmakers in the House, is set to shrink next year after two members suffered primary defeats this election cycle followi...
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U.S. official says Mideast mediators are preparing to implement cease-fire deal before final agreementAug 16, 2024 5:37 am - JERUSALEM — A U.S. official said Friday that mediators are preparing to implement a Gaza cease-fire and hostage-swap deal to end the 10-month Israel-Hamas war before a fi...
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Lily Collins has found ‘Emily 2.0’ in ParisAug 15, 2024 3:50 pm - The new season of “Emily in Paris” will have many of the same elements as the first three: daring fashion, flirty romance and workplace drama. One thing that has changed? Lead actor Lily Collins’ confidence.
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‘Hollywood Squares’ host and Broadway star Peter Marshall dies at 98Aug 15, 2024 2:13 pm - Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98.
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As Gaza death toll passes 40,000, corpses are buried in yards, streets, tiered gravesAug 15, 2024 2:00 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Tiers of graves are stacked deep underground in a bloated Gaza cemetery, where Sa’di Baraka spends his days hacking at the earth, making room ...
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Schools have made slow progress on record absenteeism, with millions of kids still skipping classAug 15, 2024 1:13 pm - MEDFORD, Mass. — Flerentin “Flex” Jean-Baptiste missed so much school he had to repeat his freshman year at Medford High outside Boston. At school, “you do the same thing...
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Trump says he’s ‘entitled to personal attacks’ as he hammers Harris on inflation with grocery propsAug 15, 2024 12:54 pm - BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday he thinks he’s “entitled to personal attacks” on his Democratic rival, adding he's “very angry” at Vice Pre...
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Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry lead a middling spy comedy in ‘The Union’Aug 15, 2024 12:53 pm - “The Union,” an action comedy released Friday starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, should have been more fun. Or more exciting. But it’s lacking a certain charm that could help it be something more than the Netflix movie playing in the background.