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'Take our lives seriously,' Michelle Obama pleads as she rallies for Kamala Harris in MichiganOct 26, 2024 5:54 pm - Michelle Obama delivered a searing speech in support of Kamala Harris during a rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was her first appearance on the campaign trail since the Democratic National Convention over the summer. Obama's speech focused on abortion rights and challenged men to vote for Harris to be the country's first female president.
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Pope Francis' Catholic church reform process ends without giving more equity to womenOct 26, 2024 5:39 pm - Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped, but reflected the pope's aims for a church that at least listens more to its followers.
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Foreign threats to US election on rise, but officials are moving faster to expose themOct 26, 2024 5:27 pm - Foreign threats to the upcoming U.S. election are on the rise as Nov. 5 approaches, and U.S. officials are moving more aggressively to call them out. Russia, Iran and China have all launched campaigns designed to support or oppose certain candidates, while also stoking division and distrust in elections. But lessons learned from past election cycles have led U.S. officials to adopt a more aggressive stance
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Israel's first open attack on Iran targets missile sites and apparently spares oil and nuclear onesOct 26, 2024 5:21 pm - Israel has attacked Iran with pre-dawn airstrikes in retaliation for the barrage of ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic fired on Israel earlier this month. It's the first time Israel's military has openly attacked Iran. Crucially, there is no indication that Iran's oil or nuclear sites were struck. Iran insists the strikes caused only "limited damage," and Iranian state-run media downplayed them
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Israeli military launches strikes on military targets in Iran, officials sayOct 25, 2024 7:00 pm - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel launched airstrikes early Saturday on what it described as military targets in Iran in retaliation for a ballistic missile assault Oc...
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Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead and influential bassist, dies at 84Oct 25, 2024 3:55 pm - Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84.
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Biden visits Indian Country and apologizes for the ‘sin’ of a 150-year-old boarding school policyOct 25, 2024 2:32 pm - President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history” in his first presidential visit to Indian Country.
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At least 75 sickened as deadly McDonald’s E. coli outbreak expandsOct 25, 2024 10:58 am - A deadly outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states, federal health officials said Friday.
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Erik and Lyle Menendez are a step closer to leaving prison, but freedom won't come quicklyOct 25, 2024 8:17 am - Erik and Lyle Menendez still have a long way to go before they can walk out of prison, even though the Los Angeles County district attorney has recommended their life-without-parole sentences be thrown out and the brothers be resentenced and immediately eligible for parole.
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Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon kills 3 journalists as they sleepOct 25, 2024 8:07 am - An Israeli airstrike killed three journalists as they slept at a guesthouse in southeast Lebanon early Friday, a rare strike on an area that had so far been spared the hostilities in the rest of the region.