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School choice and a history of segregation collide as one Florida county shutters its rural schoolsAug 22, 2024 7:16 am - MADISON, Fla. — Tens of thousands of students have left Florida’s public schools in recent years amid an explosive expansion in school choice. Now, districts large and sm...
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Labor dispute stops Canadian freight railroads and could cause major economic disruption in U.S.Aug 22, 2024 7:12 am - TORONTO — Both of Canada’s major freight railroads have come to a full stop because of a contract dispute with their workers, an impasse that could bring significant econ...
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Zelenskyy visits border area for the first time since Ukrainian forces entered Russia's Kursk regionAug 22, 2024 7:10 am - KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy toured the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy on Thursday in his first visit to the border area since his forces entered ...
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In ‘Between the Temples,’ Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane make beautiful musicAug 22, 2024 5:30 am - In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving canter who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but who finds a strange kinship with a much older widow (Carol Kane) seeking her bat mitzvah.
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Harris' running mate Tim Walz talks of 'bringing the joy' in his national introduction at DNCAug 21, 2024 11:02 pm - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted his party's nomination for vice president Wednesday night, using his Democratic National Convention address to thank the packed arena for...
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Shiloh Jolie, daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, officially drops Pitt surnameAug 21, 2024 5:16 pm - One of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s six children has officially dropped “Pitt” from her name. A Los Angeles court granted a petition from the third-eldest child of the ...
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Trump is holding his first outdoor rally since last month's assassination attemptAug 21, 2024 1:35 pm - ASHEBORO, N.C. — Donald Trump is holding his first outdoor rally since narrowly surviving an attempted assassination in Pennsylvania last month. Trump's podium at the Nor...
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Attorney for far-right Oath Keepers extremist group pleads guilty to Capitol riot chargesAug 21, 2024 1:30 pm - WASHINGTON — An attorney who represented the far-right Oath Keepers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges stemming from a mob's Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol,...
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Divers find 4 bodies during search of superyacht wreckage after it sank off Sicily, 2 still missingAug 21, 2024 11:27 am - PORTICELLO, Sicily — Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of four passengers Wednesday and searched for two more as questions ...
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Tim Walz and Bill Clinton will speak at the Democratic National Convention's third dayAug 21, 2024 10:01 am - Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton will headline the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the third day of the party's choreogra...