More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in state's Medicaid expansion program in the seven months since it was launched. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said in a Friday news conference …
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7/12/24
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U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she remains cancer-free following her bout with breast cancer in 2021, but doctors recently removed a small spot and that she’ll get radiation treatment as a …
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7/12/24
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The Webb Space Telescope has captured a pair of intertwined galaxies glowing in the infrared. NASA and the European Space Agency's observatory photographed the two galaxies 326 million light-years …
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By MARCIA DUNN
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7/12/24
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JPMorgan Chase says profits jumped sharply in the second quarter as the bank cashed in billions of dollars of its holdings in Visa Inc. But the bank’s results were also helped by higher interest …
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By KEN SWEET
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7/12/24
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar Assad in recent weeks have signaled they are interested in restoring diplomatic ties that have been ruptured for more than a decade. …
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By ABBY SEWELL and SUZAN FRASER
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7/12/24
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A sizzling heat wave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 Fahrenheit, in places. From Italy to Romania, authorities warned people to …
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By JOVANA GEC
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7/11/24
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The U.S. and other western governments criticized a controversial security bill in South Sudan that would allow the government to detain people without warrants, saying it would undermine open …
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By DENG MACHOL
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7/11/24
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California authorities say a man is in custody after fatally shooting his wife, their 6-year-old son and his wife’s parents Wednesday night. Alameda Police say a 1-year-old son also was shot and is …
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7/11/24
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An Israeli man orphaned during the Holocaust thought he would never meet any of his relatives. But through modern DNA science, Shalom Koray has been able to hug his second cousin in Charleston, South …
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By JEFFREY COLLINS
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7/11/24
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Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is travelling to Floridato meet with former President Donald Trump following a NATO summit in Washington. It's a move likely to aggravate …
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By JUSTIN SPIKE and JILL COLVIN
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7/11/24
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The nearly complete fossilized remains of a 161-million-year-old stegosaurus discovered in Colorado in 2022 will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in New York next week. Sotheby's officials have named the …
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7/11/24
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U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are set to hold talks with Asia-Pacific leaders amid concerns about tensions with China. Support from Beijing but also North Korea for Russia's …
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By LORNE COOK
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7/11/24
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They compete under the same flag but speak different languages and come from different parts of the world. After fleeing war and persecution, 36 athletes from 11 countries will compete in the Paris …
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By MEGAN JANETSKY, RENATA BRITO, KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and DANIELLA MATAR
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7/11/24
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Despite a record 46-day streak of triple digit feels-like temperatures, Miami’s unprecented brutal summer last year wasn’t that deadly, contrasting with the rest of the nation where federal …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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7/11/24
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The remnants of Hurricane Beryl have brought flooding to Vermont that led to frantic evacuations, knocked down bridges and washed away an apartment building. The disaster came a year to the day after …
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By LISA RATHKE
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7/11/24
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Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market remains sturdy despite high interest rates. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week …
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By MATT OTT
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7/11/24
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Prosecutors are seeking for restitution for the families of 34 people killed in a scuba dive boat fire in 2019 off the California coast. Jerry Boylan’s criminal negligence as captain of the …
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By STEFANIE DAZIO and JAIMIE DING
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7/11/24
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Government power in the US is a swirl of checks and balances, as a recent Supreme Court ruling shows
The framers creating the U.S. Constitution knew they needed SOMEONE to be at the helm of the federal government, a president. But they didn’t want to risk making a new ruler. So they split power. …
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By DEEPTI HAJELA
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7/11/24
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President Joe Biden will hold a news conference Thursday that is the key event in a monumental week for his campaign. The Democratic incumbent is fending off calls for him to step aside as the …
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By MEG KINNARD
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7/10/24
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His brother was found dead, his mother was arrested before this baby was found crawling by a highway
A Louisiana sheriff says a 1-year-old boy survived two days of sometimes stormy weather before a truck driver spotted him crawling along a roadside. Sheriff “Stitch” Guillory is calling the child …
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By KEVIN McGILL
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7/10/24
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