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  1. 56 minutes ago

    As the power outages from Hurricane Ida have dragged on, many people have decided to get out of town until the lights come back on. While many have simply packed up their cars and hit the road, others don’t have a car or enough gas to make the trip.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Tens of thousands of South Lake Tahoe residents are watching hopefully this weekend for a chance to return home as firefighters make progress against a threatening California blaze.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    With power due back for almost all of New Orleans by next week, Mayor LaToya Cantrell is strongly encouraging residents who evacuated because of Hurricane Ida to begin returning home. But outside the city, the prospects of recovery appeared bleaker.

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  4. 3 hours ago

    Some cities in Brazil are providing booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, even though most people have yet to receive their second jabs, in a sign of the concern in the country over the highly contagious delta variant.

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  5. 4 hours ago

    PHOTO GALLERY: Highlights of some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by in the past week.

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    Naomi Osaka says she is thinking of taking another break from tennis after her title defense at the ended with a third-round loss to Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez. by

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  7. 4 hours ago

    Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has won a confidence vote in Parliament after a frenzy of speculation over the makeup of the ruling coalition.

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    Derrick Henry is a man of few words, preferring to let his play do all the talking. Henry has been almost shouting the way he keeps running into the NFL record books. More from by :

    Derrick Henry Poised For More NFL History
    Derrick Henry now has a 17th regular-season game, giving him a chance at Eric Dickerson’s single-season NFL record of 2,105 yards set in 1984.
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    Denis Villeneuve has been dreaming up his version of since he first read Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic as a teenager. The director's immersive epic premiered at the .

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    Defending champion Naomi Osaka repeatedly smashed her racket to the court, smacked a ball into the crowd, hid under a towel and imploded over the final two sets in a third-round loss at the

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  11. 6 hours ago

    "We’re going to have your back." Surveying damage from Hurricane Ida in Louisiana, President Joe Biden pledged robust federal assistance to storm victims. He said $100 million in aid has already been distributed to individuals in the state in $500 checks.

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  12. 7 hours ago

    BREAKING: A state judge's temporary restraining order has shielded Texas abortion clinics from lawsuits by an anti-abortion group under a new state abortion law.

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    Health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the growing use of a decades-old parasite drug to treat COVID-19.

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  14. 8 hours ago

    President Joe Biden is declassifying some documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in a gesture to victims' families who seek the records in hopes of implicating the Saudi government. The Saudis have denied any connection to the attacks.

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    Social media users shared false claims this week about vaccines, Afghanistan and Hurricane Ida storm damage, including that animals escaped from a New Jersey zoo. 's Not Real News has the facts.

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  16. 9 hours ago

    Opponents of elections limits that are being spearheaded by Republicans in Texas have sued Gov. Greg Abbott, even before he had signed the measure. Challengers say the legislation attempts to disenfranchise minorities and other Democratic-leaning voters.

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  17. 10 hours ago

    "When I opened the door, the water rushed in." Storm evacuees in Manville, N.J., along the rain-swollen Raritan River, tell the same story: an urgent late-night knock on the door, a wall of water crashing into their apartments, then being rescued by boat.

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    Column: Jim Downing, a sports hero we should never forget. by >>

    Jim Downing: Co-Inventor Of HANS Device
    Jim Downing is an unsung hero of sports, helping save countless lives in auto racing over the last 20 years by inventing the HANS device along with his late brother-in-law, Bob Hubbard.
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  19. 11 hours ago

    “Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.” Health experts and medical groups seek to halt the growing use of ivermectin, a decades-old parasite drug, to treat COVID-19. The FDA warns that it can cause harmful side effects.

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  20. 12 hours ago

    The Supreme Court has allowed a Texas law banning most abortions to remain in effect, marking a turning point for abortion opponents. The Texas law bans abortions at the “first detectable heartbeat,” terminology some medical experts say is inaccurate.

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