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Although Russia claims it has won control of Ukraine's eastern city of Bakhmut after a grinding nine-month conflict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died, top Ukrainian military leaders say the battle is not over.
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Rick Hoyt, who with his father pushing his wheelchair became a fixture at the Boston Marathon and other races for decades, has died. He was 61. Hoyt died of complications with his respiratory system, his family announced on Monday.
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) launched his presidential campaign at a rally Monday in Charleston, offering an optimistic message he hopes can contrast from his opponents. AP's Meg Kinnard breaks down what's to come for the junior senator on the trail. bit.ly/3OAlCmu
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring in the Netflix series "Fubar" at 75 years old, and won't be saying "Hasta la vista, baby" to Hollywood — or political punditry — anytime soon.
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Ecologists in the Brazilian Amazon are experimenting with a collaborative model of land management where the land is owned by a non-profit institute, and scientists work together with residents on sustainable fishing and forestry.
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A judge has entered not guilty pleas for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. Prosecutor Bill Thompson now has 60 days to inform the court whether he will seek the death penalty.
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A sharp uptick in thefts of Hyundais and Kias over the past two years has been linked to viral videos posted to TikTok and other social media platforms that teach people how to exploit a security vulnerability to steal the cars.
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"American Born Chinese" star Ben Wang says he hopes kids will look up to him the way he did with Brenda Song. Disney Channel alumni Song starred in the film "Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior."
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President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are set to meet at the White House as Washington works to strike a budget compromise and raise the nation's borrowing limit in time to avert a potentially chaotic federal default.
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Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware says he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. The announcement paves the way for a wide-open contest for the seat he has held since 2001 in the heavily blue state.
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The NAACP issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent policies championed by Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”
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A weekend celebration at a Southern California dance ballroom was hailed by organizers as the latest sign of healing within the Asian American community following the Lunar New Year shooting that killed 11 people at a nearby dance studio.
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Cindy and Kyu Cho moved to Texas to be closer to their families when they started one of their own. They weren't far from home when a gunman opened fire at a mall while they shopped with their two sons, killing the couple and their 3-year-old son.
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Teenagers will officially be allowed to open a Venmo account with their parent’s permission, the company said, expanding the popular social payments app to an age demographic that is likely to embrace it almost immediately.
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the driving force behind hosting the G7 in Hiroshima, is keen to promote the vision of a world without nuclear weapons. But he's also mindful of domestic worry over aggression by nuclear-armed neighbors.
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"A nightmare scenario": Iranian workers are building a nuclear facility near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, so deep underground that it's likely beyond the range of a last-ditch U.S. weapon designed for such sites. By .
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has switched to emergency diesel generators after losing its external power supply for the seventh time since Russia's full-scale invasion.
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This week marks one year since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. A look at what's happened in the year since one of America's deadliest mass shootings.
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Vinícius Júnior was subjected to racist abuse again with the Brazilian soccer star saying Spain's LaLiga “now belongs to racists.” The latest abuse against Vinícius came in Real Madrid's 1-0 loss at Valencia, a match that had to be temporarily stopped.
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San Francisco has named the nation’s first drag laureate to represent the city’s famous LGBTQ+ community at a time when rights are under attack. Mayor London Breed named drag performer and nightclub owner D’Arcy Drollinger to the job.
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Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, an 8-year-old girl who died last week in Border Patrol custody, was seen at least three separate times by medical personnel on the day of her death, U.S. immigration officials said Sunday.
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Fans angry at being blocked from entering a Salvadoran soccer league match knocked down an entrance gate to the stadium, leading to a crush that left at least 12 people dead and dozens injured, officials and witnesses say.
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Are high school students having less “sexual intercourse”? That’s what the studies say. But teenagers have a different take. They say the conversation about sexuality has become less binary, and so are the kinds of sex people are having.
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Brooks Koepka has returned to the top at the PGA Championship. Six weeks after letting a two-shot lead get away on the final day of the Masters, Koepka fended off challenges from Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler to win his third PGA title.
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Michelle Yeoh says she hasn't stopped working since her Oscar win for "Everything Everywhere All at Once." She's being honored at the Cannes Film Festival.
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