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A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in 2nd U.S. case tied to dairy cows

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The Michigan dairy worker had mild eye symptoms from the infection and has recovered, health officials said. The worker had been in contact with cows presumed to be infected.

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Norway, Ireland and Spain say they will recognize a Palestinian state

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Norway, Ireland and Spain recognized a Palestinian state on Wednesday in a historic move that drew immediate condemnation from Israel and jubilation from the Palestinians.

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A tornado devastates an Iowa town and kills multiple people, authorities say

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Multiple people died Tuesday and at least a dozen were injured when a powerful tornado tore through a small Iowa town, carving a bleak landscape of destroyed homes, shredded trees and smashed cars.

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French police fatally shoot a man suspected of planning to set fire to a synagogue

Friday, May 17, 2024

French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen early on Friday, authorities said.

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A federal judge temporarily halts U.S. plan to lower credit card late fees to $8

Saturday, May 11, 2024

The temporary injunction imposed by Judge Mark Pittman in the Northern District of Texas is a win for the big banks and major credit card companies. The plan was set to go into effect next week.

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Duane Eddy, who put the twang in early rock guitar with 'Rebel Rouser', dies at age 86

Wednesday, May 01, 2024

He was a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as "Rebel Rouser" and "Peter Gunn" influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians.

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Reggie Bush reinstated as 2005 Heisman Trophy winner after changes in NCAA rules

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The University of Southern California had returned the award a decade ago after an NCAA investigation that found Bush received what were then impermissible benefits during his time with the Trojans.

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At least 2 killed, many injured in shooting at Memphis block party, police say

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Eight people were shot including two men who were killed at an unsanctioned public party in a Memphis city park Saturday night, police said.

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Voting technology company settles lawsuit against OAN over 2020 election claims

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

The settlement between Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies targeted by fraud claims related to the 2020 election.

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A former Marine gets 9 years for firebombing a California Planned Parenthood clinic

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

The 24-year-old had pleaded guilty to four felony counts related to the firebombing of a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022. The clinic was closed and no one was injured.

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Chicago shooting kills 7-year-old girl and wounds 7 people including small children

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Eight people were shot including a young girl who was killed in what Chicago police believe was gang-related violence on the city's South Side on Saturday night.

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The first foreign-born grand champion of sumo, Akebono Taro, dies at age 54

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Born Chad George Ha'aheo Rowan in Hawaii, Akebono moved to Tokyo in the 1980s, won his first grand championship in 1993, the first of 11 such titles, and retired in 2001. He died of heart failure.

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Tony-winning playwright Christopher Durang dies at 75

Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Durang was a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."

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John Barth, innovative postmodernist novelist, dies at 93

Wednesday, April 03, 2024

John Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction, died Tuesday.

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A strong earthquake rocks Taiwan, collapsing buildings and causing a tsunami

Tuesday, April 02, 2024

Taiwan's earthquake monitoring agency gave the magnitude as 7.2. The earthquake collapsed buildings in a southern city and created a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands.

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Louis Gossett Jr., the 1st Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87

Friday, March 29, 2024

Gossett won the award for An Officer And A Gentleman, and also got an Emmy for Roots. More recent prominent roles for the Broadway star and civil rights activist were in The Color Purple and Watchmen.

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A bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people

Thursday, March 28, 2024

An 8-year-old child is only survivor. The passengers were headed to an Easter festival before the bus plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames.

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Famed American sculptor Richard Serra, the 'poet of iron,' has died at 85

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Serra, known for his iconic large-scale pieces of outdoor artwork, died at the age of 85 on Tuesday at his home in Long Island, New York.

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M. Emmet Walsh, character actor from 'Blood Simple' and 'Blade Runner,' dies at 88

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Walsh died from cardiac arrest on Tuesday at a hospital in St. Albans, Vermont, his longtime manager Sandy Joseph said.

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Alabama lawmakers have approved a sweeping anti-diversity, equity and inclusion bill

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Republicans said they are guarding against programs that "deepen divisions," but Black Democrats called it an effort to roll back affirmative action programs that welcome and encourage diversity.

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