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Biden names new a Secret Service director as the agency faces controversy

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

President Biden named Kim Cheatle, a veteran Secret Service official, to be the agency's next director as it faces controversy over missing text messages around the time of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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Panda twins are born in China as the species struggles for survival

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The male and female cubs, born Tuesday at the Qinling Panda Research Center in Shaanxi province, are the second pair of twins born to their mother, Qin Qin.

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Japan plans to ease COVID-19 border controls in early September

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Japan currently requires negative PCR test results within 72 hours of departure for all entrants.

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Why the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame is headed to this small Mississippi Delta town

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Marks, Mississippi, is where Martin Luther King Jr. chose in 1968 as the starting point for his Poor People's Campaign, which demanded economic justice for poor Americans of all backgrounds.

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Atlanta police officers won't face any charges in Rayshard Brooks shooting

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

A specially appointed prosecutor said it was "objectively reasonable" for the police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta in 2020 to use deadly force.

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A former cop pleads guilty to falsifying warrant that led to Breonna Taylor's death

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Former police detective Kelly Goodlett, who helped write the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor's apartment, has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.

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2 men are found guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

A jury convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan's governor in 2020 in a plot prosecutors described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists.

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Malaysia top court upholds ex-Prime Minister Najib's graft conviction

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

The five-member Federal Court panel said it unanimously found the judgment of the high court judge was right and that Najib's appeal was "devoid of any merits."

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Federal civil rights probe begins into 3 officers seen beating a man on video

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Arkansas State Police said the agency would investigate the use of force.

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Afghan refugee faces murder charge in third Muslim killing

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Federal authorities in court filings have pointed to cellphone records and accused one of Syed's sons of possibly helping his father track one of the victims.

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Heavy rain floods streets across the Dallas-Fort Worth area

Monday, August 22, 2022

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins declared a state of disaster for Dallas County and requested federal and state assistance. At least one person was killed.

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7,000 construction workers are needed for Ohio's largest economic development project

Monday, August 22, 2022

Ohio's largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment.

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The U.S. and South Korea are staging their biggest military drills in years

Monday, August 22, 2022

While Washington and Seoul describe their exercises as defensive, North Korea portrays them as invasion rehearsals and has used them to justify its nuclear weapons and missiles development.

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A statue honors a once-enslaved woman who won her freedom in court

Monday, August 22, 2022

A state representative found that many of his colleagues were largely unaware of the significance of the woman's case, which set the legal precedent that essentially ended slavery in Massachusetts.

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Police file terrorism charges against Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan

Monday, August 22, 2022

The terrorism charges come over a speech Khan gave in Islamabad in which he vowed to sue police officers and a female judge and alleged that a close aide had been tortured after his arrest

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China plans to use chemicals to generate rain to protect its grain harvest

Sunday, August 21, 2022

The hottest, driest summer since the government began recording rainfall and temperature 61 years ago has wilted crops and left reservoirs at half their normal water level.

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Singapore will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he believed it is the "right thing to do now" as most Singaporeans will now accept it. However, he said the city-state does not plan to allow for same-sex marriage.

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A Little League World Series player who injured his head was able to call his coach

Sunday, August 21, 2022

The 12-year-old is recovering at the hospital after he fell out of his top bunk in dorms at the world series complex. In addition to the call, he's also now able to walk on his own.

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At least 40 people are dead after floods and landslides leave hit northern India

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Rains inundated hundreds of villages, swept away mud houses, flooded roads and destroyed bridges in some parts of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand states.

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The daughter of 'Putin's brain' ideologist was killed in a car explosion

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Daria Dugina was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser in the outskirts of Moscow when the blast happened. Several of her father's allies say he was the likely target.

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