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Bill Russell's No. 6 is being retired across the NBA, a first for the league

Thursday, August 11, 2022

The number worn by the 11-time champion, civil rights activist and Hall of Fame player and coach is being permanently retired by all 30 teams. Russell died July 31 at age 88.

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Armed man killed after trying to breach FBI office, standoff

Thursday, August 11, 2022

The confrontation at the FBI's Ohio field office comes as officials warn of an increase in threats against federal agents following a search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

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A mistrial is declared over engineers' role in the Flint water crisis

Thursday, August 11, 2022

A judge declared a mistrial after jurors said they couldn't reach a verdict in a dispute over whether two engineering firms should bear some responsibility for Flint's lead-contaminated water.

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FBI Director Wray denounces threats following the agency's search of Trump home

Thursday, August 11, 2022

"I'm always concerned about threats to law enforcement," FBI Director Christopher Wray said. "Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you're upset with."

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A house explosion kills 3 people and damages 39 homes in southern Indiana

Thursday, August 11, 2022

The cause of the explosion has not been determined. At least 11 of the 39 homes damaged are "uninhabitable," the fire department's chief told the Evansville Courier & Press.

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Sister says North Korea's Kim suffered a fever from COVID

Thursday, August 11, 2022

The North's official news agency also reported that Kim's sister blamed the COVID outbreak on leaflets flown from across the border from South Korea, while warning of deadly retaliation.

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Scientists say landfills release more planet-warming methane than previously thought

Thursday, August 11, 2022

A study builds on research that shows landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions globally, after oil and gas systems and agriculture.

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Trial begins in lawsuit over Kobe Bryant crash photos

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Vanessa Bryant's invasion of privacy lawsuit says a deputy showed photos of her husband's remains to bar patrons and a firefighter showed them to off-duty colleagues.

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Suspect denies involvement in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

The 51-year-old Afghan immigrant denied any connection to the deaths that shook the city and its small Muslim community. Bullet casings found at crime scenes were linked to a gun found at his home.

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Polio vaccine boosters are offered to London children as the virus spreads

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Children were made eligible for booster doses after health authorities reported finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple areas of London but found no cases of the paralytic disease in people.

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A Nebraska woman is charged with helping her daughter have an abortion

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Police say that in Facebook messages they've obtained, Jessica Burgess tells her 17-year-old daughter that she has abortion pills to end her 24-week pregnancy. They're both charged with felonies.

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Trump says he refused to answer any questions under oath in today's New York testimony

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

"I once asked, 'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?' Now I know the answer to that question," Trump said in a statement. He called the case a politically motivated witch hunt.

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Some Native Americans say this Pilgrim site is failing as a bi-cultural museum

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Members of Massachusetts's Wampanoag community say the people running the Patuxet living history site have done little to ingratiate themselves with tribes.

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Stranded whale dies after a rescue operation to remove it from a French river

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

A veterinarian said that during the rescue operation, the dangerously thin white mammal began to have breathing difficulties, and so experts decided to humanely euthanize the creature.

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A Brazil court reopens the case of a rainforest park larger than New York City

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

The court's decision reopened a lawsuit that invalidates a protected area in Brazil's Amazon.

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An Albuquerque man was charged with killing 2 Muslim men, suspected of killing 2 more

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

A man was charged with killing two Muslim men and is suspected of killing two others in Albuquerque, N.M. The killings sparked fear in Muslim communities nationwide.

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A raging fire at a Cuban oil facility worsens the island's energy crisis

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Flames engulfed a fourth tank at an oil storage facility as the fire consumes critical fuel supplies on an island grappling with a growing energy crisis.

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A grand jury declined to indict a woman whose accusations set off Emmett Till killing

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

A grand jury declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in 1955. The grand jury determined that there was not sufficient evidence.

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A key route in Death Valley buried in floods will be closed for another week

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Flash flooding in the park trapped hundreds of guests and partially buried cars and trucks in mud. The record-breaking rains dumped 1.46 inches — 75% of what the area typically gets in a year.

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Famed Japanese designer Issey Miyake dies at 84

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Miyake defined an era in Japan's modern history, reaching stardom in the 1970s with his origami-like pleats that transformed usually crass polyester into chic.

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