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Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr sues over her removal from House floor

Monday, May 01, 2023

Zephyr was silenced and barred for chiding her Republican colleagues over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and for encouraging protesters.

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Norway unveils a life-size sculpture of Freya, the euthanized walrus

Monday, May 01, 2023

Freya became a global celebrity last year after she was seen frolicking and basking in a Oslo fjord before she was euthanized by the authorities. A bronze sculpture now honors her in Norway's capital.

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Paraguay's long-ruling party scores an easy presidential election win

Monday, May 01, 2023

The Colorado Party remained the dominant force of Paraguayan politics as the vote count from Sunday's election gave an overwhelming lead to its presidential candidate, Santiago Peña.

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Basketball legend Larry 'Gator' Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, has died at 73

Monday, May 01, 2023

Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died on Saturday.

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Pope Francis says he is open to helping return Ukrainian children taken to Russia

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Speaking from the papal plane, Francis said he would be willing to help facilitate the return of children taken to Russia since the war began. And he revealed a secret peace "mission" was under way.

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2 teens were killed in a shooting at a house party on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Police have charged a 19-year-old man for killing two and wounding for others in the city of Bay St. Louis, about 15 miles west of Gulfport.

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Emergency aid has arrived in Sudan to help supply hospitals devastated by fighting

Sunday, April 30, 2023

A plane carrying eight tons of medical aid landed Sunday in Sudan, after more than two weeks of fighting between forces loyal to rival generals. The supplies are enough to treat hundreds of wounded.

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Neil Young and Snoop Dogg joined Willie Nelson on stage for a 90th birthday concert

Sunday, April 30, 2023

17,000 fans turned up to the Hollywood Bowl for a concert by Willie Nelson and his famous friends. Owen Wilson, Helen Mirren, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Garner all did the introductions.

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King Charles III's coronation will feature Jews, Muslims, and other faiths too

Sunday, April 30, 2023

King Charles III, keen to show that he can be a unifying figure, will be crowned in a ceremony that will for the first time include faiths other than the Church of England.

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What's white, fluffy and has 10,000 legs?

Saturday, April 29, 2023

In Idaho, it's not unusual to see ranchers moving a bleating herd of sheep up to higher elevation at this time of year. But the sight of 2,500 trotting across a highway brought a crowd of onlookers.

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A Texas man fatally shot 5 neighbors after he was asked to stop firing in his yard

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Authorities say the suspect is not in custody and are asking for the public's help in locating him. A neighbor had asked him to stop shooting in his yard because there was an infant trying to sleep.

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Colorado governor signs 4 gun control bills after massacre

Saturday, April 29, 2023

The new laws are aimed at quelling rising suicides and youth violence, preventing mass shootings and opening avenues for gun violence victims to sue the long-protected firearm industry.

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New report blames airlines for most flight cancellations

Saturday, April 29, 2023

The GAO also said airlines are taking longer to recover from disruptions like storms. It said surges in cancellations in late 2021 and early 2022 lasted longer than they did before the pandemic.

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President Biden commutes the sentences of 31 people convicted of drug crimes

Saturday, April 29, 2023

The move came as the White House announced policy actions across 20 agencies meant to improve the criminal justice system, which disproportionately affects Black and other non-white communities.

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U.S. Army grounds aviators for training after fatal crashes

Saturday, April 29, 2023

The U.S. Army has grounded the units after 12 soldiers died within the last month in helicopter crashes in Alaska and Kentucky, the military branch announced Friday.

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Montana is the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors

Friday, April 28, 2023

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed the bill on Friday, a piece of legislation that exiled transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr told fellow lawmakers would leave "blood" on their hands.

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The Army identifies 3 soldiers killed in Alaska helicopter crash

Friday, April 28, 2023

Two U.S. Army Apache helicopters collided and crashed in Alaska while returning from a training flight, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth. The cause of the crash was under investigation.

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On James Corden's final show: 'We are all more the same than we are different'

Friday, April 28, 2023

Corden told the audience: "There are so many people who are trying to stoke those differences and we have to try as best we can to look for the light, look for the joy. If you do, it's out there."

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Pranksters posing as Ukraine's president tricked the Fed chair into a phone call

Friday, April 28, 2023

The Fed chairperson was tricked into an extended phone call in January with Russian pranksters posing as Ukraine's president, during which the discussion focused on the impact of interest rate hikes.

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Ed Sheeran sang and played his guitar while on the stand at copyright trial

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Ed Sheeran was an hour into testimony in Manhattan federal court when his lawyer, Ilene Farkas, pressed him to tell how he came to write "Thinking Out Loud" a decade ago.

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