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BIDEN, TRUMP, CONFERENCE, JOE
"This was in many ways the worst-case scenario for Dems," one Democrat said.
President Joe Biden's highly anticipated press conference went better than his debate. It also wasn't a masterclass. And Democrats are worried they're right where they started before
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BIDEN, TRUMP, 2025, PROJECT
When I was a desk officer in the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, I hated coup attempts: My phone never stopped ringing, round-the-clock task forces were organized, and bosses demanded endless reports because important people in Washington, DC,
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RUSSIA, NATO, CHINA, UKRAINE
In NATO's most serious denunciation of China to date, the military coalition labeled Beijing a "decisive enabler" of Russia in its ongoing war in Ukraine and expressed concerns over its nuclear arsenal and "systemic challenges" to the coalition's security.
"The
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INFLATION, JUNE, PRICES, COOLING
The "last mile" of the Federal Reserve's battle against inflation may have shortened to a last lap after U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly fell in June, shoring up policy makers' confidence that the inflation battle is being won and paving the way to lower
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TEXAS, DEPUTY, SHERIFF, AMBUSH
A Texas detective was killed Thursday morning after he was ambushed while pursuing an aggravated assault suspect, the Harris County Sheriff's Office announced. The suspect remains on the run and a manhunt is underway.
The unidentified detective was 28 years
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DUVALL, SHELLEY, SHINING, DIES
Shelly Duvall, who starred as Jack Nicholson’s tormented wife in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has died. She was 75.
The star’s death was announced on Thursday morning by her long-time partner Dan Gilroy.
“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend
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'Miracle baby' survives days alone on a roadside
A days-long search for a missing baby boy in Louisiana has ended after a truck driver spotted the one-year-old crawling through the grass alongside a busy highway.
Sheriff Gary Guillory told the BBC that the
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TRIAL, ALEC, BALDWIN, RUST
Testimony is underway in Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' trial
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Testimony is underway in actor Alec Baldwin’s trial for involuntary manslaughter. He appeared in court on Wednesday in Santa Fe, supported by his wife, Hilaria, and multiple
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NATO, SUMMIT, HOSPITAL, PUTIN
Welcome to my review of the 124th week of Tsar Vladomir's conquest of Ukraine.
The big news of the week was the 2024 NATO Summit in Washington, DC. The StripeyPants™ was exercised by an obviously demented Joe Biden leading the alliance and equally concerned
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HOUSE, GARLAND, FAILS, CONTEMPT
It's unclear if the measure, led by Republican Anna Paulina Luna, will pass.
House set to vote on inherent contempt resolution against Garland over Biden interview audio
The House is set to vote Thursday on an inherent contempt resolution, a rarely used legislative
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BURGUM, DOUG, VP, TRUMP
Karl Rove endorsed North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for former President Donald Trump’s running mate, making the remark on Thursday, days ahead of the Republican National Convention taking place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Trump has yet to officially announce his
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RUSSIAN, PLOT, FOILED, PART
American intelligence agencies uncovered a Russian plot to kill the chief executive of a German weapons manufacturer, according to multiple Western officials, as Moscow steps up a campaign to undermine support for Ukraine’s war effort.
The United States warned
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TEAM, USA, OLYMPIC, BASKETBALL
In their first tune-up game for the Paris Olympics, the United States men’s basketball team took care of business with an 86-72 win over Canada on Wednesday night in Las Vegas.
Former President Obama was in the building along with many other NBA coaches and
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TAIWAN, CHINA, ISLAND, REPORTS
The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said on Thursday it detected 66 Chinese warplanes and seven Chinese naval vessels circling the island during the previous 24 hours, marking the largest Chinese incursion into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in
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HEAT, DEATH, RECORDS, TOLL
is a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, Covid-19, and energy policy. Irfan is also a regular contributor to the radio program Science Friday. Prior to Vox, he was a reporter for ClimateWire at E&E News.
These are some examples of the dangers
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Benji Gregory, who starred as a child in the hit television series “ALF” in the 1980s, has died. He was 46.
His death was confirmed by his sister, Rebecca Pfaffinger, who said that an official cause of death was still pending.
According to Mrs. Pfaffinger,
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2080S, PEAK, POPULATION, WORLD
The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a new report by the United Nations said Thursday.
The report — released on World Population Day — says the global population
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FIRE, CATHEDRAL, BREAKS, SPIRE
The spire of the medieval cathedral in the French city of Rouen caught fire on Thursday, but authorities said it was under control about 90 minutes later.
The Gothic cathedral is famous as the subject of a series of paintings by impressionist Claude Monet.
The
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JAMES, BRONNY, GAME, LAKERS
Bronny James was the 55th pick of the NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers, his father's team, a couple weeks ago.
Scouts were not kind to Bronny during the pre-draft process, with at least one saying he was "not an NBA prospect" after he scored less than five
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US says Gaza's floating aid pier to shut down soon
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Reuters The US military was forced to remove the floating pier on 28 June because of bad weather
The US says the floating pier designed to increase
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WOMAN, TURKS, AMMO, CAICOS
A Turks and Caicos judge on Thursday handed down a sentence for the fifth and latest American arrested in Turks and Caicos for having ammunition in their luggage since the beginning of the year.
Sharitta Grier, a 45-year-old mother and grandmother from Florida,
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CAITLIN, CLARK, SHOVES, GAME
The days of Caitlin Clark getting shoved around by opponents and taking it, may be coming to an end.
On Wednesday night, during an exceptionally chippy contest against the Washington Mystics, Clark took exception to Washington’s Julie Vanloo’s physical style
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TRUMP, IMMUNITY, RULING, JUDGE
Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday said Manhattan prosecutors improperly relied on evidence of the former U.S. president's official acts in securing his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.
His lawyers said the guilty
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