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HARRIS, KAMALA, BIDEN, TRUMP
The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday, August 19, in Chicago, Illinois, where the Democratic Party is set to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, to its 2024 presidential ticket.
The
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SANTOS, GEORGE, GUILTY, FRAUD
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, short-circuiting the federal fraud case that led to his expulsion from Congress just weeks before it was set to go to trial.
"I betrayed the trust of my constituents
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DNC, CHICAGO, PROTESTERS, CONVENTION
Harris-Walz team campaigns in Pennsylvania in a lead-up to the convention Vice President Harris, Gov. Walz and their spouses travel through Pennsylvania by bus on their way to the Democratic National Convention. NPR is along for the ride.
Politics Harris-Walz
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DONAHUE, PHIL, 88, SHOW
Phil Donahue, the pioneering media maven whose award-winning career began in the late 1950s and eventually earned him the moniker “king of daytime” talk TV, died following a long illness. He was 88.
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CLINTON, DNC, BILL, CONVENTION
Some have drawn comparisons between Harris' campaign and Clinton's 2016 run.
Hillary Clinton to speak at DNC as Harris looks to make history as 1st female president
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak Monday on the first night of the Democratic
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DNC, PROTESTERS, BREACH, CHICAGO
Thousands of mostly peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters marched in Chicago Monday as President Joe Biden arrived for the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, in a show of force against his administration's support for Israel in the Gaza war.
After
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BLINKEN, FIRE, CEASE, ISRAEL
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Monday that Israel had accepted a Biden administration proposal to bridge some remaining differences with Hamas on a cease-fire deal, as he pushed what he called “probably the best, maybe the last, opportunity” to
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WALZ, TIM, AFFECT, RASMUSSEN
It looks like the ballad of Tim Walz's stolen valor scandal just carries merrily on, even into the DNC in Chicago.
It's hard to imagine why the Democrats haven't dumped him already, given the facts. But it says a lot about them that they haven't. It shows
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TRUMP, IRAN, INTELLIGENCE, CAMPAIGNS
Iran hacked Trump campaign, US intelligence confirms
The Republican's campaign was reportedly sent a spear-phishing email – a message designed to look trustworthy in order to get the target to click on a malicious link.
The Trump campaign earlier this month
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, FRONTS, SEPARATE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the goals of a surprise attack by his military in Russian territory, stating Sunday that Kyiv is seeking to create a “buffer zone” in Russia to stop incoming soldiers.
Local reports first began revealing the
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TRUMP, SENTENCING, HUSH, DELAYING
Trump had been scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 18.
Prosecutors in New York are taking no position on former President Donald Trump's request to delay sentencing of his "hush money" conviction until after the November election.
Instead, the Manhattan district
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CHICAGO, CITY, WEEKEND, SHOT
At least 23 people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
The weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred just before 12:30 a.m. Saturday “in the 4500-block of South Champlain Avenue,” ABC 7 reported. A 28-year-old
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NEWS, FOX, TONIGHT, POLITICS
Almin Karamehmedovic, the longtime executive producer of “ABC World News Tonight With David Muir,” is the new president of ABC News, where he will be facing pressure to improve the division’s financial performance.
Debra OConnell, president, News Group and
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STEVE, KERR, COACH, TRUMP
NBA Coach Steve Kerr hopes to say 'night, night' to Trump in November
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The NPR Network will be reporting live from Chicago throughout the week bringing you the latest on the Democratic National
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JURY, SHOOTING, TEXAS, 2018
The parents of a gunman who was 17 when he killed eight students and two teachers at his high school in Santa Fe, Texas, in 2018 are not financially liable for his heinous actions, a jury found on Monday.
The verdict, reached after a day of deliberations,
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SHOOTING, INJURED, POLICE, BALTIMORE
Multiple people were shot near a park in East Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday night, according to police.
Baltimore Police wrote on social media that the incident happened in the 1300 block of Spring St. near Caroline & Hoffman Park.
Police said officers were
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MISSING, SINKS, BRITISH, TECH
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, known as Britain's Bill Gates, and two Americans are among six missing after a luxury superyacht sank off the coast of Italy, killing at least one man.
The 184-foot British-flagged Bayesian carrying foreign tourists capsized
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MATTHEW, PERRY, DEATH, KETAMINE
The actor Matthew Perry, who had long struggled with addiction, grew intrigued by ketamine a few years ago during a stay at a rehab facility in Switzerland where he received daily infusions of the powerful anesthetic “to ease pain and help with depression.”
“Has
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SUPERMOON, BLUE, TONIGHT, SHINES
What to know about Monday's blue supermoon
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On Monday night, serious moon viewers may notice something different about the moon — if you look hard enough.
The full moon will be a blue supermoon, a celestial
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ACTIVIST, PRO, LIFE, ARRESTS
A Christian pro-life activist has been awarded £13,000 from police after she was arrested twice for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the director of the anti-abortion March for Life UK group, successfully forced
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CHINA, SOUTH, COLLIDE, SEA
The State Department on Monday condemned "dangerous actions" by China against Philippine vessels in the South China Sea.
Chinese ships "employed reckless maneuvers, deliberately colliding with two Philippine Coast Guard ships, causing structural damage and
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FETTERMAN, SPOKESWOMAN, DNC, ISRAEL
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) revealed he will skip the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago this week to spend time with his children.
In an interview with the Free Press, Fetterman explained that his kids were “out of school” and the convention,
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HAMAS, AVIV, TEL, BOMBING
Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility Monday for a bombing the day before in Tel Aviv that killed the apparent attacker and wounded a bystander and that Israeli officials confirmed was a terrorist attack.
The bomb appeared to go off before it
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GUN, PLATFORM, NATION, CONTROL
The Democrats used their 2024 party platform to pledge federal implementation of universal background checks, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and numerous other California-style gun controls.
The platform also intimates the Democrat
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