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Search for suspect in Kentucky highway shooting ends with discovery of body believed to be his
Authorities have found a body near the rural southeastern Kentucky site where a gunman opened fire on an interstate highway, hitting a dozen vehicles and wounding five ...
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Man facing murder charges after deadly shooting in Petersburg
PETERSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — A man is facing second-degree murder charges in connection to an early August shooting in Petersburg. Two shootings the Petersburg Bureau of Police determined to be related ...
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Kim calls for bolstering nuclear and conventional weapons after testing 2 types of missiles
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised successful tests of two types of missiles — one designed to carry a “super-large conventional warhead” and the ...
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UN chief urges divided nations to approve blueprint to address global challenges from climate to AI
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief urged the world’s divided nations on Wednesday to compromise and approve a blueprint to address global challenges from conflicts and climate change to ...
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California law cracking down on election deepfakes by AI to be tested
California now has some of the toughest laws in the United States to crack down on election deepfakes ahead of the 2024 election after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three ...
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Musk’s X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access
Some Brazilian users reconnected with X on Wednesday despite the Supreme Court’s recent nationwide ban, the result of the social network apparently changing the way its ...
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Sheriff’s posting of the mugshot of a boy accused of school threat draws praise, criticism
Around the country, communities are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, sparking emergency notifications, urgent group chats and heightened fears among ...
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Harvey Weinstein faces a new sex crime charge. The accuser has never gone public
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case. A new indictment charged the jailed ex-movie ...
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Owner of farm raided by Louisa deputies connected to 450-acre wildfire
The Louisa County Sheriff’s Office said a man whose farm was raided by deputies in August for alleged animal abuse is also ...
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What to know about the pipeline fire burning for a third day in Houston’s suburbs
A pipeline fire that forced hundreds of people to flee their homes in the Houston suburbs burned for a third day on Wednesday, with no official timeline for when it might ...
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‘We don’t want to break people’: Lawmakers, advocates make recommendations after Irvo Otieno’s death
If you only have one way to do things, then that’s the only way you’re going to use,” Jones said. “And if you feel one thing doesn’t work, you’re going to escalate it ...
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A former officer texted a photo of the bloodied Tyre Nichols to his ex-girlfriend
A former Memphis police officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols sent his ex-girlfriend a photo of the badly injured man on the night he was punched, kicked and ...