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Bondi beach Seattle vigil...
Associated Press

What to know about the attack on the Hannukah festival in Australia that killed 15 people

 A father and son are suspected by officials to have killed 15 people on a popular beach in Australia, shocking a country where gun violence is rare.
11 months ago
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CHRISTOPHER WEBER AND MIKE BALSAMO, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Son arrested after Rob Reiner and his wife found dead in Los Angeles home, AP source says

 Director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were the two people found dead Sunday at a Los Angeles home owned by Reiner.
11 months ago
brown university shooting...
KIMBERLEE KRUESI, JENNIFER McDERMOTT AND ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Police search Brown University after shooter kills 2 and wounds 8 on campus

A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus.
11 months ago
flooding washington...
CEDAR ATTANASIO AND CLAIRE RUSH, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Record flooding threatens Washington as more heavy rain pounds the Northwest

Residents began packing up and fleeing rising rivers in western Washington state Wednesday as a new wave of heavy rain swept into the region.
11 months ago
hepatitis b vaccine shots...
Associated Press

US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
11 months ago
golden globe one battle after another...
Associated Press

Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion

Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, the legacy Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and “Friends,” to buy its studio and streaming business for $72 billion.
11 months ago
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GEOFF MULVIHILL AND DARLENE SUPERVILLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Trump administration says it will withhold SNAP from Democrat-led states if they don’t provide data

President Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it will move to withhold SNAP food aid from recipients in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless those states provide information about those receiving the assistance.
11 months ago
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Associated Press

Starbucks to pay about $35M to NYC workers to settle claims it violated labor law

Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday.
11 months ago
national guard shooting suspect...
FARNOUSH AMIRI, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with ‘dark isolation’ as community raised concerns

The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House had been unraveling for years.
11 months ago
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ETHAN SWOPE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

4 dead and 10 wounded in shooting at banquet hall in Stockton, California

Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, sheriff’s officials said Saturday.
11 months ago
national guard shooting...
COLLIN BINKLEY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Suspect who drove from WA and shot National Guard members faces murder charge; US halts all asylum decisions

Charges against the man accused of shooting two National Guard members have been upgraded to first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died while investigators continued to seek a motive.
11 months ago
national guard shooting...
COLLIN BINKLEY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Suspect in shooting of National Guard members now facing a first-degree murder charge

Charges against the man accused of shooting two National Guard members have been upgraded to first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died.
12 months ago
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CURTIS YEE and SAL CHRIST, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Trump wants to ‘permanently pause’ migration to the US from poorer countries

President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants.
12 months ago
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Trump says one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by Afghan national has died

President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died.
12 months ago
national guard shooting...
Associated Press

What we do and don’t know about the shooting of 2 National Guard members in DC

The brazen daytime shooting of two National Guard members in the nation’s capital by a man authorities identified as an Afghan national has raised multiple questions.
12 months ago
ups plane crash kentucky...
JOSH FUNK AND ED WHITE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Investigators say UPS plane that crashed in Kentucky, killing 14, had cracks in engine mount

Federal investigators released dramatic photos Thursday of an engine flying off a doomed UPS cargo plane that crashed two weeks ago, killing 14 people in Kentucky.
12 months ago
national guard sent home portland...
JULIE WATSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hundreds of National Guard troops deployed to Portland and Chicago are being sent home

Hundreds of National Guard troops deployed to Chicago and Portland are being sent home, and those who will remain will continue to stay off the streets, a defense official said Monday.
12 months ago
Epstein Files Transparency Act...
Stephen Groves, The Associated Press

House votes overwhelmingly to pass bill to force release of Epstein files

The House voted to mandate the Justice Department release files on Jeffrey Epstein, aiming for transparency in a high-profile case.
12 months ago
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Cloudflare outage disrupts ChatGPT, X, other internet services

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, transit infrastructure, and other prominent internet services.
12 months ago
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CLAIRE RUSH, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Off-duty pilot who tried to cut a flight’s engines midair is released without prison time

A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit will serve no additional prison time.
12 months ago
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VIDEO: Seal seeks refuge on photographer’s boat while fleeing orcas

Witness a seal's narrow escape from orcas in this captivating video featuring Charvet Drucker's wildlife photography adventure.
12 months ago
FILE - In this March 11, 2019, file photo, rescuers work at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flig...

Jury awards $28M to family of a United Nations consultant killed in Boeing 737 Max crash in Ethiopia

A federal court jury has awarded more than $24 million to the family of a woman who died in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max jetliner in Ethiopia more than six years ago. The verdict was reached Wednesday on behalf of the relatives of Shikha Garg, a United Nations consultant, after a weeklong trial […]
1 year ago
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Associated Press

Epstein email says Trump ‘knew about the girls,’ but White House calls release a Democratic smear

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2011 email that Donald Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with a victim of sex trafficking and said in a separate message years later that Trump “knew about the girls."
1 year ago
government shutdown...
KEVIN FREKING, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A historic shutdown is nearly over. It leaves no winners and much frustration

The longest government shutdown in history could conclude as soon as Wednesday, Day 43, with almost no one happy with the final result.
1 year ago