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The Ohio governor tested positive for the coronavirus just ahead of a planned meeting with President Trump.
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On Aug. 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima in western Japan became the site of history’s first nuclear attack when U.S. warplanes dropped an atomic bomb.
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New York’s attorney general announces a lawsuit accusing the NRA of misspending and self-dealing, and seeks to dissolve the gun rights organization.
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Residents of Beirut are venting their fury at Lebanon’s leaders, blaming them for the deadly explosion that ravaged the city.
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Law enforcement agencies have increasingly been using tear gas — traditionally deployed as a last resort — on protesters as an offensive tool.
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Educators, health officials and scientists are still working to understand what it will take to make schools safe in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The first cruise of a decimated Alaska cruise season came to a sad end after a passenger tested positive for the coronavirus.
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President Trump still wants to overturn Obamacare, but his predecessor’s healthcare law keeps gaining ground in places where it was once unwelcome.
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Hurricane Katrina. Superstorm Sandy. The Camp fire. But what about the heat wave that contributed to 10,000 deaths?
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Amid the pandemic, the divide between more and less affluent areas in California grows.
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Clashes outside a U.S. courthouse in Portland have largely stopped, but confrontations have arisen in other parts of Oregon’s largest city.
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Some lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are leaving Poland following the anti-LGBTQ campaign rhetoric the president used to get reelected.
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Florida police say teenagers fleeing officers while carrying a semiautomatic gun inadvertently jumped a wall at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort
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A fire killed eight coronavirus patients at a hospital in western India early Thursday, officials said.
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An online bond hearing for a Florida teen accused of hacking prominent Twitter accounts was interrupted by rap music and pornographic videos from users who apparently disguised their names
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The Seattle City Council in a preliminary vote decided unanimously to reduce the police department by up to 100 officers through layoffs and attrition.
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The dwindling witnesses to the world’s first atomic bombing marked its 75th anniversary Thursday in Hiroshima, Japan.
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The New York prosecutor who has been fighting to get President Trump’s tax returns got a bank last year to turn over other Trump financial records.
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New York’s attorney general announces a lawsuit accusing the NRA of misspending and self-dealing, and seeks to dissolve the gun rights organization.
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With schools closed indefinitely because of the coronavirus, Mexico’s 30 million students will receive their education over network television.
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President Trump still wants to overturn Obamacare, but his predecessor’s healthcare law keeps gaining ground in places where it was once unwelcome.
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Residents of Beirut are venting their fury at Lebanon’s leaders, blaming them for the deadly explosion that ravaged the city.
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The Beirut explosion was likely caused by fireworks and ammonium nitrate, experts and video footage find. But now more difficult questions arise.
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As coronavirus cases skyrocket in Mississippi, the state’s only federally recognized American Indian tribe, the Choctaw, has been devastated.
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Housing advocates fear that they could see a wave of evictions in the coming months, as states end moratoriums put in place during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot would be replaced by Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, an official and primary care physician in the city’s public hospital system.
