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Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Will These Hearings Be Unimpeachable?
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The impeachment inquiry into President Trump has widened a massive divide, nowhere more evident than on cable TV. -
Protesters cause major train service disruptions, block streets and hunker down for expected clashes with police at university campuses.
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The high-water mark hit 74 inches in Venice, flooding 85% of the city, including St. Mark’s Basilica. One man died on the barrier island of Pellestrina.
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New South Wales has lost more than 200 homes, while 14 homes have been destroyed in southeast Queensland. A fire emergency warning is issued for Geraldton, on the west coast.
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Israel targets more Islamic Jihad officials in Gaza in airstrikes that have now left 18 Palestinians dead. Rockets assail Israeli communities.
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President Trump said the United States will increase tariffs on Chinese goods if the first step of a broader trade agreement isn’t reached.
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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales lands in Mexico, which granted him political asylum. An opposition senator appoints herself Bolivia’s interim leader, a move recognized by the U.S.
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The cold snap brought record single-digit temperatures to the Chicago area; set snowfall records in Buffalo, N.Y., and Detroit; dusted cars with snow in Tennessee.
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Supreme Court conservative justices sounded ready to agree with the Trump administration’s position that the Obama-era DACA program is illegal.
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Hate crimes declined slightly in 2018, the FBI says in a new report. But crimes targeting people — as opposed to property — surged dramatically, as did crimes against Latinos and transgender people.
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Fires were burning into Sydney’s suburbs, with New South Wales under a weeklong state of emergency. Some were told to shelter in place because there’s no time to flee the flames.
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There are at least 1,688 high hazard dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition in 44 states and Puerto Rico, an Associated Press investigation has found. California is home to six.
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Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Meet the ‘Dreamers’ Jirayut “New” Latthivongskorn graduated from UC Berkeley with honors, earned a master’s degree from Harvard in public health and a doctor of medicine from UC San Francisco.
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announces that three members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network have been released “conditionally in exchange” for a U.S. and an Australian professor.
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Key dates in the legal fight over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
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The Lebanese pound, long a symbol of stability after civil war, is faltering.
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Images of the silver-backed chevrotain, or Vietnamese mouse deer — the world’s smallest hoofed mammal, the size of a rabbit — were taken last year.
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Two trains collided after approaching each other on the same track about 50 miles east of the capital, Dhaka. Authorities said one driver ignored a signal.
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Israel targeted two senior Islamic Jihad commanders, killing one and sparking the worst bout of fighting with Palestinian militants in recent months.
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The high-water mark hit 74 inches in Venice, flooding 85% of the city, including St. Mark’s Basilica. One man died on the barrier island of Pellestrina.
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There are at least 1,688 high hazard dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition in 44 states and Puerto Rico, an Associated Press investigation has found. California is home to six.
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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales lands in Mexico, which granted him political asylum. An opposition senator appoints herself Bolivia’s interim leader, a move recognized by the U.S.
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Hate crimes declined slightly in 2018, the FBI says in a new report. But crimes targeting people — as opposed to property — surged dramatically, as did crimes against Latinos and transgender people.
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Alan Jones witnessed the first U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands. He was shaken by the terror of the explosion and believes the radiation exposure may have plagued him for years.
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Fifty years later, the Manson “family” murders remain seared into the collective memory of Los Angeles. The question, which persists to this day, is why?
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Charles Manson and his “family” committed heinous crimes across Los Angeles in 1969. Here is a timeline of what led up to the murders and the aftermath.
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Followers of Charles Manson were tied to the deaths of nine people in the summer of 1969.
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