The White House says it will rush delivery of air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine.
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FBI identifies serial rapist as person responsible for 1996 Shenandoah National Park killings
The killings sent a wave of fear through the LGBTQ+ community, but the FBI said during a news conference Thursday that there is no evidence that the women were targeted because of their sexual orientation.
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American Airlines CEO says removal of several Black passengers from a flight was ‘unacceptable’
American Airlines is putting employees on leave after an incident in which several Black passengers were removed from a flight.
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Biden administration old-growth forest proposal doesn’t ban logging, but still angers industry
Environmentalists have urged the administration to go even further as they seek to stop logging projects on federal lands in Oregon, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and other states.
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Louisiana’s new law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms churns old political conflicts
Under the new law, all public K-12 classrooms and state-funded universities will be required to display a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in ‘large, easily readable font’ next year.
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Donald Sutherland, whose career spanned ‘M.A.S.H.’ to ‘The Hunger Games,’ dies at 88
Kiefer Sutherland, the actor’s son, confirmed his father’s death Thursday.
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Putin signs deals with Vietnam in bid to shore up ties in Asia to offset growing isolation
Putin’s recent visits to China and now North Korea and Vietnam are attempts to ‘break the international isolation,’ said Nguyen Khac Giang, an analyst at Singapore’s ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
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Russia obliterates Ukraine’s front-line towns faster with hacked bombs and expanded air base network
Russia has accelerated its destruction of Ukraine’s front-line cities in 2024 to a scale previously unseen in the war using the glide bombs and an expanding network of airstrips, according to an Associated Press analysis.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fails to qualify for CNN debate with Biden, Trump
Both the Biden and Trump campaigns fear that Kennedy could play spoiler in what’s anticipated to be a close general election.
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Supreme Court upholds tax on foreign income over challenge backed by business interests
The justices left in place a Trump-era provision that is expected to generate $340 billion, mainly from the foreign subsidiaries of domestic corporations that parked money abroad to shield it from U.S. taxes.