Al-Shabab – the deadliest Islamic extremist group in Africa – claimed responsibility.
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D.C.’s pioneering ‘Baby Bonds’ plan aims to narrow wealth gap
Each enrolled child will receive up to $25,000 when they reach 18 that can be used to for higher education, to invest in a business or make a mortgage down payment.
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Car blast kills daughter of Russian known as ‘Putin’s brain’
Alexander Dugin, not his daughter, likely was the intended target, a former Putin adviser says.
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Georgia jury awards $1.7 billion in Ford truck crash case
The yearslong civil case involved what the plaintiffs’ lawyers called dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham gets temporary reprieve from testifying in Georgia election probe
The federal appeals court has agreed to temporarily pause a lower court’s order declining to quash the senator’s subpoena.
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China plans cloud seeding to protect grain crop from drought
Seeds will be sprayed with chemicals and a ‘water retaining agent’ to limit evaporation.
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Jill Biden tests negative for COVID-19, will go to Delaware
The first lady has been isolating in South Carolina since vacationing with President Biden.
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Polio in U.S., U.K. and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine
The polio viruses recently found in the sewer systems of Jerusalem, New York and London were mutated versions of viruses that first originated in vaccines meant to stamp out the paralytic disease.
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Singapore to decriminalize sex between men but won’t allow same-sex marriage
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says ‘private sexual behavior between consenting adults does not raise any law and order issue’ and promises the repeal won’t change how marriage is defined in the country.
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African migratory birds threatened by hot, dry weather
Roughly 10 percent of over 2,000 species are in peril.