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- Fentanyl's scourge plainly visible on streets of L.A.
  In an filthy alley behind a Los Angeles doughnut shop, Ryan Smith convulsed in the grips of a fentanyl high — lurching from moments of slumber to bouts of v…
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Bird flu prompts slaughter of 1.8M chickens in Nebraska
Nebraska agriculture officials say another 1.8 million chickens must be killed after bird flu was found on a farm in the latest sign that the outbreak that has already prompted…
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Newborn among 7 dead in landslide on Italy's Ischia island
Search teams have recovered seven dead, including a 3-week-old infant and a pair of young siblings, buried in mud and debris that hurtled down a mountainside and through a dens…
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N. Korea aims to have world's strongest nuclear force
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country's intends to have the world's most powerful nuclear force as he promoted dozens of military officers involved …
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Buffalo gunman pleads guilty in racist supermarket massacre
Payton Gendron admitted to all the charges in the grand jury indictment following the gun attack on the Tops Friendly Market in May in which 10 Black shoppers and workers died.
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BBC says Chinese police assaulted 1 of its journalists
LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) -The BBC said Chinese police had assaulted one of its journalists covering a protest in the commercial hub of Shanghai and detained him for several hou…
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WHO renames monkeypox as mpox, citing racism concerns
The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist…
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Player leaves sideline, blocks for teammate after INT
There were suddenly 12 Seahawks on the field after a big interception.
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GOP Arkansas governor blasts Trump for hosting white supremacist
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said former President Donald Trump’s meeting with Nick Fuentes was "troubling" and empowers 'the extremes."
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Protests against Covid lockdowns sweep China
Protesters increasingly fed up with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “zero-Covid” restrictions rallied in cities across the country over the weekend.
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McCarthy's pursuit of speaker's gavel comes at a high cost
While Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is expected to prevail in his bid to become House speaker, it is destined to come at a political price, setting the tone and tenor when t…
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'Gaslighting': Merriam-Webster's word of 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — “Gaslighting” — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — is Merriam-Webster's word of the year. There wasn't a single event that drove sign…
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Ariz. counties facing deadline to certify election
Six Arizona counties must decide Monday whether to certify 2022 election results amid pressure from some Republicans not to officially approve a vote count that had Democrats w…
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Houston residents ordered to boil water after power outage
Residents of the country's fourth-largest city were told to boil water Sunday after pump-driven water system pressure dropped because of an electrical outage,
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Crews work to rescue 2 in plane stuck in power lines
A small plane carrying two people got stuck in live power lines Sunday evening in Maryland, causing widespread power outages in the surrounding county as officials worked to ex…
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Iran wants U.S. banned from World Cup over social media post
Iranian state media is calling for the U.S. to be banned from competing in the 2022 World Cup over a now-deleted social media post in which the U.S. national soccer team altere…
sports
Packers' season gets worse as Rodgers suffers injury
Aaron Rodgers had been dealing with a thumb injury most of the season.
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Georgia runoff: Where things stand as voting gets underway
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker remain neck-and-neck in the polls after neither won more than 50% of the vote in the midterms.
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GOP lawmaker: TikTok is 'digital fentanyl'
Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher has renewed his calls for a nationwide ban on the social media app, claiming it is "addicting our kids."
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Walmart shooting claims teen, young woman, father, mother
Blevins started working for Walmart in the early 1990s after the five-and-dime he owned with his wife, Teresa, went under, his stepdaughter Cassandra Yeatts told The Associated…

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