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1 week ago | 
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job. “There was finally a sense of calm,’’ said Rebecca Shi, CEO of the American Business Immigration Coalition. That respite didn’t last long.
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1 week ago | 
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NEW YORK — Honda is recalling more than 259,000 of its cars across the U.S. due to a problem that can cause the brake pedal to shift out of position, potentially interfering with a driver’s ability to stop or slow down. According to documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall covers certain Honda Pilots between model years 2023 and 2025 — as well cars under the auto maker’s luxury Acura brand: 2021-2025 Acura TLX and 2023-2025 Acura MDX vehicles.
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1 week ago | 
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DUBAI (Reuters) — Israel’s sweeping campaign of airstrikes aims to do more than destroy Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and missile capabilities. It seeks to shatter the foundations of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s government and leave it near collapse, Israeli, Western and regional officials said.
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1 week ago | 
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The husband of accused pervert teacher Christina Formella stood by her as she arrived in Illinois court Tuesday to face new charges that she had sex with a teenage student some 50 times and started grooming the boy when he was 14.
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1 week ago | 
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said today the U.S. knows where Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding during the Israel-Iran conflict but doesn’t want him killed “for now.”Trump urged, in a social media posting, Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” as the five-day conflict continues to escalate. “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding,” Trump added.
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1 week ago | 
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer heat waves, droughts and floods, a new study says.
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1 week ago | 
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As Cubans on both sides of the Florida Straits come to terms with what a new U.S. travel ban means for their families’ hopes to reunite, many have flocked to social media in anguish — including children — seeking help. “President Trump, I ask you to please reconsider family reunification for residents,” said a 10-year-old in a Hello Kitty T-shirt in a video she recorded in Havana.
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1 week ago | 
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A Democratic senator introduced legislation on Monday to prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from using military force against Iran without Congress’s authorization, as an escalating battle between Israel and Iran raised fears of broader conflict. Tim Kaine of Virginia has tried for years to wrest back Congress’s authority to declare war from the White House.
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1 week ago | 
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Caitlin Clark made her eagerly awaited return from injury, and the Indiana Fever star hit the ground running in Saturday’s WNBA contest against the New York Liberty. Clark missed five games due to a left quad injury, her longest spell on the sideline at any point in her collegiate or professional career. However, the Fever guard was cleared for Saturday’s clash with the Liberty, and promptly showed that the time off had not cost her anything in terms of shooting touch.
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2 weeks ago | 
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It rained sharks in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, last month after a small hammerhead shark fell from the sky and interrupted a local disc golf game. The unexpected disc golf hazard was actually a bird’s lost lunch. Jonathan Marlowe, who snapped these now viral photos of his friend holding up the aquatic predator, wrote on social media that they saw a bird carrying the shark before it was accosted.
