Demonstrations are intensifying along main streets and at universities in cities across the country.
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Musk has a ‘super app’ plan for Twitter. It’s super vague.
For months, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has expressed interest in creating his own version of China’s WeChat – a ‘super app’ that does video chats, messaging, streaming and payments – for the rest of the world.
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Frantic 911 callers describe bodies during Raleigh shooting
911 calls released Friday illustrate the chaos of the scene on Thursday in which authorities said a 15-year-old boy began firing in a residential neighborhood and then on the walking trail, killing five and wounding two others.
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Oil flow to Germany resumes after Poland fixed pipeline leak
The state-run operator, PERN, said that both lines of the Druzhba pipeline were operating normally, transporting oil.
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Native American boarding school victims to speak of abuse
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it has documented about 100 more boarding schools not on the government list that were run by groups such as churches.
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Ukraine: Russia hits power site by Kyiv, defends seized land
After a truck bomb explosion a week ago damaged the bridge that links Russia to the annexed Crimean Peninsula, the Kremlin launched what is believed to be its largest coordinated missile attacks in Ukraine since the initial invasion of the country in late February.
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Activists in UK court after soup thrown at Van Gogh picture
Two women, age 20 and 21, were charged in relation to the soup-throwing protest on Friday, while a third was charged over paint sprayed on a rotating sign at the Metropolitan Police’s headquarters in central London.
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Social Security boost seen as unlikely to help Dems at polls
Voters have ranked the economy as a higher priority than Social Security, with 71% of U.S. adults telling Pew Research Center in January that strengthening the economy was a top priority for the president.
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L. Tardif Jeweler to close after 87 years in downtown Waterville
The family business at 62 Main St., a downtown fixture since opening in 1935, is expected to end its run by year’s end.
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Death toll rises to 41 in Turkey coal mine explosion
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived at the scene, vowing to bring an end to mining disasters.