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May 7, 2021

Idaho school shooting is one of very few in which a girl is the suspect

Police are trying to determine why the 6th-grader pulled a handgun out of her backpack and shot 2 other students and an adult custodian before she was disarmed by a teacher.
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May 7, 2021

Republicans are pulling out the steaks as they turn culture war into a food fight

Already, in farm states, meat eating has joined abortion, gun control and transgender rights as an issue that quickly sends partisans to their corners.
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May 7, 2021

Younger patients making Florida’s COVID hospital rates among highest in U.S.

The intensive care unit leader and pulmonologist at one public hospital said COVID patients are averaging between 30 and 50 years old, many of them healthy and without conditions such as obesity or diabetes.
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May 7, 2021

Jury convicts Alabama officer of murder in 2018 shooting of suicidal man

While prosecutors contend the officer killed William Parker without cause, the defense argued the shooting was justified because Parker posed a threat to the officers at the scene.
Published
May 6, 2021

Some Republicans worry their new voting limits will hurt their voters, too

Changes to mail voting in Florida are certain to affect older voters, and thousands of Republican voters in Arizona could stop getting ballots in the mail automatically.
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May 6, 2021

New cat named Nimbus settles in at Mount Washington Observatory

The observatory staff have had a cat at the 6,288-foot summit, called the ‘home of the world’s worst weather,’ since 1932.
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May 6, 2021

Maine restores pre-pandemic requirements for unemployment

Businesses are reopening and need help, especially with the summer tourism season approaching, the state’s labor commissioner says.
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May 6, 2021

General says U.S. may train Afghan forces in other countries

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledges that continuing without American support on the ground ‘will be a challenge’ for the Afghans as they try to hold off Taliban insurgents.
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May 6, 2021

Blinken reaffirms U.S. support for Ukraine, as Russian troops remain at border

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits at a time when efforts have stalled to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which has killed more than 14,000 people since it broke out in 2014.
Published
May 5, 2021

South Carolina House adds firing squad to state’s execution methods

Corrections officials said 3 of South Carolina’s 37 death row inmates are out of appeals, however lawsuits against the new death penalty rules are also likely.