The U.S. wants Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the Chinese communications giant’s founder, extradited from Canada to face fraud charges.
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Music festival to require COVID vaccines, tests
Louder Than Life is set for Sept. 23-26 at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville.
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Chelsea Clinton plans full year of children’s books
‘She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference,’ is scheduled to come out next March.
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Taliban kill Afghan media chief in Kabul, take southern city
The militant group has been surging for months in the country, taking swaths of land as U.S. and NATO forces complete their final pullout by the end of the month.
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Effort underway to charge packagers for recycling, but industry fights
In July, Maine became the first state to adopt such a program, and several others have similar bills pending.
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Workers’ pay rises strongly as businesses fight to fill jobs
In the year ending in June, wages and salaries jumped 3.5% for workers in the private sector, the largest increase in more than 14 years.
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Amanda Knox blasts film ‘Stillwater’ for exploiting her case
The movie stars Matt Damon as a father who flies to France to help his estranged daughter, who has been convicted and imprisoned for murdering her girlfriend.
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Israel to offer third COVID-19 booster shot to older citizens
The nation has seen a spike in cases of the new delta variant, even among people who are vaccinated.
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Homes in West lose water as wells run dry in drought-ravaged basin
Potentially hundreds of wells have dried up in recent weeks in an area near the Oregon-California border.
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Congress passes bill to fund Capitol security, Afghan visas
The $2.1 billion package includes funds for the Capitol Police and to help resettle translators and others who worked closely with U.S. government troops and civilians in Afghanistan.