‘It’s an honor of a lifetime to finally check a Super Bowl performance off my bucket list,’ Usher said in a statement. ‘I can’t wait to bring the world a show unlike anything else they’ve seen from me before.’
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National and world news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Russian airstrikes kill 2 and wound 3 in southern Ukraine as war enters 20th month
According to Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin, Russian forces struck the city of Beryslav. A woman was killed and three people were wounded, including a police officer, he said.
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Israeli military raid kills 2 Palestinians in the West Bank; Israel says its troops came under fire
The Israeli military said it moved into the Nour Shams refugee camp, near the town of Tulkarem, to destroy what it described as a militant command center and bomb-storage facility in a building.
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Residents prepare to return to sites of homes demolished in Lahaina wildfire 7 weeks ago
Authorities will begin allowing the first residents and property owners to return to their properties in the burn zone, many for the first time since it was demolished by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
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Archaeologists unearth the largest cemetery ever discovered in Gaza and find rare lead sarcophogi
Now, what was once an inconspicuous construction lot – surrounded by a grove of nondescript apartment buildings – has become a gold mine for archeologists looking to understand more about the Gaza Strip.
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Biden administration poised to allow Israeli citizens to travel to the U.S. without U.S. visa
The Department of Homeland Security administers the program, which currently allows citizens of 40 mostly European and Asian countries to travel to the U.S. for three months without visas.
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Kosovar police surround a village after gunmen storm a monastery in violence that has killed 4
Police managed to push back the attack and take two injured police officers to the hospital in southern Mitrovica.
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Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project
The community is facing growing pains again, 80 years later, as Los Alamos National Laboratory takes part in the nation’s most ambitious nuclear weapons effort since World War II.
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French activists protest racism and police brutality while officers are on guard for key events
The protesters’ demands include tougher rules limiting the use of firearms by police; an independent body to replace the internal agency tasked with investigating police abuses; and massive state investment in low-income neighborhoods.
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The federal government is headed into a shutdown. What does it mean and what’s next?
Here’s a look at what’s ahead if the government shuts down on Oct. 1.