‘We can’t let hate prevail,’ President Biden said at the White House as he met with civil rights advocates and the children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington.
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Gov. DeSantis booed at vigil as hundreds mourn the racist killings of 3 in Jacksonville
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – who has loosened gun laws in Florida and antagonized civil rights leaders by deriding ‘wokeness’ – was loudly booed as he addressed the vigil in Jacksonville.
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House impeachment inquiry of President Biden is ‘natural step forward,’ Speaker McCarthy says
Some House Republicans are eager to go after Biden over claims of financial misconduct involving his son Hunter, but the Democratic president has not been shown to have done anything wrong.
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‘Gran Turismo’ and ‘Barbie’ are neck-and-neck at the box office
Sony Pictures reported that ‘Gran Turismo’ opened with $17.3 million over the weekend, while Warner Bros. estimated that ‘Barbie,’ in its sixth week of release, took in $17.1 million.
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Tropical Storm Idalia forms in Gulf of Mexico on possible track toward U.S.
Forecasters said they expected Idalia to become a hurricane on Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico and then curve northeast toward the west coast of Florida.
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Ukraine investigates incident that killed 3 pilots while Russia attacks with cruise missiles
Ukraine’s Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat told Ukrainian television on Sunday it wasn’t immediately clear how long the probe would take.
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U.S. Marine Osprey crashes during drills in Australia, killing 3 and injuring 20, some critically
The Osprey that crashed was one of two that had flown from Darwin to Melville on Sunday, Murphy, the police commissioner, said.
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More than 600 firefighters struggle to control wildfires in Greece
A massive blaze in the country’s northeastern regions of Evros and Alexandroupolis, believed to have caused 20 of the 21 wildfire-related deaths in the past week in Greece, was burning for a ninth day.
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Russia confirms Wagner leader Prigozhin died in a plane crash
Genetic testing on the 10 bodies recovered at the crash site “conform to the manifest ” for the flight, Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.
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White man fatally shoots 3 Black people at Florida store in what officials say is a hate crime
Jacksonville’s sheriff said the gunman, who took his own life after the killings, was “racially motivated” and “hated Black people.”