The Biden administration’s regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns will be in effect while court challenges play out.
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DeSantis replaces campaign manager as he resets his faltering 2024 presidential bid
The changes come after DeSantis made 2 big staff cuts in the past few weeks, laying off about a third of his staff in late July as the campaign faced financial trouble.
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Antarctica risks ‘cascades of extreme events’ as Earth warms, study says
Scientists are alarmed at how Antarctic ice has failed to grow back after hitting an all-time low in February – a deviation so extreme from the norm that it’s been dubbed a ‘six sigma event,’ or once-in-a-7.5-million-year phenomenon.
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Harris will announce a new rule that raises worker pay on federal construction projects
The Labor Department will provide the first update in 40 years to the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, which requires the payment of prevailing local wages on public works.
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Ukraine says Russia targeted rescue workers with a ‘double tap’ missile strike
One of the 9 killed was an emergency official, and most of those wounded were police officers, emergency workers and soldiers.
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Authorities assess damage after flooding from glacial dam outburst in Alaska’s capital
Levels along the Mendenhall River had begun falling by Sunday but the city said the banks of the river remained unstable.
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The Mega Millions jackpot has soared to $1.55 billion. Here’s how hard it is to win
The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot — no matter the size — stand at about 1 in 302.6 million.
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Justice Department helping Ukraine in war crimes investigations, Attorney General Garland says
The Justice Department is giving wide-ranging assistance to Ukraine, from training on prosecuting environmental crimes to help developing a secure electronic case-management system for more than 90,000 suspected atrocity crimes.
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Two Russian missile strikes hit a city in eastern Ukraine, killing 5 people and wounding 31
The deadly attack came just a day after officials from around 40 countries gathered in Saudi Arabia to find a peaceful settlement for the war in Ukraine.
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Two dead, thousands of flight cancellations, 1.1 million lose power in eastern U.S. storms
The Federal Aviation Administration said it was rerouting planes around storms heading to the East Coast and warned it would likely start pausing flights in and out of the New York City area, Philadelphia, Washington, Charlotte and Atlanta.