Senators proclaim the innocence of 12 men and women convicted hundreds of years ago, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
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Debt ceiling talks teeter on the brink, as lawmakers leave town for weekend without a deal
Meanwhile, Fitch Ratings agency placed the United States’ AAA credit on ‘ratings watch negative,’ warning of a possible downgrade.
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Supreme Court rules in favor of 94-year-old woman who got nothing when county took her condo
The county kept the entire $40,000 when it sold her condominium over a small unpaid tax bill.
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Tom Hanks urges Harvard grads to defend the truth, resist indifference
‘For the truth to some is no longer empirical. It’s no longer based on data, nor common sense, nor even common decency,’ said the two-time Academy Award winner.
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Antitrust ruling won’t change American Airlines’ summer plans in Northeast, exec says
The case, which struck down American’s alliance with JetBlue, won’t impact customers this summer, CO Devon May said.
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Virgin Galactic completes final test flight before launching paying customers to space
Six of the company’s employees took the short up-and-down flight that included a few minutes of weightlessness.
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Pentagon says allies will unite to train Ukrainians on F-16s, but warns jets aren’t ‘magic weapons’
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the allies recognize that in addition to training, Ukraine will also need to be able to sustain and maintain the aircraft and have enough munitions.
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U.S. aged quickly in last decade as baby boomers lived longer, births dropped
Maine was the oldest state in the U.S., with a median age of 45.1, as more baby boomers aged out of the workforce.
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Oath Keepers founder gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack
Stewart Rhodes’ sentence – the first for a seditious conspiracy conviction – is the longest that has been handed down so far in Capitol riot cases.
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Head of Russian private army Wagner says his forces are handing control of Bakhmut to Moscow
Ukraine’s deputy defense minister said Thursday that regular Russian troops had replaced Wagner units in the suburbs but that Wagner fighters remained inside the city.