The deepening investigation into Donald Trump’s handling of sensitive government information has disclosed damaging and unsettling new details.
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Mary Peltola defeats Sarah Palin in Alaska House special election
Democrat Mary Peltola who is Yup’ik and turned 49 on Wednesday, will become the first Alaska Native to serve in the House and the first woman to hold the seat.
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U.S.: Russian military facing ‘severe manpower shortages’
The U.S. government highlighted its finding as Russian President Vladimir Putin last week ordered the Russian military to increase the number of troops by 137,000 to a total of 1.15 million.
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Death Valley braces for 124-degree temperatures as heat wave broils California
While high temperatures are not unusual at this time of year, this week’s heat wave in the desert will linger for the next several days, with overnight lows dipping only into the low 90s.
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Unfinished business: Biden sharpens his attacks on Trumpism
President Biden, who largely avoided even referring to ‘the former guy’ by name during his first year in office, has grown increasingly vocal in calling out Donald Trump personally.
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Japanese business pioneer, philanthropist Kazuo Inamori dies at 90
Inamori was the founder of Japanese ceramics and electronics maker Kyocera.
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High-stakes year begins for kids still learning to read
Mounting evidence from around the country shows that students who spent more time learning remotely during the 2020-2021 school year, many of them Black and Latino, lost about half of an academic year of learning.
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‘Zombie’ cells emerge as central to the quest for active, vital old age
About 100 companies, plus academic teams, are exploring drugs to target cells that have stopped dividing.
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Mississippi capital city doesn’t have drinkable water and doesn’t know when it will
Both the state’s governor and president Biden have declared a state of emergency to try to resolve multiple problems that have been decades in the making.
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UN inspectors head to Ukraine nuclear plant in war zone
With the convoy finally arriving in Zaporizhzhia city, still some 70 miles by road from the plant, the mission leader said the ‘real work’ will start on Thursday.