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Harris raised $361 million in August from nearly 3 million donors, campaign says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris raised well more than double what former President Donald Trump took in from donors in August, her campaign announced Friday, saying it raised $361 million from nearly 3 million donors in her first full month as a candidate. |
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11 strikes in 16 seconds: One Capitol rioter’s violent attack on police with a hockey stick
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said she hasn’t grown numb to the violent scenes of Jan. 6 that are routinely shown in her courtroom. |
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Teen charged in Georgia school shooting and his father to stay in custody after hearings
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed four people at a Georgia high school and his father will stay in custody after back-to-back court hearings Friday morning where their lawyers declined to seek bail. |
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Hottest summer on record could lead to the warmest year ever measured
Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured, European climate service Copernicus reported Friday. |
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Hundreds of places in the US said racism was a public health crisis. What’s changed?
More than 200 cities and counties declared racism was a public health crisis in the past few years, mostly after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in May 2020. Racial justice advocates said they finally felt heard by the quick swell of political will to address disparities like disproportionate COVID-19 deaths or infant and maternal mortality rates. |
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A Capitol rioter hawked Jan. 6 merchandise from jail. The judge who sentenced him was disturbed
WASHINGTON (AP) — From jail, Shane Jenkins helped sell T-shirts, tote bags and other merchandise promoting the notion that he and other rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol are political prisoners unjustly held in pretrial detention. |
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What we know so far about the victims of the Apalachee school shooting in Georgia
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A 14-year-old Georgia high school student has been charged as an adult with using an assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers in the hallway outside his algebra classroom, according to authorities. |
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Juries aren’t swayed by defenses in Capitol riot trials
WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York police officer told a jury that he was acting in self-defense when he tackled a police officer and grabbed his gas mask during the Jan. 6 riot. |
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A million people flee their homes as Typhoon Yagi makes landfall in China
HONG KONG (AP) — A powerful typhoon made landfall on the Chinese tropical vacation island of Hainan Friday after it swept south of Hong Kong, bringing many aspects of life in the region to a halt and forcing about a million people in the country’s south to leave their homes. |
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What to Know About Supreme Court Justices’ Book Deals
For the justices, selling books remains one of the few ways to earn income outside the court.
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