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At least 15 dead since July and thousands of hectares scorched as wildfires sweep Peru
LIMA, Peru — Wildfires in Peru have left at least 15 dead since July and more than 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of cultivated land and natural areas scorched, authorities said Monday. |
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Judge rejects former Trump aide Mark Meadows’ bid to move Arizona election case to federal court
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has rejected a bid by Mark Meadows, former chief of staff to President Donald Trump, to move his charges in Arizona’s fake elector case to federal court, marking the second time he has failed in trying to get his charges out of state court. |
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Arrests for illegal border crossings jump 3% in August, suggesting decline may be bottoming out
WASHINGTON — Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico rose slightly in August, authorities said Monday, ending a stretch of five straight months of declines and signaling that flows may be leveling off. |
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Facebook owner Meta bans Russia state media outlets over ‘foreign interference’
LONDON — Meta said it’s banning Russia state media organization from its social media platforms, alleging that the outlets used deceptive tactics to amplify Moscow’s propaganda. The announcement drew a rebuke from the Kremlin on Tuesday. |
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Flames from massive pipeline fire near Houston subside but continue burning
DEER PARK, Texas — A flame that towered over a southeast Houston suburb had subsided Tuesday, but continued to burn following a massive pipeline explosion after a vehicle drove through a fence and struck an above-ground valve, officials said. |
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Stock market today: Wall Street rises toward more records as it counts down to a rate cut
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are rising toward more records Tuesday, as Wall Street continues to expect bigger-than-usual relief for the economy to arrive Wednesday through a coming cut to interest rates. |
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A key employee who called the Titan unsafe testifies the company only wanted to make money
A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that he frequently clashed with the company’s co-founder and felt the company was committed only to making money. |
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Kroger and Albertsons prepare to make a final federal court argument for their merger
PORTLAND — Kroger and Albertsons were expected to present their closing arguments Tuesday in a U.S. District Court hearing on their proposed merger, which the federal government hopes to block. |
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been indicted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges
NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs presided over a sordid empire of sexual crimes, coercing and abusing women for years, threatening them to keep them in line and enlisting a cast of aides to cover it up, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday. |
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North Carolina’s coast has been deluged by the fifth historic flood in 25 years
Parts of southeastern North Carolina were still underwater Tuesday after a storm that wasn’t quite organized enough to get a name dropped historic amounts of rain on an area that has suffered floods of a lifetime at least four other times in the past 25 years. |
