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Teen charged with assault leaps from courthouse balcony
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts State Police say a teenager was severely injured when he apparently jumped from a Boston courthouse’s interior balcony. The teenager was facing domestic assault charges in juvenile court but was not…
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PokerStars fined $10K for taking bets on NJ college teams
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators have fined PokerStars $10,000 for taking bets on New Jersey college basketball teams in violation of the state’s sports betting law. The state Division of Gaming…
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SpaceX suffers serious setback with crew capsule accident
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has suffered a serious setback in its effort to launch NASA astronauts into orbit this year, with the fiery loss of its first crew capsule during testing. Over the…
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News groups fight to keep Harvey Weinstein’s hearing open
NEW YORK (AP) — News organizations are fighting to pull back the curtain on a Harvey Weinstein court appearance that the prosecution and defense want held in secret. The organizations, including The Associated Press and…
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Longtime Connecticut AP broadcast editor dies at 72
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Steve Feica, a news director at AM radio stations in Connecticut in the 1970s who went on to a nearly 30-year career as a broadcast editor with The Associated Press, has…
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Boeing prepares plant for likely Air Force F-15 orders
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Boeing is preparing to build F-15 fighter planes for the U.S. Air Force at its St. Louis County plant even though the military branch hasn’t bought the jet in over a…
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Kansas patrol: Army vet, wife killed in crash with vulture
MEDICINE LODGE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a vulture caused a crash that killed an Army veteran and his wife as they rode a motorcycle in southern Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the bird…
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School marks Confederate Memorial Day with lynching teach-in
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A historically black college in Alabama used the state’s Confederate Memorial Day observance Monday to highlight the 1981 lynching of a black teenager by Ku Klux Klan members. An afternoon “teach-in”…
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‘Thrones’ is ending, but will live on in merchandise
Products also include makeup, beer, toy collectibles and even high fashion collaborations.
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Wegmans to go plastic-bag free in New York before state ban
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Wegmans will eliminate single-use plastic grocery bags at its New York state stores by year’s end — just before a state ban on the packing takes effect, the grocery store chain…
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Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases
The cases will be argued in the fall, with decisions likely by June 2020 in the middle of the presidential election campaign.
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2 men arrested for putting KKK hoods on Confederate statues
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Police say they arrested two people who climbed and placed Ku Klux Klan hoods on statues at a Confederate monument in North Carolina. News outlets report that Enzo Niebuhr and Jody…
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US offers $10 million for info to disrupt Hezbollah finances
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is offering rewards of up to $10 million each for information that disrupts the finances of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah organization. The State and Treasury departments say the money will…
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Can the census ask if you’re a citizen? Here’s what’s at stake in the Supreme Court battle over the 2020 census
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University (THE CONVERSATION) For the first time in decades, the 2020 census might include…
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CORRECTS: Texas safety officials say six people have died in a small plane crash in central Texas
DALLAS (AP) — CORRECTS: Texas safety officials say six people have died in a small plane crash in central Texas. (Corrects APNewsAlert that incorrectly attributed the number of dead to the Federal Aviation Administration.)
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