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Trump defends Kenosha shooting suspect
The president painted the accused 17-year-old Kenosha shooter's actions as possible self-defense, saying, without evidence, that the teen "probably would have been killed."
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Appeals court rejects Justice Department effort to shut down Michael Flynn case
The court ruled Monday that a judge can hear arguments about the Justice Department's motivations for dropping the case against Flynn.
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Biden hits campaign trail, blames Trump for city violence
Joe Biden is forcefully condemning the violence at recent protests while also blaming President Donald Trump for fomenting the divide that’s sparking it.
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6 million coronavirus Infections now confirmed in US, a country in limbo
Although daily COVID-19 deaths have fallen somewhat in recent days, the number of infections has continued to rise in many places, with no end in sight.
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Preventing college parties? Shame and blame don’t work, but beer pong outside might
With desperate pleas and social contracts failing to curb college parties, schools have turned to punitive consequences. But are the students the ones to blame?
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Fad or future? Telehealth expansion eyed beyond pandemic
There’s a push to make telehealth a permanent fixture of the government’s flagship health program. But it will take involvement by Congress to do away with old restrictions.
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Postal chief DeJoy has long leveraged connections, dollars
How DeJoy was hired is among the questions Congress is trying to unravel as lawmakers scrutinize a series of USPS changes that have resulted in widespread mail delays.
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Director of National Intelligence cancels verbal election security briefings
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff say they've been told Congress will no longer receive briefings on efforts to interfere in the election.
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The census scales back a critical step: Checking its own work
With just three months to review census results because of a last-minute change by the Trump administration, officials are scrambling to decide what quality checks to toss.
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Weeks without power or water ahead as Laura cleanup begins
The toll from the Category 4 hurricane rose to 16 deaths Saturday, with more than half of those killed by carbon monoxide poisoning from the unsafe operation of generators.
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Chadwick Boseman, who embodied Black icons, dies of cancer
As his Hollywood career boomed, though, Boseman was privately undergoing “countless surgeries and chemotherapy” to battle colon cancer, according to a family statement.
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Teen charged in Kenosha killings stalls return to Wisconsin
Public defender Jennifer Snyder, who was representing Rittenhouse, asked for a delay in the extradition hearing, so her client would have time to hire a private attorney.
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Thousands gather at March on Washington commemorations
They are gathering on the heels of yet another shooting by a white police officer of a Black man — this time, 29-year-old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last Sunday.
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Coastal Louisiana a hot mess as Laura’s leftovers move east
The hurricane’s top wind speed of 150 mph put it among the strongest systems on record in the U.S.
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7 takeaways from the Republican National Convention
It's going to be a nasty post-Labor Day sprint to Election Day, as both parties argue that the soul of America is at stake.
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