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2 dead, 1 injured in a shooting near Kentucky courthouse, suspect shoots self after police standoff

A mother and daughter have been fatally shot and another man injured near a Kentucky courthouse

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Protesters plan large marches and rallies as Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago

Crowds of activists are beginning to gather in Chicago for protests outside the Democratic National Convention

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Chicago ramps up security ahead of major pro-Palestinian march outside DNC

The first of many protests was expected on Monday, with ‘tens of thousands’ of people expected to gather near the United Center to demonstrate against the Biden-Harris administration’s stance on Israel

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Harry and Meghan’s glossy Colombia tour ends on a high – but not everyone is convinced

The pair ended their tour in the once notorious cartel city of Cali

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Suspected cause of deadly wildfires that threatened Athens identified

Fires have now ravaged neighbouring Turkey

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Got cold symptoms? Here's when kids should take a sick day from school

School attendance tanked during the pandemic and has only started to recover

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Outrage as librarians reveal UK schools are banning LGBT+ books after complaints from parents

Exclusive: Library staff, MPs and charities have warned banning books is worrying regression on LGBT+ rights and can be harmful to young people

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Thousands of activists expected in Chicago for Democratic convention to call for Gaza ceasefire

Thousands of activists are expected to converge in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, hoping to call attention to abortion rights, economic justice and the war in Gaza

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LAPD and UCLA spent over half a million dollars on police overtime breaking up campus Gaza protests

EXCLUSIVE: The University of California Los Angeles spent a fortune on police and security in response to a campus Palestine solidarity encampment, Josh Marcus reports

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London Zoo removes Banksy’s final animal mural to ‘properly preserve’ it

Ninth mural from street artist’s animal series replaced with replica

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Trump and GOP qualify Harris' immigration involvement as a failure, but her performance is more nuanced

Immigration has been a political vulnerability for Harris due to her past involvement. But a new report shows her reviews to be more complicated than that.

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Ex-Rep. George Santos expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in fraud case, AP source says

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in his federal fraud case, according to a person familiar with the matter

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Aid groups in Gaza aim to avert a polio outbreak with a surge of vaccinations

The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak

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Songwriter-producer The-Dream seeks dismissal of sexual assault lawsuit

Lawyers for The-Dream, a Grammy-winning songwriter and producer, are seeking the dismissal of a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault and other abuse

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Former DC employee convicted of manslaughter in fatal shooting of 13-year-old boy

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Pharmacist blamed for deaths in US meningitis outbreak will plead no contest in Michigan case

Prosecutors in Michigan have struck a deal with a pharmacist who is blamed for deaths from a national meningitis outbreak in 2012

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What to know about the US arrest of a Peruvian gang leader suspected of killing 23 people

A South American crime boss wanted in the killings of at least 23 people in Peru was captured this week in New York

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Tennessee family's lawsuit says video long kept from them shows police force, not drugs, killed son

A Tennessee mother whose son was having a seizure in his apartment says in a new lawsuit that police and paramedics subjected him to “inhumane acts of violence.”

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Prince Harry ‘turned down stay at Buckingham Palace’ on last visit to London

Harry visited London to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games

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How Ferguson elevated the profile of the Justice Department's civil rights enforcers

The investigations into Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri 10 years ago catapulted the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division into the spotlight

France 24

What’s the final score? An overview of Russian disinformation about the 2024 Olympics

Our team has identified at least 38 fake news stories about the 2024 Paris Olympic Games that circulated online since the start of the year, most of them thought to have been manufactured by Russia – from made-up terrorist threats to fictional attacks on athletes to fake media reports. Even…

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JD Vance bizarrely compares border issues to eating a really big sandwich

Trump’s running mate – who has been branded ‘weird’ by his rival Tim Walz – went on to describe plans to ‘eat’ the problem by deporting undocumented migrants ‘bite’ by ‘bite’

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Settler rampage in West Bank sparks rare condemnation from Israeli leaders

Israeli leader have roundly condemned a settler attack that killed one Palestinian and torched homes and cars in the occupied West Bank

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As the Middle East frets about conflict, Dubai booms with an influx of anxious wealth

As conflict casts a shadow across the Middle East, people are getting rich in Dubai

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