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  • WorldReuters

    Putin taps civilian economist to run defence

    MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilise defence expenditures and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine. More than two years into the war, which has cost both sides heavy casualties, Putin proposed Andrei Belousov, a 65-year-old former deputy prime minister who specialises in economics, to replace his long-term ally, Sergei Shoigu,

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  • USThe Columbus Dispatch

    Possibility teen's 101-pound catfish catch will lead to rule changes, new record category

    The Outdoor Writers of Ohio organization is discussing the possibility of separating the fishing records for rod and reel and float rig catches.

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  • USThe Tennessean

    Police: Semi hits CSX overpass in Nashville forcing I-40 traffic at I-24 to be diverted

    Overpass no longer used by CSX.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Sean 'Diddy' Combs asks judge to dismiss 'false' claim that he, others raped 17-year-old girl

    Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he and two co-defendants raped a 17-year-old girl in a New York recording studio in 2003, saying it was a “false and hideous claim" that was filed too late under the law. “Mr. Combs and his companies categorically deny Plaintiff’s decades-old tale against them, which has caused incalculable damage to their reputations and business standing before any evidence has been presented,” says the filing, which also na

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  • USKTVX

    Lehi High School teacher hospitalized after ‘tragic accident’ during class

    A Lehi High School teacher was taken to the hospital after what school district officials are calling a very unfortunate accident during a class Friday morning, according to Lehi City.

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  • OpinionThe Telegraph

    Labour is living in the past – and will destroy the economy to get there

    As it prepares for office later this year, the Labour Party, and especially its leader Sir Keir Starmer, has been busily trying to reassure corporate leaders that the planned overhaul of employment law will be significantly watered down.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Jill Biden tells Arizona college graduates to tune out people who tell them what they 'can't' do

    Jill Biden on Saturday told Arizona community college graduates to tune out the people who like to tell them what they can't do. The first lady shared with graduates of Mesa Community College how her high school guidance counselor told her she wasn't college material and shouldn't waste her time going. Then she got three more, including two master's degrees and, at age 55, a doctorate in educational leadership.

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  • WorldThe Daily Beast

    Students Walk Out on Jerry Seinfeld’s Duke Commencement Speech

    Frederic J. Brown/AFP via GettyA slew of students walked out of Duke University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday to protest Israel’s war in Gaza just as the university’s commencement speaker, Jerry Seinfeld, was set to speak.Videos posted on social media—but omitted from the university’s livestream—showed students walking out as Duke President Vincent Price introduced the comedian, who received an honorary doctorate. Other students erupted into dual jeers and cheers of “Jerry!”student walkout a

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  • PoliticsHuffPost

    Springsteen Fans Roast Trump For Bizarre Boast About Size Of New Jersey Crowd

    A spokesperson for the city of Wildwood said Trump spoke to 80,000 to 100,000 people, but video of the event made that hard to believe.

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  • BusinessYahoo Finance

    Utility stocks are on fire — here are Wall Street analysts' top picks

    Utility stocks are outperforming the broader markets. Here's a look at three top picks from analysts.

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  • PoliticsCNN

    Ex-Nixon White House counsel on why he thinks case against Trump in New York is ‘very powerful’

    Ex-Nixon White House counsel John Dean weighs in on the pending testimony by former Trump fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen in former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York.

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  • USCNN

    A 19-year-old called 911 in a crisis and ended up dead. For advocates, it’s a call for a better way of policing

    “Please don’t shoot,” Notan Eva Costa, a 48-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant living in Queens, begged the two New York City police officers who entered her home after her teenage son called 911.

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  • BusinessReuters

    Lufthansa boss vents frustration about Boeing problems

    Aircraft delivery delays from Boeing are "extremely annoying" and cost Lufthansa lots of money, but the U.S. planemaker should be able to resolve its problems, the German airline's CEO said in a newspaper interview. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr was direct when asked by Switzerland's Neue Zuercher Zeitung how badly recent setbacks at Boeing and subsequent delivery hold-ups were affecting his firm. "This is extremely annoying and costs us a great deal of money," Spohr said in the interview publis

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  • USAkron Beacon Journal

    Fox 8's Wayne Dawson recuperating from surgery, thanks viewers for well-wishes

    In April, Fox 8's Wayne Dawson underwent a lengthy surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. According to a message posted Sunday, he continues to recover.

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  • USReuters

    Exclusive-Before arrest in Russia, US soldier's relationship with Russian girlfriend turned bloody, wife says

    Months before his arrest in Russia, U.S. Army soldier Gordon Black made a surprise video call from his overseas tour in South Korea to his 6-year-old daughter in Texas. Instead of a normal chat, however, his daughter and wife witnessed a fight break out between Black and his Russian girlfriend that became bloody, said his wife, Megan. Screaming turned to violence, with his girlfriend clawing at his face.

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  • ScienceLive Science

    Papua New Guineans, genetically isolated for 50,000 years, carry Denisovan genes that help their immune system, study suggests

    Genes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may help Papua New Guineans in the lowlands fight off infection, while mutations to red blood cells may help highlanders live at altitude.

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  • USWPIX New York City, NY

    Map: Will you see the northern lights again on Sunday?

    More "very fast moving coronal mass ejections" are expected to hit Earth's magnetic field on Sunday — here's how it impacts your odds of seeing the northern lights.

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  • WorldReuters

    Nine killed in Ukrainian missile strike on Russian apartment block, Russia says

    MOSCOW (Reuters) -At least nine people were killed and 20 injured on Sunday when a section of a Russian apartment block collapsed after being struck by fragments of a Soviet-era missile, launched by Ukraine and shot down by Russia, Russian officials said. In one of the deadliest attacks to date on the region of Belgorod, Ukraine launched what Russian officials said was a massive missile attack, involving Tochka ballistic missiles and Adler and RM-70 Vampire (MLRS) multiple launch rocket systems

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  • USLouisiana Illuminator

    Unconstitutional definition of marriage likely to remain in Louisiana constitution despite rewrite

    Republican lawmakers plan to leave in a section of the Louisiana constitution that defines marriage as between one man and one woman during a potential constitutional rewrite despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Rep. Beau Beaullieu, R-New Iberia, the lawmaker carrying the legislation calling for a constitutional convention, said his conservative colleagues want to leave […] The post Unconstitutional definition of marriage likely to remain in Louisiana constitution despite rewrite appeared first

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