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Wounded California officer fatally shoots man during ‘unprovoked’ knife attack
Police in California say an officer has fatally shot a man who wounded him with a knife outside a city police headquarters in what authorities called an unprovoked attack. The Santa Monica Police Depa ...
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‘The power of water.’ How Helene devastated western North Carolina and left communities in ruins
On the last Thursday of September, as Hurricane Helene was setting out on a path of destruction from Florida to the southern Appalachians, Kim and Rod Ashby stopped at the home they were building in ...
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Tracing one displaced family’s year of moves across the devastated Gaza Strip
The Abu Jarad family lost the stability and comfort of their northern Gaza home when Israel launched its campaign in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. They did exactly as the Israelis ordered in ...
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Takeaways from AP’s report on affordable housing disappearing across the U.S.
While Americans continue to struggle under high rents, as many as 223,0000 affordable housing units could disappear in the next five years alone. Those units were built with the federal Low-Income ...
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Lebanese worldwide fear for their homeland and loved ones as violence escalates
It was a year ago when Jomana Siddiqui visited Lebanon, where her father was born — and is now buried. She planned to return there soon; this time, she thought, she would take her two teenage ...
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As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses
For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles’ Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter ...
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Texas Republicans Break Ranks: A Powerful Coalition Rises to Back Allred and Oust Ted Cruz
In an unexpected but powerful twist, Texas politics is witnessing a new wave of bipartisan unity with the formation of “Republicans for Allred,” a coalition led by prominent GOP figures who are throwi ...
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Gotham scores four goals in 14-minute span to beat Bay 5-1
Esther González had two goals and an assist as Gotham scored four goals in 14 minutes to pull away late for a 5-1 win over Bay FC at Red Bull Arena on Saturday night in the National Women’s Soccer ...
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Survivors grapple with aid cuts and the Taliban a year after massive Afghan earthquake
The devastating earthquake that hit western Afghanistan’s Herat province a year ago was a major challenge for the Taliban. Nobody knows for sure how many people died in the 6.3 magnitude quake on Oct.
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A year into the Israel-Hamas war, students say a chill on free speech has reached college classrooms
As a junior at George Washington University, Ty Lindia meets new students every day. But with the shadow of the Israel-Hamas war hanging over the Washington, D.C., campus, where everyone has a ...
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A Tennessee nurse and his dog died trying to save a man from floods driven by Hurricane Helene
As the Hurricane Helene-driven waters rose around the Nolichucky River in Tennessee, Boone McCrary, his girlfriend and his chocolate lab headed out on his fishing boat to search for a man who was ...
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Royals let Yankees walk away with win in AL Division Series opener
Given a lead, the Kansas City Royals’ pitching staff let the New York Yankees walk away with a playoff win. The Royals held the lead three times, only to see it erased when their pitchers struggling t ...