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6 people gunned down by shooter at Virginia Walmart, police say
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San Francisco makes U-turn on 'killer robots' plan
San Francisco has reversed its decision to authorise police to use robots equipped with lethal weapons.
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CALIFORNIA Karen Bass sworn in as Los Angeles mayor, the first woman to hold the office
Bass has long promised to declare a state of emergency on homelessness
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Harvard University Names Government Scholar Claudine Gay as Next President
The professor is the Ivy League school’s first Black president and second woman leader
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Brooklyn pastor who was robbed on live stream in July charged with fraud
Lamor Miller-Whitehead, the ‘bling-bling bishop’ with hip-hop connections, is accused of swindling his own parishioners
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US winter storm: Icy blast hits 200 million Americans
Some 200 million Americans are feeling the icy grip of a massive winter storm that has been linked to at least 12 deaths ahead of the holiday weekend.
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Americans ‘burning clothes’ to keep warm
The US’ “snowmageddon” storm has killed at least 19 people while some in remote areas have resorted to burning clothes to keep warm.
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How ‘Chocolate Santa’ brought joy to New Orleans again after tragedy
When the original Santa for the majority-Black Seventh Ward died, a new one stepped into his boots, inspired by his memory
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Storm Leaves at Least 12 Dead in Buffalo, N.Y., Area
Conditions pummeling western New York part of a frigid system sweeping the U.S.
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Chaos as airline cancels 3000 flights
An airline in the United States has been forced to cancel over 3000 flights, leaving travelers stranded across the country.
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Storm victim sent terrifying final video
A 23-year-old woman who became trapped while driving in the “blizzard of the century” sent a terrifying final video to her family before her death.
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Criminology graduate student held in Idaho student murders
US police say they have arrested a criminology graduate in the mysterious killings of four university students in the state of Idaho over six weeks ago.
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Idaho suspect turned ‘violent’ in high school
A man suspected of murdering four university students transformed into an aggressive and violent bully in high school, a former friend claims.
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Benedict’s Death Leaves Catholic Conservatives Bereft
Even after his resignation as pope, traditionalists invoked Benedict’s name and sought to draw him into internecine ideological wars. Now he is gone.
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Times Square: Teenager charged over New York NYE machete attack
Police have charged a 19-year-old with two counts of attempted murder over an attack on three police officers near Times Square on New Year's Eve.
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Joe Biden heads to frontline of US border crisis with trip to El Paso
President has faced persistent criticism that he has failed to address a surge of migrants from the south
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Chaos after flights grounded across US
All flights across the US were grounded for several hours at the busiest time of day because of a glitch with the country’s national airline safety system.
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Flights Resume After FAA Lifts Halt on Departures
The Federal Aviation Administration said it suffered an outage of its system that alerts pilots and crew to advisories and information for flights, prompting a temporary grounding order.
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Oregon congresswoman suffers concussion after being hit by car
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici is expected to make a full recovery
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