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Nation & World

Published
July 7, 2023

Biden takes aim at ‘junk’ insurance, vowing to save money for consumers being played as ‘suckers’

The new proposed rules aims to close loopholes that allow insurers to offer products that can discriminate based on pre-existing conditions and market to consumers policies that provide little or no coverage.
Published
July 7, 2023

Fire that killed 2 aboard a cargo ship in New Jersey is expected to burn for days

Killed in the blaze that started Wednesday night were Newark firefighters Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr.
Published
July 7, 2023

Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred for pursuing Trump’s false election claims, a review panel says

Giuliani has already had his New York law license suspended for false statements he made after the election. The Washington review panel's work will now go to the D.C. Court of Appeals for a final decision.
Published
July 7, 2023

‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ is here. Here’s how to reconsider Taylor Swift’s transformative album

Taylor Swift’s re-recording of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” is the third album in Swift’s plans to re-record her first six, after her catalog was purchased by music manager Scooter Braun
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July 7, 2023

Baltimore police arrest 17-year-old in block party shooting that killed 2

The gun violence that flared this week left more than a dozen dead and more than 60 wounded – including children as young as 2 years old.

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Published
July 7, 2023

Racist Texas gunman who killed 23 people gets 90 consecutive life sentences

Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, making it one of the U.S. government’s largest hate crime cases.
Published
July 7, 2023

U.S. set to destroy its last chemical weapons, closing deadly chapter dating to World War I

It's a defining moment for arms control efforts worldwide.
Published
July 7, 2023

Why the U.S. is willing to send Ukraine cluster munitions now

The Biden administration has agreed to provide controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine that it says could help its forces penetrate Russia's defensive lines, but that many nations have pledged not to use again due to risks to civilians.
Published
July 6, 2023

A Texas man reported missing as a teen in 2015 was only missing for 1 day, police say

The announcement came a week after police said they found the man after receiving a call about a person lying on the ground in front of a southeast Houston church.
Published
July 6, 2023

Guantanamo detainees tell first independent visitor about scars from torture and hopes to leave

For the first time since the facility in Cuba opened in 2002, a U.S. president had allowed a United Nations independent investigator, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, to visit.