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D-Day Spirit of Remembrance Lives On, Despite the Pandemic
In a small Normandy town where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, applause broke the silence to honor Charles Shay
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From Scarcity to Abundance: US Faces Calls to Share Vaccines
President Joe Biden has highlighted how the United States has administered 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine before his first 100 days in office.
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Voters Around the US Approve Local Police Reform Measures
Voters in at least six states overwhelming approved police reform measures on Election Day, NBC News reports, reflecting a growing demand for greater law enforcement accountability after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in Minneapolis police custody.
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Commercial Airlines Reroute Flights Amid US-Iran Tensions
Commercial airlines are rerouting flights throughout the Middle East to avoid potential danger during heightened tensions between the United States and Iran. Jumbled schedules could effect as many as 15,000 passengers per day, lengthen flight times by an average of 30 to 90 minutes, and severely bruise the bottom line for airlines, industry analysts said. There is anxiety that the...
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Commercial Airlines Reroute Flights Amid U.S.-Iran Tensions
Commercial airlines on Wednesday rerouted flights crossing the Middle East to avoid possible danger amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran.
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Ballroom Dancers Say Immigration Clampdown Hurting Business
When no Americans replied to her ads seeking a dance instructor, studio owner Chris Sabourin looked overseas. But she was stymied again by a federal tightening of visa application rules she and others contend is hampering the ballroom dance industry. Sabourin had to eventually give up after a year and thousands of dollars trying to hire a top ballroom dancer...
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Scientists Race to Document Puerto Rico's Coastal Heritage
A group of U.S.-based scientists is rushing to document indigenous sites along Puerto Rico’s coast dating back a couple of thousand years before rising sea levels linked to climate change destroy a large chunk of the island’s heritage that is still being discovered. Scientists hope to use the 3D images they’ve taken so far to also help identify which historic...
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Man Strips Naked Inside Senate Office Building
A man entered a U.S. Senate office building on Tuesday afternoon and stripped fully nude, police say.
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Parents of British Teen Killed in Crash With Diplomat's Wife Reject Trump Offer to Meet Her
The family of a British teenager killed in a wrong-way crash involving the wife of an American diplomat said President Donald Trump dropped a “bombshell” during a meeting at the White House, revealing that the woman was waiting to meet them in the room next door, NBC News reported. Their lawyer said the way the meeting was proposed was “so...
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Trump, Modi Show Unity Between World's Largest Democracies
President Donald Trump joined a Texas welcome party Sunday for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s visiting the United States amid trade tensions between the allies.
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North Korea Fires 2 Projectiles After Offering Talks With US
North Korea launched two projectiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States but warned its dealings with Washington may end without new U.S. proposals. The launches and demand for new proposals were apparently aimed at pressuring the United States to make concessions when the North...
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FBI Says Concern Remains High for Shooting Copycats
After two mass shootings over the weekend, the FBI is warning about high concern for copycats.
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ICE Releases Texas-Born US Citizen, 18, Wrongfully Detained Near Border
A Dallas-born 18-year-old was released from immigration custody Tuesday after wrongfully being detained for more than three weeks.
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Sanders Releases 10 Years of Tax Returns Showing Income Bump From Campaign Book
Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders released 10 years of tax returns Monday evening, NBC News reports. They show the majority of his income came from his U.S. Senate salary until 2016, when his income jumped with the publication of a book on his first presidential run. His total income popped to over $1 million in 2016 and 2017, after he...
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Families of Undocumented Workers Seek Answers After Raid in Allen
A day after federal agents detained 284 undocumented workers at a North Texas tech company, the families of those workers began searching for answers about what to do next.
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Venezuelans Search for Water as New Blackouts Hit Nationwide
More power outages hit Venezuela on Wednesday after the nation’s worst blackouts earlier this month, knocking out water pumps and forcing some Caracas residents to spend hours searching for bottled water in the few shops that were open or to fill up containers at springs in the city’s hills. Frustrated Venezuelans wondered how long they would have to endure the...
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Flight Attendant, a DACA Recipient, Released by ICE
A Mesa Airlines flight attendant, who as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient is barred from traveling outside the United States under the Trump administration’s rules, was released from immigration detention Friday after being taken into custody when she returned to the U.S. on a flight from Mexico that she had worked. Selene Saavedra Roman, 28, who works...
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Congressman William Hurd: Texas is Purple
Congressman Will Hurd who represents some of the border cities says Texas is purple – hear why he says the future of the Texas Republican party could be in jeopardy , plus ahead of the President’s Rally in El Paso hear his thoughts on whether a wall is needed and the three other things that could slow crime coming into...
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Just 20 Migrants Per Day in New Caravan Can Cross Into Texas
Hundreds of migrants in a new caravan that just reached the U.S. border may have to wait in Northern Mexico for months, because the U.S. agents in the tiny Texas town where they want to cross can only currently process fewer than 20 migrants a day, according to Customs and Border Protection officials. More than 1,800 migrants arrived in Piedras...
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Juan Guaido Calls for Venezuela Defections as Nicolas Maduro Stands Firm
Venezuela’s opposition leader called on more members of the military to abandon the country’s socialist government following Saturday’s defection of a high-ranking general, while President Nicolas Maduro proposed holding early National Assembly elections that could potentially oust his challenger. Maduro’s call for early legislative voting is likely to intensify his standoff with rival Juan Guaido, who heads the opposition-controlled National...