Fire threatening Yosemite’s famed grove of giant sequoia trees is still growing
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Threatened wild bees get help from Washington researchers
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Steve Bannon says he’s willing to testify before January 6 committee after Trump waives claims of executive privilege
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Continue Reading Russia claims credit for Elena Rybakina’s Wimbledon title
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Continue Reading Correction: Cryptocurrency-Pensions story
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Continue Reading Israeli PM calls for Saudi relations ahead of Biden visit
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Continue ReadingCanada targets oil and gas manufacturing in new Russian sanctions
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Continue ReadingAfter a massacre took one of their own, the ‘Cheers’ of Highland Park has turned into a pillar of support and healing
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Continue Reading Business area opens for 1st time since July 4 parade attack
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Russian strike on residential building kills 29 in eastern Ukraine, officials say
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Continue Reading Ukrainian soldiers train in UK as war with Russia rages on
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OPINIÓN | Si se insta a las mujeres a dar pecho por dos años, necesitarán mucho más apoyo
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Property owners and officials find ways around century-old laws as the West runs out of water
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Continue Reading In Mideast, Biden struggling to shift policy after Trump
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Continue ReadingAfter a massacre took one of their own, the ‘Cheers’ of Highland Park has turned into a pillar of support and healing
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Continue Reading Biden defends pending visit to Saudi Arabia in opinion piece
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Continue Reading Greitens fans shrug off scandals threatening GOP Senate seat
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Continue Reading President and PM: 2 men at heart of Sri Lankan crisis
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Bank earnings could be ugly. Here’s what to look for
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Continue ReadingAt least 15 dead in a mass shooting at a bar in Soweto, South Africa
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Continue Reading Iran enriches to 20% with new centrifuges at fortified site
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Why Bluetooth remains an ‘unusually painful’ technology after two decades
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Continue Reading Nigeria’s troubled northwest battles child malnutrition
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Continue ReadingA 14-year-old is fatally stabbed at a train station in New York, authorities say
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Continue Reading Canada to release equipment for Russia-Germany gas pipeline
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Continue ReadingThe January 6 insurrection: Minute-by-minute
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Continue Reading Ukraine Muslims pray for victory, end of occupation
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Continue ReadingAs Sri Lanka’s leader agrees to step down, protesters sing on the streets. But the future is uncertain and the economy is wrecked
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Continue Reading Sri Lanka opposition meets to name new gov’t amid turmoil
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Continue Reading Balkan activists keep fighting for Europe’s last wild rivers
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Continue Reading 15 killed in Russian strike in Ukraine, 20 believed trapped
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Continue Reading South Africa police say 15 killed in bar shooting in Soweto
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa police say a shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg’s Soweto township has…
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‘An ingrained fear for your life.’ Black men say they understand why Jayland Walker fled police
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Continue Reading Bulls spare runners from gorings for 4th day in Pamplona
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Continue Reading Macao to shutter casinos for a week in COVID-19 outbreak
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Continue Reading Japan ruling party wins big in polls in wake of Abe’s death
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