The leaders of Russia and China have hailed increasingly close ties between their countries and announced the extension of a 20-year-old friendship treaty, a show of unity amid their tensions with the West MOSCOW — The leaders of Russia and China on Monday hailed increasingly close ties between their countries and announced the extension of […]
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At least nine people are dead and 152 others remain unaccounted for after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in southern Florida‘s Miami-Dade County last week, officials said. A massive search and rescue operation entered its fifth day Monday, as crews continued to carefully comb through the pancaked pile of debris in hopes of finding survivors. The partial […]
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Devin Booker scored 30 points after two quiet games and the Phoenix Suns sent LeBron James to the locker room early, dismantling the Los Angeles Lakers 115-85 Tuesday night to take a 3-2 first-round series lead. The Suns won in Los Angeles on Sunday to tie the series and went right at the Anthony Davis-less […]
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For decades, California’s highest court has left it up to individual jurors to decide whether certain circumstances increase the severity of a crime and thereby warrant the death penalty in murder cases that qualify for the ultimate punishment. On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court heard arguments on a change to that long-standing practice, which could […]
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New claims for jobless benefits in the United States dropped last week for the fifth straight week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, as the world’s biggest economy continues its marked recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 385,000 out-of-work employees filed for unemployment compensation, down 20,000 from the revised figure of the week before, […]
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WASHINGTON – The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is formally establishing the fight against corruption as a core national security interest. Biden on Thursday issued his first national security memorandum, outlining his anti-corruption agenda. “Corruption threatens United States national security, economic equity, global anti-poverty and development efforts, and democracy itself,” the president said in […]
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