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TOP STORIES
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CONGRESS-BUDGET — Democrats drove their election-year financial package deal towards Senate approval, debating a measure that’s much less formidable than President Joe Biden’s authentic home targets however touches deep-rooted celebration goals of slowing international warming, moderating pharmaceutical prices and taxing immense companies. By Alan Fram. SENT: 940 phrases, pictures.
ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS — An Israeli airstrike killed a senior commander within the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, the fighters say, their second chief to be slain amid an escalating cross-border battle. By Fares Akram. SENT: 800 phrases, pictures.
NEWTOWN SHOOTING-INFOWARS-MISINFORMATION — Alex Jones is going through a hefty price ticket for his lies concerning the Sandy Hook Elementary School bloodbath — $49.3 million in damages, and counting, for claiming the nation’s deadliest college capturing was a hoax — a punishing salvo in a fledgling warfare on dangerous misinformation. By Michael R. Sisak. SENT: 760 phrases, pictures, video.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE-ANIMALS — A 50-year-old Ukrainian girl has discovered a brand new objective in life: Rescuing wild animals and pets from the entrance traces of the warfare in Ukraine. In cooperation with an animal safety group, Natalia Popova has saved greater than 300 animals; 200 of them have been evacuated overseas. Many have been wild animals saved as pets at non-public properties earlier than their house owners fled Russian shelling and missiles. By Hanna Arhirova. SENT: 560 phrases, pictures.
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ANNE-HECHE-CRASH — Actor Anne Heche was within the hospital following an accident through which her automobile smashed right into a home and flames erupted, a spokeswoman says. SENT: 460 phrases, picture.
MUSK-TWITTER — Elon Musk mentioned his deliberate $44 billion takeover of Twitter ought to transfer ahead if the corporate can affirm some particulars about the way it measures whether or not person accounts are ‘spam bots’ or actual folks. SENT: 350 phrases, picture.
MARINE-CORPS-GENERAL — The first African American four-star common in Marine Corps historical past, Gen. Michael E. Langley, credited his father with telling him to “aim high” and predicted that his promotion would have an effect on youthful folks. SENT: 280 phrases, picture.
POLICE-CHIEF-RACIST-JOKE — A racist textual content message despatched by a police officer has prompted officers in a small Alabama city to disband their police division and fireplace the police chief and assistant chief. SENT: 250 phrases.
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KENTUCKY-FLOODING-POLITICS — While Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was consoling households displaced by historic flooding within the mountains of jap Kentucky, Republicans on the state’s premier political occasion on the opposite aspect of the state have been campaigning to oust him from workplace in 2023. SENT: 850 phrases, pictures.
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NATIONAL
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DEATH-VALLEY-FLOODING — Hundreds of resort friends trapped by flash flooding at Death Valley National Park have been in a position to drive out after crews cleared a pathway via rocks and dust, however roads broken by floodwaters or choked with particles have been anticipated to stay closed into subsequent week, officers mentioned. SENT: 700 phrases, pictures.
TRIPLE MURDER-SUICIDE-OKLAHOMA — An Oklahoma City man fatally shot his three younger youngsters then shot and killed himself, in accordance with police. SENT: 150 phrases.
FREDDIE-GRAY-OFFICER-PROMOTED — One of the six law enforcement officials who confronted prices within the 2015 lethal arrest of Freddie Gray has been promoted from lieutenant to captain. SENT: 340 phrases, pictures.
CTA-TRAINS-VIOLENT-CRIME — Chicago police and transit officers on Saturday pledged extra safety for the town’s trains to stem a spike in violent crime after the capturing dying of a passenger in a single day. SENT: 360 phrases, picture.
0BIT-ELIASON — Marcus Eliason, a world journalist whose insightful reporting, glowing prose and skillful modifying graced Associated Press information wires for nearly a half-century, has died. He was 75. SENT: 1,080 phrases, picture.
ALBUQUERQUE-MUSLIM-KILLINGS — Police say the killing of a Muslim man on Friday night time in Albuquerque could also be linked to the ambush capturing deaths of three Muslim males over the previous 9 months in New Mexico’s greatest metropolis. SENT: 280 phrases.
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INTERNATIONAL
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COLOMBIA-PRESIDENT — Colombia’s first leftist president might be sworn into workplace, promising to combat inequality and heralding a turning level within the historical past of a rustic haunted by a protracted warfare between the federal government and guerrilla teams. SENT: 570 phrases, pictures.
CUBA-OIL-FIRE — A fireplace set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled within the Cuban metropolis of Matanzas, the place 4 explosions and flames injured 121 folks and left 17 firefighters lacking. Cuban authorities mentioned a unidentified physique had been discovered late Saturday. SENT: 480 phrases, pictures.
SKING-IN-AFRICA — While tens of millions throughout Europe sweat via a summer season of record-breaking warmth, different individuals are snowboarding in Africa. This isn’t one other signal of local weather change however slightly the fascinating anomaly of Lesotho. Lesotho is a tiny mountain kingdom utterly surrounded by South Africa. It’s the one nation on Earth the place each inch of its territory sits greater than 3,280 toes above sea degree. That provides Lesotho snow and led to the creation of Afriski within the Maluti Mountains, which is Africa’s solely working ski resort south of the equator. SENT: 450 phrases, pictures.
PAKISTAN-LAWMAKER TARGETED — Gunmen shot useless 4 folks together with two police in northwestern Pakistan in an assault concentrating on a provincial lawmaker from former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political celebration, police say. SENT: 170 phrases.
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SPORTS
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FBN–HALL OF FAME-INDUCTIONS — Tony Boselli turns into the primary Jacksonville Jaguars participant inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame together with seven members of the Class of 2022, together with Richard Seymour, LeRoy Butler and coach Dick Vermeil. By Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi. SENT: 750 phrases, pictures.
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