Surf's up! Florida's St. George Island beach named nation's best in annual ranking
A 9-mile stretch of Florida sugar-white sand in an unspoiled natural setting alongside the Gulf of Mexico is the nation’s best beach for 2023
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Explainer-The latest on tax credit rules in Biden's climate and drugs bill
By Jarrett Renshaw and Philip Blenkinsop U.S. President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), cheered by some Democrats
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'Clock has hit midnight': China loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China
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Death row inmate challenges new Tennessee post-conviction law
A Tennessee death row inmate is challenging the newly expanded authority of the appointed state attorney general over some capital punishment proceedings
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8-year-old girl dies in US Customs and Border Protection custody
An 8-year-old girl died while in US Customs and Border Protection custody in Harlingen, Texas, the agency said Wednesday.
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Central Asia leaders converge in China as Xi touts 'enduring' friendship
By Andrew Hayley XIAN, China Central Asian heads of state converged in China's historic city of Xian on
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Wisconsin tribe to ask court to shut down oil pipeline
Attorneys for a Wisconsin Native American tribe are set to present their arguments that a federal judge should order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline because rapid erosion could expose it and cause a massive oil spill on reservation land
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Biden to consult with Japan's Kishida ahead of Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima
President Joe Biden arrives in Hiroshima on Thursday for global diplomacy in a Japan that has already tightened its economic and national security alliance with the U.S. He will meet privately with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before joining the larger Group of Seven summit, a gathering of major industrialized nations
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US metros are growing, many reversing 2021 drops, new estimates show
U.S. metropolitan areas are increasing in population again, growing by almost half a percent last year
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'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' debuts Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival
Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford will swing into Cannes on Thursday for the world premiere of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” in one of the most anticipated events of the French Riviera festival
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Oil drilling project near mouth of Amazon River rejected by Brazil's environmental regulator
Brazil’s environmental regulator has refused to grant a license for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near the mouth of the Amazon River, prompting celebration from environmentalists who had warned of its potential impact
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Philadelphia's likely next mayor could offer model for how Democrats talk about crime
The Democrat who will almost certainly become Philadelphia’s next mayor wants to hire hundreds of additional police officers and says officers should be able to stop and search pedestrians if they have a legitimate reason to do so
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