North Carolina legislature gives final OK to election board changes, with governor's veto to follow
The North Carolina General Assembly has given final approval to Republican-backed legislation that would shift control of the State Board of Elections away from the governor and to lawmakers entering the 2024 election season
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A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic
A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants too mentally ill to stand trial, after a military medical panel found that the man’s abuse in CIA custody years earlier has rendered him psychotic
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High-speed trains begin making trip between Orlando and Miami
A privately owned high-speed passenger train service has been launched between Florida’s two biggest tourist hubs
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The counteroffensive may be flagging, but Crimea attack shows Ukraine can still inflict serious damage on the Russian military
The Ukrainian missile attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet is perhaps the most dramatic example yet of the confidence with which Ukraine is going after Russian facilities in occupied Crimea -- and the vulnerability of critically important infrastructure on the peninsula.
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Capitol rioter who attacked AP photographer and police officers is sentenced to 5 years in prison
A Maryland man who attacked an Associated Press photographer and threw a flagpole and smoke grenade at police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to five years in prison
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'I'm not sure where the airplane is. ... I ejected.'
After an F-35 fighter jet disappeared into the South Carolina sky, a 911 operator received a confounding call.
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US pledges $100M to back proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to Haiti
The Biden administration is pledging $100 million to support a proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to restore security to conflict-ravaged Haiti and urged other nations to make similar contributions
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Medicaid expansion to begin soon in North Carolina as governor decides to let budget bill become law
Some adults in North Carolina could get Medicaid coverage within weeks because Gov. Roy Cooper says he'll let the state budget bill coming to his desk become law
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China's Xi calls on West to lift sanctions against war-ravaged Syria
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -China's President Xi Jinping called on the West to lift sanctions on Syria and offered
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ProPublica: Clarence Thomas attended Koch network donor events
Justice Clarence Thomas attended a private dinner in 2018 during a winter donor summit of the Koch network, the political organization founded by libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch, ProPublica reported Friday.
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US ambassador to Japan calls Chinese ban on Japanese seafood 'economic coercion'
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has accused China of using “economic coercion” against Japan by banning imports of Japanese seafood in response to the release of treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, while Chinese boats continue to fish off Japan’s coasts
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Netanyahu tells UN that Israel is 'at the cusp' of an historic agreement with Saudi Arabia
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is "at the cusp” of a historic breakthrough leading to a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia
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