Recovery efforts are focused on power restoration in Florida communities as sweltering heat moves in after Hurricane Idalia
Crews in Florida will keep working to restore power and clear debris Friday after Hurricane Idalia flooded thousands of homes along its west coast -- and outages have left thousands waking up in the dark as scorching heat has set in.
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Japan marks 100 years since the devastating Great Kanto Quake, with disaster drills nationwide
Japan's prime minister has staged a televised a disaster drill in which he declared a fictional state of emergency based on a real-life earthquake that devastated the capital region a century ago
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Murder, torture, sexual violence among thousands of Russian crimes against children, Ukraine says
Ukraine has opened more than 3,000 criminal cases over Russia's alleged crimes against children in the country, including dozens of torture cases, Ukrainian prosecutors said Thursday.
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Rainbows, drag shows, movies: Lebanon's leaders go after perceived symbols of the LGBTQ+ community
In recent weeks, Lebanon's sharply divided political and religious leaders have come together to fight the LGBTQ+ community
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After years of fighting, a praying football coach got his job back. Now he's unsure he wants it
Years after assistant coach Joe Kennedy left a Washington state high school football team over objections to his post-game praying on the field, he has returned to the gridiron thanks to a Supreme Court decision
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In final hours before landfall, Hurricane Idalia stopped intensifying and turned from Tallahassee
In the final hours before Hurricane Idalia struck Florida, experts say its eye experienced a phenomenon that kept it from further intensifying
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Texas wanted armed officers at every school after Uvalde. Many can't meet that standard
A vision of putting an armed guard at every school in Texas is crashing into the reality of not enough police or funding
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US vice chair of Armed Services Committee promises 'resolute reaction' if Taiwan is attacked
A U.S. congressional delegation visiting Taiwan says the U.S. would act if the island was attacked and promised to resolve the $19 billion backlog in its defense purchases from the U.S. Rob Wittman, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said: “Know that any hostile unprovoked attack on Taiwan will result in a resolute reaction from the U.S." He spoke Friday ahead of meetings with President Tsai Ing-Wen
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Gabon coup shows how France's influence on its former territories is disintegrating
When President Leon Mba of Gabon was toppled by the military in 1964, then-French President Charles de Gaulle sprang into action and immediately sent French troops to restore Mba to power.
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After outrage over Taylor Swift tickets, reforms has been slow across the US
Many of the major reforms to ticket sellers in the U.S. have failed to pass this year
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Afghanistan's female cricketers plead with sport's world governing body: help us play again
Two years ago Firooza Amiri was an 18-year-old batter for the Afghanistan women’s cricket team and ready to take on the world
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A net of justice is tightening around 2020 election deniers and may be closing in on Trump
It turns out that there is a heavy price for trying to steal votes, defaming defenseless election workers and invading the US Capitol to try to thwart a democratic transfer of presidential power. And accountability is moving ever closer to Donald Trump.
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