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|By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press
The Lebanese government says it is putting an unspecified number of Beirut port officials under house arrest pending an investigation into how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate came to be stored at the port for years.
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Five people were found dead Wednesday after an early morning fire destroyed a suburban Denver home — a blaze that authorities said they suspect was intentionally set. Three people escaped the fire by jumping from the home's second floor.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Shirley Ann Grau has died at the age of 91.
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Photographer Mahmoud Nakib is still rolling as he get pushed down the street by the shockwave.
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|By Associated Press
The company has been testing Reels in Brazil since November and in France, Germany and India since earlier this summer.
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|By PAT EATON-ROBB
UConn canceled its 2020-2021 football season Wednesday, becoming the first FBS program to suspend football because of the coronavirus pandemic, as other schools had taken the Huskies off their schedules and the governor was reluctant to allow UConn to travel to states with high infection rates.
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|By ANDREW TAYLOR
After more than a week’s worth of meetings, at least some clarity is emerging in the bipartisan Washington talks on a huge COVID-19 response bill.
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|By PAUL J. WEBER
For nearly a month, this borderland of 2 million people in South Texas pleaded for a field hospital, but not until Tuesday was one ready and accepting patients.
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|By Associated Press
Under the revised schedule, teams will play conference opponents they originally were set to meet and will have one additional cross-division game.
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|By Gray News staff
Some in real estate say the coronavirus is pushing younger homebuyers out of the city and into their first homes.
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Trump also called for the first formal presidential debate, scheduled for Sept. 29, to be moved up on the calendar because early voting will have already begun in some states.
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|By Associated Press
The free Covidwise app is available in Apple and Android app stores as of Wednesday.
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|By DEE-ANN DURBIN
With new coronavirus clusters sprouting aboard ships overseas, the U.S. cruise industry is extending its suspension of operations through October.
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|By CNN Staff
This might be the worst time to be homeless in America, and the nation may not have seen the worst of it yet.
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|By BILL BARROW Associated Press
Biden's exchange was part of an interview conducted with the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
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|By Anna Helhoski
Restarting payments for tens of millions of student loan borrowers will likely lead to delinquencies and defaults, experts say.
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|By MATTHEW LEE
The State Department’s acting inspector general resigned abruptly on Wednesday following the firing of his predecessor in circumstances now being investigated by Congress.
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|By BILL BARROW
Joe Biden will not travel to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic presidential nomination because of concerns over the coronavirus, party officials said Wednesday, signaling a move to a convention that essentially has become entirely virtual.
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|By MATTHEW PERRONE, NICKY FORSTER and MICHELLE LIU
An Associated Press analysis found that the number of tests per day slid 3.6% over the past two weeks to 750,000, with the count falling in 22 states. That includes places like Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri and Iowa where the percentage of positive tests is high and continuing to climb.
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One of the U.S. companies working on a COVID-19 vaccine has released an anticipated price range for doses.
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|By Ed Payne
Starting at 5 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, families can sign up for a location near them at: TheWalmartDriveIn.com.
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|By THALIA BEATY
Pete Hamill died at a Brooklyn hospital from heart and kidney failure.
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|By AMY FORLITI
A Minneapolis commission is expected to take up a proposed amendment Wednesday that would dismantle the city’s Police Department in the wake of George Floyd’s death and replace it with a new public safety department.
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|By KEVIN FREKING
In an abrupt reversal, President Donald Trump is encouraging voters in the critical swing state of Florida to vote by mail after months of criticizing the practice — and while his campaign and the GOP challenge Nevada over its new vote-by-mail law.
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A pretrial hearing set for Wednesday relates to the second part of the case against Jarrod Ramos, who already has pleaded guilty to killing five at the Capital Gazette newspaper in 2018.
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Clorox's shortage of disinfectant cleaning materials will remain difficult to find well into 2021, according to their incoming CEO.
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|By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
President Donald Trump says U.S. military generals have told him that they think the massive explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday, killing more than 70 people, was likely a bomb.
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|By JEFF AMY
Two suburban Atlanta school districts that began in-person classes Monday with mask-optional policies face more questions about COVID-19 safety protocols after on-campus pictures showed students packed shoulder-to-shoulder.
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Two men jumped in to help after the ATV crash, with one making tourniquets for the injured driver and the other freeing the two passengers, who were face down in the water, from their harnesses.
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|By Kali O'Rourke
Authorities say the five young men helped subdue a suspected drunken driver who had a deputy in a chokehold following a multiple car collision.
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|By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press
Chad Daybell has pleaded not guilty to charges related to hiding the remains of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan. Authorities have yet to file charges related to the deaths of the children.
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|By BRYAN ANDERSON and SARAH BLAKE MORGAN
Tropical Storm Isaias spawned tornadoes and dumped rain along the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday after making landfall as a hurricane in North Carolina, where it smashed boats together and caused floods and fires that displaced dozens of people.
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|By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the two sides set a goal of reaching an agreement by the end of the week to permit a vote next week.
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|By Associated Press
Virgin Atlantic is the latest airline to wind up in court because of the financial harm from the coronavirus outbreak.
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|By BASSEM MROUE
A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the port, damaging buildings and blowing out windows and doors across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky.
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|By Jacqueline Policastro
In a broadcast exclusive, the president says he wants to extend the $600 weekly benefit to unemployed Americans.
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|By MARCIA DUNN
The astronauts on SpaceX's first crew flight say their Dragon capsule “came alive” and sounded like a beast as it descended through the atmosphere to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
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|By Jonathan Grass
The campaign began last week with the hope of raising a minimum of $1.5 million to sustain museum operations and to be able to reopen Space Camp in April 2021.
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|“Mulan” is no longer headed for a major theatrical release. The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that it will debut its live-action blockbuster on its subscription streaming service, Disney+, on Sept. 4.
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|By Amanda Alvarado
The vehicle sunk off a southern California coast July 30.
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|By PHIL MARCELO, CARLA K. JOHNSON and LISA MARIE PANE
Big house parties, no-mask weddings, crowded bars and restaurants — there are reasons the U.S. has racked up more than 155,000 coronavirus deaths, by far the most of any country, and is fast approaching an off-the-charts 5 million confirmed infections, easily the highest in the world.
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|By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law legislation that will devote nearly $3 billion annually to conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands. The measure was overwhelmingly approved by Congress.
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Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) and Dr. Greg Murphy (R-NC), as well as U.S. Senate Candidate Cal Cunningham discuss what North Carolina needs from D.C. after Hurricane Isaias leave a trail of death in destruction behind.
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|By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer
Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 3:33 PM EDT
|By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
Health experts once thought 2020 might be the worst year yet for a rare paralyzing disease that has been hitting U.S. children for the past decade.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 3:23 PM EDT
|By JAMES LAPORTA
The leader of the U.S. Navy SEAL said the unit has severed ties with the National Navy SEAL Museum, a nonprofit organization that is not overseen by the Navy in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 2:33 PM EDT
|By Travis Leder
Retailers believe the coronavirus pandemic could bring increased back-to-school business.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 2:25 PM EDT
A judge sentenced ex-Michigan State gymnastics coach Kathie Klages to 90 days in jail plus probation for lying in a case related to Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of athletes on campus.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 2:10 PM EDT
Graham Ivan Clark, 17, is accused of using the hijacked Twitter accounts to scam people around the world out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 1:52 PM EDT
The comments came in a wide-ranging, contentious interview with Axios that aired Monday on HBO.