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Liz Dufour/The Cincinnati Enquirer via APThe confrontation at the FBI's Ohio field office comes as officials warn of an increase in threats against federal agents following a search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. -
Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency via Getty ImaSupermoons in general appear 17% bigger and 30% brighter than when the moon is at its farthest point away from Earth, according to NASA.
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A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, most likely closing the case that shocked a nation and galvanized the modern civil rights movement. -
The Biden Administration is looking to update a century-old federal law that would affect North Carolina's poultry industry.
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The North Carolina attorney general’s office, representing defendants in a 2019 case that blocked a state law banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, has joined plaintiffs in asking a federal court not to restore the ban after the judge suggested his injunction “may now be contrary to law.”
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The state Democratic Party has filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to block a lower court's order that the Greens be added to North Carolina's 2022 ballot
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The North Carolina Association of Educators is opposing a state plan to change how teachers are licensed and paid. Representatives for the teachers' association held a press conference Tuesday saying the plan might worsen, rather than alleviate, a growing teacher shortage.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will distribute more than a million doses from northern Alabama to southwest Virginia. Most will be dropped from planes or helicopters.
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The ultra-progressive party held a celebratory press conference Monday. But being on the ballot hardly means its candidates will actually contend in any races.
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School officials and Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood have placed one semiautomatic rifle in each of the county's six schools. Each of the guns will be locked inside a safe. The action was spurred by the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead in May.
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This month marks 67 years since Emmett Till was brutally lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Activists in North Carolina are joining the calls for authorities to serve a nearly 70-year-old arrest warrant against the woman who accused him.
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In May, an explosive report on sexual abuse perpetrated by clergy in the Southern Baptist Convention made national headlines. Now, survivors of abuse and their advocates are continuing to question what this means for one of the country’s largest Christian denominations.
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Patricia and Joe are one of the most memorable couples in Dating While Gray history. We first met them in Season 2 just after they developed romantic feelings for each other through virtual communications. (You may recall Patricia initially was reluctant to get involved with Joe.) They join Laura again to share the magical coincidence that was the foundation for Patricia deciding to give Joe another chance. | Thanks to our sponsor SilverSingles. More at silversingles.com/datingwhilegray.
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Iris Gottlieb/Beyond the hype about Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos, the real story of what’s happening in Colombia’s Rio Magdalena is surprising and complex. Some look on these hungry herbivores with affection and admiration, others fear their aggressive attitude and huge ecological footprint. Follow these unlikely invaders from Africa to Colombia with a possible layover in…Louisiana?
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