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Zelenskyy cabinet shakeup puts Kyiv's winter resilience in focus

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s surprise move to overhaul his government and potentially install an energy executive as prime minister is the latest sign of the Ukrainian president’s determination to spare his war-weary nation a repeat of last winter’s hardships.

Zelenskyy said Sunday on social media that he planned to replace Prime Minister Yuliia...Read more

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Colorado Court of Appeals reverses sanction against Denver DA for pattern of discovery violations

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The Colorado Court of Appeals this month reversed a discovery sanction against the Denver District Attorney’s Office after a judge found prosecutors violated a man’s rights two years ago when they turned over an exculpatory 911 recording just six days before his jury trial was set to begin.

Denver District Court Judge Eric Johnson dismissed...Read more

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In Trump's push to change state voting laws ahead of midterms, Idaho holds firm

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President Donald Trump and his administration have continued to ramp up demands that states, including deep-red Idaho, alter their election laws to limit or eliminate mail-in voting and ensure that only eligible citizens cast ballots with threats of legal and financial penalties just months ahead of November’s general election.

The U.S. ...Read more

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Lindsey Graham, Senate hawk turned Trump ally, dies at 71

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Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senior senator and foreign policy hawk who changed from a Donald Trump skeptic to one of the U.S. president’s strongest allies, died on Saturday. He was 71.

The cause of death was “a brief and sudden illness,” Graham’s office said in a post on X that offered no additional details. He was in Kyiv as ...Read more

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US, Iran trade wave of strikes while disputing status of Hormuz

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The U.S. struck Iran for a third time in a week, prompting retaliatory attacks on at least five Arab nations as Washington and Tehran issued conflicting declarations over whether the Strait of Hormuz remains open to shipping.

The Islamic Republic responded early Sunday with drone and missile assaults on American allies across the Middle East, ...Read more

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What to know about the golden mussels invading California's waterways

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The discovery of golden mussels at Sacramento’s deepwater port late last month, though worrying, was not unexpected by researchers tracking the invasive species’ spread through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. But the ongoing challenge for authorities, and for the state’s aquatic recreationalists, is keeping the destructive bivalve ...Read more

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Warsh and US inflation will set tone for July Fed decision

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Kevin Warsh is about to make his first appearance before Congress as Federal Reserve chairman, and during two days of testimony he’ll have new U.S. inflation data to parse with lawmakers.

Tuesday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing, which begins at 10 a.m. in Washington, will be preceded by June consumer price figures from the ...Read more

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US, Iran trade wave of strikes while disputing status of Hormuz

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The U.S. struck Iran for a third time in a week, prompting retaliatory attacks on at least five Arab nations as Washington and Tehran issued conflicting declarations over whether the Strait of Hormuz remains open to shipping.

The Islamic Republic responded early Sunday with drone and missile assaults on American allies across the Middle East, ...Read more

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Trump spoke to Lindsey Graham before death. Here's what president said in tribute

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President Donald Trump said he spoke with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham shortly before his death in an interview on "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning, where he praised the political career of South Carolina’s influential senior senator.

Graham died Saturday evening after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office announced early Sunday morning....Read more

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On birthright citizenship, the Supreme Court 'originalists' split on history and Trump

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The Supreme Court's conservative justices say they decide cases based on the words and original history of the Constitution — and not on their personal or political views.

Following the lead set by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, they say they see history and "originalism" as a guiding principle to prevent judges from changing the ...Read more

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South Africa says 53,449 migrants returned or deported in crackdown

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South Africa said more than 53,000 foreign nationals had been processed for deportation or voluntary repatriation as authorities acted on pledges to speed up removals while warning vigilante groups to stop conducting illegal searches for undocumented foreigners.

The figure is more than double the roughly 25,000 migrants police said had returned...Read more

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Lindsey Graham, Senate hawk turned Trump ally, dies at 71

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Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senior senator and foreign policy hawk who changed from a Donald Trump skeptic to one of the U.S. president’s strongest allies, died on Saturday. He was 71.

The cause of death was “a brief and sudden illness,” Graham’s office said in a post on X that offered no additional details. He was in Kyiv as ...Read more

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A dangerous animal sedative is creeping into Minnesota's illegal fentanyl supply

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MINNEAPOLIS — A powerful animal sedative is slowly making its way into Minnesota’s illicit fentanyl supply, creating the potential to complicate overdose treatment and prompting warnings from health and drug officials.

The drug, medetomidine, sometimes referred to as “rhino tranq,” “mede,” or “dex,” is not approved for human use...Read more

South Carolina's U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, 71, dies after 'brief and sudden illness'

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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Lindsey Graham, the high profile senior senator from South Carolina, died Saturday from “a brief and sudden illness,” his office said.

Graham, 71, had just returned from overseas and was running for a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1994 and spent one term in the South Carolina ...Read more

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States will shape America's future as nation confronts a pivotal choice

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A quarter millennium after its founding, the United States faces a stark choice that will define its future.

In the years ahead, the country can continue to follow the path blazed by President Donald Trump, who is attempting to bring states under the authority of a more powerful federal government led by him. Or it can move in a different ...Read more

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Drone interference during wildfires could end in a 'catastrophic result,' but people keep flying them

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SAN DIEGO — As a fast-moving fire chewed dry brush dangerously close to homes in Sorrento Valley last month, the sighting of a small drone flying in the airspace forced all firefighting aircraft to immediately leave the area.

San Diego police were able to find the person they believed to be flying the drone and get it to land, Sgt. Nicholas ...Read more

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A wave of young Miami Cubans disagrees with abuela about politics in the Trump era

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MIAMI — The warm and inviting living room of the Rosales family’s Kendall West home is decorated with intricately hand-painted egg shell dioramas. In a back bedroom, piles of old photo albums document the family matriarch’s youth in Cuba before she immigrated to Miami in the 1960s. A 1963 LIFE Magazine profile of Fidel Castro is buried in ...Read more

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Informal Bass adviser now working for Lineage, whose cold storage warehouse caught fire

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LOS ANGELES — A top informal adviser to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is working as a crisis communications consultant for Lineage Logistics, the company whose cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights erupted in flames last month, inundating the surrounding neighborhood with toxic smoke and the odor of rotting food.

Yusef Robb, who runs the ...Read more

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Arson eyed by FDNY, NYPD in massive Brooklyn church fire: sources

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NEW YORK — The FDNY and the New York Police Department are coordinating on an investigation of last month’s massive fire at a historic Brooklyn church as an arson incident, FDNY sources said Saturday.

A person of interest was seen fleeing from the South Bushwick Reformed Church moments before the blaze broke out on June 19 around 1:20 p.m. ...Read more

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EU warns push to diversify away from China will need funding

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The European Union is developing a “solidarity instrument” to support companies that diversify critical supplies away from China and cushion the effect of any retaliation by Beijing in the event of a trade conflict.

The tool will come at a price, though, and would require funding, just as member states haggle over the bloc’s next ...Read more