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The BET Awards return Sunday with a live show that could see Doja Cat, Drake and Ari Lennox snag some trophies.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Yuet Tung China Works is Hong Kong’s last remaining hand-painted porcelain factory.
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Vanessa Burghardt, an autistic actor who plays Dakota Johnson's daughter in #ChaChaRealSmooth, says she felt "very accepted and very understood."
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Eight bodies have been found on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, and they appear to be those of eight men apparently kidnapped from a resort on the Caribbean coast.
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The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that will keep Republican Tara Sweeney off the ballot for the August special election in Alaska’s U.S. House race.
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AP sources: Deshaun Watson will have a hearing next week with NFL disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson, who will decide if the 26-year-old violated the league's personal conduct policy.
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A federal jury has awarded $21 million to the family of a pregnant teen who was shot and killed by undercover police officers in Northern California five years ago, attorneys said. Elena Mondragon was a passenger in a car when she was fatally shot.
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Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin broke her own world record in the 400-meter hurdles at the U.S. outdoor track and field championships.
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A day after the Supreme Court's bombshell ruling that ended the constitutional right to abortion, pro-choice officials across the U.S. vowed to protect women's access to reproductive health care, and abortion foes promised to take the fight to new arenas.
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Ole Miss and Oklahoma, a couple of underdogs at different points this season, square off for the College World Series championship. Game 1 is coming up, here's what to know:
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A rally that drew thousands to the Arizona Capitol after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against abortion was dispersed by state troopers firing tear gas. Some protesters banged on the windows, and one tried to kick in a sliding glass door.
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Russia's military said that Moscow-backed separatists have taken control of a chemical plant that was the last Ukrainian holdout in the city of Sievierodonetsk in the eastern Luhansk region.
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The escalating monkeypox outbreak in over 50 countries should be closely monitored but does not warrant being declared a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said. WHO nevertheless called for an intense response to control the virus.
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President Joe Biden has arrived in Germany for a meeting of the Group of Seven leading economic powers in the Bavarian Alps. He will later travel to Madrid for a NATO summit, and attempt to strengthen the alliance's stand against Russia's war on Ukraine.
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A 5-month-old girl was shot to death while in the rear of a car in a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. No arrests have been made in the death of Cecilia Thomas. Activist Ja’Mal Green was offering a $5,000 reward for information about the shooting.
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BREAKING: Cristian Javier, Héctor Neris and Ryan Pressly combined on the first no-hitter against the New York Yankees in 19 years, shutting down the best team in baseball and pitching the Houston Astros to a 3-0 victory.
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A federal jury has awarded $21 million to the family of a pregnant teen who was shot and killed by undercover police officers in Northern California five years ago, attorneys said. Elena Mondragon was a passenger in a car when she was fatally shot.
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Churches across the U.S. are answering the big question of how to end homelessness in their communities with a small solution: tiny homes.
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Pope Francis urged families to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court's abortion ruling. Without mentioning abortion, Francis spoke of a culture of waste that he has said is behind acceptance of abortion.
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Mitt Romney isn’t up for reelection, but his name is surfacing in Republican primaries throughout the nation.
Candidates are using the label “Mitt Romney Republican” to frame opponents as insufficiently conservative and enemies of the Trump-era GOP.
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"We must stand together to defend our values: freedom, diversity and respect for each other." Norway's King Harald V offers condolences after a gunman killed two men and injured over 20 other people in Oslo during the capital's annual LGBTQ Pride festival.
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A day after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which provided a constitutional right to an abortion, states began implementing bans and people on both sides of the issue mapped out their next moves.
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Inflation is threatening to widen the gap between people struggling to cover their costs and those able to keep spending, triggering workers' strikes and other protests around the world.
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Here is an overview of abortion legislation and the expected impact of the court's decision in every state.
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For nearly two months after a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, abortion and all of its complexities were hashed and rehashed. Both sides waited, some with fear, others with expectations, for the decision that arrived Friday.
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Democrats hope to harness the outrage felt by abortion rights supporters as they seek to reset what has been a brutal election year environment. Democratic-aligned groups have moved quickly to let voters know what’s at stake in this year’s midterms.
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Every Supreme Court nominee was asked during Senate confirmation hearings about their views of Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion ruling that was struck down this week. Here is how the justices nominated by Republican presidents responded.
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A Jesuit university in New Orleans has renamed its newest residence hall after its first Black graduate, Norman C. Francis, and his late wife and family.
The Loyola University building is now the Blanche and Norman C. Francis Family Hall.
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They also showcased the enormous influence wielded by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Thomas wrote the court’s opinion that Americans have the right to carry handguns in public for self-defense. Alito wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
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The decisions show how the court has evolved over the past six years from an institution that leaned right, but produced some notable liberal victories, to one with an aggressive 6-3 conservative majority.
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Two blockbuster rulings on guns and abortion make it clear that conservative justices hold the power on the U.S. Supreme Court and aren't afraid to use it to make transformative changes in the law.
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Businesses including The Walt Disney Company, Meta and Goldman Sachs announced they would cover travel expenses for employees who must travel out of state to get an abortion.
Others like McDonald's, General Motors and Walmart have kept quiet.
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The Supreme Court decision to end constitutional protections for abortion is expected to disproportionately affect women of color who already face limited access to health care, according to an analysis. apne.ws/t7tw8ft
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President Biden is out to sustain the global alliance punishing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as he embarks on a five-day trip to Europe.
His trip comes as the war's aftershocks to global food and energy supplies deepen.
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Pfizer says tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe, days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall.
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The National Park Service announced it will build the first visitor center dedicated to LGBTQ rights located next to the Stonewall Inn in New York City, a historic bar in the gay rights movement.
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Two recent momentous decisions by the Supreme Court have fired up debate about whether the court’s conservative justices are being consistent to history and the Constitution — or citing them to justify political preferences.
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