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The Japanese government has warned of possible power shortages in the Tokyo region, asking people to conserve energy as the country endures an unusually intense heat wave. Officials announced the earliest end to the annual summer rainy season in decades.
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BREAKING: AP source says US providing advanced anti-air missile system, more artillery support in latest aid to Ukraine.
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Bryce Harper is officially on the 10-day injured list with a broken left thumb. The Phillies say they don't know when the reigning NL MVP will be able to return.
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Defenseman Cale Makar is the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as the playoff MVP after leading the Colorado Avalanche to their first Stanley Cup title since 2001 and third in franchise history. The vote was unanimous. The Norris Trophy winner is 23. by
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BREAKING: The Colorado Avalanche win the Stanley Cup, beating the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in Game 6.
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IN TENTS OVERLOAD: The original are heading out on their first UK tour in two decades - but first, this Friday they play festival.
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FROM CHASTAIN TO COSTNER: Bond star “in awe” of array of talent at launch in London, as stars gather to tease upcoming shows due on the platform
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Six players and two managers were ejected after a bench-clearing brawl in the Mariners-Angels game.
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Is tonight the night for the Colorado Avalanche? Or will the Tampa Bay Lightning force Game 7?
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Amid Elvis impersonators and folklore surrounding the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Austin Butler says he searched for "the truth" when portraying Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's biopic.
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"He tried to tell the world what was happening to the rainforest." Family and friends pay final respects to British journalist Dom Phillips, killed in the Brazilian Amazon while doing research for a book on how to save the world’s largest rainforest.
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South African police are investigating the deaths of at least 21 people, many of them minors as young as 13, at a nightclub in the coastal town of East London. It remains unclear what led to the deaths, and health officials are planning autopsies.
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BREAKING: Mississippi wins its first national baseball title, scoring twice on wild pitches in a three-run eighth inning to sweep Oklahoma in the College World Series finals with a 4-2 victory.
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"A day of great joy and blessing." "A terrible blow." Praise and lament for the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn abortion rights filled churches, temples and other sacred spaces across the nation.
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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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Due to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is poised to default on its foreign debt for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Here are key things to know about a Russian default.
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In Gee Chun wins her third major title, the Women's PGA Championship, beating Lexi Thompson and Minjee Lee by a stroke.
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South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has pledged to bar mail-order abortion pills. Noem said doctors, not patients, would likely be prosecuted for violations of what would be one of the strictest laws on abortion pills in the United States.
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Police and a lawyer for the suspect in a mass shooting during an LGBTQ festival in Norway say he has refused to explain his actions to investigators. Two people were killed and more than 20 injured in what authorities call an “Islamist terror act.”
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"Certainly had Elvis lived, he would have been given this honor." Ahead of the release of biopic "Elvis," the Presley family placed their handprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
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Now that the landmark 1973 decision granting a constitutional right to abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court, some women worry about what that means for the progress women have made in public life in the intervening half-century. apne.ws/cEwZUty
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Reproductive freedom was one of the key goals of the feminism of the 1960s and 1970s. The women who fought for those rights recall a decade of progress — the right to equal pay, the right to use birth control, Title IX in 1972, and then Roe v. Wade.
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Grand Canyon National Park has decided not to extend a pilot project implemented last year that used volunteers to kill bison to downsize the herd. New surveys show the herd roaming the far reaches of northern Arizona is closer to the goal of about 200.
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The number of dolphins swimming from the Atlantic into the mouth of the River Tagus has increased as pollution has dropped.
Officials and scientists from more than 120 countries are due to attend the U.N. Ocean Conference in Lisbon starting Monday. apne.ws/7jkg8Sq
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Delegates attending a U.N. conference in Lisbon next week might take inspiration for their efforts to protect the oceans by looking out of the venue’s windows at Portugal’s longest river, where frolicking dolphins delight locals and tourists.
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At a cemetery on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, friends and relatives paid their final respects on Sunday to British journalist Dom Phillips, killed in the Brazilian Amazon while researching for a book about how to save the world’s largest rainforest.
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In a box-office rarity, "Elvis" and "Top Gun: Maverick" tied for first with each reporting $30.5 million in ticket sales over the weekend. Final figures Monday should break the tie. Meanwhile, "Maverick" became Tom Cruise's first $1 billion movie.
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Farmers in Oregon already battling extreme drought are also fighting against infestations of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets, giant insects that can ravage crops. Outbreaks across the U.S. West have worsened amid drought and warmer temperatures.
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Congressional primary runoffs are rare in Mississippi. But this year, two of the state’s Republican incumbents are facing challengers from their own party in runoffs after neither met the 50% threshold to win their primaries outright.
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Dozens of people were detained in central Istanbul after city authorities banned an LGBTQ Pride march, organizers said. Turkey’s largest city has banned the march since 2015, but large crowds still gather every year to mark the end of Pride Month.
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Serena Williams is back at Wimbledon, and her email “Out of office” setting is on.
takes a look at the 23-time Grand Slam champion's return to tennis after a year away: apne.ws/CjRGbI2
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South African police are investigating the deaths of at least 20 people at a nightclub in the coastal town of East London.
“At this point we cannot confirm the cause of death,” health department spokesperson Siyanda Manana said.
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A new visitor center set to be built at The Stonewall Inn will be the first dedicated to LGBTQ history within the National Park Service. The bar became a symbol of the gay rights movement following a 1969 police raid that sparked demonstrations.
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Three conservative justices appointed by former President Donald Trump were at the core of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The decision marked the apex of a week that reinforced Trump’s grip on Washington.
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“We don’t know what will happen tomorrow.” Many couples in Ukraine are getting married amid the war. Some are soldiers, marrying before they head off to fight. Others are simply united in a determination to continue to live and love to the fullest. apne.ws/UuGS9OC
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Ready to travel again after the pandemic?
Across Europe, travelers are already facing long lines, lost baggage and other chaos at airports. takes a look at what’s to come this summer: apne.ws/7QuGnyI
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Furious about surging prices, many consumers feel they know just where to cast blame: On greedy companies that increase prices and pocket the profits. But most experts say corporate price gouging is, at most, one of many causes of runaway inflation.
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Baz Luhrmann explains his approach to portraying Elvis Presley's life in new biopic #Elvis.
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