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Two LA city council members have lost their committee positions over race scandal
The head of the Los Angeles City Council stripped two members, Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon, of much of their power Monday to pressure them to resign after a private meeting sparked a scandal.
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Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' painting in London
Members of a group that wants to halt new oil and gas projects threw soup over the masterpiece in London's National Gallery, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting.
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This Nigerian city has a high birth rate of twins — and no one is sure why
Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria's southwestern city of Igbo-Ora. For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins.
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Developing nations suffering from climate change will demand financial help
The chairperson of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming U.N. climate summit has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda.
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The U.S. will take in some Venezuelans while expelling others to Mexico
The Biden administration agreed to accept up to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants at U.S. airports while Mexico has agreed to take back Venezuelans who come to the U.S. illegally over land.
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A former Los Angeles Angels employee gets 22 years in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death
Eric Kay was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his overdose death in 2019.
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477 stranded whales die on remote New Zealand islands
The whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, about 500 miles east of New Zealand's main islands. None of the whales could be refloated and all either died naturally or were euthanized.
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ACT test scores drop to their lowest in 30 years in a pandemic slide
The class of 2022's average ACT composite score was 19.8 out of 36, marking the first time since 1991 that the average score was below 20.
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from Dylann Roof, who killed 9 members of a Black church
Roof shot participants at a 2015 Bible study session at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A panel of appellate judges had previously upheld his conviction and death sentence.
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Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates
The city of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical medical experiments performed on mostly Black inmates at its Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s through the 1970s.