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U.S. offers Russia a deal for the release of Brittney Griner
The U.S. has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.
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Russia says it will quit the International Space Station after 2024
NASA and other international partners hope to keep the space station running until 2030. Meanwhile, Russia says it will focus on building its own orbiting outpost.
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A 6th teenager charged in the 1989 Central Park jogger case is exonerated
A co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in the notorious rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned.
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An ex-U.S. congressman from Indiana is among 9 people charged in insider trading
Stephen Buyer, a Republican representative from 1993 to 2011, was accused in court papers of engaging in insider trading during the $26.5 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.
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Pope is set to make historic apology to Indigenous peoples for school abuses in Canada
Pope Francis is expected to apologize for generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada. Thousands of children died from disease, fire and other causes.
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Beloved monarch butterflies are now listed as endangered
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for to its "red list" of threatened species and categorized it as "endangered" — two steps from extinct.
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2 men are indicted in the tractor-trailer case that left migrants dead in Texas
A federal grand jury indicted Homero Zamorano Jr. and Christian Martinez, both of Pasadena, Texas, on counts of transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in death.
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Disbarred S.C. attorney Alex Murdaugh pleads not guilty to murdering his wife and son
Court papers made public to date don't indicate how police linked the once-powerful lawyer to the June 2021 deaths. Prosecutors agreed to keep the evidence secret amid media attention.
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Corruption concerns involving Ukraine are revived as the war with Russia drags on
Since the start of the war with Russia, the Biden administration has mostly ignored Ukraine's corruption history. Questions resurfaced about its suitability as a recipient of massive infusions of aid.
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The CDC endorses Novavax, a more traditional COVID vaccine, for adults
Adults who haven't gotten any COVID-19 shots should consider the new option, the agency said Tuesday. The spike protein vaccine is more typical than the mRNA types being broadly used against COVID.