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Witness: Man confronted gunman who ambushed, killed officer

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DENVER — A Colorado man was shopping when he heard the gunfire that killed a suburban Denver police officer, rushed out of the store...

Dakota Access lawsuit dismissed; future challenges possible

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BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe challenging the operation of the Dakota...

Can pandemic recovery plan end Italy’s years of stagnation?

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MILAN — The COVID-19 pandemic hit Italy especially hard, killing more than 127,000 people and sending the European Union's third-largest economy into a devastating...

States grapple with closing youth detention centers

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CONCORD, N.H. — As states from California to Maine consider drastic changes to youth detention centers, New Hampshire is grappling with its own facility...

Judge tosses most claims over clearing protesters in DC park

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge has dismissed a majority of the claims filed by activists and civil liberties groups who accused the Trump administration...

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BARCELONA, Spain — Spain’s government granted pardons on Tuesday to the nine imprisoned instigators of an illegal 2017 secession bid for Catalonia in a...

Florida governor: Students will be taught communism is evil

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Civics education will be expanded in Florida, including instruction about communist and totalitarian governments, and state universities will be prevented from...

Turkish businessman arrested in scheme with Utah polygamists

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SALT LAKE CITY — A Turkish businessman has been arrested by the U.S. Justice Department in connection with what authorities say was a biodiesel...

UK infected blood probe focuses on school where dozens died

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LONDON — A public inquiry into Britain’s contaminated blood scandal, which led to the deaths of more than 2,000 people in the 1970s and...

Pandemic-delayed surgeries share blame for blood shortage

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BOSTON — Some New England hospitals are delaying or rescheduling surgeries because of a shortage of blood donations during the pandemic. ...