Congressman: California couple finally escape Afghanistan

A California Republican congressman says a California couple who are both in their 80s and are U.S. citizens has finally left Afghanistan after they were repeatedly blocked by the Taliban

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Search on for Florida woman missing from cross-country trip

A Florida woman who vanished while on a cross-country trip in a converted camper van with her boyfriend is the subject of a nationwide search

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Oath Keeper pleads guilty in Jan. 6 riot, will cooperate

A member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 pleaded guilty Wednesday and will cooperate with investigators against his fellow extremists

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Inmate says conscience led to cold-case killing confession

A Missouri inmate who admitted to a long-unsolved killing while serving time for robbery says he confessed to the crime because his conscience was nagging him

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Appeals court sides with Biden's deportation priorities

A federal appeals court is allowing the Biden administration’s selective criteria on who should be deported to remain in effect, rejecting one of Texas’ challenges to the president’s immigration policies

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Pritzker: Illinois a 'force for good' by cutting carbon gas

Illinois' governor has signed into law a pledge to eliminate the state’s climate-damaging carbon emissions within a quarter-century

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Biden administration says wolves may need protections restored in western US after states make it easier to kill them

Biden administration says wolves may need protections restored in western US after states make it easier to kill them

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UN encourages new negotiations in dispute over Ethiopian dam

 The U.N. Security Council is encouraging Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations on the contentious issue of water availability from the dam that the Ethiopians are building on the main tributary of the Nile River

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Man called largest child porn purveyor gets 27-year sentence

A man previously described by U.S. authorities as the world’s most prolific purveyor of child pornography has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison

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UN sends home Gabonese peacekeepers in CAR over sexual abuse

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is ordering the immediate repatriation of the entire U.N. peacekeeping contingent from Gabon serving in the Central African Republic

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Tourists from China sue Utah over deadly tour bus crash

The families of Chinese tourists killed or injured in a 2019 tour bus crash say in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the state’s design and maintenance failed to keep the remote highway safe

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Search at Grand Canyon turns up remains of another person

Crews searching for a missing man at Grand Canyon National Park made an unexpected discovery this summer

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Sequoia National Park's giant trees at risk as fires grow

Fire crews moved to ramp up the battle Wednesday against two expanding forest fires threatening Sequoia National Park’s giant sequoia trees and infrastructure

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