Monday, 12 May 2025

3 die in North Cascades National Park climbing fall

Sheriff's officials say three climbers from suburban Seattle have been killed in a fall in North Cascades National Park

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Four arrested in West Africa for extortion scheme linked to California teen's suicide

Three years after a California teenager died by suicide, four men in West Africa have been arrested on suspicion of participating in what investigators are calling an “international sextortion scheme” that targeted people in the U.S., Canada and Europe

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Harvard says it won't abandon 'core' principles to meet Education Department demands

Harvard University has responded to threats from the Education Department to halt grant funding to the Ivy League school

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Georgia becomes 2nd state to shield Roundup weed-killer maker from some cancer claims

Georgia has become the second state to provide a legal protections to the manufacturer of a popular weed killer

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USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it

In a way, the requiem of a now dismantled agency that promoted U.S. security through development and humanitarian work abroad can be told through its people

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Sunday, 11 May 2025

Mother's Day apartment building fire kills 4, critically injures others in Milwaukee

Four people are dead and four others critically injured in a Milwaukee apartment building fire

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1st group of white South Africans heads for US after Trump offers them refugee status

A group of 49 white South Africans has departed their homeland for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration

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US touts 'substantial progress' in tariff talks with China, but details are still scarce

The lead U.S. negotiator in trade talks with China cheered “a great deal of productivity” in resolving differences between the world’s two leading economic powers, after officials wrapped two days of bargaining in Switzerland following President Donald...

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Saturday, 10 May 2025

A split jury and a lie sent him to prison. Now he’s working to change Louisiana’s law

Bobby Gumpright was in the throws of addiction 25 years ago when he fabricated a story that he had been robbed at gunpoint by a Black man

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Tufts University student back in Boston after release from Louisiana detention center

A Tufts University student from Turkey has returned to Boston after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center

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Friday, 9 May 2025

15 states sue over Trump's move to fast-track oil and gas projects via his 'energy emergency' order

A coalition of 15 states is suing over President Donald Trump’s efforts to fast-track energy-related projects, saying the administration is bypassing environmental protection laws and threatening endangered species, critical habitat and cultural resources

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Family of a helicopter pilot killed in a California wildfire reaches a $15 million settlement

The family of a pilot who died when his helicopter crashed while fighting a Southern California wildfire in 2020 has reached a $15 million settlement with the company that maintained the aircraft

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San Francisco region's commuter trains are running again after hours-long stoppage

The San Francisco region's commuter trains were running again after a malfunction shut the entire system down for several hours Friday morning

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