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Pakistani airstrikes target Afghanistan after Islamabad accuses Kabul of drone attacks

Pakistan said early Thursday that it had carried out airstrikes on 10 sites in Afghanistan that it said were used to launch drone attacks against Pakistan a day earlier, ...
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Judge hopes to be ready for playoffs and Stanton could return for Yankees after 5 1/2-month absence

Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hopes to return from a strained right calf for the playoffs next week and Giancarlo Stanton could be back after a 5 1/2-month absence. New York manager ...
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Farmers still feeling impacts of this summer’s drought as we enter the fall months

Summer has passed, but the impact from one of the driest summers eastern North Carolina has seen is still being felt. Hot ...
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Energy Department will spend $2 billion to squeeze more electricity from aging power grid

The Energy Department is set to announce it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation’s aging and stressed power grid, as President ...
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Federal cuts have deeply impacted residents of the Washington, DC area, a new survey shows

Sam Trumbull once wrote public assistance policy to help people receiving food assistance, then needed public assistance for ...
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Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia effectively shatters peace deal that ended 2022 war

Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia on Thursday effectively shattered a peace pact that ended a devastating two-year war in 2022, with rebel forces mobilizing for an ...
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Judge orders White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico

A federal judge early Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s move to ban three news outlets from the White House grounds and said CNN, MS NOW and Politico must ...
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Autonomous AI hacks raise thorny questions of legal accountability

The Justice Department has a long history of investigating and prosecuting hackers who break into a private company’s network. But what happens when the hackers ...
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Famed radio and TV priest Fulton Sheen to be beatified in St. Louis, a step away from sainthood

Decades after he was a fixture on American TV screens, the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen is back in a familiar place: the media spotlight. Tens of thousands of Catholic devotees ...
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Antonelli aims to stay on target for F1 title in Baku a year after Piastri’s challenge crumbled

Kimi Antonelli insists the Formula 1 title race is “not over” as he takes a vast 81-point lead into this week’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. It looks as good as over, but Baku has sprung surprises ...
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Acting Navy Secretary says eight sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide

(The Hill) – Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told a Senate Democrat this week that eight sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a lengthy deployment ...
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Turkey will hand over key base in Iraq in a gradual troop withdrawal deal

Turkey has agreed to gradually withdraw forces from a strategic military base in northern Iraq and hand over its control to the Iraqi government, following a meeting between ...