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High school student clings to life after washout of major highway

A George County High School student is fighting for her life after major highway collapsed Monday, dragging seven cars into a deep crater.

Hurricanes are getting scarier

The last few months have seen a whirlwind of devastating extreme events, from extensive flooding in Europe to wildfires in California. With the northern hemisphere hurricane season barely at its peak, multiple hurricanes have already hit the Caribbean and North America.

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'Candyman' director Nia DaCosta makes history

"Candyman" director Nia DaCosta has become the first Black female director to have a film debut in the top spot in the US box office, Universal Pictures announced Tuesday.

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'Impeachment: American Crime Story' dissects the Clinton scandal with Monica Lewinsky's input

The "American Crime Story" banner launched by O.J. Simpson's trial is an odd one for FX's "Impeachment," an otherwise engrossing, undeniably juicy limited series that puts the women front and center in the Bill Clinton impeachment scandal. Sarah Paulson's portrayal of Linda Tripp steals the show, but there's no shortage of remarkable work in a production that deserves an Emmy for its prosthetic makeup alone.

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DaBaby meets with leaders from HIV organizations following his disparaging comments

DaBaby is trying to make amends following disparaging comments he made about gay men and HIV during a performance at a Miami music festival last month.

Why Democrats can't run away from Joe Biden

There's a lot of talk in Democratic circles these days about vulnerable 2022 candidates beginning to distance themselves from President Joe Biden amid his faltering poll numbers on both how he has handled Afghanistan and his overall job performance.

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15 people face charges in connection to a conspiracy with fake Covid-19 vaccine cards, DA says

Fifteen people are facing charges connected to a fake Covid-19 vaccination card conspiracy involving the sale of forged cards and the fraudulent entry of people into New York's vaccination database, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced in a news release Tuesday.

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Two Florida counties stick with mask mandates despite financial penalties

Broward and Alachua counties in Florida are moving forward with mask mandates for their public school systems despite financial penalties from the state of Florida for not allowing parents to opt out of the requirement, in defiance of an order by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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The top candidates running to replace Gov. Newsom in the California recall election

A colorful cast of more than 40 candidates from all political persuasions are vying to replace Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in California's recall election, but only a handful have managed to break through the pack.

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Middle Tennessee was clawing its way out of devastation from recent flooding -- and saw more rain from Ida

Middle Tennessee remains deep in recovery mode after last week's deadly and destructive flooding -- and it appears to have been spared from any significant flooding from Tropical Depression Ida.

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Tulane University relocating students to Houston due to power outages

Two Chicago-area freshmen, Lilly and McKenna, were on the Tulane campus for just a week when Hurricane Ida roared through and knocked out power to almost all of New Orleans.

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Afghan refugee describes emotional journey to the US after fleeing Kabul: 'I left some of my family back there'

When Mohammed Iqbal Selanee and Josh Rodriguez hugged in Washington, DC, this week, it was an embrace years in the making.

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The laughing patterns of human infants match those of another species, a new study finds

Laughter transcends all languages -- and now scientists know this spontaneous response is universal across some primate species, too.

Bonnaroo organizers cancel this year's festival, citing flooding from heavy rains

Organizers of the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee have canceled this year's event, citing flooding from heavy rains.

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Travel to Mexico during Covid-19: What you need to know before you go

If you're planning to travel to Mexico, here's what you'll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rand Paul has a *very* wacky theory about ivermectin

Rand Paul is, by training, a doctor of ophthalmology. Which has to do with eyes. Not infectious disease.

How a museum founder battled Ida to save precious pieces of the history of Louisiana's enslaved people

As Hurricane Ida barreled through LaPlace, Louisiana, on Sunday, a museum founder hunkered down in a 1790s plantation house to save irreplaceable historic artifacts.

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Taliban members escorted Americans to gates at Kabul airport in secret arrangement with US

The US military negotiated a secret arrangement with the Taliban that resulted in members of the militant group escorting clusters of Americans to the gates of the Kabul airport as they sought to escape Afghanistan, two defense officials told CNN.

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Biden administration closely monitoring supply of medical grade oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients

As coronavirus cases rise across the South, state health officials, hospital consultants and oxygen suppliers continue to sound alarms over a potential shortage of medical grade oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in the region.

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7 Black men were executed for an alleged rape in 1951. Decades later, they've been pardoned

A group of young Black men executed after being convicted by all-White juries of allegedly raping a White woman have been pardoned in Virginia 70 years after their deaths.