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Pakistan army chief gets more powers, immunity for life

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Pakistan has granted lifelong immunity to Field Marshal Asim Munir, in a move that would further entrench the military’s grip on power in the nuclear-armed nation.

The upper house of parliament approved the constitutional amendment bill on Thursday expanding Munir’s control over the military branches. It also gave the prime minister ...Read more

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Bird flu slams seals and sea lions at the bottom of the world but spares Pacific Coast so far

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For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy herds and killed hundreds of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys and ducks.

But far less widely known is that the virus has devastated wildlife across the globe, killing millions of wild birds and mammals.

Few animals have been harder ...Read more

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US Catholic bishops oppose Trump's 'indiscriminate' deportations in a rare statement

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LOS ANGELES — For the first time in 12 years, U.S. Catholic bishops issued a unified statement Wednesday to support the country's immigrants and oppose the Trump administration's "indiscriminate mass deportations of people."

The special statement was issued during the bishops' annual gathering in Baltimore. It was the first time since 2013 ...Read more

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Full SNAP payments to resume in Colorado as federal government reopens

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DENVER – Colorado officials are working to restore federally funded food assistance “as rapidly as possible” after the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history ended Wednesday.

Roughly 5% of the 600,000 Coloradans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, received their full benefits for November...Read more

Deputies raid Florida arcade accused of illegal gambling, take 58 slot machines

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BRADENTON, Fla. — Detectives seized dozens of slot machines and thousands of dollars in cash after raiding a Bradenton business accused of running an illegal gambling operation, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said.

Detectives executed a search warrant Monday at New Winners Circle Arcade after undercover visits confirmed that the ...Read more

Blue Origin retargets for Thursday afternoon launch of New Glenn

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After scrubs Sunday and Wednesday for weather issues both on and off-planet, Blue Origin is retargeting the launch of its New Glenn rocket for Thursday afternoon.

The heavy-lift rocket its attempting to make its second launch ever solidifying Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company in its competition with the likes of SpaceX and United Launch Alliance....Read more

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, powerful voice for Black equality, is hospitalized

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Trailblazing civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized in Chicago on Wednesday due to symptoms from the neurodegenerative condition progressive supranuclear palsy.

His hospitalization was confirmed in a statement by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a social justice organization founded by Jackson.

The 84-year-old Baptist minister ...Read more

Fresh Thailand-Cambodia scuffle risks collapsing Trump peace pact

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A deadly shooting at the Thai-Cambodian border cast doubt on a peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump as Thailand’s premier signals the political costs of looking weak on the border issue are higher than endangering trade with the U.S.

With a general election tentatively slated for March, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has been ...Read more

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Zelenskyy says Ukraine's survival rests on funds from allies

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy implored European Union allies to overcome their divisions on the use of frozen Russian assets, saying fresh funding is critical for his war-battered economy to stay in the fight against Moscow.

“I hope, God bless, we will get this decision,” Zelenskyy told Bloomberg Television in an interview late ...Read more

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, powerful voice for Black equality, is hospitalized

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Trailblazing civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized in Chicago on Wednesday due to symptoms from the neurodegenerative condition progressive supranuclear palsy.

His hospitalization was confirmed in a statement by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a social justice organization founded by Jackson.

The 84-year-old Baptist minister ...Read more

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Why did national parks look so normal during this shutdown?

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LOS ANGELES — As the government shutdown stretched on last week, Travis Puglisi saw something unusual at Joshua Tree National Park: two rangers doing graffiti checks.

“Do you know how often I run into rangers in the park and actually have conversations with them out in the field?” he said. “Never.”

Puglisi would know what’s normal....Read more

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Farmers, barbers and GOP lawmakers grapple with the fate of ACA tax credits

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John Cleveland is ready to pay a lot more for his health insurance next year.

He hasn’t forgotten the pile of hospital bills that awaited him after he had a seizure while tending to customers in his Austin, Texas, barbershop four years ago. Once doctors hurriedly removed the dangerous tumor growing on his brain, a weeklong hospital stay, ...Read more

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In Arizona, a fading Route 66 motel hides a story of the Navajo Code Talkers

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp.

At first glance, the nearly 90-year-old motel appears to be another crumbling relic from the famed highway’s early years as a bustling thoroughfare ...Read more

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Health care costs jump to the fore as candidates jockey to be California governor

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — California’s gubernatorial election is a year away, and the field of primary candidates is still taking shape. But one persistent issue has already emerged as a leading concern: the cost of health care.

At a forum Nov. 7 in the Inland Empire, four Democratic candidates vying to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to push ...Read more

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States hope to use rural health money to keep doctors, combat chronic disease

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In their competition for rural health care dollars from a new federal fund, states are seeking money to bolster emergency services, address chronic diseases, and recruit and train more doctors and nurses.

All 50 states submitted their applications to the federal government last week to get shares of the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation ...Read more

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As health companies get bigger, so do the bills. It's unclear if Trump's team will intervene

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A cancer patient might live in a town with four oncology groups, but only one accepts his insurance — the one owned by his insurer. A young couple could see huge bills after their child is born, because their insurer agreed to the health system’s rates in exchange for a contract with obstetricians across the country. A woman might have to ...Read more

Hiding in plain sight: The illegal industry that props up California's $1.56 billion stolen car economy

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OAKLAND — On a recent Friday, a task force of local police officers converged on the 5200 block of International Boulevard, searching through piles of car parts, vehicles, and trailer, seizing guns, blank money orders, and two allegedly stolen motorcycles, according to court records.

From the raid, prosecutors charged 55-year-old Doran Lee ...Read more

Immigrant detainees say they were harassed, sexually assaulted by guard who got promoted

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WASHINGTON — For more than a year, detainees at a California immigrant detention center said, they were summoned from their dorms to a lieutenant's office late at night. Hours frequently passed, they said, before they were sent back to their dorms.

What they allege happened in the office became the subject of federal complaints, which accuse...Read more

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Analysis: Democrats weathering redistricting storm with majority in sight

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WASHINGTON — Halfway through the 2026 midterm cycle, the fight for the House is remarkably stable, and that’s good news for Democrats’ chances of winning the majority.

Republican efforts to pad their majority through mid-decade redistricting haven’t been as successful as projected thus far, and President Donald Trump’s first year of ...Read more

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A shadowy LA crime ring is hijacking the IDs of foreign scholars, fraud expert says

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LOS ANGELES — Using apartments in the San Fernando Valley and Glendale area, a shadowy group of identity thieves has been quietly exploiting a new kind of victim — foreign scholars who left the U.S. years ago but whose Social Security numbers still linger in American databases, according to a cybercrime expert.

Criminals are resurrecting ...Read more