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People hold pictures of Israeli hostages during a vigil on the National Mall on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Families of hostages are hopeful Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will agree to a ceasefire deal that would bring the hostages home.

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  • Politics

Relatives of Israeli hostages want cease-fire deal from Netanyahu speech

Families of hostages still being held in Gaza are hopeful Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will announce a cease-fire deal that would bring the hostages home during his address to Congress Wednesday.

July 24, 2024
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  • Barbara Sprunt
Vice President Harris, seen here on Feb. 27, 2024, is played by actor Maya Rudolph on SNL.

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  • Pop Culture

Hey SNL, we're ready for Maya's Kamala

Social media is crying out with calls for Saturday Night Live veteran Maya Rudolph to bring back her Kamala Harris impression.

July 24, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Rev. Charles Duplessis walks by his solar panel-topped house in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. The Environmental Protection Agency this week awarded the city nearly $50 million to help pay for installing solar on low to middle income homes.

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  • Climate

Here's how $4 billion in government money is being spent to reduce climate pollution

Most states submitted plans to reduce planet-warming pollution to unlock federal grant money, and they proposed projects to get started. This week, the Biden administration announced the winners.

July 24, 2024
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  • Halle Parker, WWNO,
  • Ellis Juhlin,
  • and 1 more
 Rusty Sabich (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Raymond Horgan (Bill Camp) prepare to hear the verdict in Rusty's trial in the finale of <em>Presumed Innocent</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

'Presumed Innocent' finale: And the murderer is ...

The verdict is in, and the ending is a dud: Rather than wriggling out of the original story’s sexism, the Apple TV+ series just makes the same mistakes in a new way.

July 24, 2024
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  • Linda Holmes
A deep sea shark and several eels are attracted to bait placed at the summit of the Cook seamount, as seen from the Pisces V submersible during a dive to the previously unexplored seamount off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island on Sept. 6, 2016.

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  • Science

Scientists may have discovered 'dark oxygen' being created without photosynthesis

It has long been understood that photosynthesis creates oxygen, but researchers believe they've found oxygen being created in parts of the ocean with no light.

July 24, 2024
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez and
  • Regina G. Barber
<em>Wall Street Journal</em> reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage of a Russian courtroom on  July 19. A Russian court convicted Gershkovich on espionage charges that his employer and the U.S. have rejected as fabricated. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a secretive and rapid trial.

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  • World

Dozens of Americans are wrongfully detained or held hostage abroad, often for years

The number of "unjust detentions" fell 42% over the last two years, according to the nonprofit Foley Foundation. Despite the progress, nations like Russia continue to pose major risks for U.S. travelers.

July 24, 2024
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  • Jason Breslow
 A screenshot from a video taken by a person on a nearby boat shows a whale just as it is about to crash down on another boat off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday.

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  • National

A breaching whale capsized a boat, tossing 2 people overboard off New Hampshire coast

The Coast Guard said the two boaters were uninjured and their boat salvaged. They said the whale appeared to be uninjured.

July 24, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during the second day of the Republican National Convention, July 16, in Milwaukee. Haley strongly endorsed Trump in her speech.

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  • Politics

'Haley Voters for Harris' pledge to fight on after Nikki Haley says cease and desist

In a letter from her attorneys, former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley called on the newly renamed "Haley Voters for Harris" to stop using her name as she "has been clear in her support for Harris' opponent."

July 24, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon
IOC President Thomas Bach holds a scarf during the inauguration of the Olympic Truce Wall in the Olympic Village at the 2024 Summer Olympics on Monday in Paris, France.

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  • Sports

The Olympic president warns of perilous future for global sport as Paris Games begin

IOC President Thomas Bach says Paris is ready to go for the 2024 Summer Olympics. But in speeches this week ahead of the Games, he warned that rising global tensions threaten the Olympic movement.

July 24, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
 Project RattleCam lets people observe rattlesnakes with a live webcam.

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  • Animals

Watch a livestream of Colorado’s ‘mega den’ of pregnant rattlesnakes

On a rocky hillside in Colorado is a “mega den” of hundreds of rattlesnakes — along with cameras livestreaming the whole thing.

July 24, 2024
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  • Linnea E. Anderson
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a state memorial ceremony for the victims of the 1948 Altalena affair, at Nachalat Yitzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv on June 18.

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  • Middle East

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu can expect a mixed reception as he addresses Congress

The Israeli leader speaks Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Republicans are strongly supportive of Israel, while Democrats are increasingly critical.

July 24, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Myre and
  • Barbara Sprunt
Britain's Charlotte Dujardin competes in the equestrian dressage individual final at the Tokyo Summer Olympics on July 28, 2021. Dujardin has withdrawn from the Paris Games after a video emerged that she says shows her behaving inappropriately while coaching other riders.

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  • Sports

British Olympian pulls out of Paris after 'error of judgment' sparks investigation

Less than a week before she was set to compete in the Paris Games, the six-time Olympic medalist in dressage was suspended from competition for her actions depicted in a video from four years ago.

July 24, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
The large study looked at 11- and 12-year-old children, and 72% of them have their own cell phone.

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  • Health

Tweens, screens and sleep: How parents can help kids get their zzzzz's

A large new study confirms what parents probably already suspect: Phones can keep tweens from getting a good night's sleep.

July 24, 2024
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
English blues singer John Mayall performs with his band The Bluesbreakers, on the stage of the Miles Davis Hall during the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, on July 7, 2008.

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  • Obituaries

John Mayall, tireless and influential British blues pioneer, has died at 90

Mayall is credited with helping develop the English take on urban, Chicago-style rhythm and blues that played an important role in the blues revival of the late 1960s.

July 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Members of the U.S. Secret Service stand watch as Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during her first campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 23, 2024. The assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, the abrupt withdrawal of President Joe Biden from the race have added even more fuel to an active landscape of conspiracy theories about the 2024 campaign.

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  • Politics

A coup, fake signatures and deepfakes are the latest conspiracy theories about 2024

The flurry of unverified rumors, speculation, and conspiracy theories comes as people are reeling from an onslaught of high-stakes political upheaval in a matter of days.

July 23, 2024
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  • Shannon Bond
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