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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer demonstrates signature verification for early voting ballots to a tour group of Republican women on June 3 in Phoenix. Richer himself faces primary challengers this month.

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  • Elections

Arizona's Maricopa County prepares to be in the election spotlight once again

Maricopa County has been a hotbed of false election claims since 2020. Officials there have some changes planned this year to try to improve election administration and tamp down on misinformation.

July 10, 2024
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  • Ben Giles
Alaska lawyer Joshua Kindred speaks during a judicial nomination hearing at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in Washington, U.S. December 4, 2019.

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  • Law

Alaska federal judge resigns after investigators say he created a hostile workplace

Judge Joshua Kindred, a Trump appointee, resigned after investigators concluded he sent crude messages to employees, engaged in sexual contact with a former law clerk and lied to colleagues about it.

July 10, 2024
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  • Carrie Johnson

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  • Book Reviews

'State of Paradise' effortlessly blends the commonplace and the extraordinary

With exquisite prose, smart lines on every page, a building sense of growing strangeness tinged with dread, and surprises all the way to the end, this might be Laura van den Berg's best novel so far.

July 10, 2024
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  • Gabino Iglesias
This circa 1846 daguerreotype of Dolley Madison, made by John Plumbe Jr., was purchased for $456,000 at auction in June.

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  • History

This portrait of Dolley Madison might be the first photo of a first lady

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., acquired the circa 1846 daguerreotype, which depicts Dolley Madison in her later years, at some point in her 70s.

July 10, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
Police carry a body that they identify as U.S. mountain climber Bill Stampfl on Huascaran mountain in Huaraz, Peru, on Friday. Peruvian authorities said they found the mummified body of Stampfl, who died 22 years ago along with two other American climbers after they were trapped in an avalanche while trying to climb Peru's highest peak.

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  • Latin America

The body of a climber buried by an avalanche 22 years ago in Peru is found in the ice

Police said they recovered Bill Stampfl's body from the mountain where he was buried by the avalanche in 2002, when the 58-year-old was climbing with two friends who were also killed.

July 10, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Clouds pass over the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in Grand Canyon Village, Ariz., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023.

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  • National

A third hiker has died in the Grand Canyon in less than a month

In all three cases, no cause of death has yet been released yet. The National Park Service is advising visitors to avoid hiking in the inner canyon during during daytime summer high temperatures.

July 10, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Yulia Navalnaya, widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends the 53rd St. Gallen Symposium, in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on May 3, 2024.

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  • Europe

A Moscow court orders the arrest of Alexei Navalny's widow, who lives abroad

A Moscow court ordered the arrest of the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a hearing that was conducted in absentia as part of a sweeping Kremlin crackdown on the opposition.

July 10, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer shares her leadership philosophy in her new book, <em>True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between</em>.

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  • Politics

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has “complete confidence” in Biden’s candidacy

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer about her new book True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership and Everything in Between.

July 09, 2024
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By:
  • Juana Summers and
  • Mallory Yu
Tessie Prevost, center, and 7-year-old Elan Jolie Hebert are escorted by U.S. Marshal Michael Atkins up the steps of McDonogh 19 Elementary School as Prevost was escorted in 1960, during a New Orleans 61st anniversary ceremony in 2021. Prevost was one of the first African-American women who integrated the all-white public schools in New Orleans.

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  • Obituaries

Tessie Prevost, pioneer of Deep South school desegregation, dies at 69

Tessie Prevost was one of the young Black girls who integrated New Orleans public schools in the 1960s after federal courts forced the system to abide by the Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling.

July 09, 2024
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  • Debbie Elliott
Palmer Luckey, 31, founder of Anduril Industries, stands in front of the Dive-LD, an autonomous underwater drone at company headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif. Andruil recently won a U.S. Navy contract to build 200 of them annually.

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  • National

He created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine

Palmer Luckey launched his first tech company as a teenager. He sold it to Facebook for $2 billion. Now he's making AI weapons the Pentagon is buying for itself and also sending to Ukraine.

July 09, 2024
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  • Greg Myre
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference suspending her presidential campaign on March 6 in Charleston, S.C.

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  • Politics

Ahead of the Republican Convention, Nikki Haley tells her delegates to vote for Trump

Even though she wasn't invited to the RNC in Milwaukee, Haley called for unity in the party on Tuesday, urging her convention supporters to vote for former President Donald Trump.

July 09, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon
A file photo of Minister of Diaspora Affairs of Israel Amichai Chikli from May 2024. He was taking part in the Spanish far-right wing party Vox's rally "Europa Viva 24" in Madrid. <em>The New York Times </em>reported that Chikli's ministry funded a covert online influence campaign targeting U.S. lawmakers over the war in Gaza. Chikli denied those reports.

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  • News

How Israel tried to use AI to covertly sway Americans about Gaza

A new report by an Israeli watchdog group ties an Israeli firm to a covert online campaign intended to sway crucial Democratic lawmakers to continue backing Israel’s campaign in Gaza.

July 09, 2024
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  • Huo Jingnan
Russian state broadcaster RT broadcasting from near Red Square during the 2018 World Cup in Moscow. The Justice Department alleges an RT employee was behind an AI-powered effort to create fake social media profiles of Americans to spread Russian propaganda in the U.S.

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  • Technology

U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans

The bot farm used AI to create social media profiles impersonating Americans and posting post support for Russia’s war in Ukraine and other pro-Kremlin narratives.

July 09, 2024
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  • Shannon Bond
Democrats remain divided on how to handle President Biden's campaign missteps. Party leaders like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, say they back Biden, but even Schumer's close deputy Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash, (left), is among the members questioning Biden's ability to be the party's nominee.

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  • Politics

Democrats remain split over Biden's future in the party

Democrats returned to Washington with no clear consensus on whether President Biden should be the party's nominee for president.

July 09, 2024
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  • Barbara Sprunt,
  • Deirdre Walsh,
  • and 1 more
The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> is being sued by former reporter Stephanie Armour, who covered health policy and COVID-19. She alleges she was targeted because of a disability.

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  • Media

‘Wall Street Journal’ sued by star reporter for discrimination

The Wall Street Journal has conducted multiple rounds of layoffs this year. In a lawsuit, former reporter Stephanie Armour says the paper tried to shed employees with significant health-care costs by citing “trumped up performance issues.”


July 09, 2024
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