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Union workers picket near the entrance to an AT&T facility in Miami, Fla. CWA members on on strike after union negotiators alleged that AT&T management engaged in unfair labor practices during contract negotiations.

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  • National

17,000 AT&T workers have been on strike for three weeks. Here's why.

AT&T workers are on strike across the south. Their union says the company refuses to bargain on a new contract with higher wages and healthcare benefits.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Marlon Hyde
Political commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson (left) speaks with Eric Trump, a son of former President Donald Trump, during the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Johnson made videos for Tenet Media. The Justice Department accused a company matching Tenet's description of working closely with employees of Russian state broadcaster RT to covertly spread pro-Russian narratives in the United States. Johnson says he was not aware of Tenet's ties to Russia.

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  • National Security

How Russian operatives covertly hired U.S. influencers to create viral videos

Details in an indictment match Nashville-based Tenet Media, which offered lucrative paychecks to prominent right-wing influencers. The influencers say they were deceived.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Shannon Bond,
  • Jude Joffe-Block,
  • and 1 more
Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, winners of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1957. Both were affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at the time of the award.

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  • Perspective

T.D. Lee changed science in China and my life. This is what I owe to him

Chinese particle physicist Yangyang Cheng reflects on the legacy of the late Nobel laureate T.D. Lee — how his ideas changed her life, and the limit to his engagement with Beijing.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Yangyang Cheng
Alex Morgan, the generational soccer star who helped lead the U.S. to two FIFA Women's World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal, announced on social media that she will retire.

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  • Sports

Alex Morgan, the face of American soccer for a generation, says she will retire

Morgan led the U.S. to two FIFA Women's World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal. At age 35, she has now bid farewell to a career that she said was "more than I could have ever dreamed of."

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump, John Lauro (left) and Todd Blanche (second left), depart the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., in 2023, near a protester wearing a costume in Trump's likeness.

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  • Law

Trump Jan. 6 case gets its first hearing since the Supreme Court's immunity ruling

Lawyers for the government's special counsel and former President Donald Trump are set to clash in court in Washington over how the election interference case against him will proceed.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
Don Fitterer, 81, sits for a portrait at his home in Glen Ullin, N.D., on May 23. Fitterer is a participant in the Western Morton County Aging in Community program, which connects older adults in the medically underserved area of western Morton County with a variety of resources that can improve their quality of life.

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  • Health Care

In a rural small town, a group of locals steps up to support senior health

Health care options for older adults in small rural towns can be lacking. In Glen Ullin, N.D., some community members are trying to bridge the gaps in care.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim and
  • Tim Evans
Students and residents mourn those who lost their lives near the scene of the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga.

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  • Education

What research says about preventing school shootings

Experts on school violence say a key to preventing such tragedies is identifying and supporting students in crisis before they hurt others.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Cory Turner and
  • Jeffrey Pierre
Four female House Democrats sent a letter to the FDA commissioner on Thursday urging the agency to address concerns about the safety and regulation of tampons.

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  • Politics

After a study found toxic metals in tampons, lawmakers are pressing the FDA to act

Members of the Democratic Women's Caucus are urging the FDA to address concerns about the safety and regulation of tampons after a study found heavy metals, including lead, in many popular products.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
In a long exposure image, cars and trucks drive on the 405 Freeway during Los Angeles rush hour traffic in March 2022.

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  • Technology

Should your car warn you that you’re speeding? California lawmakers vote yes

California could become the first state to require technology in cars that warns drivers when they're going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. But critics say lawmakers are moving too fast.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Joel Rose
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks alongside Ukrainian officials at the Department of Justice in 2022 in Washington, D.C.

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  • National Security

U.S. accuses Russia of sophisticated influence campaigns against U.S. voters

The U.S. government accused Russia of trying to interfere with this year's elections and announced new steps to counter those actions.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block and
  • Shannon Bond
Law enforcement officers and first responders respond to Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., on Wednesday, after a shooting was reported.

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  • National

2 students, 2 teachers dead in Georgia high school shooting; 14-year-old in custody

A 14-year-old student is in custody after opening fire at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., leaving two students and two teachers dead and injuring nine other people, officials said.

September 04, 2024
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin and
  • Bill Chappell
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn-in during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 21, 2022.

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  • Law

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shares the poem she's kept in every one of her offices

The first Black woman appointed to the Supreme Court says Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Ladder of Saint Augustine," has been a guiding principle. Jackson's new memoir is Lovely One.

September 04, 2024
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
The federal courthouse, where U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, holds hearings for former President Donald Trump in Fort Pierce, Fla.

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  • Law

Legal experts want Judge Cannon removed from Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents case

Former federal judge Nancy Gertner and two legal scholars say rulings by Judge Aileen Cannon have raised “well-founded concerns that she may be biased against the Government’s case.”

September 04, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Allen
 The cover of the Yup'ik alphabet coloring book.

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  • Arts & Life

These Alaska moms couldn’t find a Yup’ik children’s book. So they made one themselves

Yup’ik is the most spoken Native language in Alaska, but finding Yup’ik books for young children can be almost impossible. These moms created their own – and now they’re fielding nearly 1,000 orders.

September 04, 2024
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By:
  • Julie Depenbrock
This undated photo, provided by <em>Stars and Stripes</em>, shows Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John McCain, firing a rifle with a backwards scope.

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  • National

Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward

Cameron Yaste, the commander of a Navy destroyer in the Middle East, has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward.

September 04, 2024
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