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News Articles: National

Suspended Texas AG Ken Paxton (center) sits with his legal team at the start of his impeachment trial in the Texas Statehouse. Paxton pleaded not guilty on all counts.

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  • National

Paxton impeachment trial begins in the Texas Senate

The suspended Texas AG pleaded not guilty to all charges, which include bribery, corruption, and abuse of office. Here's what happened on the first day of his trial in the TX Senate.

September 06, 2023
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  • Julián Aguilar
President Joe Biden awards the Medal of Honor to Capt. Larry Taylor, an Army pilot from the Vietnam War who risked his life to rescue a reconnaissance team that was about to be overrun by the enemy, during a ceremony Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, at the White House.

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  • National

A Vietnam veteran helicopter pilot receives the Medal of Honor for a daring rescue

Capt. Larry Taylor received the award from President Biden for flying into heavy enemy fire to save four members of a reconnaissance team from almost certain death as they were about to be overrun.

September 06, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This National Hurricane Center graphic, produced at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, shows the projected path and strengthening of Tropical Storm Lee as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean

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  • Weather

Tropical Storm Lee will soon be a major hurricane — with 145 mph winds or more

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Lee is forecast to strengthen rapidly into an "extremely dangerous" major hurricane this weekend as it nears the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Russell Lewis
This photo provided by the Chester County Prison shows Danelo Cavalcante. Cavalcante, convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend escaped Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 from the suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. (Chester County Prison via AP)

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  • National

2 Pennsylvania school districts cancel classes after a man escaped from prison

Danelo Cavalcante was sentenced to life in prison and has been spotted six times since escaping from the Chester County Prison in late August. Police say how he got out is still under investigation.

September 05, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio rallies in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 17, 2019.

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  • Law

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6 riot role

Tarrio was one of six Proud Boys leaders to be charged for conspiring to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Of them, he has received the longest prison sentence to date.

September 05, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Odette Yousef
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

The challenges that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign has been facing

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is widely seen as the most viable opponent to Donald Trump in the Republican presidential nomination race, but his campaign has been beset by challenges from the start.

September 05, 2023
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  • Ashley Lopez
GPB News NPR

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  • Environment

A visit to the tall old white pines in New York's Adirondack Park

We pay a late summer visit to some of the tallest white pines in North America in The Adirondack Park in northern New York, one of the few places you can still find the old white pines.

September 05, 2023
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  • Amy Feiereisel
As the company turns 25, many are wondering what the future holds.

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  • Technology

Google turns 25, with an uncertain future as AI looms

For 25 years, Google has shaped the internet. Now, artificial intelligence threatens to change everything.

September 05, 2023
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden wave as they arrive at the White House, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, in Washington after a vacation in Lake Tahoe.

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  • Politics

Biden tests negative again for COVID after the first lady tests positive

The president tested negative again today for the virus the White House said, the day after the first lady tested positive. The White House says he'll wear a mask indoors when he's around others.

September 05, 2023
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shakes hands with fairgoers at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 12 in Des Moines, Iowa.

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  • Elections

Once the leading alternative to Trump, turnover in the DeSantis team spells trouble

The governor of Florida, who consistently polls second in the race, has been named by many as the successor to Trump. But he has failed to gain in the polls and personnel issues roil his campaign.

September 05, 2023
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  • Ashley Lopez
Musician Jimmy Buffett performs onstage at Jimmy Buffett & Friends: Live from the Gulf Coast, a concert presented by CMT at on the beach on July 11, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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  • Music News

Jimmy Buffett died of a rare skin cancer

Merkel cell carcinoma has a high risk of recurring and metastasizing, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. About 3,000 new cases are diagnosed in the U.S. each year.

September 05, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
In this image from video provided by Rebecca Barger, festival-goers are helped off a truck from the Burning Man festival site in Black Rock, Nev., on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

Burning Man festival organizers lift driving ban and allow people to leave

Organizers of the Burning Man festival lifted a driving ban on Monday as muddy roads that had stranded thousands of attendees in the Nevada desert had dried up enough to allow people to begin leaving.

September 05, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman and
  • Chloe Veltman
Ernest Hemingway, novelist, is seen at his country home in San Francisco de Paula near Havana, Cuba on Aug. 21, 1950.

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  • History

Ernest Hemingway survived 2 plane crashes. His letter from it just sold for $237,055

The novelist and his wife survived successive crashes in Uganda in 1954. In the letter, Hemingway also describes shooting his first lion in Kenya with an old gun "held together with tape."

September 05, 2023
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  • Jennifer Ludden
The Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville, Pa.

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  • Business

More small airports are being cut off from the air travel network. This is why

The pilot shortage and changing economics are to blame for legacy airlines departing regional airports

September 04, 2023
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  • Adam Bearne
People with diabetes who were prescribed fruits and vegetables, saw their blood sugar decline significantly. And adults with hypertension saw their blood pressure go down.

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  • Your Health

Prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables help boost heart health

People with diet-related diseases show health improvements when they're given "prescription" produce. A new study shows reductions in blood sugar and blood pressure, key measures of heart health.

September 04, 2023
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  • Allison Aubrey
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