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In this image taken from body camera video released by Illinois State Police, Sonya Massey, left, talks with former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson outside her home in Springfield, Ill., July 6, 2024.

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Bodycam video reveals chaotic scene of deputy fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help

Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff’s deputy seconds before he shot the Black woman three times in her home. An Illinois grand jury indicted former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson, 30, who is white, last week.

July 22, 2024
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

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As Harris launches her presidential run, the veepstakes is on. Here's who to watch

With the announcement that President Biden would no longer run for the Democratic nomination, and his endorsement of Vice President Harris, the focus is on who Harris might choose as her running mate.

July 22, 2024
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  • Elena Moore and
  • Domenico Montanaro
Fighter jets are parked on the deck of the U.S.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as the 'Ike', on the south Red Sea, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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A Navy pilot becomes the first woman aviator to kill an air-to-air contact in combat

The military branch said last week that the unnamed aviator recently notched the achievement against an attack drone deployed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

July 22, 2024
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  • Joe Hernandez
Russian President Vladimir Putin was once a major player in the Olympic movement, spending tens of billions of dollars to host the Sochi Winter Games in 2014. Now his nation is barely participating in this year's Paris Summer Games.

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Facing scandal and condemnation, Russia fields tiny Olympic team in Paris

In 2021, Russia sent 335 athletes to the Tokyo Summer Olympics. This year? The number of competitors is just 15. Doping scandals and the Ukraine war have taken a toll on the Olympic powerhouse.

July 22, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., on Monday.

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Potential rivals to Harris for president line up to endorse her

Vice President Kamala Harris appears on a glide path to being nominated for president when delegates meet in Chicago next month, after endorsements from top Democratic lawmakers, organizers and potential rivals.

July 22, 2024
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  • Susan Davis and
  • Ben Giles
Fox News Channel signage is displayed on a building near the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Fox scored two major legal victories within 24 hours.

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  • Media

Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against Fox, while network scores separate court victory

Hunter Biden dropped the lawsuit he had brought against Fox News citing New York state's "revenge porn" statutes. One day later, a district judge dismissed a disinformation expert's defamation suit against Fox.

July 22, 2024
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  • David Folkenflik
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, right, takes the stage with his wife Usha Vance during a rally at Middletown High School in his home town of Middletown, Ohio, Monday.

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JD Vance vows to fight for ‘forgotten communities’ in hometown rally

Ohio Sen. JD Vance used an address at his hometown high school to share his plans for America if elected Vice President alongside Donald Trump.

July 22, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar celebrates Sunday as he crosses the finish line to win the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time trial over 33.7 kilometers (20.9 miles) that started in Monaco and finished in Nice, France.

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Slovenia's Tadej Pogačar outraced his top rivals to win the Tour de France

Pogačar also won the sport’s other major race, the Giro D’Italia, earlier this year, making him the first man to win both majors in a season since 1998.

July 22, 2024
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  • Willem Marx and
  • Ayana Archie
Trump supported Harris' reelection bid when she was serving as attorney general of California, one of many political donations he gave to Democrats over the years.

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  • Politics

Donald Trump has donated to Kamala Harris twice, but she didn't keep the money

Trump donated a total of $6,000 to support Harris' bid for reelection as attorney general of California in 2014. Years later, Harris' team said she had given that money to a human rights nonprofit.

July 22, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Republican candidate Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents following an attempted assassination attempt in in Butler, Pa., on July 13. The head of the Secret Service will appear before lawmakers Monday to discuss the agency's actions before, during and after the incident.

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  • Politics

Secret Service chief to Congress: 'We failed'

Kimberly Cheatle was subpoenaed to appear before the House Oversight Committee following the shooting at Trump’s western Pennsylvania rally July 13.

July 22, 2024
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  • Claudia Grisales

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'Liars' is an autopsy of a bitterly disappointing marriage

In her fierce second novel, Sarah Manguso writes a requiem for a failed relationship from the point of view of a survivor, the wife left behind.

July 22, 2024
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Biden drops out of the 2024 race and endorses Harris. What's next for Democrats?

President Biden has ended his bid for reelection and has officially endorsed Vice President Harris, who says she plans to win the nomination. Republicans are preparing their campaign against her.

July 22, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
President Biden is seen speaking to supporters at a campaign event at Renaissance High School on July 12 in Detroit. On Sunday, Biden said he would no longer seek reelection and instead is endorsing Vice President Harris.

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  • Elections

6 political takeaways from Biden's decision to step aside

President Biden is passing the torch to Vice President Harris, which changes the narrative of the race against former President Donald Trump.

July 22, 2024
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  • Domenico Montanaro
 Shalom Auslander says non-kosher gum helped with his personal evolution.

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  • Religion

When he was 7, a tiny gesture from his grandmother changed his relationship to God

Shalom Auslander grew up in a strict Orthodox Jewish home. When he was 7, his grandmother offered him something small that made him rethink his entire relationship to religion.

July 22, 2024
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  • Laura Kwerel
Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration against the Costa Rican government near Germany's presidential residence during a visit of Costa Rica's president in Berlin in May 2012. Greenland police said they arrested Watson on Sunday on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan.

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  • Climate

Anti-whaling activist arrested in Greenland, could be extradited to Japan

Canadian-American activist Paul Watson was en route to the North Pacific on a mission to intercept a new Japanese whaling ship when police boarded his vessel.

July 22, 2024
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