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Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering

Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering

PHOENIX (AP) — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.
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Paralympic Games opening ceremony starts the final chapter on a long summer of sport in Paris

Paralympic Games opening ceremony starts the final chapter on a long summer of sport in Paris

PARIS (AP) — Just weeks after hosting the Olympics, Paris began the final chapter of its summer of sports Wednesday with the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games.
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Israeli forces launch a big operation in the West Bank and kill at least 10 militants

Israeli forces launch a big operation in the West Bank and kill at least 10 militants

AL-FARAA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces launched a large operation in the occupied West Bank overnight and into Wednesday, killing at least 10 Hamas militants, carrying out arrests and sealing off the volatile city of Jenin.
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Workers are breaching Klamath dams, which will let salmon swim freely for first time in a century

Workers are breaching Klamath dams, which will let salmon swim freely for first time in a century

Workers are breaching the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River on Wednesday, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time in more than a century as the largest d
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Gunman in Trump assassination attempt saw rally as 'target of opportunity,' FBI official says

Gunman in Trump assassination attempt saw rally as 'target of opportunity,' FBI official says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunman in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump searched online for events of both Trump and President Joe Biden, repeatedly looked up information about explosives and saw the Pennsylvania campaign rally whe
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Workers are breaching Klamath dams, which will let salmon swim freely for first time in a century

Workers are breaching Klamath dams, which will let salmon swim freely for first time in a century

Workers are breaching the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River on Wednesday, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time in more than a century as the largest d
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Gunman in Trump assassination attempt saw rally as 'target of opportunity,' FBI official says

Gunman in Trump assassination attempt saw rally as 'target of opportunity,' FBI official says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunman in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump searched online for events of both Trump and President Joe Biden and saw the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a “target of opport
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Typhoon Shanshan begins dumping rain on parts of Japan, leaving 1 dead and several injured

Typhoon Shanshan begins dumping rain on parts of Japan, leaving 1 dead and several injured

TOKYO (AP) — A typhoon moving at a bicycle speed began dumping rain on parts of Japan Wednesday, leaving one person dead and several injured as weather officials issued the highest-level warnings in the country’s south, expected to be the most hard-h
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Palestinian officials say Israeli raids across occupied West Bank have killed 9

Palestinian officials say Israeli raids across occupied West Bank have killed 9

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel launched raids across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, where its forces killed at least nine Palestinians and sealed off the volatile city of Jenin, according to Palestinian officials.
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Feds file new indictment in Trump Jan. 6 case, keeping charges intact but narrowing allegations

Feds file new indictment in Trump Jan. 6 case, keeping charges intact but narrowing allegations

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith filed a new indictment Tuesday against Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election that keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him following a Supreme
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