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Blind activist worried about helpers

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
In an exclusive interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng talks about leaving China for the United States -- and those he left behind.
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US hurricane season 'near normal'

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
There will be nine to 15 storms during this year's Atlantic hurricane season, a "near-normal" season, US weather officials forecast.
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AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows oversimplify

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Day One: Part Two."...

AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows oversimplify

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Day One: Part Two."...

AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows oversimplify

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Day One: Part Two."...

AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows oversimplify

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Day One: Part Two."...

AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows oversimplify

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Day One: Part Two."...

AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows oversimplify

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Day One: Part Two."...

AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows oversimplify

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Day One: Part Two."...

AdWatch: Romney "day one" vows oversimplify

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Day One: Part Two."...

Vegas grocer accused of war crimes sent to Bosnia

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a lawyer and U.S. officials said Thursday....
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Times-Picayune to cut paper to 3 days a week

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Times-Picayune, one of the nation's oldest newspapers, will no longer offer print editions seven days a week and instead plans to offer three printed issues a week starting in the fall. The change means New Orleans would become the largest metro area in the nation without a daily newspaper in the digital age....
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DNA study seeks origin of Appalachia's Melungeons

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some speculated they were descended from Portuguese explorers, or perhaps from Turkish slaves or Gypsies....
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Senate committee cuts Pakistan aid over conviction

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million - $1 million for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high treason....
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VIDEO: Olympic flame fun - it's Odd Box

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
Fun with the Olympic torch, running a half marathon in a hot air balloon and the chocolate record that actually plays.
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US cuts Pakistan aid over jailing

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
A US Senate panel says it is cutting $33m in aid to Pakistan after the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden.
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VIDEO: Underwater footage of HMS Coventry

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
The 30th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Coventry during the Falklands conflict will be marked at a ceremony in the city on Friday.
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Hurricane warning issued for Mexico ahead of Bud

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
MIAMI (AP) -- A hurricane warning has been issued for the coast of Mexico as Bud approaches land....

NJ official: NYPD Muslim surveillance legal

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey's Muslim leaders are unhappy with the state's review of spying within their communities by New York City police....
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Opinion: A lull in march to Iran war?

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2025-06-17 13:18
Aaron Miller says Baghdad talks might delay confrontation but will not stop Iran's ambitions to be a nuclear power. Only regime change can do that.
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