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Month: April 2024

Biden and Democrats report raising $90 million-plus in March, stretching their cash lead over Trump

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee report raising more than $90 million in March and ending the year’s first quarter with $192 million-plus in cash on hand. They’re further stretching their money advantage over Donald Trump and the Republicans. The Biden campaign

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Report: Israeli doctor says detained Palestinians are undergoing ‘routine’ amputations for handcuff injuries

By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — A doctor at a field hospital for detained Palestinians at Israel’s Sde Teiman army base has described “deplorable conditions” and “routine” amputations due to handcuff injuries, according to an exclusive report from the newspaper Haaretz. In a letter to Israel’s attorney general and defense and health ministers, obtained by Haaretz,

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Reclusive Taliban leader releases Eid message urging officials to set aside their differences

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader is urging his officials to set aside their differences. Public dissent within the Taliban is rare, but some senior figures have expressed their disagreement with the leadership’s decision making, especially the ban on female education. Saturday’s written statement from Hibatullah Akhundzada was published ahead of the Eid

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Supreme Court slow to resolve potentially election-altering cases as justices inch toward final arguments

By John Fritze, CNN Washington (CNN) — As the Supreme Court turns toward a series of politically charged disputes in its final arguments later this month, it is wrestling with a backlog of controversies on guns, elections and transgender rights that will thrust its conservative majority into the middle of another turbulent presidential contest. Up

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Boone County Emergency Management to hold damage assessment exercise Saturday

BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Office of Emergency Management held a damage assessment exercise Saturday in multiple neighborhoods across the county from 8 a.m. through 2 p.m. Those neighborhoods include Hillview Acres in unincorporated Boone County, Smithton Ridge and Bellwood in Columbia, and Palomino Ridge in Ashland. According to a press release from

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A close ally of populist prime minister tops a pro-Western diplomat to become Slovakia’s president

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A close ally of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico has defeated a pro-Western career diplomat to become Slovakia’s new president, and succeed Zuzana Čaputová, the country’s first female head of state. Parliamentary speaker Peter Pellegrini received 53.26% of the vote with the ballots from almost all polling stations counted by the

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