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Month: August 2024

Local News Loved ones of American ballerina with Maryland ties push to free her from Russian prison

By Mike Hellgren Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — An American citizen with Maryland ties remains detained in Russia and was not part of Thursday’s historic prisoner swap, a multinational deal that set two dozen people free—the largest in post-Soviet history. Ksenia Karelina was charged with treason for a $51

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Boxing group answers some questions but raises many more about tests on Imane Khelif, Lin Yu-ting

AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The International Boxing Association has raised new questions while struggling to answer others at a shambolic news conference about the opaque gender tests that led the Olympics-banned governing body to abruptly suspend Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting from last year’s world championships. The decision has fueled online abuse against

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Kamala Harris is now Democratic presidential nominee, will face off against Donald Trump this fall

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris, a daughter of immigrants who rose through the California political and law enforcement ranks to become the first female vice president in U.S. history, formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday — becoming the first woman of color to lead a major party ticket. More

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Usha Vance defends husband’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comment as a ‘quip’ in first solo interview

CNN By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Usha Vance, the wife of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, defended her husband’s previous comments deriding childless adults and downplayed his labeling of some Democratic politicians as “childless cat ladies,” calling it a “quip.” In a sit-down interview with Fox News that aired Monday, Usha Vance, a

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Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Khan rally to demand his release

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister have rallied in the country’s volatile northwest to mark the first anniversary of his arrest and demand his immediate release. Monday’s protest is part of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or PTI opposition party’s campaign aimed at pressuring the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz

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