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Month: August 2024

Flavor Flav helps Olympic discus thrower Veronica Fraley who said she struggles to pay the rent

AP Sports Writer SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Vanderbilt’s discus thrower and Olympian Veronica Fraley lamented on social media she needed help with rent. Rapper Flavor Flav and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian decided to help. Soon after Fraley posted on the social media platform, X, that she was in need of financial assistance, Flav, founding member of

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Scientists have spotted unexpected X- and C-shaped structures in the atmosphere. They are struggling to explain them

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Each day, radio signals from key communications and navigation satellites travel freely through a layer of Earth’s atmosphere known as the ionosphere. Floating 50 to 400 miles (80 to 643 kilometers) above our heads, directly beneath the lowest reaches of space where some communications satellites orbit, this zone in

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Tracking a mild and dry weekend

TODAY: Friday is more mild compared to Thursday, but summer will still be in full swing, as temperatures reach near 90 with enough to humidity to make us feel a few degrees warmer. We’ll be partly cloudy by the afternoon with a mostly clear sky this morning. TONIGHT: Clouds fall after sunset, and skies clear

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At least 4 dead in apartment block collapse following gas explosion in Russia’s Ural Mountains

MOSCOW (AP) — Emergency officials say at least four people have died and dozens are feared buried under rubble after an apartment block in Russia’s Ural Mountains collapsed following a gas explosion. Photos published by Russian agencies Friday showed a large part of the five-story prefab building, in the industrial city of Nizhny Tagil, leveled

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Tres estadounidenses regresaron a casa como parte de un histórico intercambio de prisioneros. Esto es lo que hay que saber

Julia Hernández (CNN) — Unos 20 minutos antes de la medianoche de este jueves, un avión que transportaba a tres ciudadanos estadounidenses liberados de la detención rusa aterrizó en suelo norteamericano, en un momento histórico y emotivo después de un esfuerzo de varios años en varios países que implicó reuniones secretas y complejas negociaciones. El

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JD Vance’s Republican colleagues defend Trump’s running mate saying Ohio senator is a voice for next generation of GOP voters

By Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — JD Vance’s Republican colleagues in the Senate say they’re largely sticking with the Ohio freshman – despite newly resurfaced comments facing criticism – warning that Vance represents where Republican see their voters moving. In the weeks since becoming Donald Trump’s chosen running mate, Vance has found himself caught in the middle of

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Rights group says security forces have killed 9 as Nigeria protests over hardship enter a second day

Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A rights group says at least nine people have been killed by security forces in Nigeria during mass protests against the economic crisis gripping the country. Amnesty International’s Nigeria office cited accounts from witnesses in its statement Friday. Authorities said a police officer was also killed and others injured,

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Japan asks Denmark to extradite activist Paul Watson, accused of obstructing a whaling research ship

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has asked Denmark to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who was arrested in Greenland last month. Japan’s coast guard sought his arrest over an encounter with a Japanese whaling research ship in 2010 when he was accused of ordering someone to throw explosives at the whaling ship. Environmental activists

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