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Guatemalan president-elect suspends presidential transition process

By Sahar Akbarzai, Julián Zamora and Fernando Almánzar, CNN (CNN) — Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo de León has announced he is temporarily suspending the presidential transition process after Public Ministry agents raided electoral facilities and opened voting boxes. “We have informed President (Alejandro) Giammattei that we are temporarily suspending our participation in the administrative transition

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A 4-year-old police dog named Yoda detained fugitive Danilo Cavalcante, bringing an end to the exhaustive, nearly 2 week-long manhunt

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Moments after law enforcement officials spotted convicted murderer Danilo Cavalcante’s head peeking through the underbrush, they released a police dog who bit and subdued Cavalcante, leading to his apprehension nearly two weeks after he escaped prison, officials said. The dog, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois male named Yoda, was from

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Missouri AG claims price discrepancies at Dollar General in lawsuit

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against Dollar General, claiming “unfair and deceptive pricing” in hundreds of stores, according to a Wednesday press release from the Attorney General’s office.  Bailey claims Dollar General violates Missouri’s consumer protection law by listing one price on shelves then allegedly charging a different

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Descendants of enslaved Africans on Georgia island fear losing their culture and some property after a change in zoning laws

By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — Descendants of enslaved Africans on Georgia’s Sapelo Island – one of the last intact Gullah Geechee communities in the state – are worried their cultural heritage and property could soon be lost after city officials voted to change the island’s zoning laws. Historians believe Hogg Hammock, on Sapelo Island,

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Retiring Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright to say farewell by performing his own songs

By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright will perform on an entirely different stage before bidding farewell to St. Louis fans and life on the baseball diamond. Wainwright will give a postgame concert during his final weekend playing at Busch Stadium. The 42-year-old will retire from baseball after this season,

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Strange lights spotted in Morocco earthquake videos may be a phenomenon reported for centuries, scientists say

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece. These outbursts of bright, dancing light in different colors have long puzzled scientists, and there’s still no consensus on what causes them, but they are “definitely real,”

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Missouri lawmakers fail to override Gov. Parson’s vetoes, and instead accept pared-back state budget

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have failed to override any of the governor’s $555 million in budget cuts. The state Legislature convened Wednesday for its annual veto session. Republican Gov. Mike Parson made hefty cuts to the spending plan lawmakers had proposed. Parson says lawmakers tried to spend

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