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President Joe Biden ordered U.S. fighter jets to shoot down an "unidentified object" over Lake Huron on Sunday, the Pentagon said. The object is believed to be the same one that had been detected over Montana on Saturday, the Pentagon…
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President Joe Biden ordered U.S. fighter jets to shoot down an “unidentified object" over Lake Huron on Sunday, the Pentagon said in a statement. Earlier Sunday, U.S. and Canadian officials had restricted airspace over the lake, which is…
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A halftime show that Rihanna promises will be "jam-packed" will sit at the center of the celebrity supplements to Super Bowl 57.  But the 13-minute mini-extravaganza, her first live event in seven years, is only one part of the…
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U.S. President Joe Biden has called for wide agreement to be reached in Israel on sweeping changes to the judiciary pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-right government which have sparked nationwide protests. Israel's…
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Kentucky has seen its first infant anonymously dropped off at one of its “baby box” safe surrender locations. At a news conference Friday, Safe Haven Baby Boxes founder and CEO Monica Kelsey said the child was dropped off within the last…
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As legal sports gambling proliferates, the number of Americans betting on the Super Bowl and the total amount they're wagering is surging — although most of the action is still off the books.  An estimated 1 in 5 American adults will make…
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A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the Black teenager’s brutal lynching. The torture and killing of Till in the Mississippi…
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She'd be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school's modern dance troupe and taking art classes. Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn't taken a single class in what used to be her high school…
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The Nicaraguan government has freed more than 200 political prisoners and expelled them from the country. Many of those released were incarcerated for years for opposing the country’s leadership. All of them have been granted humanitarian…
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VOA Mandarin White House Correspondent Paris Huang speaks with John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, on U.S.-China relations, as well as the latest developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine. Camera -…
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