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WASHINGTON – Global warming will eventually push 1 out of every 13 species on Earth into extinction, a new study projects. It won’t be as bad in North America, where…
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Study: Global warming to push 1 in 13 species to extinction
A new study in the journal Science projects that 1 in 13 species will go extinct because of global warming. One species that is in trouble because it has few…
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Baltimore police hand report on Gray death to prosecutor
Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Anthony Batts announces that the department’s investigation into the death of Freddie Gray was turned over to the State’s Attorney’s office a day early at a…
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WASHINGTON – A charity affiliated with the Clinton Foundation failed to reveal the identities of its 1,100 donors, creating a broad exception to the foundation’s promise to disclose funding sources…
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Baltimore investigates deadly police incident
Prisoner: Freddie Gray was ‘banging against the walls’
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Aid begins arriving in Nepal’s villages
An injured victim of Saturday’s earthquake, evacuated by the Nepalese army, is carried down from a helicopter Wednesday in Kathmandu, Nepal. The first-aid shipments reached a hilly district near the…
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Nuanced views on gay rights, religious liberty
The survey uncovered nuanced views on gay rights as the Supreme Court considers, in a case heard this week, whether the Constitution gives same-sex couples the right to marry. Americans…
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WASHINGTON – The National Football League announced Wednesday it would cede its status as a tax-exempt entity. Every so often, in a bid to sound threatening, a member of Congress…
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the arrest of 93 suspects with ties to the Islamic State group who it says were planning multi-pronged attacks on the…
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Villagers wait at earthquake epicenter
Jagot Kumari Rana, 79, is led through the rubble of collapsed homes by her grandson Sogat Rana, 7, in Paslang village near the epicenter of Saturday’s massive earthquake in the…
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National Guard called in to keep the peace in Baltimore
Maryland National Guardsmen patrol near downtown businesses in Baltimore on Tuesday, a day after looting and arson erupted following the funeral of Freddie Gray. Gray died from spinal injuries about…
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Tuesday is the day: Gay-marriage arguments to be heard by Supreme Court
Justices to address issue explicitly left open from 2013 decision
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BOSTON – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers urged a jury Monday to spare his life, portraying him as “a good kid” who was led down the path to terrorism…
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Study blames global warming for 75 percent of very hot days
Children play under the water that they manage to spill over from a water tank, to cool off from the summer heat, at the Alemao Complex slum in Rio de…
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UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. inquiry has found that at least 44 Palestinians were killed and at least 227 injured by direct mortar strikes and other “Israeli actions” while sheltering…
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Nepal earthquake aftershocks terrify survivors
Family members grieve during the cremation of an earthquake victim in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley…
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DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. – Coast Guard crews searched for five people missing Sunday after recovering two bodies following a powerful weekend storm that capsized several sailboats competing in a regatta…
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Scientists convinced of tie between earthquakes and drilling
So far, the quakes have been mostly small and have done little damage beyond cracking plaster, toppling bricks and rattling nerves. But seismologists warn that the shaking can dramatically increase…
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115 children killed since beginning of Yemen offensive
Over 500 civilian deaths included
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Malik Z. Shabazz, center, of Black Lawyers for Justice, raises his fist in defiance at a rally for Freddie Gray on Saturday outside Baltimore City Hall. Gray died from spinal…
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7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal
Over 1,100 killed at capital; avalanche tears down Himalayas
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Gallipoli combatants remember dead
Disastrous campaign helped forge Turkish, Australian identities