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Month: January 2024

Los Angeles County has thousands of ‘unclaimed dead.’ These investigators retrace their lives

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arusyak Martirosyan struggles to open the door of a stranger’s one-bedroom apartment overflowing with the belongings from a life lived but not claimed in death. Wedged against the door is a giant box of Gain laundry detergent and plastic tubs piled high. Blouses and T-shirts, suspended

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Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius freed after serving nearly 9 years in prison for killing girlfriend

By GERALD IMRAY, NQOBILE NTSHANGASE and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee who became a global star competing at his sport’s highest level while running on carbon-fiber blades, was released from prison on Friday after serving nearly nine years for killing his girlfriend, the model Reeva

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World’s biggest polluter just had its hottest year on record, marked by deadly extreme weather

By Helen Regan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China saw its hottest year on record in 2023, state media reported this week, as the world’s biggest polluter confronted a series of relentless heat waves and other extreme weather events driven by the human-caused climate crisis. Daily and monthly temperature records were repeatedly shattered as the year wore on while the

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Washington state lawmakers to take on fentanyl and housing in Inslee’s final legislative session

By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Lawmakers in Washington state will return to Olympia on Monday to address housing, climate change and the fentanyl crisis in an abbreviated legislative session that marks Jay Inslee’s final one as governor. During a session preview this week, the Democratic governor described climate as the biggest

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Iowa principal critically injured in school shooting risked himself to protect students, police say

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, RYAN J. FOLEY, JOSH FUNK and NICK INGRAM Associated Press PERRY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa principal critically injured in a school shooting put himself in harm’s way as he tried to protect students from the teenage gunman. State authorities said Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger and other staffers and students

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Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of far-right extremist groups. Former police officers. An Olympic gold medalist swimmer. And active duty U.S. Marines. They are among the hundreds of people who have been convicted in the massive prosecution of the Jan 6, 2021, riot in the three years

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US employers add a surprisingly strong 216,000 jobs in a sign of continued economic strength

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers added a robust 216,000 jobs last month, the latest sign that the American labor market remains resilient even in the face of sharply higher interest rates. Friday’s government report showed that December’s job gain exceeded the 173,000 that were added in November. The

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