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Month: September 2024

Tyreek Hill’s traffic stop can be a reminder of drivers’ constitutional rights

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The question of one’s responsibility to comply with all instructions given by a law enforcement officer recently came up following a traffic stop involving Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill. All American drivers have constitutional rights when pulled over on the road. Black people are disproportionately targeted for traffic stops

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Trump says women won’t be ‘thinking about abortion’ if he’s elected, casting himself as their ‘protector’

By Kate Sullivan and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump cast himself as a “protector” of women at a Pennsylvania rally Monday evening and claimed that American women won’t be “thinking about abortion” if he’s elected. The plea to ignore Trump’s own role in undoing national abortion rights protections is a clear

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New Caledonia marks anniversary of French colonization with tight security and simmering tensions

Associated Press NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — New Caledonia has marked the anniversary of its French colonization. There’s tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and the white settler communities loyal to Paris. The 171st anniversary of the French takeover Tuesday comes four months after protests by Kanaks against French voting

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FAA boss: Boeing still must make ‘significant changes’ to improve quality and safety

By Chris Isidore and Pete Muntean, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing still has to make “significant changes” to improve the quality and safety of its airplanes, according to the head of the Federal Aviation Administration. In a congressional hearing on the FAA’s oversight of Boeing set for Tuesday morning, agency Administrator Michael Whitaker told

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Tropical Storm Helene is expected to become a hurricane. Florida residents begin evacuating

Associated Press Tropical Storm Helene formed Tuesday in the Caribbean Sea and could strengthen into a major hurricane while moving north toward the U.S., forecasters said. Heavy rains and big waves already lashed the Cayman Islands, and some Florida residents began to evacuate or fill sandbags ahead of anticipated flooding. Helene was expected to strengthen

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TikTok purges accounts tied to Russian media over ‘covert influence’ efforts ahead of US election

By Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — TikTok has removed accounts associated with two Russian media groups for trying to exercise what it called “covert influence” on the upcoming US presidential election, in violation of its guidelines. The accounts are linked to Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti, the organizations behind the Sputnik news agency and the

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NWSL champion Gotham FC becomes first team from league to go to White House, meets with President Biden

By Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden welcomed National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) champion NY/NJ Gotham FC to the White House on Monday, the first time in the league’s history that a team has received the invite. In a ceremony honoring the club’s victory, Biden praised the team’s resilience – Gotham finished last

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2 lawmen linked to Maine’s deadliest shooting are vying for job as county sheriff

Associated Press BATH, Maine (AP) — Two law enforcement officers were thrust into the media spotlight after Maine’s deadliest shooting. Now they’re facing each other in an election. The ballot for sheriff in Sagadahoc County features four-term incumbent Joel Merry and patrol Sgt. Aaron Skolfield. Skolfield was the officer tasked with performing a welfare check

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Prosecutors want to bring attempted assassination charge against man in Trump golf incident. Here’s what they’d have to prove

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — As the US Department of Justice gears up to try to indict the man who allegedly plotted to shoot Donald Trump while he was golfing, a federal prosecutor said his team has been focused on one charge in particular: attempting to kill a major presidential candidate. In court Monday, prosecutor

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