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Year: 2024

Democrats go to new heights to spotlight Project 2025, flying banners over college football stadiums

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have denounced the conservative Project 2025 blueprint in hundreds of ads and billboards, printed it in oversized book form as a convention prop and mentioned it frequently. On Saturday, they took their campaign against the blueprint from allies of Donald Trump to the sky above college football stadiums in

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Takeaways from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s response to violence after George Floyd’s murder

Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be the Democratic vice presidential candidate has revived the debate over how he handled the biggest crisis of his political career. In 2020, Minneapolis and St. Paul erupted after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. The Black man’s murder

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Sharp divisions persist over Walz’s response to the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd

Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz faced the biggest crisis of his political career when Minnesota’s two largest cities erupted in protests and riots after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. The Black man’s murder in 2020 sparked a nationwide reckoning over racial discrimination and police misconduct. His death, and its

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Los jefes de la CIA y del MI6 hacen una aparición pública conjunta sin precedentes en Londres

Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Los jefes de la CIA de Estados Unidos y del servicio de inteligencia exterior del Reino Unido, conocido como MI6, destacaron la importancia de la colaboración de inteligencia entre sus países en una aparición pública conjunta sin precedentes este sábado en Londres. El evento, un debate en el Financial Times Weekend

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Nashville’s Mother Church of Country Music retains its roots as religious house of worship

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is known as the Mother Church of Country Music. And, indeed, it began as a church, built by a riverboat captain who was converted to religion by an evangelist. More than 130 years after it was built as the nondenominational Union Gospel Tabernacle, Music City’s most

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18-year-old US surfer Caitlin Simmers makes history becoming surfing’s youngest female world champion

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — 18-year-old US surfer Caitlin Simmers made history on Friday, becoming the youngest-ever female surfing world champion after winning the World Surf League (WSL) finals. Simmers beat reigning world champion Caroline Marks in the title match to etch her name into the sport’s history books. “I think since I first

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CIA and MI6 heads discuss Gaza ceasefire efforts, Russian threat in unprecedented joint public appearance in London

By Nick Paton Walsh, Sophie Tanno and Radina Gigova, CNN London (CNN) — CIA chief Bill Burns said Saturday he hoped to have a “more detailed” hostage and ceasefire proposal to put before Israel and Hamas negotiators in the coming days, but stressed that its success would come down to “political will” on their part. He

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