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Pittsburgh bridge should have been shut down years before 2022 collapse that injured several people, NTSB says

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The National Transportation Safety Board released the findings of its investigation into the 2022 collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, ruling “critical lapses in bridge maintenance and oversight by multiple agencies” led to the disaster, and if proper oversight had been applied, the bridge would have been shut down years

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Parents of two girls who survived a dorm fire that killed 20 in Guyana sue the government

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The parents of two teenagers who survived a fire that killed 20 people at a high school dormitory for Indigenous girls last year have sued the government and accused authorities of negligence. The lawsuit that attorneys shared with reporters late Wednesday is seeking more than $50,000

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AT&T’s network is having problems: What you should know while navigating a phone service outage

NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of AT&T, the country’s largest wireless provider, are reporting widespread outages. Some iPhone users saw SOS messages displayed in the status bar on their cellphones. The message indicates that the device is having trouble connecting to their cellular provider’s network. That can be a big problem in an emergency. AT&T

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Putin takes a flight in nuclear-capable bomber in a tough message to the West ahead of election

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has taken a co-pilot’s seat in a nuclear-capable strategic bomber, a flight that appeared aimed at bolstering his image ahead of next month’s election he’s all but certain to win. Putin’s 30-minute flight Thursday in a Tu-160M supersonic strategic bomber also seemed intended to send a reminder of

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Mother of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny says she has seen his body, is being pressured to hold secret funeral

By Anna Chernova, Sebastian Shukla, Christian Edwards and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — The mother of Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony last week, said Thursday she had seen her son’s body and was being pressured to hold a secret funeral. Lyudmila Navalnaya said she had seen her son’s

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Commander, el perro de Biden, mordió al personal del Servicio Secreto en al menos 24 incidentes, muestran registros

urielblanco (CNN) — Commander Biden, el perro de la familia del presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, mordió al personal del Servicio Secreto de EE.UU. (USSS, por sus siglas en inglés) en al menos 24 incidentes en la Casa Blanca y otros lugares, según nuevos documentos internos del USSS obtenidos por CNN. Esa cifra no

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