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Month: August 2023

Biden reelection campaign offering joint meeting with Obama as ex-president enters 2024 fray early

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is raising money for his reelection campaign by offering donors the chance to meet himself and Barack Obama, meaning the former president will be entering the 2024 political fray earlier than he did during last year’s midterms or the last presidential election. An email

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Why did the Maui fire spread so fast? Drought, nonnative species and climate change among possible reasons

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The wildfires that ripped through Hawaii on Tuesday and Wednesday are “unnerving,” and comparable to the landscape-altering wildfires that are common in the West, said Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. But Fleishman told CNN she wouldn’t be surprised “if wildfires

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Virginia prison officials won’t divulge complaints about facility where inmate died

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Department of Corrections, under scrutiny over the death of an inmate that raised broader questions about conditions at a southwest Virginia prison, is refusing to release public records documenting inmate complaints about the facility. Allegations that multiple inmates were treated for

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‘We expected less resistance’: Ukrainian troops on southern front learn not to underestimate their enemy

Exclusive by Nick Paton Walsh, Kosta Gak, Olha Konovalova, Florence Davey-Attlee and Brice Laine, CNN Orikhiv, Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Rammed back into the bushes, out past destroyed Bradleys and ageing Humvees, the Soviet-era T72 lowers its turret to fire. Its targets are Russian positions, imperiled by Ukraine’s push south, just past the building over

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Co-founder of Russia’s equivalent of Google slams ‘barbaric’ invasion of Ukraine

CNN By Darya Tarasova, Tim Lister and Radina Gigova, CNN The founder and former CEO of Russia’s largest internet company, Arkady Volozh, has slammed Vladimir Putin’s “barbaric” war in Ukraine, becoming one of the most prominent Russian businessmen to express criticism of what Russia still calls euphemistically its “special military operation.” “I’ve been asked a

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Sudan fighting is driving country to collapse and millions face a ‘humanitarian calamity’, UN says

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN officials say nearly four months of brutal fighting is driving Sudan to collapse with millions of people trapped in a “humanitarian calamity” and the possibility of a new ethnic conflict spilling into the region. The dire briefings to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday

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Rihanna continues breaking the rules of maternity style with a sultry new line for pregnant people

Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — When Rihanna was pregnant with her first child in 2022, she subverted many of the conservative social and sartorial boundaries of maternity style — regularly photographed attending events and red carpets in minidresses, heels and baby bump-baring garments with cutouts. Now, as the singer and businesswoman and her partner, rapper

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