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Month: August 2023

Douglas County families scramble to plan transportation, after district announces rolling bus cancellations

By Gabriela Vidal Click here for updates on this story     DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colorado (KCNC) — Stress is mounting for Douglas County parents like Bobbie McDonald, as they work to fill in the gaps imposed by Douglas County School District’s rolling bus cancellations. “This is not what you’re expecting to come across that your kids aren’t

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Former high-level FBI official hoping to resolve criminal case stemming from alleged scheme to help sanctioned Russian oligarch

By Holmes Lybrand and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A lawyer for Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office who has been charged with concealing $225,000 he allegedly received from a former Albanian intelligence employee, said he expects the case against his client in Washington, DC, to be

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Officials urge people in Slovenia to stay home after torrential rain and flash kill at least 3

By ALI ZERDIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Heavy rains have caused flash floods and landslides in parts of Slovenia, killing at least three people. The deluge that started late Thursday and continued overnight blocked roads and bridges, surged into buildings and forced evacuations. Slovenia’s environmental agency raised the weather alert to the highest

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An American billionaire says he’ll stop funding the think tank behind Israel’s judicial overhaul

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An American billionaire and major donor to a Jerusalem think tank backing the Israeli government’s divisive judicial overhaul says that he will stop giving to the conservative group. The decision on Friday by Arthur Dantchik, a 65-year-old libertarian multibillionaire from New York, to cut funding to the

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Cleanup from chemical spill and fire that shut down I-24 in Tennessee could take days

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Cleanup from a chemical spill and fire near Interstate 24 in Tennessee will take several days, after the interstate was shut down and nearby homes evacuated overnight on Thursday. According to the Chattanooga Fire Department, emergency responders were called to the scene just after 9 p.m. when a tractor-trailer carrying organic

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Big Ten talks with Ducks, Huskies uncertain, renewing possibility of Pac-12 survival, AP sources say

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Talks between the Big Ten and Oregon and Washington about the two schools switching conferences have become uncertain, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Friday, renewing the possibility the Pac-12 can survive after it appeared in danger of being poached into extinction.

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