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Month: March 2024

Activists watch for potential impact on environment as Key Bridge cleanup unfolds

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press As authorities begin removing twisted wreckage from the the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, they’re confronting the potential for environmental fallout. They are deploying nearly a mile’s worth of barriers in the water, testing samples for contamination and monitoring the Patapsco River for oil and other hazardous spills. The Unified

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The Moscow concert massacre was a major security blunder. What’s behind that failure?

By The Associated Press Hours before gunmen last week carried out the bloodiest attack in two decades in Russia, authorities made an addition to a government register of extremist and terrorist groups: They included the international LGBTQ+ “movement.” That addition to the register followed a Russian Supreme Court court ruling last year that cracked down

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AHF: Goldevoice demands take down of AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Coachella-themed billboards

Officials with the nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation said Goldenvoice, the organizers of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival have told them to take down a billboard which features some Coachella iconography.  The billboard in question is facing the I-10 westbound between Washington and Jefferson streets. It’s meant to catch the attention of festival-goers as

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Many Americans say immigrants contribute to economy but there’s worry over risks, AP-NORC poll finds

By REBECCA SANTANA and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more worried about legal immigrants committing crimes in the U.S. than they were a few years ago, a change driven largely by increased concern among Republicans, while Democrats continue to see a broad range of benefits from immigration, a new poll shows.

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For years tourists have ridden boats through this sacred Australian natural wonder. A new ban will stop them in their tracks

Ronan O’Connell, CNN (CNN) — The Horizontal Falls are one of Australia’s strangest natural attractions, a unique blend of coastal geography and powerful tidal forces that visitors pay big money to see up close. But all that is about to change. Located at Talbot Bay, a remote spot on the country’s northwestern coastline, the falls

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Former NBA G League player pleads not guilty to kidnapping and killing missing woman in Las Vegas

By Cindy Von Quednow and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Former NBA G League player Chance Comanche on Thursday pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and killing a Washington state woman in Las Vegas – months after police said he confessed and showed them where her body was buried. The former Stockton Kings player and his ex-girlfriend Sakari Harnden were

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