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Month: August 2024

How Trump and Georgia’s Republican governor made peace, helped by allies anxious about the election

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The effort to make the peace between Donald Trump and Georgia’s powerful Republican governor began in a sprawling neo-Victorian mansion in the exclusive Atlanta enclave of Buckhead. It was at an Aug. 7 fundraiser hosted by former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler that fellow Republican Lindsey Graham approached Gov. Brian Kemp.

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Japan urges 4 million to evacuate as lumbering Typhoon Shanshan threatens south with up to a meter of rain

By Helen Regan, Robert Shackelford and Junko Ogura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Almost 4 million people in southern Japan were urged to evacuate as Typhoon Shanshan made landfall Thursday, leaving thousands of residents without power and lashing Kyushu island with hurricane-force winds, torrential rain and dangerous storm surges. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a rare

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Challenges of the Gaza humanitarian aid pier offer lessons for the US Army

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army commander in charge of the U.S. military’s Gaza pier project says the mission was the biggest “organizational leadership challenge” he has ever experienced. The service dealt with the wild combination of turbulent weather, security threats and sweeping personnel restrictions. Speaking to The Associated Press after much of the

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After diversity pushback, some faculty feel left in dark at North Carolina’s flagship university

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several programs of diversity, equity and inclusion are at risk of elimination at North Carolina’s flagship university after the University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted to scrap a previous diversity policy in May and replace it with a new one. Sept. 1 marks the deadline for implementing

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Escaped killer who was on the run in Pennsylvania for 2 weeks pleads guilty to escape charges

Associated Press WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A convicted killer captured last year after two weeks on the run in southeastern Pennsylvania’s rolling farmlands has pleaded guilty to escape and burglary charges. Danilo Cavalcante escaped from a Chester County lockup while waiting to be transferred to state prison to serve a life sentence for killing his

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Fact-checking Harris’ CNN interview

By Daniel Dale, Tami Luhby and Ella Nilsen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down with CNN anchor Dana Bash on Thursday for the first formal interview of their campaign. Bash directed most of the questions to Harris. Here is a

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Fact-checking Harris’ CNN interview

CNN By Daniel Dale, Tami Luhby and Ella Nilsen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down with CNN anchor Dana Bash on Thursday for the first formal interview of their campaign. Bash directed most of the questions to Harris. Here is

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