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Video contradicts Trump claim on SJSU volleyball play, as former president vows to ban transgender athletes

By Sarah McGrew Click here for updates on this story     SAN JOSE, California (KCRA) — As the San Jose State women’s volleyball team prepares for their game at New Mexico on Thursday, it now has the attention of former President Donald Trump. Back in September, Spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser joined a lawsuit against the NCAA

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Florida official warns Hurricane Milton victims about scammers posing as FEMA workers

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The emergency management chief of the Florida county where Hurricane Milton made landfall earlier this month is warning about reports of scammers who are posing as Federal Emergency Management Agency officials and trying to get financial information from the storm’s victims. Sarasota County Emergency Management Chief Sandra Tapfumaneyi told residents Thursday

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Una persona que llamó al 911 encontró el cadáver de su amigo como víctima del ataque de un oso. La policía ahora afirma que fue un homicidio

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La última vez que alguien tuvo noticias de Dustin Kjersem fue la tarde del 10 de octubre, cuando se subió a su Ford F-150 negro y se dirigió a un remoto campamento en las tierras salvajes de Montana. Tenía planes con un amigo al día siguiente para pasar un fin de

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Trump hotel attracted would-be judges, ambassadors, pardon-seekers, House Democrats say

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Judges seeking appointments to the federal bench, wealthy Republicans hoping for ambassadorships and criminals who wanted pardons were among the big spenders at Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel while he was president. And many got what they wanted. That’s according to a report Friday from the Democratic minority in

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Proposed Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge expansion could lead to buyout of mining project

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency is proposing an expansion of the Okefenokee Swamp’s vast wildlife refuge. That could lead to a buyout offer for property that would otherwise be used for mining project conservationists have fought for years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday that it’s considering a potential

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Biden administration unaware of Trump-Putin calls, but top adviser says it ‘would raise red flags’ if true

By Betsy Klein and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — A top US official indicated that the Biden administration was unaware of reported conversations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and former President Donald Trump since Trump left office – but suggested that such calls would “raise red flags.” Veteran journalist Bob Woodward reported in a new book that

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World’s largest arthropod lived 300 million years ago. Now, fossils show what it really looked like

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like animal named Arthropleura that used its many legs to roam Earth more than 300 million years ago. Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head

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Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, is dead at 61

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the longest, deadliest and most destructive war in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. He was 61. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than Sinwar.

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