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How ‘The Flash,’ many years in the works and beset by turmoil, finally reached the finish line
The Flash may be one of the quickest superheroes in the comics, but getting a movie made based on the characters has been a marathon dating back, in some ways, to the late 1980s.
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Russia claims it blew up advanced Ukrainian tank, but video shows its helicopter attacked a tractor
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A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria’s Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states
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Under house arrest, fake heiress Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin launches podcast to rehab public image
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Republicans set to push mail ballots, voting methods they previously blasted as recipes for fraud
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End of an era? GOP walkout shows political chasm where ‘The Oregon Way’ once meant bipartisan trust
The political divide affecting the United States is hitting Oregon hard. The Legislature is in gridlock and Republican senators are in a prolonged walkout.
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Burner phones, aliases, code words: How secret networks help women circumvent Honduras’ abortion ban
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inside a little wooden house among the pine and oak forests of western Honduras’ coffee-growing mountains, a woman opened a tiny package of pills, delivered to a nearby town.
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Diplomatic tour by Ukraine’s Zelenskyy highlights Putin’s stark isolation
While the world awaits Ukraine’s spring offensive, its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has already launched a diplomatic one.
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Awash in social media, how are police learning to inform the public better after shootings?
Social media has law enforcement facing increasing pressure to release information fast amid a surge of mass shootings.
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Millions ditched cars for bikes during the pandemic. These cities want the habit to stick
During the worst of the pandemic, outdoor recreation surged as people took up pursuits to escape isolation. For many, that meant getting on a bicycle.
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In Cannes, Harrison Ford bids adieu to Indiana Jones
If last year’s Cannes was partially defined by its tribute to “Top Gun Maverick” star Tom Cruise, this year’s has belonged to Harrison Ford.
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Katie Taylor’s impact on women’s boxing hits home for young Irish fighters
Katie Taylor’s success has been paving the way for young Irish fighters as women’s boxing gains popularity around the world.
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Auschwitz museum begins emotional work of conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small brown shoes worn by children before they were murdered in gas chambers.
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Why Ukraine’s spring offensive still hasn’t begun — with summer just weeks away
For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine with an urgency to get the supplies to Kyiv in time for an anticipated spring counteroffensive.
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Threatening 22 million people, Mexico’s Popocatepetl is a very closely watched volcano
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano rumbled to life again this week, spewing out towering clouds of ash that forced 11 villages to cancel school sessions.
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In El Salvador, transgender community struggles for rights and survival
Transgender people in El Salvador face violence and discrimination in their deeply religious country.
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Push for transit, walkable communities growing across US
ATLANTA (AP) — On the weekend in March when Brittany Glover would have turned 34, her mother stood on the same busy road in Atlanta where her daughter died six months earlier.
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More than 30 million US drivers don’t know if they’re at risk from a rare but dangerous airbag blast
More than 33 million people in the United States are driving vehicles that contain a potentially deadly threat: Airbag inflators that in rare cases can explode in a collision and spew shrapnel.
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Show must go on for a Ukrainian director drafted for war ahead of opening night
The show must go on. Even when its Ukrainian director is drafted by the army weeks before opening night.
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Meet D’Arcy Drollinger, a drag queen who’s now the first drag laureate in the US
San Francisco has named the nation’s first drag laureate to represent the city’s famous LGBTQ+ community at a time when rights are under attack.
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Videos show purported ivory-billed woodpeckers as US moves toward extinction decision
New video and photographs purporting to show ivory-billed woodpeckers flying in a Louisiana forest have been published by researchers.
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China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China.
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FACT FOCUS: Who’s to blame for the national debt? It’s more complicated than one culprit
As political leaders work to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling, some online have pointed fingers as to who is to blame for the national debt.
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False claims of a stolen election thrive unchecked on Twitter even as Musk promises otherwise
Election falsehoods are thriving on Twitter after former President Donald Trump dug in on those claims during a recent CNN town hall.
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Incredible shrinking lakes: Humans, climate change, diversion costs trillions of gallons annually
A new study says climate change’s hotter temperatures and society’s diversion of water have been shrinking the world’s lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s.
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First full-size 3D scan of Titanic shows shipwreck in new light
Deep-sea researchers have completed the first full-size digital scan of the Titanic, showing the entire wreck in unprecedented detail and clarity.
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Every state offers victim compensation. For the Longs and other Black families, it often isn’t fair
The cold formality of the letter is seared in Debra Long’s memory.
It began “Dear Claimant,” and said her 24-year-old son, Randy, who was fatally shot in April 2006, was not an “innocent” victim.
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Infertility is common in the US, but insurance coverage remains limited
Coverage of fertility treatments remains hard to find in many corners of health insurance even as it grows briskly with big employers that see it as a must-have benefit to keep workers.
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More dogs could show up in outdoor dining spaces. Not everyone is happy about it
Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces.
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Repelled by high car prices, Americans are holding on to their vehicles longer than ever
The average age of a passenger vehicle on U.S. roads hit a record 12.5 years this year, according to data gathered by S&P Global Mobility.
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AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters
Thanks to recent advances in artificial intelligence, tools that can create lifelike photos, video and audio are now cheap and readily available.
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Child social media stars have few protections. Illinois aims to fix that
CHICAGO (AP) — Holed up at home during the pandemic lockdown three years ago, 13-year-old Shreya Nallamothu was scrolling through social media when she noticed a pattern: Children even younger than her were the stars — dancing, cracking one-liners and being generally adorable.
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Stained glass window shows Jesus Christ with dark skin, stirring questions about race in New England
A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window showing a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women has been rediscovered in a Rhode Island church.
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Off-grid solar brings light, time and income to remotest villages
In Indonesia’s far-east island of Sumba, off-grid solar is lighting up lives for residents still living out of reach of the country’s national electricity provider.
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Scabby the Rat gives bite to union protests, but is he at the tail end of his relevancy?
For decades, a giant, inflatable rat with beady eyes, sharp teeth and a pustule-covered belly has been looming over union protests, drawing attention to construction sites or buildings with labor disputes.
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