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FACT FOCUS: NYC crime is not worst ever, despite claims

FACT FOCUS: NYC crime is not worst ever, despite claims

NEW YORK (AP) — Following Monday’s congressional hearing on violent crime in New York City, claims spread across social media that the bad old days are back in the nation’s largest city.
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Here's what the looming public-service strike would look like for hybrid workers

Here's what the looming public-service strike would look like for hybrid workers

OTTAWA — Canada's federal public servants will need to show up at the picket line for four hours each day — even if their union has been trying to negotiate permanent work-from-home arrangements with the government.
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Biden pans McCarthy's debt plan as 'huge cuts' to Americans

Biden pans McCarthy's debt plan as 'huge cuts' to Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked furiously Tuesday to build support for a Republican plan that would demand strict limits to federal spending in return for agreeing to raise the nation's debt limit and stave off an unprecedented
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CP NewsAlert: With no deal with feds in hand, union says federal workers will strike

CP NewsAlert: With no deal with feds in hand, union says federal workers will strike

OTTAWA — Canada's largest federal public-service union says that some 155,000 workers will go on strike after talks with the government failed to produce an agreement before its 9 p.m. ET deadline. -- More coming -- The Canadian Press
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Kamala Harris rallies as high court eyes abortion pill rules

Kamala Harris rallies as high court eyes abortion pill rules

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday urged Americans to take action during “a critical point in our nation’s history” as thousands of protesters demonstrated across the country against new limits to abortion rights making their
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Tennessee moves to shield gun firms after school shooting

Tennessee moves to shield gun firms after school shooting

NASHVILLE, Tenn.
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Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claims

Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claims

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company's lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election.
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Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive path

Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive path

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson never guessed he'd be expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting.
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Oklahoma sheriff says recording of killing talk was illegal

Oklahoma sheriff says recording of killing talk was illegal

An Oklahoma sheriff’s office says a newspaper's audio recording in which the sheriff and other county officials are reportedly heard discussing killing two journalists and hanging Black people was illegal and predicted felony charges will be filed.
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Saskatchewan minister asks man guilty of domestic assault to return service medal

Saskatchewan minister asks man guilty of domestic assault to return service medal

REGINA — A Saskatchewan cabinet minister has apologized aftera public service medal was given to a man who pleaded guilty to domestic assault, but the Opposition New Democrats say it shows a pattern of the provincial government not taking intimate pa
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