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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors plan to ask a grand jury to indict President Joe Biden’s son H

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Three firefighters in New Mexico are facing felony sexual assault charges after a woman told police

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in prison in the murders of her two youngest children

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A powerful cyclone ravaged southern Brazil, killing at least 27 people and

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