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Baby seal stabbed on Oregon coast prompts search for suspect

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is searching for the person who stabbed a baby seal multiple times on a beach in Oregon

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Weather and night vision goggles were likely factors in Marine Corps helicopter crash, report finds

The crash of a Marine Corps helicopter last year that killed five service members was ultimately caused by pilot error

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3 former Memphis officers acquitted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols

Three former Memphis officers have been acquitted of all state charges, including second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic stop

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Most airports are operating smoothly on the first day of the REAL ID requirement

Most airports around the United States operated smoothly as new REAL ID requirements took effect because travelers without the updated document were still allowed to move through security easily

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Utah judge to decide if convicted killer with dementia can be executed

Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years are due before a state judge as they seek to spare the convicted murderer from execution because he has dementia

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Trump plans to announce the US will call Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, officials say

President Donald Trump plans to announce next week that the U.S. will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia

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Member of beloved grizzly bear family hit and killed in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park

A 5-year-old bear that was a member of a beloved grizzly family in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park has died

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Trump Pentagon nominee under scrutiny in hearing for partisan comments

A retired U.S. brigadier general who failed to get through the confirmation process in the first Trump administration is getting renewed scrutiny for his political and anti-Islamic social media posts

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Birmingham fights against losing control of its water board, citing racial discrimination

Birmingham city officials have sued the Alabama governor to stop him from signing of a bill that would strip the city of control over the state’s largest water board

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Michigan school shooter loses appeal in bid to withdraw guilty plea in 4 deaths

A Michigan court says it won’t accept an appeal from a school shooter who was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 for killing four students and wounding others

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Jury begins deliberating fate of 3 former officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death

The fate of three former Memphis police officers charged in the beating of Tyre Nichols is in the hands of 12 jurors as deliberations began in the Black man’s death

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Teen basketball players were among those who died in a Kansas highway crash

Two teenage basketball players, a coach and a trainer from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area were among eight people killed in a fiery head-on highway crash in eastern Kansas

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US trade deficit hits record high ahead of Trump tariffs

The U.S. trade deficit soared to a monthly record of $140.5 billion in March, signaling a rush for imports from businesses and consumers alike ahead of President Donald Trump’s latest — and most sweeping — tariffs taking effect

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Scripps National Spelling Bee tweaks rules to make ‘spell-off’ tiebreaker less likely

The Scripps National Spelling Bee won’t be so quick to force spellers into a lightning-round tiebreaker to decide a champion this year

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New Jersey Catholic bishop says diocese will no longer oppose investigation into abuse allegations

The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese says he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind closed doors in court for years

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Noem: Travelers with no REAL ID can fly for now, but with likely extra steps

The head of Homeland Security says travelers who aren’t REAL ID compliant by the upcoming deadline this week will still be able to fly but should be prepared for extra scrutiny

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Boy uses mother’s phone to order 70K Dum-Dum suckers to share with his friends

A Kentucky woman was in a sticky mess when she found stacks of boxes containing lollipops on her doorstep

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Federal investigators say a utility wasn’t marked before a deadly natural gas explosion in Missouri

The National Transportation Safety Board says a deadly explosion that leveled one Missouri home and damaged two others happened after a subcontractor drilled into an unmarked underground gas main while installing fiber optic cable

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Lawyer signals teen accused in Georgia school shooting that killed 4 is likely to plead guilty

A lawyer says the teen accused of killing four people in a shooting at Georgia’s Apalachee High School is moving toward pleading guilty

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Who are the US cardinals who will vote for the next pope? There are 10, the largest bloc after Italy

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church

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Canadian Prime Minister Carney arrives in Washington for a high-stakes meeting with President Trump

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Washington for a high-stakes meeting with President Donald Trump

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Lawsuit planned over Florida deputy’s shooting of US airman who was killed in his own home

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says he will file a lawsuit against a former Florida sheriff’s deputy and others in the May 2024 shooting death of 23-year-old U.S. Senior Airman Roger Fortson

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Chester town official shot a lost DoorDash driver seeking directions, NY police say

A town official in upstate New York has been arrested after state police say he shot and wounded a delivery driver who got lost and approached his house seeking directions

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LA firefighters union heads suspended, audit finds $800,000 in undocumented spending

Top officials at the Los Angeles firefighters labor union have been suspended

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Rescue crews search for missing girl lost in Texas floodwaters while forecasters warn of more storms

Rescue crews in Texas are searching for a 10-year-old girl swept away by rapidly rising floodwaters and forecasters warn that more heavy rains and flooding could be on the way to the Houston area and the state’s coast

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