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Mega Millions Winner in Maine Scores $1.35 Billion Prize
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$10 million ‘penis’ statue is insulting
An incredibly-expensive tribute to Martin Luther King has been unveiled in Boston and his family has compared it to a “big old dong”.
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Martin Luther King: Surprising facts about civil rights icon
As America pauses to honour Dr Martin Luther King, Jr's legacy, experts say his fight against poverty and inequality is still just as relevant today as it was during the US civil rights movement.
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New York City is full, mayor tells migrants
Eric Adams broke with the Democratic Party line on migration, urging the Biden administration to ‘do its job’
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I wanted to love the new Boston MLK statue. But it’s just awkward.
Hank Willis Thomas’s tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has polarized opinion everywhere
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MASS SHOOTING IN LA: At least nine people dead, gunman still on the loose
Police say the death toll stands at nine with an unknown number of other victims injured after a gunman opened fire at a dance club in Los Angeles.
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Police launch manhunt for gunman implicated in Lunar New Year shooting
Police in Southern California on Sunday launched a manhunt for an Asian male suspected in a mass shooting that left 10 people dead and 10 others wounded at a dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations, police said Sunday.
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Cops swarm mass shooting suspect’s van x x x x x Police have surrounded a van linked to the suspected gunman wanted for killing 10 people and injuring 10 more in a horror mass shooting in Los Angeles.
Police have surrounded a van linked to the suspected gunman wanted for killing 10 people and injuring 10 more in a horror mass shooting in Los Angeles.
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'Could have been much worse': Monterey Park gunman disarmed by 'heroes' at second dance studio, sheriff says
Tran was likely intending to shoot more people when he entered Lai Lai Ballroom & Dance, according to Luna.
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Police hunt for answers after massacre at California dance studio
The suspect in the shooting that killed 10 people was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound as officers closed in on his vehicle.
- Monterey Park is inclusive. That wasn’t always the case, locals say.
- Star Ballroom was ‘so much more’ than a dance hall, instructor recalls
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Several people killed in second mass shooting in California in days
Seven people were killed in a mass shooting at two locations in the coastal northern California city of Half Moon Bay on Monday, and the suspect was arrested after driving to a police parking lot, apparently attempting to turn himself in, officials said.
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5 Memphis ex-police are charged with murder and jailed over the death of Tyre Nichols
Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy told reporters that while each of the five officers played a different role, "the actions of all of them resulted in the death of Tyre Nichols and they are all responsible."
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As Memphis reckons with Tyre Nichols’s death, police shutter unit involved in case
The Memphis police shut down the Scorpion unit, which the police chief had defended a day earlier
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Tyre Nichols' lawyer urges lawmakers to pass urgent police reforms
The lawyer representing Tyre Nichols' family has called on the US Congress to pass urgent police reform legislation in the wake of his death.
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Sixth officer suspended in Tyre Nichols death investigation
A sixth Memphis police officer “has been relieved of duty” during the investigation of Tyre Nichols’s death after a beating by police.
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Deep freeze: US north-east braces for record breaking wind chills
Nearly 100 million people in Canada and the US brace for some of the coldest air on earth, as a record-breaking deep freeze hits North America.
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Pennsylvania boy, 9, becomes one of the youngest ever high school graduates
David Balogun, who loves science and computer programming, receives diploma after taking remote classes
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‘Run, hide, fight’: Horror US campus shooting
A US university is in shock after three people were killed in a mass shooting at a heavily-populated campus.
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Ohio train derailment reveals need for urgent reform, workers say
Unions say rail companies’ desire for increased profits is driving up safety risks – and more accidents will happen without action
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Biden administration proposes strict asylum restrictions at border
US President Joe Biden's administration has unveiled a plan that would make it harder for migrants to claim asylum once Covid border controls lift in May.
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