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Americans can now renew passports online and bypass cumbersome paper applications
Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays. The State Department announced Wednesday that ...
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Mideast Tensions latest: Gold Apollo says a Budapest company made exploding pagers under its brand
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said Wednesday that it authorized its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria but that another company based in Budapest manufactured them. Hundreds of ...
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Colombia’s president says attack on army base ‘practically ends’ peace talks with ELN rebels
An attack on a military base in eastern Colombia killed two soldiers and injured at least 21, Colombia’s military said on Tuesday, as tensions escalate between ...
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Pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a company in Budapest, Gold Apollo says
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said Wednesday that it authorized its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria but that another company based in Budapest ...
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Sri Lanka’s plantation workers live on the margins. But politicians still want their votes
Whoever Sri Lanka’s next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn’t expecting much to change in her daily struggle to ...
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As Jimmy Carter nears his 100th birthday, a musical gala celebrates the ‘rock-and roll president’
A range of stars from the stage, screen and sport paid tribute Tuesday to former President Jimmy Carter ahead of his 100th birthday, the eclectic lineup meant to highlight the 39th ...
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The UN will vote on a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its occupation
The U.N. General Assembly will vote Wednesday on a Palestinian resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year, ...
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Harvey Weinstein set to be arraigned on additional sex crimes charges in New York
Harvey Weinstein is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan on a new indictment charging him with up to three additional sex offenses, his lawyer said. Weinstein’s lawyer ...
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A Mississippi Confederate monument covered for 4 years is moved
GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure that was tightly wrapped in tarps the past four years, ...
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New program will help inmates earn high school diplomas with tablets
A top supplier of digital devices in U.S. prisons is launching a new program to help incarcerated individuals earn a high school diploma by using the company’s tablets.
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Seen abroad as a leader on Indigenous rights, New Zealand enters a divisive new era
On the eve of New Zealand’s Māori language celebration week, the country’s right-wing political leaders ordered public ...
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Wet For Some
Showers are advancing across our southern counties and will be with us for most of Wednesday. It appears that most of the showers will fall during the morning hours but there will be some ...