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Asked whether there was an emergency, Justine Damond told 911: "Hi, I just reported one, but no one's here and was wondering if they got the address wrong."
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About 80 inmates at an Iowa maximum security prison could face disciplinary action in connection to a large fight this month, a far greater number of people than the state corrections department has publicly said were directly involved in the melee, the...

A forum about opportunities for youth in St. Petersburg, Fla. turned racial when long-shot mayoral candidate Paul Congemi lashed out at an opponent’s supporters.
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The man who authorities said threw gasoline on his wife, set her on fire and walked to a police station to turn himself in last March pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the gruesome murder.
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Authorities say human remains found in the aftermath of a deadly flash flood in Arizona on Wednesday are believe to be that of the final missing victim.
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The body of a 27-year-old man who went missing during the flash flood in Arizona last weekend is believed to have been found, according to authorities.
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The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has taken extraordinary measures to pump oxygen back into the G.O.P.’s badly fading effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Somalis in his precinct welcomed Officer Mohamed Noor last year, but they’re now grappling with his having fatally shot an Australian woman who had called 911.
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The decision amounted to a recognition that the effort was failing and that the administration has given up hope of forcing the Syrian leader from power.
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A day after he seemed to give up his legislative push, President Trump summoned Republican senators to tell them not to leave Washington until they repeal and replace Obamacare.
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The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity begins public life facing questions about its impartiality, its agenda and even its reason for being.
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After running away from his Minnesota home in 1976, 16-year-old Jimmy Haakenson called his mother, told her he was in Chicago, then disappeared forever.
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A jury has convicted a western Michigan woman of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband in a crime apparently witnessed by the man's pet parrot.
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In edited audio excerpts from an interview with New York Times reporters, President Trump discussed Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump Jr., Robert S. Mueller III and the newly disclosed conversation he had with Vladimir V. Putin.
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The president also said in an interview that Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, would cross a red line if he delved into Trump family finances unrelated to Russia.
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Two Pennsylvania parents who gave their oldest daughter to a cult-like figure who sexually assaulted her have each been sentenced to seven years in prison.
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A New Jersey police officer who had skipped out on his trial on charges he helped gang members in investigations returned to court to hear from a woman who says he harassed her after turning down his advances.
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Business records from the secretive tax haven of Cyprus suggest that Paul J. Manafort owed millions to pro-Russia interests before joining Donald J. Trump’s campaign.
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Wealthy Dallas businessman Jeffrey Payne — who owns the city's popular gay leather bar, The Eagle — has thrown his hat into the Texas governor's race.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has opened the door for police to circumvent state restrictions on civil asset forfeitures, saying they need it to fight drugs.
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More than 8 billion metric tons of plastic have been made since the 1950s, researchers found. Because it does not degrade, most is still in the environment.
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The practice allows state and local authorities to use federal law to take cash, cars and other property from people suspected of crimes, but not charged.
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Molly Daley's battle with Lewy body dementia — the second most common form of the disease in older adults after Alzheimer's — has been painstakingly chronicled by her son.
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After former Kermit the Frog puppeteer Steve Whitmire said he was "devastated" by his firing, Jim Henson's daughter posted that there was more to the story.
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Neither Officer Mohamed Noor nor his partner had their video cameras activated during the fatal encounter with Justine Damond, depriving investigators of valuable evidence.
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Special counsel investigators are seeking information from the still-publicly unidentified eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower, this person's attorney Scott Balber said Tuesday.
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Jude Sparks was playing with his brothers in New Mexico when he stumbled over the fossilized tusk of a Stegomastodon, a prehistoric, elephantine creature.
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The officer who was with a Minneapolis patrolman who fatally shot an unarmed 911 caller has been interviewed by authorities, but the alleged shooter declined.
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Hold on to your light sabers, Disney has unveiled a new way to experience the universe of Jedi, droids and wookiees -- an immersive "Star Wars"-themed hotel.
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President Trump has repeatedly asked China to put the squeeze on North Korea until it curbs its nuclear program. But China so far hasn't shown much willingness to comply.
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A World Bank initiative to advance women’s entrepreneurship could be a sign that the White House might not be as combative toward multilateral institutions.
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A state agency released a brief narrative about the fatal shooting last weekend of an Australian woman who had called 911 to report a possible assault.
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The effort by Senate Republicans to remake the country’s health care system faced a near-impossible path forward. President Trump’s tweets didn’t help.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to continue his party's efforts to pass health care legislation, this time with a plan to repeal Obamacare now and replace it later, but fellow Republicans are already balking at his proposal.
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The fatal shooting of yoga instructor and life coach Justine Ruszczyk has led to an outpouring of grief and tributes, in her home country and the Minneapolis community she had made her home.
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Ed Sheeran temporarily deleted his Twitter account this week, but the singer did not provide an explanation to the public about his decision to remove himself from the social media platform.
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People in Atchison, Kan., continue to celebrate the aviator 80 years after her disappearance. While theories are welcome, many are fine with never having answers.
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The brains of women with bulimia respond differently to stress and food compared with women without the eating disorder, according to two separate MRI studies that published this month.
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O.J. Simpson has spent the past eight and a half years behind bars at Lovelock Correctional Facility, a medium security prison in Nevada's high desert.
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Florida has more lightning strikes and fatalities than any other state. Four tales of survivors with disparate stories that all began with a bolt from the blue.
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Orlando may be synonymous with Disney World for most, but just north of this Florida city there's a different vacation for those who wish to explore it.
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Although a group of Chinese scientists successfully teleported an object from the ground to a satellite, it's not the futuristic 'Stark Trek' teleportation we grew up dreaming about, writes Don Lincoln
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