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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris took aim at the NRA in a speech to Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in New York Friday. She decried gun violence as the leading killer of American children. “Enough is enough,” she said. (April 14)
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Macron visits Notre Dame reconstruction site

The Endangered Species Act helped save some of the most iconic animals from extinction as it marks 50 years of existence. But the high survival rate of protected species hides dwindling population numbers.(April 14) (AP Video: Rodrique Ngowi, Robert Bu…

A busy carrying 35 people, mostly Israeli tourists, fell onto its side on a slope, killing one and injured dozens, in the southern South Korean city of Chengju. (April 14)

India’s population will soon overtake China making it the world’s most populous country. But hundreds of millions of rural Indians struggle to access care in absence of enough medical facilities. (April 14) (AP Video/Piyush Nagpal)
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Former President Donald Trump spent hours at the offices of New York’s attorney general Thursday for his second deposition in a legal battle over his company’s business practices. (April 13)

Parts of South Florida began cleaning up Thursday after the unprecedented storm that trapped motorists, dumped upward of 2 feet of rain in a matter of hours, caused widespread flooding, closed a key airport and turned thoroughfares into rivers. There w…

The Pentagon is referring all questions about the leaked documents case to the Justice Department. But they did call the leak “a criminal act” and “a willful violation of” the rules of non-disclosure that employees sign. (April 13)
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A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who has emerged as a main person of interest in the disclosure of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war was taken into custody Thursday by federal agents. Attorney General Merrick Garland made…