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Kansas enacts statewide ban on student cell phones
Kansas has enacted HB 2299, a statewide law banning personal cell phones and similar devices for K‑12 students during the school day, signed by…
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Italian police recover three stolen paintings near Parma
Carabinieri officers from the Parma Provincial Command and the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit recovered three paintings stolen from the Magnani…
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Man told ChatGPT he would rape and kill ex
OpenAI alerted the FBI after a 25-year-old South Palm Beach man used ChatGPT to share repeated, detailed threats to rape and kill his ex-girlfriend…
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Thai schools tighten bag checks after deadly shooting
Students at a Bangkok primary school now undergo systematic bag and pocket checks after a deadly Aug 7 attack in which a 14-year-old killed his…
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Former Syrian officer leaves Austria and returns to Syria
Lieutenant Colonel Musab Abu Rukba, convicted in Vienna last month of bodily harm, aggravated coercion and sexual assault against detained opponents…
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Artists stage benefit concert to aid Colombia and Venezuela quake victims
More than 30 international artists will perform at Unidos por los Nuestros on Aug. 16 at Miami’s Kaseya Center to raise funds for communities hit by…
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Paramount Skydance offers CNN sale to clear merger
Paramount Skydance Corp. said it could sell CNN if that helps resolve an antitrust lawsuit that is blocking its planned $110 billion merger with…
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Judge dismisses Nevada fake electors case
A Nevada judge dismissed the yearslong case against six Republicans who signed a certificate claiming Donald Trump won the state's 2020 vote, ending…
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Costa Rica extradites two alleged traffickers to U.S.
Two alleged drug traffickers, Gilbert Bell Fernandez (known as Macho Coca) and Gabriel Lozano (nicknamed Compadre), were extradited from Costa Rica…
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Us establishes multinational attack drone task force
The US military announced Task Force Falcon Strike, the first multi-domain, multinational attack drone task force, to operate one-way attack drones…
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DOJ finds California prisons failed to protect female inmates
The Justice Department announced it has reasonable cause to believe the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and two women's…
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Global Citizen announces performers for 2026 Central Park festival
Global Citizen announced its 2026 festival lineup and goals for the Sept. 26 event on New York's Central Park Great Lawn, with Lauryn Hill and Wyclef…
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University of Michigan to cover first-semester grades
The University of Michigan's largest college is developing a pilot that will show first-semester grades as pass or no credit on external transcripts…
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Hundreds of private colleges face closure
The USA TODAY Excerpt episode examined the growing wave of small private college closures after Sterling College in Vermont shut in May. A Huron…
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Putin visits island claimed by Japan
Russian president Vladimir Putin visited the disputed island known in Russia as Iturup and in Japan as Etorofu after attending the final stage of…
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Nigeria rolls out university UniPods to commercialize research
The federal ministry of education, working with UNDP and Tech4Dev, plans to deploy about 41 University Innovation Pods (UniPods) across Nigerian…
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Hollywood unions urge settlement in Paramount‑Skydance antitrust case
Leaders of the Directors Guild of America and IATSE asked California attorney general Rob Bonta and Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison to negotiate…
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Putin threatens seizure of British vessels
Vladimir Putin has threatened to seize British vessels in retaliation for European operations against Russia, according to reporting from a…
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EBU can reassign Eurovision hosting duties
The European Broadcasting Union has updated Eurovision rules to allow it to reassign hosting duties away from a winning broadcaster if that…
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Nigeria rescues hundreds of kidnapped villagers
Authorities freed 308 people, including 163 from Woro, after the February attack on the village near the Benin border, in what the government…
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IPID alleges KwaZulu-Natal police took payments from tow-truck operators
Len John, deputy director of IPID investigations in KwaZulu-Natal, told the Madlanga Commission that some South African Police Service members…
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Tanzania and China shift partnership toward skills
In Dar es Salaam on August 12, 2026, Chinese and Tanzanian officials and educators outlined a strategic move from infrastructure-led cooperation to…
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Federal agents arrest 362 previously deported migrants in California
Federal authorities launched Operation Guardian Angel, using real-time federal warrants to take custody of criminal foreign nationals from county…
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Lebanon parliament passes general amnesty law
Lebanon's parliament approved a broad amnesty law that reduces death and life sentences to 17 prison years (about 12 years and nine months served)…
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