Over a million people visit the Iowa State Fair during its annual 11-day run in August. But this year, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, resident Rick Stewart isn’t attending the fair to…
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Explaining Four Trump Indictments
by Thomas Burkeby Thomas BurkeFormer President Donald Trump’s legal woes keep mounting. On Monday, prosecutors in the southern U.S. state of Georgia unveiled a new indictment, charging Trump and 18 others in connection with…
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Ex-FBI Official Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Charge
by Thomas Burkeby Thomas BurkeA former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Tuesday, admitting that he agreed after leaving the agency to work for a Russian oligarch he had once…
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Trump’s Trials Could Curb His 2024 Campaigning
by Thomas Burkeby Thomas BurkeIn 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump could be spending more days in courtrooms instead of flying across the country campaigning for president. With the fourth criminal indictment in four…
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China, North Korea Loom as US, Japan, South Korea Leaders Head to First Trilateral Summit
by Thomas Burkeby Thomas BurkeLeaders of the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea are strengthening their alliance through an annual trilateral summit amid growing threats from North Korea and China, according to…
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Georgia Court Acknowledges Test Release of Trump Document on Website
by Cody Doyleby Cody DoyleThe Fulton County Georgia court clerk on Tuesday acknowledged the release on its website of a document about former President Donald Trump being criminally charged, as Reuters reported on Monday…
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Google to Train 20,000 Nigerians in Digital Skills
by Thomas Burkeby Thomas BurkeGoogle plans to train 20,000 Nigerian women and youth in digital skills and provide a grant of $1.6 million to help the government create 1 million digital jobs in the…
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Links Between Fracking and Health Cited in New Pennsylvania Study
Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were preparing Tuesday to release findings from taxpayer-financed studies on possible links between the natural gas industry and pediatric cancer, asthma and poor birth outcomes.…
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North Korea Says US Soldier Wants Refuge from Racism in US Army
North Korea concluded that Travis King wants refuge there or in another country because of “inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army,” state media said on Wednesday, Pyongyang’s…
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Tennessee Refinery Could Break Chinese Chokehold on Two Critical Minerals
by Thomas Burkeby Thomas BurkeA solution to potential shortages of two critical minerals used in making semiconductors and advanced military equipment — exports of which were restricted by China this month — may be…