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Frank Lucas: Man who inspired American Gangster dies aged 88
Frank Lucas, played on-screen by Denzel Washington, was known for peddling heroin in Harlem.
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12 Victims Killed in Virginia Beach Shooting, Suspect Also Dead
A longtime city employee opened fire at a municipal building in Virginia Beach on Friday, killing 12 people and sending terrified co-workers scrambling for cover before police shot and killed him, authorities said.
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12 Victims Killed in Virginia Beach Shooting, Suspect Also Dead
A longtime city employee opened fire at a municipal building in Virginia Beach on Friday, killing 12 people and sending terrified co-workers scrambling for cover before police shot and killed him, authorities said.
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12 Victims Killed in Virginia Beach Shooting, Suspect Also Dead
A longtime city employee opened fire at a municipal building in Virginia Beach on Friday, killing 12 people and sending terrified co-workers scrambling for cover before police shot and killed him, authorities said.
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Canadian national inquiry: Giving a voice to missing and murdered women
Beverley Jacobs and Terri Brown fought tirelessly on behalf of missing and murdered indigenous women.
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Deaths of indigenous women was 'a Canadian genocide', leaked report says
Leaked national report describes possibly thousands of deaths of indigenous women as genocide.
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UK's Chagos Islands descendants feel like 'lost nation'
Evicted from their homeland, Chagos Islands families living in the UK are divided by immigration law.
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Venezuela crisis: What happened to uprising against Maduro?
A beleaguered people say they had hopes their misery would end but now they go back to one thing - survival.
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Sayyida Salme: The tragic life of Zanzibar's rebel princess
Sayyida Salme is a little known 19th Century princess who fled Zanzibar after scandalising the royals.
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MacKenzie Bezos: Novelist and Amazon shareholder
What do we know about the novelist who is the third-richest woman in the world?
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Tiananmen 30 years on - China's great act of 'forgettance'
Older people are not allowed to remember; the younger generation aren't even allowed to know.
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'Pray For Us All!' Storm Damage Makes Midwest Look 'Like Someone Dropped a Bomb in Our City'
More tornadoes struck the Midwest Wednesday, at least two twisters touching down in northern Texas, damaging homes and injuring at least one person. CBN's Operation Blessing is on the ground in the Dayton, Ohio area where 13 tornadoes were recorded.
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Southern Baptist Membership Hits New Low as Church Tackles Abuse, Racism, and Role of Women
For the first time in 30 years, membership with Southern Baptist Churches is at a record low. New numbers from Southern Baptist Churches show that membership fell from approximately 15 million to 14.8 million in 2018. This is the first time in 30 years that it's been below 15 million.
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Miracle Preemie Is Smallest Survivor Ever, Fueling Pro-Life Argument that 'Science Is Pro-Life'
When she was born, the baby girl weighed as much as an apple – just 8.6 ounces. She was only expected to live for about one hour, but miraculously, she survived.
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As Democrats Race Towards Socialism Experts Caution: 'This has Been Tried and Failed in Every Way'
Not too long ago advocating socialist policies mean certain political suicide, but today American's liberal leaders are increasingly embracing socialist policies and they have support.
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France's MeToo creator on trial for defaming man she accused
A French court hears a man whose career has been "ruined" after being accused of harassment.
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'Buried Terror Infrastructure': IDF Destroys Last, Largest Hezbollah Terror Tunnel Intended to Kill Israelis
The Israel Defense Forces began destroying the final and largest Hezbollah terror tunnel discovered earlier this year during Operation Northern Shield.
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Florida Gov. DeSantis Says Anti-Semitism Drives BDS: 'You Cannot Separate the Two'
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the anti-Israel Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment campaign (BDS) is "driving anti-Semitism" and the two cannot be separated.
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'Emotional support dog attack' on plane sparks US lawsuit
The American says he needed 28 stitches after the incident on a Delta Airlines flight.
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'World's smallest' surviving premature baby released from US hospital
Baby Saybie was given just hours to live when she was born weighing just 245g (8.6oz) in San Diego.
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NZ Treasury admits 'hack' was website blunder
New Zealand's Treasury admits it wasn't hacked, and budget details leaked out via its own website.
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White House 'asked Navy to hide warship USS John S. McCain'
President Donald Trump denies making the request, saying he was "not informed about anything".
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Disney could pull productions from Georgia over abortion law
Disney's CEO says it would be "difficult " to over-rule people who didn't want to work in the state.
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South Africa gets gender-balanced cabinet
For the first time in the country's history, half of all ministers in South Africa's cabinet are women.
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Nesamani: Who is he and why is the world praying for him?
Who is Nesamani and why is seemingly everyone in the world praying for him on Twitter?
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Louisiana Lawmakers Send New Abortion Ban to Governor's Desk
Louisiana lawmakers on Wednesday passed a strict new abortion ban that would prohibit the procedure before some women even know they are pregnant, joining a half-dozen conservative states with similar measures.
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Stephen Lentz Shares Why Churches Fail: Pastors Are Often Ill-Equipped to Handle the 'Business' of Running a Church
Author, pastor, and lawyer Stephen Lentz explains why many churches fail. He says it's because most pastors are ill-equipped to handle the "business" of running a church. Lentz tells them how to turn things around in a new book, The Business of Church.
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Vandals Ravage Christian School in Florida, Leaving $50,000 in Damages
Vandals ravaged a Christian school in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. over the Memorial Day weekend, leaving behind more than $50,000 in damages.
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'I Thought We Were Going to Die': American Missionaries Ambushed in Haiti Saved By Mysterious Man on a Motorcycle
American missionaries traveling in Haiti tell the story of being ambushed by an armed gang while traveling in Haiti and their narrow escape.
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Satanic Temple Rejects Supreme Court Ruling on Aborted Baby Bodies, Claims Religious Freedom
The Satanic Temple (TST) has issued a defiant response to Tuesday's US Supreme Court ruling that upheld the Indiana law (HEA 1337) requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains. The Satanists say their members are immune from the law due to freedom of religion and will argue a federal law passed in 1993 will uphold their claim.
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The 'Perversion Files': Boy Scouts of America Facing Further Accusations of Abuse
The Boy Scouts of America are facing more lawsuits out of New York as victims of sexual abuse continue to speak out. The organization has already faced numerous lawsuits for sexual abuse. Hundreds more are expected after several states passed laws adjusting restrictive statute-of-limitations laws.
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Tornado 'Miraculously' Shifted Instead of Hitting Children's Hospital
A tornado touched down in Lawrence, Kansas, devastating several neighborhoods and sending about a dozen people to the hospital. The twister was said to be a mile wide and stayed on the ground for about two hours.
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Case Closed: Special Counsel Mueller Says Russia Investigation Is Over, Nothing More to Say
Special counsel Robert Mueller made his first public statement on the Russia investigation, announcing Wednesday that he has concluded the investigation. He is now closing the special counsel's office and returning to private life.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Clashes with Clarence Thomas: A Woman Seeking Abortion 'Is Not a Mother'
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went head-to-head against fellow Justice Clarence Thomas over the issue of abortion in an opinion released Tuesday.
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Are Babies Humans? As Illinois 'Denies Human Dignity', Supreme Court Says Babies Aren't 'Medical Waste'
Lawmakers in Illinois have advanced what could be the nation's most liberal abortion law. Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court is upholding an Indiana law that requires abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in the same way as human remains.
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D-Day’s 75th Anniversary Renews Interest in Some Classrooms
Kasey Turcol has just 75 minutes to explain to her high school students the importance of D-Day — and if this wasn’t the 75th anniversary of the turning point in World War II, she wouldn’t devote that much time to it. D-Day is not part of the required curriculum in North Carolina — or in many other states.
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