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  NBC News

  

  6 hours ago

  Sen. Bob Menendez indicted on bribery charges

  NBC News - Rebecca Shabad

  The New Jersey Democrat and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair had been under investigation for about a year. This is his second indictment since becoming a senator. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife have been charged with bribery over their alleged acceptance of “hundreds of …

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  CNN

  

  15 hours ago

  2 adults are dead and 5 students critically injured after a bus rolled down a ravine. Now federal officials are investigating

  CNN - Christina Maxouris

  Middletown, New York CNN — As a grief-stricken high school mourns the loss of its marching band director and another woman described as the “heart and soul” of the program, federal investigators are trying to learn what caused the band’s bus to tumble down a ravine Thursday with 40 students …

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  Associated Press

  

  2 hours ago

  White House preparing for government shutdown as House Republicans lack a viable endgame for funding

  Associated Press - JOSH BOAK

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is preparing Friday to direct federal agencies to get ready for a shutdown after House Republicans left town for the weekend with no viable plan to keep the government funded and avert politically and economically costly disruption of federal services. A federal …

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  NPR

  

  5 hours ago

  Rishi Sunak defends U.K. climate policy U-turn amid international criticism

  NPR - Fatima Al-Kassab

  LONDON — Amid growing international criticism, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended watering down key U.K. climate policies. In a press conference Wednesday, Sunak announced a series of major U-turns on climate policies, including delaying by five years the target to ban sales of new gas …

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  Yahoo News

  

  8 hours ago

  Russian official says Ukraine launches a missile strike on headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

  Yahoo News - SAMYA KULLAB and DASHA LITVINOVA

  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine carried out a missile strike Friday on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, a Russian official said, and images …

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  Reuters

  

  3 hours ago

  Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter jets land on motorway

  Reuters

  A pair of F-35A Lockheed Martin fighter jets have landed on a motorway for the first time, footage from the Norwegian military showed, a step that enables them to reduce vulnerable time on the ground in times of war.