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21 Jun 2023
Shady business deals, drugs and women: Hunter Biden has lived a turbulent life under two shadows: that of his father, President Joe Biden, and his older brother Beau, who died of cancer in 2015.
21 Jun 2023
A man arrested for killing two teenagers in a school shooting in Brazil this week has been found dead in his jail cell, authorities said Wednesday.
21 Jun 2023
Two people were killed and 34 injured when an overnight passenger train careered off the tracks and overturned in eastern Tunisia on Wednesday, the state-owned SNCFT rail company said.
21 Jun 2023
New York's Democratic-majority state legislature announced Tuesday that it had passed a bill to provide legal protection to doctors prescribing and shipping abortion pills to patients in states that ban the procedure.
21 Jun 2023
Four people have died after lithium batteries for e-bikes sparked a fire in a New York building, officials said Tuesday, sounding the alarm over the skyrocketing number of such incidents.
21 Jun 2023
A US federal judge on Tuesday struck down a law prohibiting minors from gender transition treatment in Arkansas, the first time such a restriction has been overturned as similar laws are enacted in Republican-led states.
21 Jun 2023
At least 41 people were killed Tuesday at a women's prison in Honduras, where violent clashes between rival gangs sparked a fire that tore through part of the facility, police said.
21 Jun 2023
Rescuers were in a race against time yesterday to find a missing submersible, two days after it lost communication while taking wealthy tourists to see the wreckage of the Titanic in deep waters off Canada's coast.
20 Jun 2023
A federal judge on Tuesday scheduled the criminal trial of former president Donald Trump for his alleged mishandling of classified documents and obstruction to begin on August 14.
20 Jun 2023
US President Joe Biden's son Hunter has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of failure to pay federal income tax, and admitted to illegally owning a gun, prosecutors said Tuesday.
20 Jun 2023
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday he had warned Chinese leaders about "deep" US concerns regarding reports of sensitive operations by Beijing on Cuba.
20 Jun 2023
Emergency crews and Canada's air force on Tuesday searched for two missing crew members after a large Canadian military transport helicopter crashed in a river near a base west of the capital Ottawa.
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