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The Baltimore Sun - US News

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Tarot card reader sues Pennsylvania borough over state fortune telling law

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Senate control and Michigan primary top watch list on countdown to midterms

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Concerns mount over number of noncitizens registered to vote across the US

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Pressure builds inside the Federal Reserve for another rate increase

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Should paper checks go the way of the penny? Americans still write billions of them

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Leadership vacuum: Agencies in New York and beyond pass the buck on opioid cash oversight

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Major oil companies reap massive profits as US and Iran fighting drives energy prices higher

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Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testing

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US cites 'unauthorized travel' to end DACA status for a mother of 3 deported to Mexico

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Attorney for Nolan Wells' family says experts to review a boat distress call from day he disappeared

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Seattle police chief resigns under pressure from mayor over response to festival shooting

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TSA finds stolen Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger's suitcase at an Alabama airport

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New Mexico AG sues for return of teen forced to cross border by foster care staff

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National Guard officer forged records and stole public money to facilitate secret second marriage

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Scouting America drops diversity initiatives from event after pressure from the Pentagon

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Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas

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Missing North Carolina woman's family says 'no foul play' in her disappearance

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Maryland offers $800, admissions help to disenrolled Howard students

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Political group places Sen. McConnell 'missing person' posters around DC

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Global vaccine group to transition away from shots with mercury, receive US funding

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Fetterman's flip on the filibuster harming GOP's attempts to appease Trump

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Trump says he might withdraw AG nominee until two senators are out of office

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10-year-old boy drowns in New Jersey river, sister lives, and another child is missing

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Montana man hikes out of the mountains to get help after he was impaled by a trekking pole

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Average 30-year US mortgage rate rises to highest level in a year at 6.66%

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USDA to fund $25M sterile fly facility in Arizona; Mexican cattle imports to resume

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New Jersey man convicted in terrorism trial over 2022 stabbing of Rushdie

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Melania Trump helps reunite fifth group of children separated by Ukraine-Russia war

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No charges for Arizona parents in case of toddler who was alive after being declared dead

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Does Paul have the votes to hold Fauci in contempt? GOP senator says yes

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Police describe a father's horror as he realizes then-wife Lindsay Clancy killed their 3 kids

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with lawmakers as Trump weighs AI controls

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Republican states ask Supreme Court to restore Trump's election integrity order

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Joint Base Charleston to be renamed in honor of Lindsey Graham, Pentagon says

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US economy grows a sluggish 1.5% second-quarter with inflation remaining stubbornly high

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Dershowitz: Fauci's Fifth Amendment refusals signal legal caution, not guilt

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Michigan mom wrote book dedicated to her six children before family's deaths

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US filings for jobless benefits rise to 197,000 last week, but layoffs remain historically low

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Oldest Congress ever faces fresh scrutiny over the health of its lawmakers

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Microsoft's best day since 2008 leads US stocks, while inflation worries remain in the bond market

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Colin Gray, who gave his son the gun used in Georgia school shooting, is sentenced to 15 years

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'The child is terrified': Doctors on the front lines of a measles comeback speak out

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Between prices and a diarrhea-causing parasite, lettuce is causing hard times at some restaurants

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A death revives concerns about police brutality six years after national reckoning

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Film financier Jason Cloth indicted in alleged $100M Ponzi scheme tied to movie funding

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Police: Bullets that killed 2 bystanders at Seattle festival weren't from teen shooter's gun

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Witness to a fatal ICE shooting in Houston is released from immigration detention

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Investigation revealed 'devastating' reports of sexual misconduct at school supported by Epstein

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Starbucks reports strong quarterly sales across customer income levels and times of day

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Man convicted in terrorism trial over the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie

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Sen. Cornyn's meeting with Blanche canceled; it could delay Senate vote

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ICE deports pair in US illegally, says they are suspects in Mexico murder cases

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GOP top Super PAC launches massive ad campaign in North Carolina for midterms

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Demolition begins at historic high school in Pennsylvania's capital city

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Malls, once symbols of American consumer culture, are splitting. Some are dying as others thrive

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'Pleading the Fifth' invokes a constitutional amendment that has a long history in US society

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Netanyahu says he'll visit New York despite Mamdani calling for his arrest

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Obama endorses Iowa Democrat's tough US Senate bid in a usually red state

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Cyclospora boosts fears that worse foodborne outbreaks are ahead

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Three new 'ICE out' laws take effect in Maine weeks after fatal shooting

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Single $800 million Mega Millions winning ticket was sold in Florida

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US bans foreign-made humanoid robots, targeting China over national security

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Trump calls 'Operation Warp Speed' a 'spectacular success' as Fauci faces Senate

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AI platform xAI sues Minnesota attorney general over state's anti-deepfake law

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Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn $83M E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict

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'She killed the kids!' 911 call from Lindsay Clancy's husband brings tears to the courtroom

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Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Republican-led Senate hearing on COVID-19 origins

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New Jersey rejects DOJ request for records on noncitizen voter registration error

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Democratic Socialists face growing backlash as party debate spills into midterms

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Texas lawmakers raise new concerns over sales tax exemption for data centers

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Conservative activist's AI-defamation case against Google can move forward, judge rules

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Private investment in youth sports draws state, federal scrutiny

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Oil prices jump, while the Dow drops more than 1,100 as sinking AI stocks drag Wall Street lower

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New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash

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Trump invites teen lifeguard to White House following rescue at California beach

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Private mission to rescue NASA's aging telescope runs into its own trouble

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Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU

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Some schools are extending admissions for students unenrolled by Howard University

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Elon Musk launches invite-only X Money with a Visa debit card, 6% yield and real-time transfers

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Judge allows use of police interview in trial for man accused of killing Tupac Shakur

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Seattle police say 15-year-old arrested in connection with festival shooting had a ghost gun

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Melania Trump reportedly targeted for assassination in Iran-linked video

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Trump to honor teen lifeguard after dramatic California ocean rescue goes viral

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