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This teacherless school says AI can teach students in 2 hours a day -- Alpha Schools says its AI-based instruction and focus on developing "life skills" set students up for success. Some experts say it's too good to be true. -- Updated 19m ago

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Live - U.S. reducing troop footprint in Middle East, sources say - Updated 35m ago

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Son of Stephen Hubbard, American freed from Russian jail, speaks out -- Updated 40m ago

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John Anderson, country music Hall of Famer, dies at 71 -- Updated 27m ago

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Candidates clash over Trump policies, Senate control in debate -- GOP Sen. Roger Marshall and Pastor Adam Hamilton debated tariffs, war and high fuel prices, and also addressed the most controversial issues in each of their campaigns.

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Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers clash in final Michigan Senate debate -- Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed clashed onstage Wednesday during the second debate in the increasingly bitter Michigan Senate race.

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Man who halted runaway school bus: "It really shook me" -- A quick-thinking bystander came to the rescue of the students and driver aboard a runaway school bus in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Teacher who survived Oregon school shooting recounts playing dead -- Becky Drury, the 54-year-old teacher wounded in the shooting at an Oregon elementary school last week, says she was shot before she had "any chance to act."

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DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow border wall construction in Big Bend region -- The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court injunction that temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall and related infrastructure in the Big Bend Sector.

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Top DOJ official asks judges to step aside from immigration cases -- A top official at the Justice Department is attempting to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from a pair of cases related to immigration.

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New Mexico AG accuses Epstein's lawyer, accountant of concealing crimes -- New Mexico Attorney General Ra l Torrez filed a lawsuit Wednesday against two of Jeffrey Epstein's closest confidants, attorney Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn.

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Childcare costs are growing faster than rent in the U.S. -- A growing share of American families are having to shell out more than $2,000 a month for childcare services, new data shows.

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Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico in data privacy ruling -- A jury found that the social media company had deceived consumers for years about its data privacy policies.

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Video shows moments leading up to police fatally shooting toddler -- The Mississippi attorney general announced the police officer will not be charged in connection with the killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

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Witkoff blasted for calling Putin a "humanitarian"

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Supreme Court rejects bid to restrict treatments for trans inmates

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Judge curbs DHS efforts to conduct sweeps for possible noncitizen voters

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Elon Musk's Starlink and Starshield, and what they mean to Ukraine

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Trump to rally with Iowa rep. as she pledges to push back on White House

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First case of New World screwworm found in U.S. wildlife, USDA says

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