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• Brazilian president Lula pledges ‘new Amazon dream’ at rainforest summit

  08-08-2023 23:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sets out ambitious programme to repair damage done by Bolsonaro and tackle environmental crimeThe Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has vowed to haul the Amazon out of centuries of violence, economic “plundering” and environmental devastation and into “a new Amazon dream”, at the start of a major regional summit on the world’s largest rainforest.Addressing South American leaders gathered in the Brazilian city of
  
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• Which criminal case may be hardest for Trump to win?

  08-08-2023 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three indictments, 78 charges, three trials. We assess his expected defence and which case should worry him most.
  
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• Car crashes into second floor of Pennsylvania home

  08-08-2023 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police say their investigation suggests the crash was "an intentional act".
  
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• US man dies of heat spreading dad's ashes, sister says

  08-08-2023 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  James Bernard Hendricks died of heatstroke, his sister says, on a journey he was documenting online.
  
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• Nuh violence: Is bulldozer punishment trampling justice in India?

  08-08-2023 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some Indian states use bulldozers to demolish homes of people accused of crimes - experts say it is illegal.
  
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• WATCH: Thieves knock over ATM with forklift in California

  08-08-2023 22:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Authorities in Sacramento are looking for the suspects who used a forklift to steal an ATM.
  
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• Leaders of Amazon nations gather in Brazil for summit on rainforest’s future

  08-08-2023 22:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Conclave represents handbrake turn in Brazilian government policy since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took powerThe leaders of Amazon nations including Brazil, Colombia and Peru have gathered in the Brazilian city of Belém for a rare conclave about the future of the world’s largest rainforest amid growing concern over the global climate emergency.The environmental summit – convened by Brazil’s leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – represents a ha
  
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• Freak August hailstorm causes chaos as snowplows take to streets in summer

  08-08-2023 20:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Germany experienced a freak hailstorm over the weekend, and up to a foot of hailstones piled up in the streets.  Officials in the city of Reutlingen deployed snowplows and about 250 firefighters Friday to help clear the roads.  The Echaz River, which runs through the city, rose by five feet in five minutes and briefly burst its banks due to the ice, the Independent reported.  The ice blocked storm drains, causing water to flood underground garages and basements. The fire brigades
  
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• Argentina declared free from avian flu as 18 commercial farm outbreaks subside

  08-08-2023 20:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Argentina is free of cases of avian flu after the last of 18 outbreaks at commercial farms came to an end, the country's agricultural secretary said on Tuesday. Argentina's first case of avian flu in commercial poultry was detected in February, pausing poultry exports for a month. Shipments restarted in March after the Argentine government reached agreements with importing countries. GLOBAL RISE IN BIRD FLU OUTBREAKS RAISES CONCERN OVER VIRUS' ABILITY TO ADAPT State health agency SENASA ruled Ar
  
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• Over 1,000 firefighters confront wildfires in Portugal amid sweltering heatwave

  08-08-2023 20:10 via foxnews.com
  
  More than 1,000 firefighters are battling a series of wildfires in Portugal as it and neighboring Spain experience several days of extreme summer heat, with temperatures in many areas rising above 104 F. Three major fires raged in Portugal on Tuesday, with the biggest in the southwest near the town of Odemira, where on Monday about 1,400 people were evacuated from villages and a camp site as a precaution. They were gradually returning home on Tuesday. The National Civil Protection Service said a
  
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• Hundreds trapped overnight on Canada mountain after lightning disables gondola

  08-08-2023 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  About 300 people were stranded after power failure disabled the 40-car ride that scales Sulphur mountain in Banff national parkHundreds of people have been trapped overnight atop a mountain in Canada’s Banff national park after a a lightning strike shut down a popular gondola ride.As many as 300 people were stranded after the power failure on Monday evening disabled the 40-car ride that scales Sulphur mountain. Continue reading...
  
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• Files reveal Nixon role in plot to block Allende from Chilean presidency

  08-08-2023 19:49 via theguardian.com
  
  President hosted rightwing mogul Agustín Edwards in September 1970 and discussed plans to foil socialist election-winnerDays before Salvador Allende’s confirmation as Chile’s president in 1970, US President Richard Nixon met with a rightwing Chilean media mogul to discuss blocking the socialist leader’s path to the presidency, newly declassified documents have revealed.The documents, published in a new Spanish edition of the Pinochet files by archivist and writer Peter K
  
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• Indigenous leader inspires law to treat Amazone river as a living entity subject to rights

  08-08-2023 19:45 via foxnews.com
  
  On the banks of the Komi Memem River, the activity never ceases: women go down the embankment from Laje Velho village carrying basins to wash clothing, while men embark in small canoes on hunting and fishing expeditions. At day’s end, it’s the children’s turn to dive into its tea-colored waters. The river, named Laje in non-Indigenous maps, is vital to the Oro Waram, one of the six subgroups of the Wari’ people, who have inhabited the Western Amazon for centuries. However
  
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• WATCH: Toddler jams to Bob Marley after being fitted with hearing aids

  08-08-2023 19:29 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Sixteen-month-old Sully couldn't help but dance to "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley and the Wailers.
  
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• Ukraine strips hammer and sickle from gigantic 'Motherland' monument, replace with state trident

  08-08-2023 19:21 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukraine has removed the Soviet hammer and sickle from one of its most iconic monuments. Construction teams spent days scaling, dismantling and replacing a portion of the 330-foot Motherland Monument in Kyiv. UKRAINE ARRESTS WOMAN IN ALLEGED FOILED RUSSIAN ASSASSINATION PLOT ZELENSKYY The statue, built by the Soviet Union and completed in 1981, depicts a robed woman holding high a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. The shield's prominent hammer and sickle were replaced with the Ukrainia
  
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• US cluster munitions playing key role in Ukraine offensive

  08-08-2023 19:20 via foxnews.com
  
  The cluster munitions the U.S. provided to Ukraine amid international scrutiny are playing a key role in the counteroffensive against the Russian invasion. Ukrainian forces have used the cluster munitions – which break up into swarms of smaller bombs before hitting their target – to break through Russian defenses such as trenches and groups of vehicles, according to the Wall Street Journal.  The Ukrainian counteroffensive got off to a slow start as troops encountered entrenched
  
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• Rwanda genocide survivors condemn UN court's decision to halt trial of alleged financier

  08-08-2023 19:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Survivors of Rwanda's 1994 genocide criticized Tuesday a call by appeals judges at a United Nations court to indefinitely halt the trial of an alleged financer and supporter of the massacre due to the suspect's ill health. The ruling Monday sends the matter back to the court's trial chamber with instructions to impose a stay on proceedings. That likely means that Félicien Kabuga, who is nearly 90, will never be prosecuted. His trial, which started last year at the International Residual M
  
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• Brazil, other Amazon rainforest countries to meet for the first time in 14 years over environmental threats

  08-08-2023 19:02 via foxnews.com
  
  For the first time in 14 years, presidents of the South American nations home to the Amazon rainforest are converging to chart a common course for protection of the bioregion and address organized crime. The summit Tuesday and Wednesday in the Brazilian city of Belem is a meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, a toothless, 45-year-old alliance that has met only three times before. The Amazon stretches across an area twice the size of India, and two-thirds of it lies in Brazil. Se
  
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• Brazilian official blasts European Union rules banning products from areas of deforestation

  08-08-2023 18:40 via foxnews.com
  
  Brazil believes European Union rules banning products coming from areas of deforestation are "an affront" of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said on Monday. The EU rules took force in June and will ban products beginning December 2024, giving Brazil and other exporters time to adapt. Brazil, a major commodities supplier, exported almost $12 billion worth of soymeal, soybeans, corn and beef products to the EU in 2022, according to trade data. Favaro said r
  
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• Escalating conflict in Sudan has pushed over 4 million people from their homes, according to UN official

  08-08-2023 18:33 via foxnews.com
  
  Sudan’s escalating conflict has driven more than 4 million people from their homes, including over 884,000 who have fled to neighboring countries, a U.N. official said Tuesday. The fighting has also triggered outbreaks of disease and an increase in malnutrition, according to William Spindler, a spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency. From mid-May to mid-July, the UNHCR recorded over 300 deaths from measles and malnutrition, mainly among children under 5, Spindler said, speaking to report
  
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• Japanese politician Taro Aso calls for peace in Taiwan Strait as the country strengthens its deterrence

  08-08-2023 18:32 via foxnews.com
  
  A senior Japanese politician advocated Tuesday for increasing his country's deterrence ability to ensure peace in the region, and called for that message to be clearly conveyed globally — particularly in China. "The most important thing for us now is that there should be no war in the region, including the Taiwan Strait," the vice president of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Taro Aso, said Tuesday in Taipei at the Ketagalan Forum hosted by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign
  
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• WATCH: Vet shows how he dislodges wood chip stuck in golden retriever's mouth

  08-08-2023 18:28 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Dr. Thomas Hamilton recently posted a TikTok video showing him dislodging a wood chip from a sedated golden retriever's mouth. He also shared some tips on how to prevent this.
  
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• Estranged son of Thailand's king returns to country unexpectedly

  08-08-2023 18:27 via foxnews.com
  
  The estranged son of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn visited a daycare center for underprivileged children in Bangkok on Tuesday following a surprise return to the country after 27 years of living abroad. Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse’s return was first revealed in a video posted online Sunday showing him in the arrival area of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport being greeted by well-wishers. His return came at a sensitive time for the Thai royal family, with the e
  
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• 1 dead, 2 arrested in Jordan during thwarted attempt to infiltrate the country

  08-08-2023 18:07 via foxnews.com
  
  The Jordanian military said Tuesday one man died and two others were arrested during an attempt to infiltrate the country. The military said it had applied its "rules of engagement" during Monday's infiltration attempt and arrested the three suspects. It said a Georgian man was found unconscious and transferred to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, while the other two —from Turkey and Azerbaijan — were detained. IRANIAN HORNET’S NEST OF TERROR GROUPS SURROUND ISRAEL AMID
  
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• Greece launches rescue operation for overcrowded migrant boat anchored off remote uninhabited island

  08-08-2023 18:05 via foxnews.com
  
  Greece’s coast guard was mounting a rescue operation Tuesday for dozens of people crammed onto a sailing boat anchored off the coast of an uninhabited island far from the country's mainland, authorities said. A private vessel had spotted the sailing boat off the small island of Falconera, officials said. The island is located between Milos and the Peloponnese in an area known for strong currents and rough seas. About 50 people were believed to be on board. A coast guard helicopter was alre
  
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• Refugees from Eritrea report of torture, sexual violence, forced labor during compulsory national service

  08-08-2023 18:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers report that during compulsory national service they experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and abusive conditions, a U.N. independent investigator on human rights said in a report circulated Monday. Mohamed Babiker said Eritrea has a policy of indefinite national service, including a civil service component and a military service component. He said it has ignored numerous calls from human rights bo
  
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• Ukrainian officials accuse Russian forces of targeting rescue workers with missile strikes

  08-08-2023 17:27 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian officials on Tuesday accused the Kremlin’s forces of targeting rescue workers as the death toll from two Russian missile strikes that slammed into residential buildings in the downtown area of a Ukrainian city climbed to seven. The dead in the Monday evening strikes in the city of Pokrovsk were five civilians, one rescuer and one soldier, Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said. Dozens more were wounded, most of them police officers, emergency workers and soldiers who had rushed to the
  
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• Putin's deputy accuses NATO of 'openly fighting' Russia, vows all enemies will be 'vanquished'

  08-08-2023 17:24 via foxnews.com
  
  A senior Russian official said Tuesday that Russia is "strong enough" to defeat NATO countries who are assisting Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing military invasion. The official also reaffirmed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s commitment to conquerer Eastern Ukrainian territories. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation directly under Putin, accused NATO of "openly fighting" against Russia and vowed enemies of Russia would be "vanquished"
  
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• Mafia boss in hiding busted after he's spotted celebrating soccer team win

  08-08-2023 17:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Italian mob boss Vincenzo La Porta was arrested in Greece over the weekend after police spotted him in a photo celebrating Napoli's win in the Serie A professional soccer championship several weeks ago.  La Porta has been on the run for 11 years and linked to a dangerous organized crime group known as the Camorra.  As reported by Sky News, La Porta was snapped in Corfu Island in Greece celebrating on a balcony after his hometown team won a soccer championship. After investigators spott
  
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• Motorcyclist captured driving through powerful storm

  08-08-2023 16:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The biker's camera filmed a severe storms raging across the eastern US which killed two people.
  
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• Sinéad O'Connor's funeral, in pictures

  08-08-2023 16:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fans of the late singer and activist filled the Irish town of Bray's streets, before a private burial.
  
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• UN, West African nations pressure Niger to reinstall recently ousted President Mohamed Bazoum

  08-08-2023 16:16 via foxnews.com
  
  Nigeriens awoke Tuesday to deepening uncertainty about whether a regional bloc will follow through on its threat to use military force to try to reinstall ousted President Mohamed Bazoum or if last-minute diplomacy will prevail, nearly two weeks after mutinous soldiers overthrew the country's democratically elected leader. The West African regional bloc ECOWAS had given the mutinous soldiers until Sunday to release and reinstall Bazoum or they threatened to use force. Members from ECOWAS, the Un
  
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• Imran Khan barred from politics for five years by Pakistan election commission

  08-08-2023 16:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Former prime minister appealing against conviction and three-year jail term for corruption in high courtImran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has been barred from politics for five years by the country’s election commission after his conviction on corruption charges, local media reported.Several local TV news channels said the election commission of Pakistan issued the notification on Tuesday in line with the guilty ruling. Continue reading...
  
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• Germany has received at least 178 compensation applications from gay servicepeople claiming discrimination

  08-08-2023 16:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The German defense ministry said Tuesday that it has received 178 applications for compensation from gay servicepeople who experienced discrimination in the military in the past. The ministry said in a statement that it had expected more applications, but that nonetheless "the goals of the law were achieved." A law rehabilitating gay soldiers who suffered discrimination came into force two years ago, and so far, about $438,000 has been paid in symbolic compensation, the ministry said. The law wa
  
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• Australian pedophile ring busted in wake of killings of 2 FBI agents

  08-08-2023 15:57 via foxnews.com
  
  More than a dozen men have been charged with sex crimes in Australia in the wake of a U.S. FBI investigation that proved fatal for two agents. Officials announced Tuesday that 19 men had been arrested and charged with a combined 138 offenses in connection to an international pedophile ring. "We will allege that these men were members of a technologically sophisticated online child abuse network that was operating across the country," Australian Federal Police Commander Helen Schneider told news
  
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• Pope issues warning on artificial intelligence, fears ‘logic of violence’

  08-08-2023 15:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis issued a warning on artificial intelligence Tuesday, urging those behind the technology to "be vigilant" during their work. The Pope made the statement in his message marking New Year's Day, which the Vatican traditionally releases far in advance. Francis, 86, has joked in the past that he is far from technologically savvy, but said Tuesday that AI must be used in a "responsible way." "Pope Francis calls for an open dialogue on the meaning of these new technologies, endowed with dis
  
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• UN World Food Program slowly resumes food aid to Ethiopia after suspending program

  08-08-2023 15:36 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Nations World Food Program is slowly resuming food aid to Ethiopia nearly five months after taking the extraordinary measure of suspending aid to millions of people after the discovery of a massive scheme to steal donated grain. WFP said it's testing small-scale distribution in some areas but acknowledges that the government still plays a role in the process. Critics of the aid suspension, including aid groups and health workers, have called it immoral and alleged that hundreds of peo
  
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• Israel demolishes West Bank home of Palestinian man who allegedly shot and killed 2 Israeli brothers

  08-08-2023 15:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli security forces on Tuesday demolished the West Bank home of a Palestinian man accused of carrying out a deadly shooting attack earlier this year, the military said, the latest incursion to fuel tensions in the occupied territory. Israel's decades-old tactic of leveling the family homes of alleged Palestinian assailants has drawn intense criticism from human rights groups, which call it collective punishment — prohibited under international law. Opponents of the policy also raise qu
  
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• Uganda’s president under attack over closure of UN human rights office

  08-08-2023 14:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Forced closure described as ‘a huge blow’ to human rights as country fosters hostile environment for activists, journalists and LGBTQ+ peopleUganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has come under attack from campaigners and activists for forcing the closure of the UN human rights office in the country.The head office in the capital, Kampala, closed at the weekend. Two field offices, in Gulu and Moroto, had already ceased operating over the summer, after the government’s deci
  
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• Ukraine says Russia has lost 250K troops since Putin first invaded, Zelenskyy shares triumphant message

  08-08-2023 14:33 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia has lost over 250,000 troops since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Russia has publicly disputed the large figure. After the milestone was announced, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country would ultimately be victorious in its war with Russia, as the larger country’s military continues to struggle against the smaller Ukraine. 
  
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• Italian man crushed to death by falling wheels of parmesan-style cheese

  08-08-2023 12:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Giacomo Chiapparini, the owner of a Grana Padano factory in Italy, has died after being crushed when thousands of his cheese wheels fell on him.
  
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• Mourners gather in Ireland to pay respects to Sinead O’Connor ahead of funeral

  08-08-2023 12:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fans are gathering in singer Sinead O’Connor’s former hometown in Ireland to say goodbye ahead of her funeral.
  
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• Beyoncé paid D.C. Metro $100,000 to keep trains running after weather delayed concert

  08-08-2023 12:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  Beyoncé ensured her fans were able to get home safe after attendees of her Aug. 6 show in Washington, D.C.’s FedEx Field were forced to shelter in place due to heavy rain and lightning.
  
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• Pennsylvania driver hospitalized after bizarrely crashing car into second floor of home

  08-08-2023 12:03 via foxnews.com
  
  A driver was injured Sunday afternoon after crashing a car into the second floor of a home in Pennsylvania, officials said Monday. The Junction Fire Company, who responded to the bizarre scene "within minutes," said the crash happened in the 800 block of Alfarta Road in Decatur Township at 3:15 p.m.  Firefighters arrived to find the driver's side of the vehicle logged into a second-floor room, FOX 43 reported. Photos showed the passenger’s side of the vehicle came to rest on the roof
  
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• Witness to Sikh employees 'a-- whooping' thief at 7-Eleven during calls it 'courageous' as police launch probe

  08-08-2023 12:00 via foxnews.com
  
  A witness, who recorded a video of two 7-Eleven employees in Stockton, California, attempting to thwart a would-be robber from mugging their store called the employees "courageous," adding that they did the "right thing." Police are currently investigating the Sikh employees for "suspected assault," although no arrests have been made, Stockton police told Fox News. The suspect had gone into the same 7-Eleven during the same 24-hour time period and stole items, according to police.  Louis Be
  
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• Root beer float recipes: Boozy additions to typical vanilla ice cream, root beer recipe

  08-08-2023 12:00 via foxnews.com
  
  A classic root beer float is made using the soda plus a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream and whipped cream to top it off.  Frank J. Wisner, the owner of Cripple Creek Brewing in Colorado, is credited with creating the first version of a root beer float in 1893. There are numerous root beer brands, so you may have to go through some trial and error in order to find your favorite. PEOPLE WHO LIKE CERTAIN ICE CREAM FLAVORS FIND LOVE YOUNGER: REPORT A few of the most popular root beer bran
  
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• Kevin Costner, Ariana Grande, Sofia Vergara face divorce: Experts reveal why celeb splits dominate summer

  08-08-2023 12:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Kevin Costner's divorce with ex Christine Baumgartner is only one of the many splits to send shock waves from Hollywood this summer. From Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello to Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth, and "The Bear" star Jeremy Allen White and Addison Timlin, celebrity divorce lawyers shared insight as to what could potentially be fueling the fires behind this season's relationship splits. Brett Ward, partner and co-chair of the Matrimonial and Family Law Practice Group at Blank Rome, said
  
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• I'm a former prosecutor. The 'War on Drugs' incentivizes convictions, not justice

  08-08-2023 12:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Political campaigns are heating up, and politicians are jostling for clickbait by taking jabs and attacking the First Step Act. Not only do these attacks grievously mischaracterize a law that has been a boon to public safety – but they also mischaracterize some of the people involved in its passage, including a woman named Alice Marie Johnson.Her name might be familiar. Alice was sentenced to life in prison in 1997 as a first-time, nonviolent offender. She became the nationa
  
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• Houston Texans minority owner Javier Loya charged with rape in Kentucky

  08-08-2023 11:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  Javier Loya, a minority owner of the Houston Texans, is facing a rape charge in Kentucky, according to court records.
  
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• Kansas police officer dies from injuries day after being shot while responding to car theft

  08-08-2023 11:24 via foxnews.com
  
  A Kansas police officer who was shot over the weekend while responding to a suspected car theft has died from his injuries. The Fairway Police Department announced Monday that Officer Jonah Oswald, 29, died after he was critically wounded in a shooting Sunday morning. Oswald, who leaves behind a wife and two young children, was a four-year veteran of the police department. "I am heartbroken at the tragic loss of Officer Jonah Oswald, who made the ultimate sacrifice while carrying out his oath to
  
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