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Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) speaks during a press conference on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with members of the House Freedom Caucus on July 14, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America **hide caption
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News anchors work at Newsmax's booth during the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The network has settled with voting-tech company Smartmatic, which accused it of defamation following the 2020 presidential election. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images/AFP **hide caption
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Mayor Jay Willis stands next to a historical marker for a UFO sighting in Pascagoula, Miss. Laura Sullivan/NPR **hide caption
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, seen here in June 2024, has sought to return the Justice Department to normal order. Samuel Corum/Getty Images **hide caption
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Immigrants from Haiti, who crossed through a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border barrier, wait in line to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 20, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona. Mario Tama/Getty Images/Getty Images North America **hide caption
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CHARTER FLIGHTS NICARAGUA
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., speaks during the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. Erin Hooley/AP **hide caption
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HARRIS AND THE NEVADA SENATOR
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As news spread that Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on federal charges, federal agents arrived to search New York City's Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor, on Thursday. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images/AFP **hide caption
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Dear Life Kit: I'm at my breaking point
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Many Chicago White Sox fans admitted they hoped the team would break the record — most losses in a season in modern baseball history — by losing their 121st game at home. Instead, Chicago swept the Angels and now, with a record of 39-120, heads to Detroit for its final series of the year. Michael Reaves/Getty Images/Getty Images North America **hide caption
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People displaced by floods rest at a relief shelter in Mohipal, Feni, a coastal district in southeast Bangladesh on August 23. Fatima Tuj Johora/AP **hide caption
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Bangladesh flood aftermath
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Lebanese who were forced to flee their homes due to Israeli airstrikes have been housed in school buildings in Lebanon's capital of Beirut on Tuesday. Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images **hide caption
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Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, attends a meeting of the Arab and Islamic ministerial committee to end the war on Gaza prior to their meeting with King Abdullah ll, at the royal palace on September 18, 2024 in Amman, Jordan. Jordan Pix/Getty Images **hide caption
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Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah puts Jordan in an uncomfortable spot
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Shigeru Ishiba speaks before a runoff election at the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election on Friday, at the party headquarters in Tokyo. Hiro Komae/Pool AP **hide caption
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Two detectives cracked the mysterious case of lead poisoning in New York and Bangladesh
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California is enacting a new ban of single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a conveyor belt as she sorts through materials at a recycling center in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images **hide caption
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