Virus misinformation spikes as Delta cases surge.

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Arrest warrants go out for Democrats in the Texas Legislature.

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Wisconsin More Than Doubles Wolf-Hunting Quota, Angering Conservationists

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Sydney Faces Tougher COVID-19 Lockdown As Outbreak Grows - The Australian

Police in Sydney will be given greater powers to enforce lockdown orders with additional military support to stem a growing outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant of coronavirus, The Australian newspaper reported on Thursday.

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Vicente Fernandez Remains Hospitalized After Fall At Ranch

Mexican icon Vicente Fernandez is in critical but stable condition after being hospitalized for a fall last week, according to an Instagram post made by his medical team on Wednesday.

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Polish Lower House Passes Media Reform Bill, Which U.S. Denounces

Polish lawmakers advanced a bill on Wednesday that the opposition says aims to silence a U.S.owned news channel critical of the government, leading to a swift denunciation from the United States, one of Warsaw's most important allies.

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Judge: Sentencing Date Won't Change For Md. Newsroom Gunman

The gunman found criminally responsible in the shooting deaths of five people at a Maryland newspaper still will be sentenced late next month despite the attacker's request to speed up the process, a judge ruled Wednesday.

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At the Texas Capitol, a Day for Arrest Warrants, Not Legislation

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More Than 59,000 Pounds of Chicken Products Are Recalled

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Zambian President Lungu, Hichilema Face Off For Third Time In Knife-edge Vote

Zambian President Edgar Lungu faces a third election showdown with opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema on Thursday, in a vote that looks too tight to call and with mounting debt and a flagging economy taking centre stage.

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Judge Orders New Evaluation For Man In 2015 Pier Killing

A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday ordered a new mental health evaluation of a Mexican man acquitted of murder in the 2015 fatal shooting of a woman on a city pier, a killing that became a national flashpoint over immigration.

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Helicopter With Tourists Crashes In Russia; About 10 Missing

Russian news reports say a helicopter carrying tourists crashed Thursday on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russias far east, leaving about 10 people missing.

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'Lost Leonardo' Unpeels The Mysteries Of The Salvator Mundi

We're accustomed to movies usually adventures, like Indiana Jones with lines that traverse the globe and pinball between global capitals, showing us where our characters are traveling. The Lost Leonardo, a documentary about the rediscovery of a Leonardo da Vinci painting, begins with such a line. But its international stops, chronicling the painting's sales, are baffling leaps.

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