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Ukrainian town defies the Russians as residents come home and vow, ‘We will win’
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Officials say over 450 residents were murdered in cold blood by Russian forces, and many more were injured. Others are terrorized and forced to live in basements to save their skins during the five-week Russian post-...
Los Angeles County health officials ask residents get COVID tests before celebrating Mother’s Day
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"Given that the virus is spreading at a high rate, public health asks all those gathering to celebrate and honor their moms and grandmoms this weekend to keep each other safe by testing before gathering, staying outs...
‘Refusal to evacuate could be a fatal decision.’ Officials urge residents in northern New Mexico to leave ahead of a rapidly growing blaze
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Officials in northern New Mexico urged residents in more than two dozen communities to immediately evacuate Saturday ahead of a massive blaze that exploded in size in a day. The Calf Canyon Fire began last week and ...
Angelina Jolie visits residents at boarding school and medical institution in Ukraine
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Actress and activist Angelina Jolie paid a surprise visit to a boarding school and medical institution in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, according to Maksym Kozytskyy, head of Lviv's regional milita...
Texas residents are suing their county after books were removed from public libraries
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Seven residents in Llano County, Texas, are suing county officials, claiming their First and 14th Amendment rights were violated when books deemed inappropriate by some people in the community and Republican lawmake...
New York Mayor Adams urges residents to send him pictures of subway officers on their phones
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"We are going to start taking very aggressive actions to make sure police are patrolling our subway system and not patrolling their iPhone," Adams said Tuesday at a briefing about his budget proposal for next year. ...
Southern California businesses and residents are asked to reduce outdoor watering as drought leaves ‘half the water that we need’ for summer
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Facing "drought conditions unlike anything we've experienced before," Southern California officials are demanding businesses and residents in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties cut outdoor wat...
Judge pauses Montana’s enforcement of law that makes it harder for transgender residents to modify their birth certificates
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Washington Montana must pause its enforcement of a law requiring transgender residents to provide proof that they underwent a "surgical procedure" to change their sex in order to modify the sex designations on their ...
Arizona wildfire forces residents to evacuate
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The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office issued the order Monday, warning people near the area and Camp Kippa that there was a "significant danger" to their lives. NEW MEXICO WILDFIRES FORCE THOUSANDS MORE TO EVACUATE "...
Fast-moving fire in New Mexico approximately 2 miles in length affecting ‘a few thousand’ residents
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Evacuations are in progress in New Mexico's Valencia County due to a fast-moving fire approximately two miles in length that is affecting a "few thousand people," according to fire officials. In an interview with CN...
Mariupol mayor says 31,000 residents deported at ‘gunpoint’ to Russian ‘filtration camps,’ evacuations stalled
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Mayor Vadym Boychenko said in a Telegram post Friday that he had "verified" that Ukrainians from the southern port city were being taken "at gunpoint" to a camp in Novoazovsk – a Ukrainian border town 35 miles from M...
Seven humanitarian corridors have opened to evacuate Mariupol residents: Deputy PM
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The seven corridors will allow the residents to be transported to Zaporizhia (about 140 miles northwest of Mariupol), Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Telegram. ZELENSKYY TO ADDRESS UN, GERMANY AND FRAN...
Palm Springs moves to pay transgender, non-binary residents: Jason Rantz
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The Palm Springs city council unanimously passed a bill last month to provide $ 200,000 to DAP Health and Queer Works to design the program and apply for state funding. The initiative, which is led by the city's fir...
China drafts in the military as Shanghai ordered to test 25 million residents for Covid
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A version of this story appeared in CNN's Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country's rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here. When it comes...
Residents of majority-Black town face ultimatums and takeover if they don’t pay off their debt
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The tug of war between a majority-Black town in Tennessee and state officials is intensifying as the state comptroller's office has given the town an ultimatum: Fix the town's financial troubles or the county will t...
Anchorage mayor asks residents to evacuate after massive avalanche
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Residents in the Eagle River area of Anchorage, Alaska, are being asked to evacuate after a massive avalanche cut off 100 homes without power on Thursday night, officials said. Mayor Dave Bronson said in an emergen...