Tag: fight
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Man found guilty of killing 4 relatives, pregnant woman during fight about staying out late when he was a teen
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man was convicted of murder Friday in the shooting deaths of five people, including family members and a pregnant woman who was nearly due to give birth, prosecutors said. A jury deliberated about three hours before finding Raymond Childs III guilty of six counts of murder in the killings, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office…
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Amid global adoption reckoning, adoptees fight long-standing narrative they should be ‘grateful’
Cosette Eisenhauer-Epp, a Chinese transracial adoptee with white parents, said she remembers a salient moment after the March 2022 Atlanta-area spa shootings. “The people he shot look like me, but he’s the same ethnicity as my parents, so where do I go from that?” said Eisenhauer-Epp, a 23-year-old master’s student at the University of Texas…
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Democrats flooded with cash in fight for Congress as the GOP tries to stretch its money
New fundraising reports detail just how much Democrats in competitive congressional races benefited from a wave of cash that flooded campaigns after Vice President Kamala Harris ascended to the top of the party’s ticket, leaving Republicans scrambling to stretch their money in the election’s final weeks. Democratic House and Senate candidates raised eye-popping sums from…
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The fight for white women voters and Hezbollah strikes Israeli base: Morning Rundown
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in a closely divided campaign for white women. Middle-class homeownership is becoming more difficult. And what you may have missed in Week 6 of the NFL. Here’s what to know today. Trump, Harris and the battle for white women Getty Images; AP White women helped Trump win in 2020.…
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Film on haenyeo, Korea’s ‘mermaids,’ shows women who fight to preserve sea and sisterhood
South Korea’s “haenyeo,” or women divers, say that they’ve become inseparable from their deep blue environment. In Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s first executive-produced film, she explores the divers’ world, most of them now in their 60s, 70s and 80s and living on Jeju Island, 80 miles off the Korean Peninsula. The women are…
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Top Democrat urges Biden admin to do more to help local election officials fight a flood of disinformation
A top Democratic senator is asking the Biden administration to do more to help state and local governments detect and respond to online disinformation campaigns designed to manipulate voters in the November election, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urged the federal…
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Appeals court hears arguments in fight between 2 tribes over Alabama casino built on ‘sacred’ land
ATLANTA — An appeals court on Wednesday heard arguments in a long-running dispute between two federally recognized tribes over one’s construction of a casino on Alabama land that the other says is a sacred site. The dispute involves land, known as Hickory Ground, that was home to the Muscogee Nation before removal to Oklahoma on the Trail…