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UCLA earns No. 1 seed for NCAA baseball tournament ahead of offensive juggernaut Georgia Tech

UCLA was rewarded Monday for its dominant wire-to-wire run through the regular season with the No. 1 seed for the NCAA ...
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Israeli opposition leader Lapid says Trump’s emerging deal with Iran is `bad for the region’

The deal being discussed between the U.S. and Iran fails to achieve any of Israel’s goals for the war, Israel’s opposition ...
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Leaders keep a wary eye on Belarus after Russia’s biggest missile attack of the year on Ukraine

Belarus’ exiled opposition leader visited Kyiv on Monday as the Ukrainian capital cleaned up after Russia’s biggest missile attack of the year, and world leaders kept a ...
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Ugandan health officials report new Ebola virus infections, bringing cases to 7

Ugandan health authorities on Monday reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven. All the cases are linked to the outbreak in neighboring Congo, ...
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Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See’s own role in legitimizing slavery

Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the ...
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Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto ...
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3 dead, 17 mostly workers still missing in collapse of unfinished hotel in Philippines

Rescuers pulled out two workers early Monday from an immense pile of rubble that was a nine-story hotel which collapsed while under construction in a northern ...
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Parts of Europe swelter in record May heat as deaths at amateur sports events spur warnings

PARIS (AP) — Europe is baking under unseasonal heat that is shattering temperature records, including in the United Kingdom on Monday, and prompting government warnings after deaths were reported at ...
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Australian spy boss says he shifted resources from counterterrorism before Hanukkah attack

An Australian spy agency boss told an inquiry on Monday he had pivoted resources away from counterterrorism to espionage and foreign interference investigations a few ...
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Southern California officials trying to prevent explosion or leak from damaged chemical tank

A damaged chemical tank in Southern California cracked over the weekend but the interior temperature rose as authorities worked to reduce the risks of a powerful explosion that has led to the ...
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Jim Henson’s Creature Shop opens for tours. Here’s what’s inside the once-hidden puppet studio

Deep in a cavernous New York City warehouse, the artisans behind some of the world’s most beloved children’s characters have been fashioning costumes and puppets for years in ...
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Toshifumi Suzuki, the Japanese behind the ‘conbini’ empire, has died. He was 93.

Toshifumi Suzuki, the Japanese businessman credited with creating the 7-Eleven convenience-chain global retail empire, has died. He was 93. Suzuki, an honorary adviser at Seven & ...