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Where have all the Atlantic hurricanes gone? El Nino brings record slow season 0
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- September 12, 2026
The Atlantic is quiet — record quiet — this hurricane season thanks to an enormous El Nino that crushes storms before they get going. No Atlantic hurricanes have formed yet this year and none are likely to form for at least another week, even though this would normally be the peak of the season, according
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Trump asks Smithsonian to install George Washington statues and exhibit 0
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- September 12, 2026
In late Friday night social media posts, President Donald Trump called on the Smithsonian to install a colossal statue of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History and a special exhibit honoring the nation’s first president. Trump asked for an exhibit beginning now and continuing through Feb. 22, 2032, the 300th anniversary of
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For the US news industry, a tough summer draws to a close with McClatchy chain’s cuts 0
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- September 12, 2026
NEW YORK — Closing out a turbulent summer for the news industry, the McClatchy newspaper chain has made deep cuts at The Miami Herald and other papers it owns across the nation. The union that represents McClatchy journalists said Friday that more than 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications had been laid
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Judge rejects bid to release Arizona sheriff’s office from supervision in racial profiling case 0
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- September 12, 2026
PHOENIX — A judge who ruled 13 years ago that Hispanics were racially profiled in then-Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns has rejected a bid to end the court’s supervision of the sheriff’s office. Maricopa County failed to show that the objectives of the court’s orders — such as correcting the practices that led to
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Mississippi police arrest a man in the death of Tasia Fortune 0
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- September 11, 2026
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi police have arrested a man in the death Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said at a news conference that police had secured search and arrest warrants for the man and arrested him when they encountered him walking on the
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Trial remains elusive for purported mastermind accused of plotting 9/11 attacks 0
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- September 11, 2026
NEW YORK — Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived. A judge recently set a 2028 date for Mohammed to finally be
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