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Today is Wednesday, Aug. 16, the 228th day of 2017. There are 137 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 42. On this date:
In 1777, American forces won the Battle of Bennington in what was considered a turning point of the Revolutionary War. |
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On July 22, the Philippine Congress extended the martial law , which was first enacted in May, on the southern island of Mindanao for an additional five months. The army continues to battle militants inspired by the Islamic State (also called ISIS) in the regional city of Marawi, and the.... |
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KEN Vass, who has died aged 81, was a journalist and television executive who became head of Scottish Television’s Scotsport programme and the producer of Weir’s Way, the popular series that followed the climber and writer Tom Weir on his travels through Scotland . |
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When sports personality Marty Morrissey received a phone call inviting him to address the throngs of people attending the annual novena at Knock Shrine in Co Mayo , he thought it was a practical joke.
“I was honoured and delighted to be asked, not least as I’m no Holy Joe. |
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Introduction: Due to 2016 drought local food production in Mvolo, Yeri and Bahr El girindi Counties and Dari, Lessi, Gulu and Mbara Payams were very lower compared with the food productions in the previous years. On the other hand the persistent insecurity caused by the on-going conflict in South.... |
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“In this neck of the woods, Luther Strange is getting the living daylights stomped out of him,” Brooks said, as a supporter waved a campaign-provided banner reading DITCH MITCH. “We’re going to beat Luther Strange here two-to-one, or three-to-one, not just because they know me, but because they know.... |
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) - The Latest on the fallen tree on Portuguese island of Madeira (all times local): 8:00 p.m. Portuguese authorities have raised the death toll from a massive tree that fell during a popular religious festival on the island of Madeira to 13 people. |
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A BUJA —Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, has queried the competence of amended five-count treasonable charge the Federal Government lodged against him and four other pro-Biafra agitators-Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Bright Chimezie- before the Federal High Court in Abuja. |
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Kentucky's second-largest city forged ahead Tuesday with plans to remove two Confederate statues as the state's Republican governor warned such actions would set a dangerous precedent of "pretending our history is not our history." The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council gave.... |
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INDIANAPOLIS — Kipp Glenn grew tired of standing for eight-hour shifts, assembling steel furnace doors. His knees ached from 25 years on the concrete factory floor. So even after President Trump made his job at Carrier a symbol of American prosperity and vowed to save it, the Indiana native took a buyout. |
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ABC News (CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) — As of 2016, the U.S. was home to more than 700 Confederate monuments or statues on public property, according to a study by the Southern Poverty Law Center. But Confederate symbols, such as the Confederate flag and statues of leaders of the Confederacy during the.... |
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