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Qatar says gas export terminal blast killed 13 people

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | Qatar’s energy minister said Monday that an explosion killed at least 13 people at a key gas export terminal. Saad Sherida al-Kaabi gave the toll during a news conference in Doha, Qatar’s capital and described the explosion as related to an industrial accident. The blast at the Ras Laffan industrial […]

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Vance says talks with Iranian officials set ‘good foundation’ for a deal to end the war

OBBUERGEN, Switzerland | Vice President JD Vance on Monday said his lengthy talks with senior Iranian officials in Switzerland created a “good foundation for a successful final deal” as they seek a permanent end to the war that the U.S. and Israel began in late February. “The final deal is the house,” Vance told reporters […]

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Clive Davis, music industry starmaker, has died at 94

NEW YORK | Clive Davis, the record company lawyer who became one of the music industry’s most powerful figures, launching or resurrecting the careers of such superstars as Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana and Alicia Keys, has died, his family confirmed. He was 94. Earlier this year, Davis was hospitalized following an upper respiratory […]

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LETTER: Reject corporate money and embrace local accountability by voting for Phil Weiser

EDITOR: I am writing to urge readers to make their vote count and support Phil Weiser in the primary on June 30. We need a governor with real experience at the state level.  My registered neighbors and I received a full color glossy large size postcard (a pricey thing) from the other candidate. Two cards in the same week. Both cards had […]

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Person trapped in Aurora house fire dies Sunday night, fire officials say

AURORA | One person was died after being trapped in a house fire Sunday night in southeast Aurora, Aurora Fire Rescue officials said. Firefighters were called to a fire at a house in the 18600 block of East Bates Circle just before 10 p.m. by a resident who said someone inside was trapped. “During the […]

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Starmer announces he’ll resign as UK prime minister with Burnham confirming bid to succeed him

LONDON | British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he will resign, forced out by his own party after missteps and mistakes soured voters’ goodwill for a prime minister who won a landslide election victory two years ago on a promise of steady leadership and economic growth. Starmer says he will remain caretaker prime […]

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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dies at 100

WASHINGTON | U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan has died at the age of 100. He died on Monday from complications of Parkinson’s Disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell. “To me he was my husband, who shaped my life from our very first date in 1984,” Mitchell said. “He […]

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A look at other presidential libraries as the Obama Presidential Center opens to the public

NEW YORK | Whenever historian Geoffrey Ward visits the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum to do research, he finds himself caught up in the spirit of FDR himself, the sense of landed contentment and cheerful disarray that helped define his public image. “It feels like you’re stepping back into his world,” Ward said […]

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Toon in Monday

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