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After six months of Iran war, US goals have shifted. The Strait of Hormuz is now a top concern

WASHINGTON | When President Donald Trump launched the war with Iran in late February, he initially forecast it would last four to five weeks. Six months later, there’s still no off-ramp in sight despite Trump’s repeated assertions that the war has been won or a deal to resolve it was nearly complete. A June memorandum […]

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Father says college student was killed by police in Pennsylvania after he went to wrong house

A 22-year-old college student killed by Pennsylvania police responding to a possible burglary had just realized he was at the wrong home and was waiting for friends to come get him when he was shot, his father said Wednesday. Police in Upper Pottsgrove Township, northwest of Philadelphia, responded around 12:30 a.m. Sunday to a 911 […]

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Time limits and a midnight cutoff: Meta’s new rules for kids go further, but critics say not enough

OAKLAND, Calif. | Kids under 18 will soon see a host of changes to their Instagram and Facebook experiences thanks to a historic $18 billion settlement Meta Platforms reached Wednesday with 48 U.S. states. Besides the money, which will be paid out over a decade, Meta has agreed to strengthen its age estimates to keep […]

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Catastrophic floods kill over 353 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,300 missing

DEVIGHAT, Nepal | Rescue teams searched on Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a catastrophic and deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse. Videos of the disaster showed people running before the floodwaters swallowed them up and washed […]

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Regional powers seek off-ramp from Iran war, and other Middle East developments

JERUSALEM | Regional powers sought an off-ramp from the war with Iran as another tanker attack was reported in the Strait of Hormuz, and the Iranian government dismissed the Trump administration’s latest sanctions. Elsewhere in the Middle East, a Jerusalem court acquitted a man accused of beating a Catholic nun, but ordered him to undergo […]

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PERRY: Reality doesn’t care whether you believe. Science, however, needs you now

Here in Colorado, and across the country, we’ve got to get our OCD on to save the planet. Back when I was in the first grade, when we hunted wooly mammoths for fun, a few of us got to sit in on the science class with the big kids. We made thermometers with straws, water […]