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QB Kamario Taylor gives Mississippi State new hope vs. Alabama
Whenever the Alabama Crimson Tide match up with Mississippi State University in football, it's usually a bad day for the Bulldogs.
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FBI has commissioned a classified and internal ‘Patel Report’ about times when it ‘fell short’
The FBI is issuing a classified report to its workforce examining what it says are chapters from the bureau's history “where this institution fell short,” according to an internal message obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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Prosecutors probing deaths of 2 Ole Miss students charge shop clerk, son with selling illegal kratom
Federal authorities investigating the deaths of two University of Mississippi students have charged a store clerk and his son with selling an illegal kratom product, prosecutors announced Friday.
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Interim pastor at local church chained himself to pole outside Tennessee Capitol protesting Pike execution
Before the state of Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike, the Rev. Marvin Morgan chained himself to a pole outside of the state Capitol.
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Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts
Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next five years into communities where it operates data centers for education, job training, water and energy preservation projects and other local priorities as it reacts to a growing backlash from politicians and consumers to the tech industry's rollout of the massive buildings.
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An Ebola treatment center was burned down as the death toll in Congo passes 4,000
Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.
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G7 nations will release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel fuel after prices soar
Russian aerial attacks forced the partial closure Friday of three bridges over the Dnipro River in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, in Moscow’s latest effort to disrupt life in the city.
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Proposal requiring Georgia election workers to ‘shuffle’ ballots at the polls fails to find support
A last-minute proposal that would have required poll workers to manually "shuffle" ballots before scanning them in an effort to prevent bad actors from identifying how Georgia residents voted failed to advance at a special-called meeting of the State Election Board.
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US hiring slows and unemployment ticks higher with a month remaining before Americans head to polls
U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before voters go to the polls in pivotal midterm elections at a time of discontent over the high cost of living and the state of the economy.
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Many states have backup execution plans, but failures still happen
Long before Christa Pike was brought into Tennessee's execution chamber, prison leaders reviewed and approved a backup plan detailing exactly what to do if the first attempt at lethal injection failed.
