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President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned, historic apology Friday for one of the United States’ “most horrific chapters”: ripping Native American children from their families and putting them in abusive boarding schools aimed at erasing their culture.From 1819 until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to involuntarily …

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A Russian drone struck a high-rise residential building in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday, killing a teenage girl and injuring five other people, authorities said.An AFP reporter nearby saw a drone buzzing overhead before crashing into the building’s facade, erupting into a fireball that set several upper floors ablaze.Medics quickly rushed to the scene …

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The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Friday that two children died at the last functioning hospital in the territory’s north after Israeli fire hit oxygen equipment, while the military told AFP it was unaware of strikes in the area.The Israeli military said its forces were operating around Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Jabalia …

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Phil Lesh, an innovative bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, died Friday, according to a statement on his Instagram account. He was 84 years old.Over three decades, the classically trained Lesh and Grateful Dead icon Jerry Garcia shared a close musical partnership that resulted in the eclectic California rock band’s psychedelic sound and …

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Global stock markets diverged Friday in an end to a week’s trading dominated by earnings updates and angst over rising bond yields amid US election uncertainty.Wall Street stocks finished the day mixed, with the Nasdaq pressing higher and the Dow pulling back.Besides the neck-and-neck US election, investors are looking ahead to major economic data next …

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked horns Friday over accusations that the Republican ex-president has been running as a “fascist” as the pair headed to dueling events in Texas with pop titan Beyonce and podcast star Joe Rogan.The staunchly Republican Lone Star State isn’t one of the handful of battlegrounds that decides US elections, or …

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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and an avid supporter of Donald Trump, was plunged into new controversy on Friday after a report that he is in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.The Wall Street Journal story, which has been denied by the Kremlin, comes days after the US Justice Department sent a letter …

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The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Friday that Israeli forces had detained hundreds of staff, patients and displaced people during a raid on the last functioning hospital in the north of the territory.The Israeli military said its forces were operating around Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza, where it …

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Mozambique’s capital Maputo on Friday suffered a mobile internet blackout after protests against the re-election of the ruling Frelimo party descended into violence.Protests erupted on Thursday with hundreds of opposition supporters rejecting what they called a ballot “stolen” by a “corrupt” electoral commission in favour of the party which has ruled since 1975.The commission had …

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A prolific “catfish” offender whose cruel campaign of global online blackmail targeted thousands of young victims and drove a 12-year-old US girl to suicide was on Friday jailed for life.Alexander McCartney, 26, posed online as a teenage girl to befriend young females across the world on the social media app Snapchat, forcing them to send …

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