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Pete Buttigieg officially announces 2020 presidential campaign

If elected, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana would be the first-ever openly gay and youngest-ever U.S. president.

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World's largest plane takes flight

The largest plane in the world successfully completed its first flight after taking off in the Mojave desert in the United States

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AOC defends Omar after Trump 9/11 video, calls on more Dems to speak out

The video tweeted by Trump is an "outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said. "@IlhanMN's life is in danger."

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Man sets himself on fire outside White House, US Secret Service says

The man was in a "wheelchair-type scooter" and lit his jacket on fire while on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the North Lawn's fence, the Secret Service said.

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Storm slams utility pole into moving car near Seattle

A powerful storm toppled a utility pole with live wires on top of a car as it drove by in Tukwila, Washington, United States on Friday (April 5).

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Boycotting Israel is anti-Semitic, new Trump envoy says

"If there is an organized movement to economically strangle the state of Israel, that is anti-Semitic," Elan Carr said on his first day on the job.

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White House considered dumping migrants in 'sanctuary cities'

ICE lawyers rejected proposals to bus detained immigrants to Nancy Pelosi's district and other Democratic cities, The Washington Post reported.

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Chicago sues Jussie Smollett for investigation costs

The civil complaint filed Thursday follows a demand that Smollett pay $130,000 in overtime costs, a request the actor's lawyers have refused.

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Feds probe possible racist motivation in church burnings, suspect's link to 'black metal music'

"You cannot destroy our faith. We can have church anywhere ... We'll have church in the very parking lot of the building you destroyed."

United Kingdom

A timeline of Assange's nearly 7 years in the Ecuadorian Embassy

Assange's complicated, almost decade long case came to a turning point today, when he was arrested in London as the U.S. seeks his extradition

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Euroviews. Democrats know they can't trust AG Barr. But they have a plan ǀ View

If past truly is prologue, the next sequence of events will mirror what we saw earlier this decade when Republicans controlled the oversight committees.

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Watch: Speedboat tears up flooded highway in Oregon, US

Aerial video from TV station KATU in Portland shows a boat speeding over a flooded highway in Corvallis, Oregon.

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A 3-year-old locked dad out of his iPad for 48 years

Probably should've just given the kid the password.

USA

National Enquirer up for sale

A sale would come just months after the supermarket tabloid revealed on its front page that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was having an affair.

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Barr says he thinks the government spied on the Trump campaign

Ahead of the attorney general's Senate testimony Wednesday, the president praised him for "getting started on going back to the origins of exactly where [the Russia probe] all started."

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New York City declares health emergency amid measles outbreak in Brooklyn

"This is the epicenter of a measles outbreak that is very, very troubling and must be dealt with immediately," the mayor said at a news conference in Williamsburg.

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Netflix pulls Felicity Huffman movie from April schedule after guilty plea

The streaming service told The Associated Press that it was delaying the release of the film, "Otherhood," but did not specify a new premiere date.

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Warner Brothers: Trump can't use 'Dark Knight Rises' in campaign video

The film company confirmed on Tuesday that it will file a copyright infringement suit against the White House.

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Kirstjen Nielsen leaving position as homeland security secretary

Nielsen's department is the subject of numerous House subpoenas and more than 20 investigations by its own inspector general.

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After three historic black churches go up in flames, parishioners pull together

"It's sad that our society has stooped this low to do something like that," said the pastor of a historic African-American church.

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