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A federal judge has dismissed a majority of the claims filed by activists and civil liberties groups who accused the Trump administration of violating the civil rights of protesters who were forcefully removed by police using chemical agents from a park near the White House before then-President Donald Trump walked to a nearby church to take a photo.
- If your business falls victim to ransomware and you want simple advice on whether to pay the criminals, don’t expect much help from the U.S. government.
- Health and consumer protection agencies have repeatedly warned that several of these treatments, as well as vitamin infusions and expensive injections of “peptide therapies” sold at alternative wellness clinics for more than $1,000, are not supported by reliable scientific evidence.
- The Olympic Games have always been about numbers. After all, a motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius — faster, higher, stronger — doesn’t mean much without seconds, meters and pounds. How fast? How high? How strong?
- Fewer than 1 percent of Americans reach the age of 100. New data from the Netherlands indicate that those who achieve that milestone with their mental faculties intact are likely to remain so for their remaining years, even if their brains are riddled with the plaques and tangles that are the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Authorities identified the man accused of plowing his pickup truck into a group of bicyclists taking part in a race in Arizona.
- After summer heat waves, some employees working from home have started to wonder if the grass might be greener — or, at least, the cubicle cooler — on the other side: They miss the office AC.
- The Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that the NCAA can’t enforce rules limiting education-related benefits — like computers and paid internships — that colleges offer to student-athletes, a ruling that could help push changes in how the student-athletes are compensated.
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Cover up or ‘your skin falls off’: What it’s like to work outside in scorching-hot Phoenix right now
A double heat and housing crisis in the Phoenix area is falling hardest on people who have little choice but to suffer the sun. - About 45% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. Over 53% of Americans have received at least one dose of vaccine.
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- In confronting President Biden over over his support for abortion rights, a conservative movement is determining the direction of the Catholic Church in America.
- The actor and other stars will start a school to train teenagers for jobs in Hollywood, the latest in a series of entertainment industry donations to city schools.
- Claudette, the third named storm of 2021, has been downgraded to a tropical depression, but it is expected to become a tropical storm once again late Sunday or early Monday in the Carolinas. Damage was reported in north Florida, where winds reached up to 85 mph, according to AP.
- The United States is preparing more Russian sanctions in response to the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, the country’s most prominent opposition leader.
- Tropical Depression Claudette is likely being blamed on a crash that killed 10 people, nine of them children in Alabama.
- A 35-year-old man driving a pickup truck plowed into bicyclists during a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring six riders.
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- Paula Lynette Deadwyler, a former Housing Authority of Baltimore City manager who later purchased former Gov. William Donald Schaefer’s home in West Baltimore, has died. She was 61.
- Franco, who stayed alive with two strikes and two outs when a breaking ball a few inches in the strike zone was called a ball, launched the Orioles’ first hit of the game into their bullpen to spare their blushes in a 10-2 loss to the Houston Astros before 7,414 fans at Camden Yards that had a chance to be the wrong kind of memorable but instead goes into the overflowing bucket of lopsided losses.
- Baltimore police are investigating three homicides in the past two days as the department says two men were fatally shot since Sunday and another died after being stabbed during an assault, continuing a trend of fatal violence that’s seen 18 people killed in less than two weeks.
- Gov. Larry Hogan joined executives from Sinclair Broadcast Group, McCormick & Co. and T. Rowe Price on Monday to mark the three Baltimore area companies’ rise to the Fortune 500 this year.
- Paula Lynette Deadwyler, a former Housing Authority of Baltimore City manager who later purchased former Gov. William Donald Schaefer’s home in West Baltimore, has died. She was 61.
- Maryland congressman's refusal to honor police who risked their lives to keep the U.S. Capitol occupants safe is appalling.
