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Burned Louisiana black churches raise $1M after Notre Dame fire

"It gives you a new hope in society, it gives you a new hope in people because it shows a lot of people have a good heart," one pastor said.

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Armed Columbine-obsessed teenager found dead

The body has been found of an armed teenager said to be obsessed with the Columbine school shootings 20 years ago

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Chicago prosecutor feared her office overcharged Jussie Smollett

"Just because we can charge something doesn't mean we should," Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx wrote in a new released text message.

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Watch: The eagle chicks with one mum and two dads

A modern family of two male and one female bald eagles are co-parenting their chicks. The males stayed together and courted a new female after their first mate died.

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Watch: Skiers take on snow and water on competition course

Competitors in costume ski down the mountain then attempt to cross a 27-metre pond at the bottom.

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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."

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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.

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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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