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Southern Baptists pick new leader, will decide whether …

Messengers raise their ballots in support of a motion put up for vote during a Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Doug McSchooler)

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Federal Reserve is likely to scale back plans for rate …

FILE - Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, May 1, 2024. On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the Federal Reserve ends its latest meeting by issuing a policy statement, updating its economic and interest-rate projections and holding a news conference with Powell. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

NBA legend Jerry West dead at 86

Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to …

A Tesla supercharging location is seen on Kipling Street, June 3, 2024 in Houston. Charging stations have been hit particularly hard by thieves who likely want to sell the highly conductive copper wiring inside the cables at near-record prices. But authorities and charging company officials say similar thefts are increasing across the U.S. as more charging stations are built. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi)

Oprah Winfrey hospitalized, misses TV appearance

Six years after the Parkland school massacre, the bloodstained …

FILE - The 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is seen, Oct. 20, 2021. Demolition of the building where 17 people died in the 2018 Parkland school shooting is set to begin, as crews will begin tearing down the three-story building at the high school on Thursday, June 13, 2024. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)

French President Macron urges moderate politicians to …

French President Emmanuel Macron answers questions after delivering a speech, Wednesday, June 12, 2024 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron called for moderate politicians from the left and the right to regroup to defeat the far-right in general elections. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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Americans celebrate their flag every year, and the …

Children watch tractors in a parade in Waubeka, Wis., on June 9, 2024. Old Glory is venerated annually in Waubeka, the small town that lays claim to the first Flag Day. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Traffic resumes through Baltimore’s busy port after …

A boat passes near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, in Baltimore, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Congress sought Osprey crash and safety documents …

FILE - A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft taxies behind an Osprey carrying members of the White House press corps at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., April 24, 2021. Over the last two years, four Osprey crashes have killed a total of 20 service members. On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the House subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs will hold an oversight hearing into the Osprey's safety record and Pentagon management of the program. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

After years of delays, scaled-back plans underway …

FILE - Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting and activist, looks at the photos that are a part of the Pulse memorial in Orlando, Fla., on Sept. 9, 2022. Survivors, victims' families and residents of Orlando, had hoped by this time to have a permanent memorial in place for the eighth anniversary on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, of the Pulse nightclub massacre when 49 people were killed by a gunman at a club with an LGBTQ+ clientele on Latin night. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson, File)

With 1 out of 3 Californians on Medicaid, doctors …

FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about the state's budget deficit in Sacramento, Calif., on Friday, May 10, 2024. Newsom has proposed to cancel a plan to increase how much the state pays doctors to treat patients on Medicaid. But voters could have the final word as a measure that qualified for the November ballot would force the state to pay doctors more for treating Medicaid patients. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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Russian warships reach Cuban waters ahead of military …

People watch the Russian Navy Admiral Gorshkov frigate arrive at the port of Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. A fleet of Russian warships reached Cuban waters on Wednesday ahead of planned military exercises in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Ariel Ley)

Blinken says some of Hamas’ proposed changes to a …

A mourner kisses Saqr Abed, an Islamic Jihad militant killed in a raid by Israeli forces before his funeral in the village of Kafr Dan, near the West Bank city of Jenin, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Palestinian men killed by Israeli fire during a raid in the northern West Bank village. A total of six men were killed by Israeli forces during Tuesday's raid on the village according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Russia fires more missiles and drones at Ukraine …

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stands in front of a Patriot air defense missile system during a visit to a military training area in the German state of Western Pomerania, Tuesday, June 11, 20242, to learn about the training of Ukrainian soldiers on the "Patriot" air defence missile system. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP)

At least 41 die in a fire at a building housing workers …

Rescuers arrive at the site of a building that caught fire in Kuwait, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. At least 41 people died when a fire swept through a building that housed workers in Kuwait early Wednesday, and officials said the blaze appeared to be linked to code violations. (Kuwait TV via AP)

More than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims arrive in …

Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Hungary agrees not to veto NATO support to Ukraine …

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hold a press conference following their meeting in the government headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP)

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Faking an honest woman: Why Russia, China and Big …

FILE - Scarlett Johansson attends the Golden Heart Awards, Oct. 16, 2023, in New York. Research shows that chatbots and fake social media accounts get more engagement when they have female personas because people are more likely to view women as warm and approachable, and to see chatbots with female personas as more human than those posing as male. Johansson declined OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's request to voice the ChatGPT AI program and threatened to sue when the company went with what she called an “eerily similar” voice. OpenAI put the new voice on hold. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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US widens sanctions on Russia to discourage countries …

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