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Texas Tech Health El Paso announces annual Days of Service event

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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The annual Days of Service events is here. The event will run from April 17th to April 20th. Students, faculty, and staff from Texas Tech Health El Paso will participate and volunteer at 25 different locations…

Donald Trump will use his weekend reprieve from the courtroom to campaign in North Carolina

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By BILL BARROW Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against President Joe Biden. Trump’s evening stop in the coastal city of…

Venezuela’s main opposition bloc agrees on candidate to challenge Maduro in presidential election

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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has agreed to unite behind former diplomat Edmundo González as its challenger to President Nicolás Maduro in this July 28 election. The bloc acted Friday, just one day before…

The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping?

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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — When Washington state opened some of the nation’s first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where he had been indicted on…

Melania Trump, long absent from campaign, will appear at a Log Cabin Republicans event in Mar-a-Lago

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By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former first lady Melania Trump is making a political comeback during the presidential campaign of her husband, former President Donald Trump. Melania Trump will appear at the…

Haiti’s former capital seeks to revive its hey-day as gang violence consumes Port-au-Prince

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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. Sitting on Haiti’s shimmering north coast, the city of Cap-Haïtien was abandoned as a capital…

Record Store Day celebrates indie retail music sellers as they ride vinyl’s popularity wave

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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day during a surge of interest in…

A man escaped Sudan’s bloody civil war. His mysterious death in Missisippi has sparked suspicion

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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — As a child, Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan and built a new life in Mississippi. This month, fishermen found the body of the 33-year-old Mabil floating in a…

Lawsuits under New York’s new voting rights law reveal racial disenfranchisement even in blue states

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BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement.…

New NHL team marks coming-of-age moment for Salt Lake City as a pro sports hub

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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — To casual sports fans and people outside northern Utah, it may look like an NHL team fell into Salt Lake City’s lap in the span of two weeks. But local organizers say the Arizona…

Trump forced to listen silently to people insulting him as he trades a cocoon of adulation for court

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By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and listen to a parade of potential jurors in his criminal hush money trial share their unvarnished…

Soar, slide, splash? It’s skiers’ choice as spring’s wacky pond skimming tradition returns

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By NICK PERRY Associated Press GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — A costumed skier races down a slope, hits a pond and hydroplanes halfway across. He pirouettes and then plunges into the icy water before jumping up and waving to the cheering crowd. It’s…

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Panama Papers trial’s public portion comes to an unexpectedly speedy end

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By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — The public portion of a Panamanian trial of more than two-dozen associates accused of helping some of the world’s richest people hide their wealth has come to an unexpectedly speedy…

Sudan’s horrific war is being fueled by weapons from foreign supporters of rival generals, UN says

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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief says the year-old war in Sudan between rival generals vying for power has sparked “a crisis of epic proportions” fueled by weapons from foreign supporters…

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Mexican families searching for missing relatives unite to draw attention to their plight

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By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press TEPOTZOTLAN, Mexico (AP) — Dozens of women and men have searched a garbage dump and other sites outside Mexico’s capital for missing loved ones without the protection of authorities. The action Friday…

Future Wounds: As Israel-Hamas War continues, neurologists worried about brain injuries

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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Everyone knows that combat can lead to serious injuries — not everyone knows that combat can lead to wounds decades down the road. That's why Dr. Felix Benninger of Rabin Medical Center in Tel Aviv is warning about…

More than 140 people are arrested for the charge of riot following border incident

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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks told ABC-7 that more than 140 people were arrested by the Department of Public Safety following an incident on April 12 where migrants tried to climb a chain link fence. Hicks…

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Explosions injure three people at pro-Iran military base, Iraqi security official says

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CNN By Aqeel Najim and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — At least three people were wounded after five explosions rocked a military base belonging to an Iran-backed militia in Iraq, a local security official told CNN Saturday. The blasts…

Oklahoma City bombing still ‘heavy in our hearts’ on 29th anniversary, federal official says

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By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Department of Homeland Security official told survivors and loved ones of the 168 people killed in the Oklahoma City bombing that federal officials are resolved to never allow a similar…

USC cancels graduation keynote by filmmaker amid controversy over decision to drop student’s speech

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California further shook up its commencement plans Friday, announcing the cancelation of a keynote speech by filmmaker Jon M. Chu just days after making the controversial choice to disallow the…

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US says a UN agency has agreed to help in distribution of aid to Gaza via sea route

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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program has agreed to help deliver aid for the starving civilians of Gaza once the U.S. military completes a pier for transporting the…

El Paso Central Appraisal District says flyers advertising ‘Designation of Homestead Request’ don’t involve tax exemptions

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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- As tens of thousands of El Pasoans are expected to protest their 2024 property valuations, some have a received a flyer for the purchase of a "Designation of Homestead". ABC-7 obtained a flyer sent out by a company…

North Korea says it tested ‘super-large’ cruise missile warhead and new anti-aircraft missile

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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it tested a “super-large” cruise missile warhead and a new anti-aircraft missile in a western coastal area as it expands its military capabilities in the face of…

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What we know about the shooting of an Uber driver in Ohio and the scam surrounding it

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By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Authorities in Ohio say a man fatally shot an Uber driver because he wrongly assumed she was part of a scam to extract $12,000 in supposed bond money for a nephew. The Uber driver was a victim of the same con…

Takeaways from the final day of jury selection in Trump’s historic hush money trial

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Originally Published: 19 APR 24 19:13 ETBy Jeremy Herb and Lauren del Valle, CNN(CNN) — The historic first criminal trial of a former US president begins with opening statements on Monday.Judge Juan Merchan swiftly moved through…

ABC-7 at 4: National Work Zone Awareness Week

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El Paso-TX (KVIA)- Texas' population continues to grow, and more Txdot projects are underway to address congestion and improve safety. Imagine the challenging conditions crews face at these sites, with heavy traffic and speeding just feet…

Live video of man who set himself on fire outside court proves challenging for news organizations

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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A man who set himself on fire outside the Manhattan courtroom where Donald Trump was on trial tested news organizations on how quickly they could respond to an incident and what to show…

Community Champions: Americas baseball coach Jesse Munoz gets win number 500

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EL PASO, Texas - Americas baseball head coach Jesse Munoz reached a major milestone this week. Tuesday, Munoz won his 500th career game. The victory came after an 11-2 victory over District 1-6A opponent the Eastwood Troopers. Munoz has…

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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

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WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” —…

West Virginia will not face $465M COVID education funds clawback after feds OK waiver, governor says

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By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will not face a clawback of $465 million in COVID-19 money from the federal government, alleviating concerns raised by state lawmakers during the legislative…