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Growing whale-watching excursions near Rio de Janeiro's coast captivate tourists 21 Jun 2024 - 05:14 pm
View of the tail of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) at the coast of Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil on June 20, 2024. Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP.
As millions sweat out the heat wave, blocks of lake ice keep these campers cool 21 Jun 2024 - 02:20 pm
Children play with water guns at a splash pad at LeFrak Center at Lakeside at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, as a heat wave hits the northeast US on June 20, 2024. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky denies it's a hazard after US Commerce Dept bans software 21 Jun 2024 - 11:19 am
File photo: An employee works near screens in the virus lab at the headquarters of Russian cyber security company Kaspersky Labs in Moscow July 29, 2013. Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin
Higher than normal temps all summer in US: govt 20 Jun 2024 - 09:43 pm
People try to cool off at Coney Island on a sweltering afternoon on the first day of summer on June 20, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP)
Shooting in Philadelphia wounds 7 people, police say 20 Jun 2024 - 01:34 pm
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Palestinian medical students in Cuba highlight pain of diaspora 19 Jun 2024 - 07:43 pm
Samar Alghoul, 21, is pictured during an interview with AFP in Havana on June 2, 2024.  (Photo by ADALBERTO ROQUE / AFP)
US chipmaker onsemi will invest $2 billion in a chip production facility in the Czech Republic 19 Jun 2024 - 06:58 pm
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US government details how Northwest dams devastated the region’s Native tribes 18 Jun 2024 - 11:07 pm
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Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under a new plan from Biden 18 Jun 2024 - 06:39 pm
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Biden to waive penalties for undocumented spouses of US citizens 18 Jun 2024 - 11:02 am
US President Joe Biden laughs during a bilateral meeting with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg of NATO in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, June 17, 2024. (Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP)
Wildfire north of Los Angeles spreads to over 16 square miles 16 Jun 2024 - 10:17 pm
Firefighters from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) and other firemen respond to the Post Fire as it burns through the Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area in Lebec, California, on June 16, 2024. (Photo by DAVID SWANSON / AFP)
2 killed and 6 wounded in shooting during a Juneteenth celebration in a Texas park 16 Jun 2024 - 06:10 pm
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Trump boasts of cognitive test, then flubs doctor's name 16 Jun 2024 - 01:28 pm
Former President Donald Trump gives the keynote address at Turning Point Action's
Crews rescue 28 people trapped upside down high on Oregon amusement park ride 15 Jun 2024 - 08:43 am
Screengrab of a video being shared widely on social media.
Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month 11 Jun 2024 - 08:19 pm
A Virgin Australia Airlines Boeing 737 plane flies as a storm approaches at Sydney International Airport on June 7, 2024. Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP.
Crew finds submerged wreckage of missing jet that mysteriously disappeared more 50 years ago 11 Jun 2024 - 07:42 pm
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Biden's son convicted on all charges in gun case 11 Jun 2024 - 06:56 pm
First lady Jill Biden and Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, leave the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on June 11, 2024 in Wilmington, Delaware. Photo by Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
Newly chosen Haitian prime minister discharged from hospital after spending a night in treatment 10 Jun 2024 - 12:18 am
Police provide security outside the hospital where Haiti's new Prime Minister Garry Conille was hospitalised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 9, 2024. (Photo by Clarens Siffroy / AFP)