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New York, Colorado and Utah primaries 2024: Live results and analysis

Summarize this content to 1000 words There's also a runoff in South Carolina and a special election in Colorado.Last Updated: June 25, 2024, 9:47 PMLinkShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleToday is one of the most jam-packed primary election days of the year: Democrats and Republicans in Colorado, New York, Utah and parts of South Carolina will pick their party's nominees for this fall's elections.Two incumbent representatives — Jamaal Bowman
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Assistant found guilty of dismembering former boss with a saw to keep him from discovering theft

Summarize this content to 1000 words NEW YORK -- A personal assistant was convicted Monday of killing and dismembering his former boss after stealing an estimated $400,000 from him, Manhattan's district attorney said.A jury found Tyrese Haspil, 25, guilty in the 2020 death of Fahim Saleh, 33, whose beheaded, armless body was found by a cousin who had gone to his luxury Manhattan condo to check on him.Haspil was arrested
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More than 1,300 people died during Hajj, many of them after walking in the scorching heat

Summarize this content to 1000 words CAIRO -- More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi authorities announced Sunday.Saudi Health Minister Fahd bin Abdurrahman Al-Jalajel said that 83% of the 1,301 fatalities were unauthorized pilgrims who walked long distances in soaring temperatures to perform the Hajj rituals in and
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels target ship in the Gulf of Aden as the Eisenhower aircraft carrier heads home

Summarize this content to 1000 words DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- An attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted a commercial ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden but apparently caused no damage, authorities said Saturday, in the latest strike on the shipping lane by the group.The Houthi attack comes after the sinking this week of the ship Tutor, which marked what appears to be a new escalation by the Iranian-backed
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Federal officials are investigating a Southwest Airlines low flight over Oklahoma City suburbs

[ad_1] DALLAS -- Federal officials are investigating a Southwest Airlines jet that triggered a low-altitude alert as it prepared to land in Oklahoma City but was still nine miles from the airport.The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that an air traffic controller notified the Southwest pilots after an automated warning sounded around 12:05 a.m. Wednesday morning. According to data from Flightradar24, the plane descended to about 525 feet above the
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Snapchat Inc. to pay $15 million to settle discrimination and harassment lawsuit in California

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO -- Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil rights agency that claimed the company discriminated against female employees, failed to prevent workplace sexual harassment and retaliated against women who complained. The settlement with Snapchat Inc., which owns the popular disappearing-message app by the same name, covers women who worked for the company in California between 2014 and 2024, the California
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Sunil Chhetri: Indian football icon announces retirement from sport

[ad_1] At the moment, he holds the record of being the third-highest scorer of international goals among active footballers, after Argentina's Lionel Messi and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo.In the nine-minute-51-second-long video post on X, Chhetri reminisced about the high and low points in his long career and expressed grief over his decision."The kid inside will probably keep fighting to play football, but the sensible, mature player and person knows that this
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Melinda French Gates to quit Gates Foundation

[ad_1] Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said she will resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."This is not a decision I came to lightly," Ms Gates wrote in a statement posted to X on Monday. Her last day of work will be 7 June. Ms Gates founded the foundation - the largest private body of its kind - in 2000 with her then-husband Bill Gates, the