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Yuma Catholic High School welcomed nearly 600 students for its first day of classes Wednesday, marking record enrollment as students and staff shared their excitement for the new school year.
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It will be visible in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday. -
President Trump's deployment of the National Guard will hit the one year mark next week. The presence of armed, uniformed troops on the street has become increasingly normalized in the capital.
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An agreement over the Strait of Hormuz is still far away. Tim Wilkins, who works for a tanker industry group, says the ships stuck around the waterway are in limbo, and transiting is still dangerous.
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Oleksiy Yukov spent two decades recovering the bodies of soldiers — including many Russians. He was killed during a recovery mission after stepping on a landmine. -
K-pop conquered the world — now Chile's young creatives are remixing the movement and making it their own. -
Europe is in another brutal heat wave. The summer's earlier record-breaking weather already damaged crops, sparked wildfires and led to increased deaths. -
A longtime Philadelphia Phillies fan, substitute teacher, Lewis Kalb, got to realize his dream this week of broadcasting one of the team's games.
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Childcare costs across the country are soaring. In Oklahoma the cost of infant care has gone up more than a third since 2022, putting working parents in a tight spot.
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Instead of scrapping its network of bomb shelters after the Cold War, Switzerland kept building them. The country has more than 370,000 nuclear bomb shelters. Some are now used to house migrants. -
The Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season. -
Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants. -
That revenue does not include net proceeds of $1.6 billion made by CoreCivic after the recent sale of four of their facilities to the Department of Homeland Security.
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