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Walmart ratchets up sales and profits again with Americans eager to trim spending where they can
Walmart ratchets up sales and profits again with Americans eager to trim spending where they can
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US defense chief says alliance with Philippines will transcend administrations
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has condemned China's dangerous actions against the Philippines and renewed a warning that the United States would defend its treaty ally if Filipino forces come under an armed attack in the disputed South China Sea
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Numerous children injured by a vehicle outside an elementary school in central China
Chinese state media say numerous children were injured by a vehicle outside an elementary school in central China’s Hunan province
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Tens of thousands crowd New Zealand's Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights
As tens of thousands of marchers thronged the streets in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, the column of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest
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New Zealand's founding treaty is at a flashpoint. Why are thousands protesting for Māori rights?
Police say tens of thousands of people have arrived at New Zealand's Parliament in protest of a proposed law that would redefine the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown
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In southern India's tea country, small but mighty efforts are brewing to bring back native forests
Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, but nearly 200 years ago, British colonists installed rows upon rows of tea plantations there
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Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, master of modern free verse, dies at 92
Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died
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Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95
Travel writer Arthur Frommer, who revolutionized leisure travel for ordinary Americans with his guidebook “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day,” has died
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What to know about Sean Duffy, Trump's choice to become transportation secretary
President-elect Donald Trump says he wants Sean Duffy to be his transportation secretary
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Trump says he is naming former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy to be transportation secretary
President-elect Donald Trump says former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy is his choice to be transportation secretary as he continues to roll out picks for his Cabinet
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