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Here’s the latest for Thursday August 24th: Shooting at Southern California biker bar; Russian mercenary leader presumed dead in plane crash; Giuliani, two attorneys surrender to authorities in Atlanta; Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee.
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Two months after a railroad bridge collapse sent carloads of hazardous oil products plunging into Montana’s Yellowstone River, the cleanup workers are gone and a mess remains. (Aug. 24) (AP Video/Matthew Brown)
Three people were killed in a shooting Wednesday at a Southern California biker bar and the shooter also died, Orange County Sheriff’s officials said. Six more people were transported to hospitals, five of them with gunshot wounds. (Aug. 24)
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Tropical Storm Franklin is unleashing heavy floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic after making landfall in the country’s southern region. (AP Video/Martin Adames Alcantara)
Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s lawyer and confidant, turned himself in at a jail in Atlanta on Wednesday on charges related to efforts to overturn then-President Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Attorneys Sidney Powell and Jenn…
Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead after a plane crash north of Moscow killed all 10 people on board. (Aug. 24)
A man facing eviction opened fire at officers from inside a Pittsburgh home Wednesday, shooting down police drones and prompting evacuations in the neighborhood, in a gunbattle and siege that lasted much of the day and ended with authorities saying he …
0824 Today in History
Temperatures are soaring in the central U.S. The deadly late summer heat wave is a problem for schools, which struggle to keep buildings and buses cool. Some schools are having to cut the day short to beat the heat. (Aug. 23) (AP video: Nick Ingram)
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Associated Press democracy, race and ethnicity reporter Gary Fields talks about the 1963 March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. (Aug. 23) (AP production by Serkan Gurbuz)