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Sports
Soccer shocker: Lionel Messi says he will join Miami's MLS team
After months of speculation, Messi announced his decision Wednesday to join Inter Miami, a franchise that has been led by another global soccer icon in David Beckham since its inception.
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Law & Courts
Cuba Gooding Jr. settles a civil sex abuse case just as trial was set to begin
The actor has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago. Gooding's lawyers had insisted that his encounter with the woman was consensual.
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Technology
Apple moves into virtual reality with a headset that will cost you more than $3,000
Apple has unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the company's ability to popularize new-fangled devices.
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National
Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who was convicted of spying for Russia, dies in prison
The 79-year-old Hanssen was found unresponsive in his cell at a federal prison in Colorado and later pronounced dead, prison officials said. He is believed to have died of natural causes.
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World
An Australian mother jailed 20 years is pardoned and freed because of new evidence
The pardon was seen as the quickest way of getting Kathleen Folbigg out of prison, as new scientific evidence found that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted.
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World
Defense Secretary Austin says U.S. won't stand for 'coercion and bullying' from China
Speaking at the so-called Shangri-La Dialogue, Austin also assured Beijing that the United States remains committed to maintaining the status quo on Taiwan and would prefer dialogue over conflict.
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National
Actor Danny Masterson is found guilty of 2 out of 3 counts of rape in retrial
A jury reached the verdict after deliberating for seven days spread over two weeks. They could not reach a verdict on the third count, that alleged "That '70s Show" star raped a longtime girlfriend.
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National
2 more Oath Keepers are sentenced to prison terms for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
A federal judge sentenced Army veterans Jessica Watkins, of Woodstock, Ohio, to more than eight years in prison and Kenneth Harrelson, of Titusville, Fla., to four years in the 2021 riot.
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National
A judge halts South Carolina's new abortion law pending state Supreme Court review
A judge put South Carolina's new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.
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National
DEA revokes a major drug distributor's license over opioid crisis failures
The U.S. agency stripped Morris & Dickson Co. of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious orders at the height of the opioid crisis.