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Business
The NBA and its players have a deal for a new labor agreement
The league and its players came to an agreement on a new seven-year collective bargaining agreement. It is still pending ratification, though that process is almost certainly no more than a formality.
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World
U.N. food chief says billions of dollars are needed to avert unrest and starvation
The world will see mass migration, destabilized countries and starving people in the next 12 to 18 months without billions of dollars more funding, the U.N. World Food Program chief warned.
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World
Andrew Tate has been released from a Romanian jail and placed under house arrest
Tate was initially detained in late December in Bucharest, along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian women. He was detained on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking.
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Sports
Oscar Pistorius, South African Olympian, is denied parole in his girlfriend's murder
Pistorius was sentenced to 13 years and five months in prison for in 2017, four years after he shot and killed Reeva Steenkamp in their home, claiming he mistook her for an intruder.
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Latin America
Arrest orders are issued for 6 people in the deadly Mexican immigration center fire
Three officials from Mexico's immigration agency, two private security guards and the migrant accused of starting the fire, which killed at least 39, face charges of homicide and causing injury.
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World
Turkey's parliament clears the way for Finland to join NATO
All 276 lawmakers present voted in favor of Finland's application. The action lifted the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country's long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.
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National
Judge's ruling undercuts U.S. health law's preventive care
A federal judge in Texas who previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a key part of the law. Opponents say the ruling jeopardizes preventive care for millions of Americans.
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Arts & Life
Visitors flock to see Michelangelo's David sculpture after school uproar in Florida
Tourists , many American, flooded a museum in Florence, Italy, to see the Renaissance masterpiece after a Florida school forced its principal to resign over complaints about a lesson on the statue.
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National
Seattle and Justice officials seek to end most oversight of city's police
U.S. Justice Department and Seattle officials seek an end to most federal oversight of the city's police department, saying its sustained reform efforts are a model for other cities.
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Food
A startup says it made a jumbo meatball using the genetic sequence of the mammoth
The meatball is a one-off and has not been tasted, even by its creators, nor is it planned to be put into production. Instead, it was intended to get people talking about the future of meat.