Morning Mix
Morning Mix
Police records reveal new details about sexual assault allegation against Pete Hegseth
The incident has roiled Trump’s transition team since the former president announced Hegseth as his nominee for defense secretary.
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‘Potato cartel’ mashed competition to raise french fry prices, lawsuits say
Several antitrust lawsuits accused top producers of conspiring to raise prices of frozen potato products, like french fries.
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Venezuelan national found guilty of murder in Laken Riley trial
Jose Ibarra, an undocumented immigrant, was accused of killing a University of Georgia nursing student in a trial that Republicans made a flash point on immigration.
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Calling bird watchers: New ‘EagleCam’ shows ‘intimate lives’ of bald eagles
A camera in Minnesota will follow a pair of bald eagles as they make their nest and raise chicks. A previous eagle pair’s nest collapsed in a storm in 2023.
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Susan Smith, who drowned her sons in 1994, is up for parole. Here’s what to know.
Smith spent 30 years in prison for murdering her two sons by driving them into a lake in a case that drew worldwide attention.
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Man walked rainy highway for hours to help stranger find lost funeral notes
“I couldn’t believe it — why would he do that?” Jeannie Wolf said. “It was like a miracle to me.”
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Courage instead of fearful hate
The hate is free-floating. It’s out there drifting from one community to another, to mobile phones. To anyone and everyone.
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As feds investigate Sonya Massey’s death, her community calls for change
The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Massey’s fatal shooting by a sheriff’s deputy inside her Illinois home.
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Texas officials support Bible-based lessons in elementary schools
Critics say the curriculum, which would be optional, unfairly promotes Christian beliefs in public schools.
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ChatGPT is little help for doctors in diagnosing diseases, study finds
The research, conducted with 50 physicians last year, found that using ChatGPT did not significantly improve doctors’ diagnostic reasoning.
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New York prosecutors face what’s next in Trump’s hush money case
Prosecutors in Trump’s hush money case, which saw him convicted on 34 felony counts, are expected to tell a judge how they want to proceed after his election win
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