White House homeland security adviser said some 500 to 800 people remain unaccounted for.
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Rosalynn Carter marks 96th birthday at home with the former president, butterflies and ice cream
Meanwhile, the surrounding community of Plains, Georgia, commemorates the former first lady’s years of public health advocacy.
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FEMA has paid out more than $5.6 million to Maui survivors, a figure expected to grow significantly
Longer-term aid that could amount to thousands or tens of thousands of dollars will likely come with documentation requirements.
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James Buckley, conservative politician and U.S. senator, dies at 100
In political circles, he was remembered as lead plaintiff in a landmark campaign finance lawsuit – Buckley v. Valeo – that in 1976 unraveled part of the post-Watergate regulation of political money.
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Russia shuts down human rights group preserving the legacy of Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov
It is the latest move in a widespread crackdown on dissent in Russia.
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Powerful Hurricane Hilary heads for Mexico’s Baja; rare tropical storm watch issued for California
No tropical storm has made landfall in Southern California since Sept. 25, 1939, according to the National Weather Service.
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Hawaii is vowing to protect landowners on Maui from being pressured to sell after wildfires
Gov. Green said that he instructed the state attorney general to work toward a moratorium on land transactions in Lahaina, even as he acknowledged the move would likely face legal challenges.
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Top Georgia Republicans dismiss pro-Trump calls to change pardon rules
Far-right Trump supporters have pressed Gov. Brian Kemp and others to pursue an overhaul of pardon rules after the former president was charged this week with orchestrating a ‘criminal enterprise’ to overturn his defeat in Georgia’s 2020 election.
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Kansas prosecutor says police should return computers and cellphones seized in raid on newspaper
Forced to rewrite stories and reproduce ads from scratch, the Marion County Record’s defiant front-page headline read: ‘SEIZED … but not silenced.’
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Associated Press, other news outlets develop standards for use of AI in newsrooms
AP is one of a handful of news organizations that have begun to set rules on how to integrate fast-developing tech tools like ChatGPT into their work.