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AP Top Stories August 23 A

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Here’s the latest for Wednesday, August 23rd: California’s mountain and desert towns clean up from tropical storm; Conservative attorney surrenders to Georgia authorities in Trump election case; Heat wave scorches central US; Space craft from India set…
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DNA sought from families of Hawaii wildfire missing

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Authorities in Hawaii on Tuesday pleaded with relatives of those missing after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century to come forward and give DNA samples, saying the low number provided so far threatens to hinder efforts to identify any re…
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March on Washington, 60 years later

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In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress. The historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom remains a marker by which progress is measured. (Aug. 2…
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Rare spotless giraffe born at Tennessee zoo

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A giraffe born without spots at a northeastern Tennessee zoo may be plain, but she’s anything but ordinary. The female reticulated giraffe was born July 31 at the family-owned Brights Zoo in Limestone. (August 22)