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02-19-2023

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The Los Angeles Firefighter's Ladder Came to an Stopped Firetruck

The driver was declared dead at the scene. The car needed to be cut open to remove the passenger, who was taken to the hospital. At least 14 Teslas have crashed into emergency vehicles while using the system. The Model S was among the nearly 363,000 vehicles Tesla recalled on Thursday.

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The Columbus, Georgia, shooting of a five-year-old child in a Shell

The victims range in age from five to 17 years old and include seven males and two females. The shooting is the 74th mass shooting this year in the United States, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. "The entire village has a responsibility because incidents like this impacts all of us," police chief says.

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South Korea and Japan will jointly exercise nuclear weapons in the presence of the North

U.S. B-1B bombers and other aircraft train with South Korean and Japanese fighter jets. North Korea says its launch of a Hwasong-15 ICBM was organized “suddenly” without prior notice. The launch was designed to verify the weapon’s reliability and the combat readiness, KCNA says.

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The Fire in Downtown Silver Spring

The fire in downtown Silver Spring sent more than a dozen other people, including three firefighters, to the hospital. The fire was reported in an apartment on the seventh floor of Arrive, a 15-story building, and estimated the damage at $2 million. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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The Virginia House Minority-Free Proposed Measure to Protect the Fundamental Right to Privacy

The bill was passed 31-9, with nine Republicans joining Democrats to send it to the House. The bill is among many that have been rejected this year by the state's divided legislature. The measure was introduced to protect women's privacy against the backdrop of "draconian" abortion laws, the bill says.

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The Shooting of a 64-year-old Steve John Roosa,

The dead gunman was identified as 64-year-old Steve John Roosa, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office said. The deputies involved in the shooting were members of the agency's SWAT team but were not identified by name. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate the circumstances of the shooting.

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The Food Crisis: The U.S. and the Middle East

Food exports from three Ukrainian ports have dropped from 3.7 million metric tons in December to 3 million in January. The drop in supply equates to about a month of food consumption for Kenya and Somalia combined. It follows average inspections per day slowing to 5.7 last month and 6 so far this month.

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The Tempe Renaming Project

Tempe councilmembers will consider replacement names during a March 2 meeting. The new names were proposed by community members and vetted by council-appointed volunteers. A Klan chapter called Butte Klan No. 3 included many prominent Tempe residents, including mayors, council members and bankers.

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Damascus, Syria, a seismically-driven city with a military

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 15 people, including a woman, were killed. The strikes targeted sites connected with Iranian militias and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The last reported attack on Damascus was on Jan. 2, when the Syrian army reported that Israel’s military fired missiles toward the international airport.

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Xiang Xiang, the park's idol since birth, will be

Xiang Xiang was born at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo in June 2017. She will be flown to China on Tuesday to join other pandas at a facility in Sichuan province. China sends pandas abroad as a sign of goodwill but maintains ownership over the animals and their cubs.

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