Doppelgangers competed in a Mayor Zohran Mamdani lookalike contest in New York City on Sunday. The winner of the contest took home a grand prize of $100.
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The two-day summit of the 10-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kyrgyzstan shows the limits of U.S. economic warfare.
U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, Aug. 30. This is the first military action in a month. #USstrikes #Iranwar #Trump
State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said he is “currently unaware of any U.S. citizen deaths at this time.”
Congress returns to a ticking shutdown clock as Senate gridlock, midterm pressure and a growing fight over socialism collide in Washington.
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Air evacuations continued at the Grand Canyon in Arizona on Sunday afternoon, a day after a "significant flash flood."
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Statues of Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall Jackson,” Gov. William "Extra Billy" Smith and physician Hunter Holmes McGuire were removed six years after civil rights demonstrators in Richmond took down an iconic statue of Jefferson Davis.
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Phantom Ranch, the only lodge within the Grand Canyon, has drawn adventurers and dignitaries, including Theodore Roosevelt, for more than a century.
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