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Beto O'Rourke speaks to Texas Organizing Project volunteers preparing to canvass a neighborhood in West Dallas Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The former congressman and senatorial candidate is driving an effort to gather voter support to stop Texas' SB7 voting legislation. As politicians from Austin to Washington battle over how to run elections, many voters are disconnected from the fight. While both sides have a passionate base of voters intensely dialed in on the issue, a disengaged middle is baffled at the attention. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Voting debate roils Washington but leaves many voters cold

By Nicholas Riccardi
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A nameplate stands at the entrance of the house of Dr. Jibraeil, assistant professor of history at Aligarh Muslim University, who died of COVID-19, in Aligarh, India, Saturday, June 12, 2021. Within just one month, the official Facebook page of Aligarh Muslim University, one of the topmost in India, published about two dozen obituaries of its teachers, all lost to the pandemic. Across the country, the deaths of educators during the devastating surge in April and May have left students and staff members grief-stricken and close-knit university communities shaken. (AP Photo/Manoj Aligadi)

Virus surge claims brightest minds at Indian universities

By Aijaz Hussain And Sheikh Saaliq
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This cover image released by Harper shows "Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero" by Amanda Kloots with Anna Kloots. (Harper via AP)

Amanda Kloots hopes people don't forget COVID-19 devastation

By Alicia Rancilio
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Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., right, speaks during a news conference after having toured the National Hurricane Center with director Ken Graham, left, Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at the center in Miami. Tuesday marks the start of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season which runs to Nov. 30. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Tropical Storm Claudette brings rain, floods to Gulf Coast

By Kevin Mcgill And Russ Bynum 4 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical Storm Claudette dumped heavy rain across coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as it chugged inland Saturday, threatening flash floods

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2020 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court’s latest rejection of a Republican effort to dismantle “Obamacare” is the latest sign that the GOP must look beyond repealing that law if it wants to hone the nation’s health care problems into a winning political issue. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Democrats see springboard for health care in high court win

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar 7 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Affordable Care Act now secure in the framework of the nation's health care programs, Democrats are eager to leap above and beyond.

Festivalgoers arrive during a downpour on the first day of Download Festival at Donington Park at Castle Donington, England, Friday June 18, 2021. The three-day music and arts festival is being held as a test event to examine how Covid-19 transmission takes place in crowds, with the the capacity significantly reduced from the normal numbers. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)

The Latest: Virus cases, deaths at 3-month low in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Saturday reported the lowest daily number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths in the past three months.

Maine man convicted in fatal beating of girlfriend

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PARIS, Maine (AP) — A jury needed only 25 minutes to convict a man of killing his longtime girlfriend at their home in western Maine.

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